TFVI

1. Develop strategies and provide professional development at the school/classroom level for teaching social, ethical, and legal issues and responsible use of technology.
 * Technology Facilitation Standard VI. (TF-VI) **
 * Social, Ethical, Legal, and Human Issues. ** Educational technology facilitators understand the social, ethical, legal, and human issues surrounding the use of technology in P-12 schools and assist teachers in applying that understanding in their practice. Educational technology facilitators:
 * TF-VI.A. Model and teach legal and ethical practice related to technology use. Candidates: **
 * //See I-Safe & I-Learn below.//

2. Assist others in summarizing copyright laws related to use of images, music, video, and other digital resources in varying formats. //Copyright Powerpoint used in a training with staff.//

1. Assist teachers in selecting and applying appropriate technology resources to enable and empower learners with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, and abilities. 2. Identify, classify, and recommend adaptive /assistive hardware and software for students and teachers with special needs and assist in procurement and implementation. //These two tutorials were used in a training with first grade teachers at Waters Landing Elementary School in Montgomery County. The goal of the training was to introduce Write: Outloud to the teachers and allow them to become familiar with the program. The teachers had requested to learn about a technology that would help with their weaker readers. Write:OutLoud would allow the students to practive at their listening station and focus on word recognition for those students. The tutorails were created by Andrea Kalaydjian from the University of Buffalo. I saw no need to remake them as they were very detailed and informative.//
 * TF-VI.B. Apply technology resources to enable and empower learners with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, and abilities. Candidates: **

1. Assist teachers in selecting and applying appropriate technology resources to affirm diversity and address cultural and language differences.
 * TF-VI.C. Identify and use technology resources that affirm diversity. Candidates: **
 * [|//RubiStar//] //is a bi-lingual program that allows you to create rubrics in Spanish.//

1.  Assist teachers in selecting and applying appropriate technology resources to promote safe and healthy use of technology.
 * TF-VI.D. Promote safe and healthy use of technology resources. Candidates: **
 * //Shared two internet safety resources with teachers at Northwest High School and Waters Landing Elementary School that are very useful for teachers at all levels.//
 * [|//I-Safe//]//- i-Safe is the parent site for i-Learn and allows users to create a login and password that will give any educator a wealth of information to teach internet safety to their students.//
 * [|//I-Learn//]//- The i-Learn site takes teachers, parents, grandparents, and law enforcement officials through a series of modules that prepare them for showing and using the internet safely with students at all levels. Once the modules are completed the respective group becomes i-Certified to use the internet safely.//

1. Recommend policies and implement school/classroom strategies for achieving equitable access to technology resources for all students and teachers. Reflection: The teachers at Waters Landing ES were also trained on an assistive technology tool called Write:OutLoud. This application allows the user to type words into a simple Word Document and the program will give the user a choice of words to help select the correct spelling. The program will also read the word and/or sentence back to the user. This is an extremely effective tool for an emerging writer struggling with word identification. This program is a feature that is on every MCPS school computer. None of the teachers knew it was available or how to use the program. I can see the teachers making this part of their instruction especially for those students who are struggling or timid about writing. Write:OutLoud can be a motivational tool as well and just needs to be used a few times to catch the interest of the user. One activity that I modeled for both the first grade teachers and high school teachers is to introduce them to I-Safe, which is a website that instructs teachers, parents, and others about internet safety. One of the key technical abilities that teachers lack is the skill to find and select websites that re safe for their students. This websites teaches “look for’s” as well as tips for creating a safe internet environment for their students. I have used this site on multiple occasions and found it to be very useful. The “Administrator Technology Checklist” was created for administrators to use when walking into a teacher’s classroom and assessing the use of technology. I used when I observed the first grade classrooms at Waters Landing ES. It is not to be looked at as a “gotcha” document, but rather a means of letting the teachers know what is available and what hopefully will be used in the future so we as teachers are using all resources possible to help our students learn.
 * TF-VI.E. Facilitate equitable access to technology resources for all students. Candidates: **
 * //After observing teacher classrooms and schedule, facilitator recommended to first grade teachers at Waters Landing ES to create a computer station where the students could use the new programs learned in the trainings. The computer station would be added to the already created stations that the teachers had within their classrooms. This would enhance their students computer use beyond the once a week session in the computer lab. Since computer use within the classroom would be on a station rotation the fairness and equitable access would already be in place.//
 * [[file:Administrator Technology Checklist.doc]]