Hello , all!!  My name is Nicole Copeland and I'm truly excited to be taking this course with you all.  This program is helping me learn about not only a lot of new technical tools that can be used in education, but how to use them effectively. I look forward to gaining even more insight about that during this course.  A little about me, then:  I am a mother of three -two sons (21 and 17) and a daughter (19).  I have been married to my wonderful husband David for almost five years.  I completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan, majoring in Social Studies, minoring in Integrated Science and earning my elementary teaching certificate in 2010.  I enjoy substitute teaching and tutoring whenever I can.  I enrolled in this particular Graduate program because I see that schools are utilizing technology more and more as teaching tools, and I want to be the most effective teacher I can be.  And, as I've said, I am looking forward to learning a lot more about how to most effectively use all this magnificent, ever-evolving technology for the benefit of my students in this course.