Spring Semester and Summer Session 2013
Master Technology Teacher Standards
Standards
Standard I The Master Technology Teacher effectively models and applies classroom teaching methodology and curriculum models that promote active student learning through the integration of technology and addresses the varied learning needs of all students.
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Artifact
Logo, Banner
and Photo Retouching Empowering teachers to reach the needs of all students is the goal of ThinkingInSchool as a website. Inquiry Based Learning |
Reflection
While these artifacts are creative in nature, their main benefit is yielded in the professional aspect of your work. This professional "fit and finish" or attention to detail" is the skill we need to demonstrate as we mentor or students. Incorporated into websites, blogs, flyers, and handouts these tools effectively engage students. Learning Photoshop and InDesign seemed like an uphill battle at times, but the skill I have learned was worth the scarifies. I will use the banner technique more often. Reflect on: Bloom's Taxonomy, Marzano's 9 strategies, Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, and Dr. Ruby Pain's Book on Poverty. Their principles if followed insure each student is appropriately engaged. |
Standard IIThe Master Technology Teacher selects and administers appropriate technology-related
assessments on an ongoing basis and uses the results to design and improve instruction. |
Rubrics and visual explanations augment assignments. Rubrics establish a standard which makes adhesion to high quality easier to accomplish.
Here is an example of a PowerPoint that identifies the quality expected in a design class e.g.Principles of design in this power point, I learned four key aspects of Print Media Design. I found this study to be rewarding in many ways, chiefly in the approach I take to creating flyers and announcements at school. The proper design is not inly pleasant it is engaging and maintains interest. Knowing these four elements, helps teachers express the quality of work they expect from their students. Quizlet is a good tool to use for student self assessment and reiterative practice. Here is a Quizlet example on gustar. |
Standard IIIThe Master Technology Teacher applies knowledge of digital learning competencies including Internet research, graphics, animation, website mastering and video technology.
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Linear Design is a technique used to make slide presentations adaptable to various audiences with respect to time and understanding.
TEASE videos! I have added them to my Flip and Online lesson groups. They successfully engage students. On a curiosity level that stimulate and attracts. 7th grade Spanish 1 was my target level. I selected RAP and easy to recognize tunes to be more inviting. Look at my Flip and Online lessons I reviewed the Marzano Principles and applied them in respect to valid, reliable, and defensible instruction methods. Particularly, collaborative activities like the discussion board and peer review. I also leaned on Vygotsky's theories of proximal development, you see this more in the online lesson. I used these principles as I selected the individual online tools. |
Standard IVThe Master Technology Teacher serves as a resource regarding the integration of assistive technologies and accessible design concepts to meet the needs of all students.
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Podcast, Screen Cast, Sketch Cast are great examples of assistive technologies that engage students in meaningful learning. Look at my Flip and online lessons. These tools change pedagogically the way you deliver content. In this way, they improve the range of student abilities that you can engage.
Look at the Discussion Board I created to facilitate student learning by incorporating Peer to Peer review and Collaboration in a controlled environment. In retrospect, these examples of Online strategies are liberating for teachers. Once learned, these tools and the skills associated with them are quickly mastered when practiced. I found the sketch cast to be the most impressive tool as it combined solid technologies in an easy to consume package. |
Standard VThe Master Technology Teacher facilitates appropriate, research-based technology instruction by communicating and collaborating with educational stakeholders;
mentoring, coaching and consulting with colleagues; providing professional development opportunities for faculty; and making decisions based on converging evidence from research. |
My newsletter is a good example on how the Master Technology Teacher can communicate innovative principles and practices to colleagues and administrators.
Flyers are useful tools as well and can be used with a greater range of people. I think most of my generation grew up using Power Point. These two tools are perhaps more traditional mediums, but with the right design elements they are effective at tying in common ideas. |
Reflection
ISTE 2013 Conference
EDUC 6307-20 Print Media Design
The importance of the four elements of design was instilled in our minds in this class. I have always dabbled in art and learned to critique art at the University of Massachusetts. The elements of repetition, proximity, alignment and contrast distill the lesson I learned into a simple manageable practice. When creating any print media, we owe it to our students and colleagues to be professional. Using contrast or proximity can add focus and clarity to your lesson or idea. Alignment makes reading a handout or blog more accessible.
I had always wanted to learn the basics of Photo Shop and InDesign. As a fast learner of technologies, this shortened course was just the compressed timeframe that I needed to learn enough to begin a practice of retouching images, making layered levels for easy edits and changes. I started using what I had learned immediately. I would be remise if I did not compliment my fellow students and the encouragement and ideas that proffered me. Wanting to solve some of their questions, spurred me toward innovation and discovery.
EDUC 6308-20 Distance Learning
The take away idea here is "feedback". These courses must provide a conduit to feedback on how a students is progressing and what the instructor intended to occur. Despite the distance, peer review was pivotal to success. Self-reliance, motivation and a penchant toward discovery made these lessons successful for me. I used in person conversations, email, text messaging, discussion board and the LMS to keep me on track. I had a hard time seeing the big picture at first. By the end if the first week, I had a plan and I had developed a good work flow. It is too easy to get behind in one of these online classes. I learned that as a teacher, I have to keep looking at metrics all along the course to see signs that each student is on track. Keeping students informed and feeling "taken care of" is just as important at engaging and maintaining student interest as appropriate and meaningful curriculum design.
