Standard VIII of ISTE’s technology facilitation and leadership standards is that of leadership and vision. Â I feel this standard went along with EDLD 5301 Research course because we have to have vision, followed by research, combined with leadership in order to produce quality results. Â If you take away any of those 3 components you will […]
Standard VII in which technology facilitators must be able to implement procedures, policies, planning, and budgeting for the use of technology has been very important in my field activities. Â My key project for this course was maintaining our districts website and working to develop a better functionality of how we provide information to our community […]
The assignments for Web Design and Development offered me a unique perspective of what the name suggested it covered. Â Our first assignment was useful because it had us create a website policy. Â This something our school district needs to improve upon so that we can put certain standards into place. Â This assignment falls into Standard […]
The assignments in EDLD 5363 Multimedia and Video Technology have been very useful. I learned about public service messages and how they are developed. I really liked the readings because it gave me a deeper understanding of concepts that I have been trying to pass on to my own students. Â The Digital Story Cookbook by […]
Technology is easy to implement, but the choosing why and how to implement is harder. Â I have learned this over the past year helping to implement a district website that provides teacher interactivity and individual posting of data. Â Originally we had a site that I managed, but the district wanted a way for teachers to […]
Standard V is really what technology is all about, productivity as well as professional practice. Â I believe this is very important. If a teacher is not willing to use technology for their own benefit, in essence improving their own productivity then they will not successfully be able to encourage students to use it as an […]
Our primary project in EDLD 5366 Digital Graphics was to create a newsletter. This assignment provided a lot of personal growth. I think it can be easy for us to say we can put together a newsletter, after all many put together a simple newsletter for friends and family at the end of every year. […]
Looking back at the assignments for EDLD 5368 Instructional Design, I focused much of my attention in this course to the development of an online assignment through the website schoology.com. This course content management system was new both to Lamar educators as well as to us. Â One of my biggest concerns that I can see […]
Week 3 web conference was held with very few questions. Students seem to be doing well with their assignments and much of the time in the conference general conversation took place. Â Some of the questions that were asked were in regards to APA style and how things should be structured. Â It was a short and […]
The course conference call this morning helped relieve some stress that I was having because I had not received any grades on my first week. I was hoping to have week 1 grades so I could see what I was doing right and what needed to be improved on before submitting week twos assignment. Â While […]