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Productivity and Professional Practice.
Educational technology facilitators apply technology to enhance and improve personal productivity and professional practice. Educational technology facilitators:
TF-V.A. Use technology resources to engage in ongoing professional development and lifelong learning. Candidates:
1. Identify resources and participate in professional development activities and professional technology organizations to support ongoing professional growth related to technology.
2. Disseminate information on district-wide policies for the professional growth opportunities for staff, faculty, and administrators.
TF-V.B. Continually evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding the use of technology in support of student learning. Candidates:
1. Continually evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding the use of technology in support of student learning.
TF-V.C. Apply technology to increase productivity. Candidates:
1. Model advanced features of word processing, desktop publishing, graphics programs, and utilities to develop professional products.
2. Assist others in locating, selecting, capturing, and integrating video and digital images in varying formats for use in presentations, publications and/or other products.
3. Demonstrate the use of specific-purpose electronic devices (such as graphing calculators, languages translators, scientific probeware, or electronic thesaurus) in content areas.
4. Use a variety of distance learning systems and use at least one to support personal/ professional development.
5. Use instructional design principles to develop hypermedia and multimedia products to support personal and professional development.
6. Select appropriate tools for communicating concepts, conducting research, and solving problems for an intended audience and purpose.
7. Use examples of emerging programming, authoring or problem solving environments that support personal/professional development.
8. Set and manipulate preferences, defaults, and other selectable features of operating systems and productivity tool programs commonly found in P-12 schools.
TF-V.D. Use technology to communicate and collaborate with peers, parents, and the larger community in order to nurture student learning. Candidates:
1. Model the use of telecommunications tools and resources for information sharing, remote information access, and multimedia/hypermedia publishing in order to nurture student learning.
2. Communicate with colleagues and discuss current research to support instruction, using applications including electronic mail, online conferencing, and web browsers.
3. Participate in online collaborative curricular projects and team activities to build bodies of knowledge around specific topics.
4. Design, develop, and maintain Web pages and sites that support communication between the school and community.
1. Excel Grade Sheet
2. Food Pyramid PowerPoint
Critique5
ISTE NETS
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The first artifact I have included is a grade sheet I created using Microsoft Excel for Using Integrated Software. Prior to using spreadsheets for grading, I would spend countless hours computing averages for marking period grades. This process was so incredibly time-consuming. Taking Using Integrated Software required me to comprehend use of various software applications such as Microsoft Excel. Now, I cannot imagine ever having to compute grades without a spreadsheet. Utilization of spreadsheet software has led to an obvious improvement in my productivity in the classroom. Without having to spend as much time calculating grades, I am able to research new teaching strategies and lesson plans. Furthermore, students are encouraged to use technology when their instructors model its use. This artifact demonstrates my competency as a technology educator because I applied technology effectively to improve my classroom productivity.
The second artifact I have included is a PowerPoint presentation I created on the Food Guide Pyramid for Using Integrated Software. Normally I would draw the pyramid on the board but now I can allow them to view this presentation. The colorful graphics allow students to make better connections with the foods found in each group. This artifact further demonstrates my competency with this standard because I have made use of technology I discovered through my studies to foster the learning of students.
Learning is a lifelong process because it is my belief that one may never know too much. Likewise, the world of technology is ever-changing and thus requires technology facilitators to continually develop their proficiency in the required areas of competency. The learning related to technology will never cease, making this particular standard quite important. To remain proficient with this standard I plan to continue to seek new learning opportunities be they on use of a new software application or a course or workshop on current technological trends. Regardless, my personal learning will persist throughout my life as I wish it will for my students.