3.7 Communication & Collaboration
Candidates utilize digital communication and collaboration tools to communicate locally and globally with students, parents, peers, and the larger community.
Candidates utilize digital communication and collaboration tools to communicate locally and globally with students, parents, peers, and the larger community.
As my artifact for Standard 3.7, Communication and Collaboration, I have chosen the Weebly blog I created for this portfolio. This standard requires candidates to utilize digital communication and collaboration tools to communicate with the larger community and I have done that through my blog.
When I began the blog as a requirement for the portfolio, I had never read or written a blog. The only social media I had participated in was Facebook. I really had no idea how to begin. Once I created the page, I pretty much ignored it until I took ITEC 7430, Internet Tools for the Classroom. This class required me to blog, but it also taught me how to blog. I learned how to back my opinions with details, reasons, & evidence from my readings. I learned to always reflect critical thinking, to synthesize my knowledge or research on a topic and to reflection on what I had learned or thought should be the outcome. I learned to include hot links and references in my blogs. Finally, I learned to add interest by including open source graphics.
Blogging is something I never would have begun on my own, but through this experience I have learned the value of using this platform to communicate with my peers. I feel I have mastered the fundamentals of blogging and can use it effectively to communicate with my stakeholders. In the classroom, I have come to see blogging as a valuable tool for modeling digital citizenship, practicing communicating and writing, and learning to think and synthesize ideas. I can now viably see incorporating it into my media center webpage and encouraging my teachers to use if for instructional purposes. If I had to repeat this artifact I would feel more secure in my talents as a blogger and would promote it to my stakeholders instead of just sharing with my instructor and classmates.
The work I did for this artifact has impacted faculty development by giving me the training I needed to become an effective blogger and to realize its potential as a valuable communication and instructional tool. As I begin to use this tool myself and train my faculty in its use as an effective communication and instructional tool to teach analytical thinking, writing, and digital citizenship, it will also impact school improvement and student learning.
When I began the blog as a requirement for the portfolio, I had never read or written a blog. The only social media I had participated in was Facebook. I really had no idea how to begin. Once I created the page, I pretty much ignored it until I took ITEC 7430, Internet Tools for the Classroom. This class required me to blog, but it also taught me how to blog. I learned how to back my opinions with details, reasons, & evidence from my readings. I learned to always reflect critical thinking, to synthesize my knowledge or research on a topic and to reflection on what I had learned or thought should be the outcome. I learned to include hot links and references in my blogs. Finally, I learned to add interest by including open source graphics.
Blogging is something I never would have begun on my own, but through this experience I have learned the value of using this platform to communicate with my peers. I feel I have mastered the fundamentals of blogging and can use it effectively to communicate with my stakeholders. In the classroom, I have come to see blogging as a valuable tool for modeling digital citizenship, practicing communicating and writing, and learning to think and synthesize ideas. I can now viably see incorporating it into my media center webpage and encouraging my teachers to use if for instructional purposes. If I had to repeat this artifact I would feel more secure in my talents as a blogger and would promote it to my stakeholders instead of just sharing with my instructor and classmates.
The work I did for this artifact has impacted faculty development by giving me the training I needed to become an effective blogger and to realize its potential as a valuable communication and instructional tool. As I begin to use this tool myself and train my faculty in its use as an effective communication and instructional tool to teach analytical thinking, writing, and digital citizenship, it will also impact school improvement and student learning.