What do I need to know to integrate technology into my classroom?

There are a number of elements that teachers must know to be able to apply the right ammount of technology into a classroom. We as teachers must be able to know how to operate different kinds of computers, along with the different variety's of programs on each computer such as excel, powerpoint, any types of smart boards, awareness of the internet and word. The ability to be able to manuever these different types of programs to benefit the way you teach your students is the whole point. This will do a number of things that will benefit the way teachers educate; it will make it more interesting and will make the students get a more real and simulated picture of the world as a whole. These programs are just a few of the many that we must learn in order to not only teach but to communicate with other teachers and the students parents and grade our papers and enterthem into the grade books.