For this week's post I wanted to update you guys again as to my progress with my GAME Plan. Just a reminder that my goals for my GAME Plan are focused on doing more professional development for my fellow staff mates and to find new technologies to use in my classroom. I have four questions that I will use to updates you.
Are you finding the information and resources you need?
For my professional development goal I have tons of stuff that I want to share with my colleagues. I wish I had more formal opportunities to share them because then I feel I could make a big difference. As for finding new technologies for my classroom I have been experimenting with a few new ones but I have not found one I want to use for sure yet.
Do you need to modify your action plan?
I think my action plan is going well right now so I don't want to tweak it right now.
What have you learned so far?
This last week I learned that I can do more professional development at my school one on one. A secretary was struggling with how to communicate some weekly events with the other staff. I then spent the next 30 mins showing her how to use her Google Calendar better and how to create events to send out. She was so happy with what I had to share that I want to find new opportunities to do one on one trainings.
What new questions have arisen?
One question I have for all of you to help me out with is any technologies you have learned about that are good to use for education. I know most of my readers are in education so any suggestions would be great. Thanks!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Keeping up with the GAME Plan
As follow up to my GAME Plan post from last week I will give you an update on how I am doing. To guide this post I will use the following three questions:
What resources will you need to carry out your plan (video, reading, experts or colleagues, etc)?
The main resources I will use are Dicovery Educators Network (DEN), ISTE, and my school's Tech Committee. I have signed up for a webinar coming in the following weeks with DEN. The webinar is on all the updates to the DEN and to Discovery Education streaming. I am excited about this because both resources are really cool and they always make lots of updates during the summer. For my professional development plan I am working with my Tech Committee to develop a training on Google Apps. We have a training staff meeting scheduled for Monday, Sept. 27th. At the training I will be teaching how to use GMail as an educator.
What additional information do you need?
The webinar I have signed up for is something I can't really prepare for or need anything for. The Tech Committee training though I need to prepare a lot for. I personally use GMail for my e-mail and know lots of tricks including themes and labs. I will be watching the Google Apps for Education training videos though to learn new tricks. I actually meet the lady this summer that designed these training videos so I know they have lots of good ideas. Then I need to make a plan for my part of the presentation. Does anyone have any tips for GMail or any other Google Apps?
What steps have you been able to take so far?
So far I have been able to sign-up for the webinar and see an brief description of what will be going on during the webinar. For Google Apps I have been using several of them for years so I have lots of background information to build on. This prior knowledge will be great to teach to my fellow teachers so that they can be more effective at their job.
What resources will you need to carry out your plan (video, reading, experts or colleagues, etc)?
The main resources I will use are Dicovery Educators Network (DEN), ISTE, and my school's Tech Committee. I have signed up for a webinar coming in the following weeks with DEN. The webinar is on all the updates to the DEN and to Discovery Education streaming. I am excited about this because both resources are really cool and they always make lots of updates during the summer. For my professional development plan I am working with my Tech Committee to develop a training on Google Apps. We have a training staff meeting scheduled for Monday, Sept. 27th. At the training I will be teaching how to use GMail as an educator.
What additional information do you need?
The webinar I have signed up for is something I can't really prepare for or need anything for. The Tech Committee training though I need to prepare a lot for. I personally use GMail for my e-mail and know lots of tricks including themes and labs. I will be watching the Google Apps for Education training videos though to learn new tricks. I actually meet the lady this summer that designed these training videos so I know they have lots of good ideas. Then I need to make a plan for my part of the presentation. Does anyone have any tips for GMail or any other Google Apps?
What steps have you been able to take so far?
So far I have been able to sign-up for the webinar and see an brief description of what will be going on during the webinar. For Google Apps I have been using several of them for years so I have lots of background information to build on. This prior knowledge will be great to teach to my fellow teachers so that they can be more effective at their job.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
NETS-T
As part of my latest class Integrating Technology Across the Content Areas I had to look into International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and National Education Technology Standards (NETS). I have know about ISTE for a while through my colleagues and this summer I had the chance to go to their national conference here in Denver. There I learned more about their NETS program and how they set standards for different levels. As part of my class I have chosen two NETS for teachers that I would like to advance my skills in. The first NET-T I choose was #1 facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity and the second was #5 engage in professional growth and leadership (ISTE.org, 2010).
To promote my learning in these NETS-T I will follow the Goal Action Monitor Evaluate method (Cennamo, 2010). My goal will be to find new technologies to use in my classroom to promote creativity and my second goal is to take more of an active role in my school's Technology Committee. My action to achieve both of these goals will be to take part in several webinars to find new ideas to use. Next I will monitor my goals by doing monthly self reviews. Lastly I will evaluate these goals by using my school's librarian to pitch my ideas to. If they are good she will let me know.
In all taking part in webinars will help me become a better teacher by fostering creativity and help my school by bringing new ideas to our Technology Committee.
www.ISTE.org
Cennamo, Katherine. "Promoting Self-Directed Learning with Technology." (Walden University, 2010)
To promote my learning in these NETS-T I will follow the Goal Action Monitor Evaluate method (Cennamo, 2010). My goal will be to find new technologies to use in my classroom to promote creativity and my second goal is to take more of an active role in my school's Technology Committee. My action to achieve both of these goals will be to take part in several webinars to find new ideas to use. Next I will monitor my goals by doing monthly self reviews. Lastly I will evaluate these goals by using my school's librarian to pitch my ideas to. If they are good she will let me know.
In all taking part in webinars will help me become a better teacher by fostering creativity and help my school by bringing new ideas to our Technology Committee.
www.ISTE.org
Cennamo, Katherine. "Promoting Self-Directed Learning with Technology." (Walden University, 2010)
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