Thus, you only have to learn technology as it will help you teach writing or help your students learn writing and produce more professional documents. Remember that you are the writing expert not a computer expert. Be willing to admit this to students and build in ways to use students' knowledge of technology. This will build their own confidence and give other students a good resource. B. This goes with the territory in the lab.
Pacing can be a change for teachers who are unused to teaching in computer classrooms.
Working with technology often takes longer than expected. For example, you may know that you can work through formatting a Microsoft word document in about 10 minutes. You should be prepared to move items on your daily agenda around so that you focus on what is important. In addition, knowing how to balance lecture, class discussions, computer time, and group and individual work can be tricky. You need to recognize that an important component of classes that meet in computer classrooms is the workshop-time allowed for production of documents and learning about writing technologies.