Weaknesses from NET Standards:
II. Planning and designing learning environments and experiences includes a few elements that I find difficult to apply into my teaching/training at times. For instance, C: Identify and locate technology resources and evaluate them for accuracy and suitability, is a hard element of technology support for me to implement. It is a weakness of mine that I don’t evaluate the accuracy of websites before trusting their information. My students deserve the truth, and in order to give them the truth, I need to better examine what methods I can use to evaluate the validity of a website’s information.
III. Teaching, learning, and the curriculum includes an overall skill that I haven’t fully developed. Sometimes I solely use technology to create an aesthetically pleasing presentation (cutesy elementary teacher coming out), and I use technology to entertain rather than to teach.
Strengths from NET Standards:
V. Productivity and Professional Practice
D. Use technology to communicate and collaborate with peers, parents, and the larger community in order to nurture student learning.
I have strength in this particular area because I have been educated in email, instant messaging, and other technological communication methods since I was a middle school student. I am familiar with Skype because I have used it as my only source of communication for 6 months while I was traveling abroad. I also used Skype in teaching Taiwan preschoolers about technology and cross-world cultures (America). I know that this will be a continued strength when I am a teacher because I am passionate about the effectiveness of organized communication through the internet. It will be a great tool to be able to post the weekly newsletter, spontaneous announcements, the syllabus, and the calendar all on one website. This will be much easier for me, my students, and especially my parents. Since making the parents happy is my biggest fear, it will be a continual concern of mine to keep them happy through constant and organized communication.
Strengths of the UNI survey:
The only strength I tested above the Apprentice level was on Standard 15; Use audio/visual technology to produce artistic informational audio/visual projects.
I was rated between an apprentice and a practitioner because I have created many(50) pieces of work that have included editing mainly via imovie. I have made wedding videos, study abroad videos, contest entry videos, commercial advertisement videos, interviews/news videos, and many other types of editing and creating with film. I have taught other peers how to use these editing tools to make effective projects, advertisements, or presentation aids. I haven’t taught a class of my students how to use these tools because I am not a teacher yet, but I have had practice teaching these skills to my peers, so I believe I test slightly above the apprentice level.
Weaknesses of the UNI survey:
I do not use databases or spreadsheets, and though I have taken courses on how to do so, I do not implement them into my current life and may not have the abilities to do so when I am a teacher.
Goals:
In order to improve upon my weaknesses, I could take these two workshops.
- http://sites.google.com/site/colettecassinelli/spreadsheet
- http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic32.htm
The first workshop will help me to improve my understanding of how to use spreadsheets and data, and they will help me to understand why they are important tools for me as a teacher.
The second workshop is a great resource to learning how to find out the accuracy of websites, and it is built especially for teachers.
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