Janet Kelly L20261945
October 22, 2011
Cohort 13 / ET 8027
Week 3 Assignment, Part 3.5: Reflections for Technology Facilitator Standard V: Teaching, Learning, and the Curriculum
Self –Assessment
Learning about how technology can enhance and improve both my personal productivity and professional practice was the most practical application of the program for me. Even if I do not take a techie job in a school district, I will be able to use this knowledge in my daily life.
During the program, I conducted research through interviews and survey about the productivity program Eduphoria: Aware (Eduphoria, 2011). Through this investigation, I was able to see the areas of strength in the program, and the deficiency of training in some areas. Some educators utilized the program fully, but some did not know about program features available to them. The Instructional Technology director will use this information as she plans for future training.
Learn as a Learner
One of the best ways I was able to indentify technology resources and evaluate them was to attend the TASA/TASB conferences with my husband. Booths of technology vendors promoting their wares fill the bottom floor of the convention center. Stopping and talking to each about their programs and hardware advances is a great way to see what is out there and how it works in education. My only problem with this approach is that my husband is nearby, and since he is a superintendent the vendors hone in on him and try to give him the “hard sale” when I am the one asking all the questions. After attending these conferences, I would share with my mentor and others, some of the new technology products available for educators.
Lifelong Learning Skills
One of the opportunities to show a teacher advanced features of productivity tools came at a church picnic. I found a teacher that was struggling to take her adult education program lesson online. Her goal was to get it online so that adult students in other programs around San Antonio could access the lesson from the internet. From what I learned in my Lamar program courseware, I was able to help he take her PowerPoint and use Authorstream to create a slide show that she uploaded to Teachertube or YouTube. I also spoke with her about creating a class wiki so that students could access her class online.
A lifelong skill that I have acquired while participating in the Lamar Academic Partnerships program is to use technology “to participate in online collaborative curricular projects and team activities to build bodies of knowledge around specific topics” (Williamson & Redish, 2009, p. 113). I loved working with my team to create a website teaching about rocks and erosion called Rockin’ with Technology (Wilson, Kelly, Bullock, & Fruge, 2010). This activity taught me how to use Google sites and set up, embed, upload and collaborate on the webpage.
Bibliography
(2011). Retrieved Oct 22, 2011, from Eduphoria: http://www.eduphoria.net/default.aspx
Williamson, J., & Redish, T. (2009). ISTE's technology facilitation and leadership standards: What every k-12 leader should know and be able to do. Eugene: International Society for Technology in Education.
Wilson, J., Kelly, J., Bullock, L., & Fruge, V. (2010). EDLD 5366: Team TNT. Retrieved Oct 22, 2011, from Rockin' With Technology: https://sites.google.com/site/edld5364teamtntprojectsite/home
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