Introduction

    Hi MK! My name is Scott Mallam and I'm a Middle School English teacher in Central City, Nebraska. I've been teaching and coaching for 22 years and had previous stints at Marysville Senior High in Marysville, Kansas and Aquinas Catholic Schools in David City, Nebraska. I'm a proud graduate of the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
    When it comes to technology,  I have what you would call an Atari 2600 background so you could say I'm a little behind the times. But it's also one of the reasons I'm excited about this course. In my classroom, I have the luxury of using a Promethean Board daily. It has been an enormously helpful tool because it can do so many unique things. I'm still in the embryonic stages of using the Promethean, but it has already made my life easier and has allowed me to move into the 21st century technology realm. Since I'm a Macbook owner and our school uses Macs, I'm definitely a Mac person. Their user-friendly style makes it simple for tech newbs like me. I'm currently using Office 2011 for Mac but anticipate an upgrade to Mac 2016 sometime this summer.
    Afer visiting with several of my teaching friends, I decided to enroll at Peru State to get my Master's Degree. They liked the online format, and I knew I needed to go back to school to learn how to incorporate more technology into my classroom because I had fallen behind the times. This will be my third tech class, and I feel like I have benefited tremendously from the other two. I love going into class and showing something new I learned to the kids. Most of the time they're shocked by the fact that I can utilize newer technologies, so it always helps to put a unique spin on class. My degree will be in Curriculum and Instruction, and I feel like it will help me step up my game to become more of an educational leader in my district.