Talking About Technology

I am currently working with a teacher who has worked in the field for 20 plus years. She is open to new technology but very much lacks the training to feel comfortable using it. She has a smart board that she uses as a glorified white board and I have since made her attendance and lunch choices for the students in an interactive SmartBoard slide. The students drag their personalized frog to the selection of lunch choice they want for the day and she knows if a frog was not moved that the student is absent. I have also made many interactive games for her that coincide with certain standards that we are currently trying to achieve. I think this is actually helping her because it is forcing her to play around with it, problem solve on the days I am not there to help her, and brainstorm about otherwise she would like to use it in the future. When it comes to google docs she is still learning and very frustrated with it. I have been trying to help her the best I can but the set up the school has for all documents on one drive is very scatterbrained and not very organized. I too have a hard time locating things for her and I keep trying to assure her that since this is one of their first years going to google docs that things will just keep getting more organized and easier to access. I hope that my positive attitude about technology rubs off on her even after I have left her for the year.