What item do you beleive you can incorporate form this class into your professional or personal life and how will you ensure that you achieve the goal of incorporating it. If you can discuss it in terms of being a SMART goal for incorporating.
S - Provideseveral mini in-service opportunities for staff members at my school using a variety of different web tools. I would like to work with about 4 to 5 staff members at a time to help show them how to incorporate a specific tool into their class.
M - I can prove that it is done by showing the teachers that I worked with as well as the tools that they were taught.
A -I definitely have the resources to do this, time is the question. Part of the reason that I am making this a year long goal is because I think I will be able to use time when we have teacher in-service days for this, but I may also have to use prep time that the teachers have or I may be able to get hours during the school day when teachers can get substitutes so that they can have some time for in-service during the school day.
R - I don't know that I will be able to touch every single staff member, I would like to focus on two groups, first are teachers who are doing very little technology wise on their own. I would like to help them feel more comfortable technology and have them incorporate at least one tool into their teaching. After that group I would like to focus on the teachers who really want to do things with technology, but they just don't know what to do or where to look. I think that if I focus on these two groups I will have given a great deal of technological wealth to the staff in my building and then we can continue to make it grow from there.
T - Throughout the remainder of the school year and into next school year. (Within a years time)
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Saturday, February 11, 2012
February 10, 2012
What did we do this week that you can apply in your school or job and how might you use it?
I think that I learned a lot of useful things that I can use at my job this week. I have never used eyejot before, but I found that really easy to use and embedded one into my wiki. Also, looking at different web tools was great. I'm always looking for new tools to share with my teachers, but there is never enough time to experiment with them, so this gave me the opportunity to really look at some of these tools. I found www.picfull.com and www.storybird.com to be two of my favorites. I have some ideas on how I can use these with my teachers. I know that many teachers are upset that picnik will no longer be available, so when I saw picfull I thought that this would be a great alternative, since it is so easy-to-use. Storybird is a tool that I will be sharing with the language arts, spanish, and special education teachers. I see so many opportunities for students to express themselves and write with this program.
I really liked the site www.go2web20.net because there were so many resources to view and because it was a search engine for those tools as well. What a great resource that I am able to share with my staff.
I think that I learned a lot of useful things that I can use at my job this week. I have never used eyejot before, but I found that really easy to use and embedded one into my wiki. Also, looking at different web tools was great. I'm always looking for new tools to share with my teachers, but there is never enough time to experiment with them, so this gave me the opportunity to really look at some of these tools. I found www.picfull.com and www.storybird.com to be two of my favorites. I have some ideas on how I can use these with my teachers. I know that many teachers are upset that picnik will no longer be available, so when I saw picfull I thought that this would be a great alternative, since it is so easy-to-use. Storybird is a tool that I will be sharing with the language arts, spanish, and special education teachers. I see so many opportunities for students to express themselves and write with this program.
I really liked the site www.go2web20.net because there were so many resources to view and because it was a search engine for those tools as well. What a great resource that I am able to share with my staff.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
February 5, 2012
What did we do this week that you can apply in your school or job and how might you use it?
This week I have learned many things that will help me with my occupation. To start with I have found social bookmarking really fun and helpful. There have been a few websites this week that I have come across that I have bookmarked so I can read later. The reason I like social bookmarking so much is because I can catalog websites to look at later and hopefully I will. This week was a good reminder of how useful screencasts can be. I have used these in the past, but of course like most things I get busy and don't get around to creating many. Next week I may be out of school for jury duty a couple of days, so I decided to make screencasts for students to view on those days. This way I’m still at school, even when I’m not. Also, I'm going to work on creating some screencasts to embed in my wiki, so that students will always have help available. Another thing we did this week that can apply at work is the wiki I have started to create. I am using wikispaces and I have dabbled with this before and then never did much with it. Well, now I have created one for my library. I have found wikispaces very easy-to-use this time around and think it will be really fun to have students and other teachers add things to the wiki as well. Lastly, I found it rather ironic that on Friday this week a teacher was in the library and the students had a choice on what they could do for a project and I had five or six groups create podcasts and another five or six groups create videos, so the information from class this week really could not have come at a better time. Overall, I think everything we did this week has helped me.
This week I have learned many things that will help me with my occupation. To start with I have found social bookmarking really fun and helpful. There have been a few websites this week that I have come across that I have bookmarked so I can read later. The reason I like social bookmarking so much is because I can catalog websites to look at later and hopefully I will. This week was a good reminder of how useful screencasts can be. I have used these in the past, but of course like most things I get busy and don't get around to creating many. Next week I may be out of school for jury duty a couple of days, so I decided to make screencasts for students to view on those days. This way I’m still at school, even when I’m not. Also, I'm going to work on creating some screencasts to embed in my wiki, so that students will always have help available. Another thing we did this week that can apply at work is the wiki I have started to create. I am using wikispaces and I have dabbled with this before and then never did much with it. Well, now I have created one for my library. I have found wikispaces very easy-to-use this time around and think it will be really fun to have students and other teachers add things to the wiki as well. Lastly, I found it rather ironic that on Friday this week a teacher was in the library and the students had a choice on what they could do for a project and I had five or six groups create podcasts and another five or six groups create videos, so the information from class this week really could not have come at a better time. Overall, I think everything we did this week has helped me.
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