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= = =Student Profile Page - Douglas Zeier=
 * Grade Level/Discipline:** 3rd Grade / Multi-subject


 * Few Facts about myself:**


 * 1) **Fact 1**: I am a computer geek... if it has electricity running through it... I want one!
 * 2) **Fact 2**: I grew up on Long Island in New York.
 * 3) **Fact 3**: ALL of my spare time is spent playing with and entertaining my 2.5 year old daughter. (see picture above)
 * 4) **Fact 4**: What little free time I have after my daughter and computers... I like to spend outdoors.. I love to sit out in the fresh air with a drink and swing on the bench swing.


 * What I'd like to learn or get out of this course:**

I hope to learn how the technology that I have in my classroom can be used to its full potential. I grasp how to use technology very quickly, but using it to as an effective tool to teach the students in my class has been a challenge. I do not want to only use technology as a show piece to gain and keep their attention, but rather a tool to help them gain knowledge of both the technology but also the subject matter.


 * My favorite game(s):**

I have to admit I am sort of a technological enigma... I love computers, but do not play many games. I do own a Wii and I have a few games that I play when I do have time to kill and nothing else to do. I like to play Animal Crossing and Tiger Woods Golf on the Wii. I also seem to have gotten addicted to to a game on my cell phone called "Bebble" its a tetris style game in which you need to connect colored balls to achieve points. I actually spent some of my lunch break today on my Motorola Droid playing instead of grading papers.