One of the hardest things I have seen teachers do is to incorporate technology into their class lesson. Â As a technology leader or facilitator ISTE standard III tells us we must be able to design, model, and apply ideas for implementing technology to maximize student learning. While every classroom in our school has at least […]
Technology facilitator standard IV covers assessment and evaluation. For me this is both beneficial and hinderance to technology. Its benefit is that we can use technology to gain faster reporting results, provide analytics on students and break down groups having problems meeting standards. On the other hand it also becomes the goal to implement technology […]
During this course I worked with a group of other teachers to create a lesson utilizing universal design. One of the tools we used was the CAST Lesson Building site to help us understand universal design and layout a good lesson plan. This was probably the first class in which we were involved in a […]
Initially I had expected to learn about in this course was the basics on Servers, Networks, and general Information Technology. During my first week I was disapointed when I learned we would be covering education based information systems that were built on databases of information. However once I got into doing the assignments I began […]
As a former Information Technology manager I know the advantages of knowing how to use technology in a workplace. This is also true with education. If the staff do not know how to use technology or are at least technologically literate then integrating technology into a classroom lesson. Â From what I have seen in my […]
We find that in Chapter One, Technology Operations and Concepts, that computer usage in itself is a higher thinking process that incorporates multiple factors for even a simple task. educators must keep up in order to continue to teach students and other staff changes in technology related to their work. One thing that is highly […]
The assignment of creating an action plan for our campus helped me understand how schools create a plan to improve themsleves. By researching Academic Excellence Indicator System reports a school or department can decide what needs to be improved, what group of students to that might need extra help. Prior to this course I did […]
The web conference this week had its ups and downs. Primarily the downs were the technical difficulties that seem to plague Adobe’s web conference program. In this case the sound and picture faded in and out, and sometimes service was lost. In the end we resulted to a bsic group chat in order to answer […]
Before I began this course I thought we would spend time learning how to use a variety of tools and how they are used. I imaged creating several small projects and covering a wide variety of tools. However the course ended up being the opposite of that. I had the oppertunity to learn a few […]