CO-PBST+7

CO-PBST 7 Reflection  For standard 7.1: apply technology to the delivery of standards-based instruction I have done two projects. The first project was a Webquest in which I had to base my lesson around the standards of a particular subject. I created a Webquest lesson on high school theatre and was able to apply six different Colorado theatre standards. Another project was the Smartboard presentation in which a group of us presented a lesson and had to make sure it met up to Colorado’s standards. My group and I decided to create our lesson about third grade math and were able to apply three Colorado math standards. Both the Smartboard lesson and the Webquest have shown me how to create fun lessons with standards-based instructions and bases.  For standard 7.2: use technology to improve student achievement I have done one particular project. I had to write an essay about Web 2.0 and the many effective tools that can be used for students in the classroom. I had to explore and explain five different tools from a very long list of Web 2.0 tools that I might use one day in my classroom. The Web 2.0 assignment showed me a great deal of really neat tools from presentations to organizations and research.  For standard 7.3: use technology to manage and communicate information I can think of two assignments. The most obvious assignment was to create a podcast, complete with music, about myself from the viewpoint of being a teacher. The podcast was a bit difficult at first to create, but then I realized how neat it would be to be able to send out either a weekly or monthly podcast to students parents about what was going on in the classroom. The other assignment was the digital storytelling. The story was a very effective way of getting across some really neat information, but in a more fun way for students. Students love watching videos, so if I make a digital story about an event I am teaching I know my students will get the information they need. Both the podcast and the digital storytelling are extremely interesting and rather easy projects that can be done and shared on any computer.  For standard 7.4: apply technology to data-driven assessments of learning I can recall one project explicitly. I refer to the Webquest for this standard also because I had to create and share my webquest on the internet. In order for students to access the webquest they would have to go to the website that I created through Google sites. After creating one webquest I know that I could make another one, even if I used a different website.  For standard 7.5: instruct students in basic technology skills I think of all of the projects. In order to make the bigger projects I had to learn more about what technology could do for me and how I could use it to my advantage. With every new assignment there were new, simple, basic skills that had to be taught. I did projects in all different types of programs on the computer, some I knew and some I did not, but now I know a lot more.

This is a reflection on how the assignments I did for this class fell into the five technology standards that I had to meet for this technology class.