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=My name is Mandy Norton and I am a .5 teacher with Special Needs Childen at Geraldine Primary School, and for the rest of the day I am a Teacher Aide and also the Morning Tea chick . I have worked here for 5 years and I love being a staff member at this wonderful School.﻿ I don't teach in a classroom of my own, I have what I refer to as my cupboard, a small but suitable room to work one on one with 4 children, daily. I withdraw them from class and work on speech and language, writing, ocupational therapy activities and music, among other subjects. Some days I stay in the classroom to carry out activities that a child may be finding difficult. I have my trusty little camera with me EVERYWHERE I go, ( no-one is safe !!! ) and I use photos taken of or by the children for learning activites, and social stories. I have enjoyed our cluster practicums as I have so much to learn, I consider myself to be quite computer unsavey and usually achieve any results with a lot of input from my colleagues, and sometimes by sheer fluke, then have to ask what I did and write it down and practise. I have my own computer, a Toshiba that one of my sons bought me for Christmas two years ago, I was terrified and had to ask how to turn it on. My Toshiba and I are great friends now, and I have become confident at using it regularly on a daily basis. I have ( apparently ) around 20,000 photos stored, and am in the process of deleting a few of them. I take 20 photos just to get 1 good one but until now haven't wanted to part with them in case I need them. At our practcums I have been very pleased with myself at my level of progress and sucess with I movies and Keynote. = =2011 is moving all too fast and we are nearly at the end of term 2, and learning to use Voicethread. =