Sound, color, video and images are the key components of online design. The content might change, but these components will insure it is conveyed in a manner that challenges multiple intelligences and learning needs. While I really though RAP and Popular music was inappropriate to a grammar lesson, peer review convinced me I was behind the times. A sample student review surprised me when the students told me the lyrics were stuck in their heads for days. That means the grammar lesson was stuck in their heads. In the fall semester I created a TEASE video, the use in online lessons of student produced videos has a similar effect at appropriately motivating middle and high school students. Another way to articulate this methodology is:
Engage - I employ a teaser video
with a catch tune that is not easily forgotten . The discussion board as well is
meant to capture attention. Explore - Re-examine what was learned and explore what is
beyond the lesson. Explanation - Several views with various methodologies and tasks are designed explain concepts
to various intelligences. Extension - The discussion board is meant as an extension of the students world and bring in outside thoughts, so do the videos which are produced at other schools. Evaluation - Assessment - Rubrics, students are encouraged to challenge themselves by being evaluated from Beginner which prompts growth to accomplished to have excelled. This way students can see the continuum of growth,
New this semester was Marzano's strategies for student lessons and teachers evaluations [of lesson plans]. There are 9 steps to encourage student learning and they utilize group learning when appropriate, meaningful lessons that are valid , reliable and defensible and address note taking by the student so that new terms are internalized and repackaged by the student to insure comprehension and ownership of accurate definitions. Marzano for me is a blend of Erik Erikson's 8 stages of development and Cognitive theorists dogma of classification and association by schema. I found a graphic that compared, visually, Marzano's 9 Strategies to Blooms Taxonomy. The comparison made incorporating Marzano much easier.
The importance of the four elements of design was instilled in our minds in this class. I have always dabbled in art and learned to critique art at the University of Massachusetts. The elements of repetition, proximity, alignment and contrast distill the lesson I learned into a simple manageable practice. When creating any print media, we owe it to our students and colleagues to be professional. Using contrast or proximity can add focus and clarity to your lesson or idea. Alignment makes reading a handout or blog more accessible.
I had always wanted to learn the basics of Photo Shop and InDesign. As a fast learner of technologies, this shortened course was just the compressed timeframe that I needed to learn enough to begin a practice of retouching images, making layered levels for easy edits and changes. I started using what I had learned immediately. I would be remise if I did not compliment my fellow students and the encouragement and ideas that proffered me. Wanting to solve some of their questions, spurred me toward innovation and discovery.
EDUC 6308-20 Distance Learning
The take away idea here is "feedback". These courses must provide a conduit to feedback on how a students is progressing and what the instructor intended to occur. Despite the distance, peer review was pivotal to success. Self-reliance, motivation and a penchant toward discovery made these lessons successful for me. I used in person conversations, email, text messaging, discussion board and the LMS to keep me on track. I had a hard time seeing the big picture at first. By the end if the first week, I had a plan and I had developed a good work flow. It is too easy to get behind in one of these online classes. I learned that as a teacher, I have to keep looking at metrics all along the course to see signs that each student is on track. Keeping students informed and feeling "taken care of" is just as important at engaging and maintaining student interest as appropriate and meaningful curriculum design.
Sound, color, video and images are the key components of online design. The content might change, but these components will insure it is conveyed in a manner that challenges multiple intelligences and learning needs. While I really though RAP and Popular music was inappropriate to a grammar lesson, peer review convinced me I was behind the times. A sample student review surprised me when the students told me the lyrics were stuck in their heads for days. That means the grammar lesson was stuck in their heads. In the fall semester I created a TEASE video, the use in online lessons of student produced videos has a similar effect at appropriately motivating middle and high school students. Another way to articulate this methodology is:
Engage - I employ a teaser video
with a catch tune that is not easily forgotten . The discussion board as well is
meant to capture attention. Explore - Re-examine what was learned and explore what is
beyond the lesson. Explanation - Several views with various methodologies and tasks are designed explain concepts
to various intelligences. Extension - The discussion board is meant as an extension of the students world and bring in outside thoughts, so do the videos which are produced at other schools. Evaluation - Assessment - Rubrics, students are encouraged to challenge themselves by being evaluated from Beginner which prompts growth to accomplished to have excelled. This way students can see the continuum of growth,
New this semester was Marzano's strategies for student lessons and teachers evaluations [of lesson plans]. There are 9 steps to encourage student learning and they utilize group learning when appropriate, meaningful lessons that are valid , reliable and defensible and address note taking by the student so that new terms are internalized and repackaged by the student to insure comprehension and ownership of accurate definitions. Marzano for me is a blend of Erik Erikson's 8 stages of development and Cognitive theorists dogma of classification and association by schema. I found a graphic that compared, visually, Marzano's 9 Strategies to Blooms Taxonomy. The comparison made incorporating Marzano much easier.