6.2 Reflection
Candidates regularly evaluate and reflect on their professional practice and dispositions to improve and strengthen their ability to effectively model and facilitate technology-enhanced learning experiences.
Candidates regularly evaluate and reflect on their professional practice and dispositions to improve and strengthen their ability to effectively model and facilitate technology-enhanced learning experiences.
Artifact - Weebly Blog
For this artifact, I selected my Weebly blog which I developed over the length of this course of study, from fall, 2013, to present. For each course I completed, I reflected on what I had learned in my journey to become an instructional technology coach. Some courses required more blogging than others. I created the majority of my blogs for ITEC 7430, Internet Tools for the Classroom.
This artifact demonstrates my mastery of the standard because I was regularly required to evaluate and reflect on digital tools, issues in school technology, and my own professional learning. Through the creation of these blogs, I demonstrated a disposition to constantly improve my practice and expand my knowledge, strengthening my skills as an educator and an instructional coach. Throughout my education I analyzed many Web 2.0 tools. Topics which I reviewed and analyzed included Creative Commons, ePals, screencasting tools, Edmodo, Google Drive, Youtube, SMART Exchange, podcasting, social bookmarking, wikis, and blogging. I also examined issues in instructional technology such as equitable access, diversity, and internet safety.
Through the creation of this artifact, I learned the power of peer feedback. I always enjoyed reading my classmates’ blogs and the peer responses to my blogs. I even had a few comments that came from outside my class group which illustrated to me what a powerful tool blogging is for connecting with others in my field about topics of concern and innovations of interest in the world of instructional technology. If I had this to do over again, I would have shared many of my blogs with my faculty and invited them to provide feedback. Having gained professional confidence through my education, I will not hesitate to revisit some of these blogs to share with my faculty in future.
This artifact has impacted my own professional learning and also student learning as I have incorporated many of the Web 2.0 tools into my collaborations and shared my thoughts on issues in technology with my Technology Committee and with collaborating teachers. School improvement has been impacted as the Technology Plan my committee created is adopted. The impact can be assessed through observation of best practices for technology integration in the classroom and in rising achievement scores.
This artifact demonstrates my mastery of the standard because I was regularly required to evaluate and reflect on digital tools, issues in school technology, and my own professional learning. Through the creation of these blogs, I demonstrated a disposition to constantly improve my practice and expand my knowledge, strengthening my skills as an educator and an instructional coach. Throughout my education I analyzed many Web 2.0 tools. Topics which I reviewed and analyzed included Creative Commons, ePals, screencasting tools, Edmodo, Google Drive, Youtube, SMART Exchange, podcasting, social bookmarking, wikis, and blogging. I also examined issues in instructional technology such as equitable access, diversity, and internet safety.
Through the creation of this artifact, I learned the power of peer feedback. I always enjoyed reading my classmates’ blogs and the peer responses to my blogs. I even had a few comments that came from outside my class group which illustrated to me what a powerful tool blogging is for connecting with others in my field about topics of concern and innovations of interest in the world of instructional technology. If I had this to do over again, I would have shared many of my blogs with my faculty and invited them to provide feedback. Having gained professional confidence through my education, I will not hesitate to revisit some of these blogs to share with my faculty in future.
This artifact has impacted my own professional learning and also student learning as I have incorporated many of the Web 2.0 tools into my collaborations and shared my thoughts on issues in technology with my Technology Committee and with collaborating teachers. School improvement has been impacted as the Technology Plan my committee created is adopted. The impact can be assessed through observation of best practices for technology integration in the classroom and in rising achievement scores.