Post #1! Who is Mr. Cummings?

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog! Oh man I've needed to start one of these for a long time, but I am a huge procrastinator (something I'm working on!) Fortunately my professor, Mr. Smith, made it a homework assignment so I was forced to make one or get a big fat F...so thank you Mr. Smith!

Who am I? I am an anspiring student currently attending Edinboro University in my Sophmore year studying secondary education. I graduated from Pittsburgh Technical Institute (PTI) in 2010 with an associates in multimedia technologies (I can make websites and stuff.) What brought me from that to this? Well, I was living the ramen noodle life in Pittsburgh for six months when one of my professors noticed that I had straight A's in all of my classes since day one he offered me a job to tutor at PTI and at that time I was like ugh...I don't want to deal with teaching kids how to write code and design websites...but I really need the cash so I gladly accepted. Two years later I graduated from PTI and proudly accepted my assosciates degree from them holding my head high as I walked to my parents with paper in hand. My parents said to me "Alex, whats next?" I looked at both of them and replied "I'm gonna go back to school and teach!" It was a stunning experience to go from one passion to another, but this is one I plan to stick with.

Mr. Smith wants to know what my aspirations are in education. Aspirations definition is:  A hope or ambition of achieving something; what do I hope to achieve in education? I want to have a classroom of teenagers that want to learn history with a dash of technology training. Technology training? What do you mean Alex? Well, I want to teach not only historical events and the importance of history, but also how to present these historical interests using a multitude of different computer programs and applications. I will create a website for my kids to submit their homework assignments online to save paper and of course make editing and keeping track of said assignments easier for me (of course!) Teenagers will learn that the internet is not just for wikipedia and for youtube - but huge untapped pool of information resides on the internet as well - and at the same time how the internet and its sources can be a history projects downfall due to misinformation. My aspirations in education are to inspire students to enjoy history, and enjoy my technological method of teaching.

This blog will serve a purpose someday, I promise Mr. Smith. For now this is just to submit this blogging assignment and to possibly use for other assignments in the future? Only you would know! Maybe not this blog, probably a different one with a name that coincides with where I teach and what I teach - who knows? The future is unwritten for this young upcoming teacher. I will say that I will have an education blog at some point - but for today it is simply to please your grading scale Mr Smith.

This is Mr. Smiths blog I suggest those who read this take a look at his - I mean he is teaching me how to blog after all so he probably has a pretty nice one (he does)

http://balddaddieteach.edublogs.org/

This is Mr. Cummings, signing off for now!