Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Monitoring My GAME Plan

Monitoring my GAME Plan and finding the information and resources that I need has not been a problem. I want to incorporate the knowledge of creating a Wiki for students and teachers in the district. When doing some research online I have come across many tutorials that will assist you when incorporating Wiki’s in the classroom. I have been able to share my findings with some of my colleagues through e-mail but have not received any feedback to the teachers about the use of Wiki’s in the classroom.

I may have to change my GAME Plan somewhat in order to provide a better understanding of the goals and how to assess the goals of incorporating web tools in the classroom.

When sitting through a professional Development Day and a class on websites it is clear to me that many teachers do not have the patience for the learning of web tools and how they could be benifeical to their classrooms. I may change one of my goals to provide examples of how Wiki’s can be used in the classroom

One of the goals is to create a Wiki to share students work as an online portfolio. I would like to do some research not only on Wiki’s but all portfolio based web tools, to decipher which tool could be the best for students and the teachers in the district.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

GAME Plan

GAME Plan:

When looking at the National Education Technology Standards for Students, some goals have come to mind for strengthening in engaging technology in the classroom. One would be to incorporate web tools into not only the classroom, but the district. There are many teachers that may not know how to use the tools necessary to instill technology into the curriculum. As a person that has grown up in the communication era, it is only right to take a leadership role when incorporating tools from the internet and infuse them into the classroom. The second goal is to exhibit the skills necessary to represent digital age work and learning. It is necessary to share your knowledge of information with technology and the tools that are available for teachers through the internet that is easily accessible.

I would like to incorporate an online Wiki that would allow students to update their digital portfolio to showcase their work over the internet. When creating a Wiki it is necessary, especially when students can have access, to make sure you have control and manage the site.

I will also will add a reaction page to allow viewers to share their insight and comment on certain pages. It is important for students to feel some kind of critical critique of their work and be able to constructively take that information and grow as not only professionally but also as a person.

Resources:

The ISTE NETS and Performance Indicators for Teachers (NETS•T)

http://www.iste.org/Libraries/PDFs/NETS_for_Teachers_2008_EN.sflb.ashx .