Week 1 Activities

Portfolio -Building your own techology competency checklist!

Each chapter in this textbook has Portfolio Assignments. We will only do selected activities. However, the first Portfolio assignment (p.24) will allow you to establish personal goals and chart your progress throughout the term.

• Using the ISTE Technology Competencies (p.23) as a guideline, create your own checklist of competencies for instructional assistants and/or teachers.
• You may re-write some of the listed competencies or create new ones.
• The goal is to set target competencies which you feel eductors should have. Then you will get to use this checklist throughout the course to chart your own progress.
• Each week I will ask you to identify where and how you learned skills that apply to your competencies. This is an ongoing process and in no way means that you have to achieve the competency, but simply track your skills towards this goal.

Sample:

Before: Operate a computer system to use software successfully.

My "think aloud":
I am not sure that "operate" is the word that I want. It's like saying know how to operate a car. Just because you know how to operate a car, doesn't mean that you take the car out of the driveway. So I think that I will change this. My competency will look like this.

After: Use the computer to access both offline and online software successfully.

What I want you to do is to think through these competencies and write out your own list in your own words.

Sample:

Use the computer to access both offline and online software successfully.

Wk 1 - Launched my browser and connected to my online class!

Wk 1 - Learned how to sign up for and use Web conferencing in Web Board.

Wk 1 - "Offline software" - Used my word processor to write up this checklist!

Due Week 1

Your job this week is to design the Competency Checklist. Post your list of revised, edited or newly created competencies in the conference area labeled Competency Checklist. Don't worry about formatting the text for the conference area. Just get the competencies down. We will be able to see everyone's, which may give you ideas on how to adapt yours before it is finalized.

You may type it in your word processor and copy and paste it into a message or you may type directly into the message itself.

Mission Statement

Every company has a mission statement which establishes the philosophy of the company and the principles by which they work. These statements are large vision statements.

Since each of you will be taking the theories and principles of this class to different classrooms, you will need to have your own technology/learning mission statement. These are usually not more than one paragraph long.

Here are some sample mission statements:

• Chemeketa Community College
• Tom Snyder Software Publisher
• Open Access

Annotated Bibliography

Part of your final project will be an annotated bibliography. This is a list of web sites, videos, magazines, books which you have found useful and want to keep for future resources.

Annotated means that you write a sentence or two reminding yourself what you want to use this resource for and/or how it would be helpful.

This project does not happen overnight. You should have a folder (either literally or on your hard drive) to keep track of the items that you find as you find them.

Follow APA format.

Here is a cool tutorial built by the Oregon Library Association to help you format bibliographic items correctly.

http://www.oslis.k12.or.us/elem/howto/citeintro.html

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