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=**Welcome To My Wiki Space**=

Hello, My Name is **//Natasha Douthwright//** and I received my Bachelor of Education Degree from Saint Thomas University. I Have majors in History and English and a minor in sociology.

I am 26 years old and have been married to wonderful man for almost 3 yrs. I have been thoroughly involved in Figure skating here in Fredericton for most of my life. I competed competitively for 16 years and I was NB Junior Ladies Champion in 2003, then I went on to coaching and I did that for 5 years while going to university.

I live in the Charters Settlement area with my Husband in our very first house that we bought in June 2010. We have two cats: Heidi is the oldest and she runs the house, then we have Bacardi.

My Teaching Experience Most of my teaching background has been in the figure skating world of things but I have done a lot of volunteering at my old elementary school. I have been around kids my whole life and love to help them learn and grows as individuals.

I have been a supply teacher in districts 18 and 17 for 2 years now and enjoy getting to know many students and teachers. I am able to teacher music, phys.ed, as well as general classroom. Through my experience this year and last I learned that you really have to go with the flow of things. I also learn a very valuable lesson which was you have to talk to them all the time and get to know them and just let them be who they are, of course within the rules of the classroom.

As of this year I now have several teaching days not only at the elementary level but high school as well. I thoroughly enjoy teaching at the high school level as well.

My Tech Knowledge Now for when is comes to Technology, I know how to use a smart boards, and most of its tools, use and find lessons plans by other teachers. I know how to create podcasts and photo stories. I know how to create a wiki spaces and post things to it and all the tools that come with building a wiki. I can do internet research. I have also used sento's and know how to create a students test using sento's.

I recently had the opportunity to attend the Learn East conference which dealt with all this new technology we have to use in our classrooms and what students are now using at home. I learn how to make good use of the technology that is available to me in the classroom, for example using blogs, or wikis to communicate with parents, to post students work and assignments, have discussions groups online, using skype to interact with different classes around the world or in the building.

Technology is the future and if we as teachers can't keep up and bring tech into the classroom regularly, we will lose touch with our students.