Standard+1

= Technology Operations and Concepts. =

Teachers demonstrate a sound understanding of technology operations and concepts. **Performance Indicators: Teachers:**
 * 1) demonstrate introductory technology literacy knowledge, skills, and concepts (described in the ISTE NETS Technology Foundation Standards for Students).
 * 2) demonstrate sustained growth in technology knowledge and skills to stay abreast of contemporary and emerging technologies.

My artifacts demonstrating this standard (What?)
[|Blogs in Plain English Video] [|What's a Voicethread Anyway?] [|PBS On-line Digital Library] YouTube Video - [|SHIFT HAPPENS]
 * Module 2** - Blogs in Plain English and Voicethreads

I am a member of the Austin Teachers on-line diigo group for sharing web sites. I also am part of several learning communities on wikispaces.com. In the past, several of my college classes used global learning communities for projects, but that was several years ago. I have not joined twitter yet, but I am a member of a couple of educational groups on facebook. I don't see a lot of use for this type of learning community. If I have a question and I google it, it often links you to postings that could be helpful without being a member. I have used on-line learning communities on web sites such as Promethean Planet when I have specific problems with the website and they have been very helpful.
 * Module 7** - Discussion on being a part of an online community.

I am always amazed by how many on-line tools there are. I have enjoyed exploring some of them. One of the new sites I checked out this module was Voki. This site is very cool. You can create a representation of yourself. I also looked at Slideshow which is a site for sharing powerpoint or other presentations. It is very similiar to Slideworld which I already belong to. My favorite tool this module was the go2web20 site. This site lists and organizes all of the millions of tools available on-line and gives a short description of what you can do there.
 * Module 7** - Discussion on Idea and Tool Exploration

My Integrated Science Class monitors Freeman Run, the stream behind the school. I modified this lesson this year to include more technology. We summarized the project by putting pictures on [|www.voicethread.com] and commenting on the research. The tools we used and a summary are listed on the Module 6 What Works document. The project went very well. The students enjoyed collaborating and researching. I plan to use the voicethread with future classes that do stream analysis. This project hit on all 9 of Marzano's stratgies. This is a great way to summarize a project or laboratory and assess what the students have learned. The only problem that I had was monitoring all of the student's progress since everyone was doing something different all the time. Some students were taking pictures, while others were researching, and others were posting comments on the web. I will definately use a project like this again. We did have some technical difficulty with the students seeing each others comments, so sometimes they repeated information. Please check out what the students came up with at
 * Module 7** - Innovative Project

[|Austin Stream Analysis]

**My Reflection on meeting this standard (So What?)**
//My discussion post on being a part of an online community represents the goal of demonstrating sustained growth in technology knowledge and skills to stay abreast of contemporary and emerging technologies because this is a good way tested and beneficial uses for technology.

My discussion post on idea and tool exploration represents the goal of demonstrating sustained growth in technology knowledge and skills to stay abreast of contemporary and emerging technologies because...//

My innovative project represents the goal of // demonstrate sustained growth in technology knowledge and skills to stay abreast of contemporary and emerging technologies. //

**My Future Learning Goals related to this standard (Now What?)**
I will:
 * continue to education myself about the changing world in technology.
 * make myself a part of the global on-line community.
 * use new technology resource tools to update my current practices.