Internship+Reflection+1

Part 1 - Log
Created tutorials for student and teacher use, including email and student drop boxes. || 10 || TF-III C, D TF-IV A, TF-V A,C TF-VI A TF-VII C ||^   || TF-VII A ||^   || TF-III B TF-IV C ||^   || =Part 2 - Reflection =
 * ** Date: August - September Total Internship hours at the start of the month: ** || 0 ||
 * ** Week ** || ** Functions ** || ** Description ** || ** Hrs ** ||
 * ** 1 ** || ** Week’s Activities ** || Planned, developed, and taught a number of different professional development opportunities, including an Integration Academy for Secondary Teachers, Gradebook and Examview trainings.
 * ^  || ** Standard/Indicator ** ||  TF-II A, B, D, E
 * ^  || ** Communication with Site Mentor ** || Supervisor approved training agendas and attended the trainings as time permitted. ||^   ||
 * ** 2 ** || ** Week’s Activities ** || Helped the Technology Department handout student laptops to all four of the Secondary Campuses. || 8 ||
 * ^  || ** Standard/Indicator ** ||  TF-VI E
 * ^  || ** Communication with Site Mentor ** || Supervisor approved my part in helping disperse the student laptops. ||^   ||
 * ** 3 ** || ** Week’s Activities ** || Collaborated with the Technology Department to review and the current Eplan and revise it for the next four years. || 2 ||
 * ^  || ** Standard/Indicator ** || TF-VII B ||^   ||
 * ^  || ** Communication with Site Mentor ** || Supervisor moderated the meetings. ||^   ||
 * ** 4 ** || ** Week’s Activities ** || Helped a Middle School math teacher create podcasts of his lessons. || 2 ||
 * ^  || ** Standard/Indicator ** ||  TF-II B, F
 * ^  || ** Communication with Site Mentor ** || Supervisor suggested the teacher could create these podcasts by himself. ||^   ||
 * ** 5 ** || ** Week’s Activities ** || Researched web-based clicker systems to replace hand held clickers. Researched how to deliver the state mandated Technology Student Assessment, || 2 ||
 * ^  || ** Standard/Indicator ** || TF-IV A,B,C ||^   ||
 * ^  || ** Communication with Site Mentor ** || Supervisor received the projects for her review. ||^   ||
 * ** Hours worked this month: ** || 24 ||
 * ** Total Internship hours to date including this month: ** || 24 ||

As an Instructional Technology Facilitator my job is hits on the almost all of the Technology Facilitator Standards on a weekly basis. Additionally, prior to this job I completed a number of activities that helped me understand and master the Standards. I work with all district personnel to expand their knowledge of technology systems, and software. To accomplish this I offer a number of teacher trainings and have developed tutorials and how to documents to help educators work with various software programs and hardware components. As a district, we offer a vast number of technology courses during the year. We have redesigned most of the trainings so they are no longer covering just technology skills but model how to integrate the skill into the classroom. We accomplish this by having the teacher complete an activity as a student and then look at the product as a teacher. Many teachers have requested subject specific technology training and we will provide that kind of training in the future.

Since we are a 1:1 district most teachers are excited and willing to learn any and everything they can about how to integrate and use the student laptops to their fullest. The Technology Academy was required for all high school teachers and because it was mandatory, several teachers did not participate during the class despite our best efforts to engage them and make the learning relevant to their classrooms. The problem of engaging adult learners is something I will be addressing with the Professional Development Coordinator.