TFV

1. Identify resources and participate in professional development activities and professional technology organizations to support ongoing professional growth related to technology. 2. Disseminate information on district-wide policies for the professional growth opportunities for staff, faculty, and administrators. //Training for teachers at Northwest High School on how to use the new Promethean Board software. Each training was approximately one hour and a half and the teachers were modeled how to complete each activity and then given the opportunity to practice and demonstrate on their own. These tutorials were then posted on the Northwest High School Teacher Shared Folder for reference and for those not in attendance.//
 * Technology Facilitation Standard V. (TF-V) **
 * Productivity and Professional Practice. ** Educational technology facilitators apply technology to enhance and improve personal productivity and professional practice. Educational technology facilitators:
 * TF-V.A. Use technology resources to engage in ongoing professional development and lifelong learning. Candidates: **

media type="custom" key="3172756" ** TF-V.B. Continually evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding the use of technology in support of student learning. Candidates: ** 1. Continually evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding the use of technology in support of student learning. 1. Model advanced features of word processing, desktop publishing, graphics programs, and utilities to develop professional products.
 * 1) [|Promethean Basics]
 * 2) [|Adding Tools to your Main Tool Bar]
 * 3) [|Inserting Backgrounds & Images]
 * 4) [|Using Camera Tool]
 * 5) [|Converting Powerpoints to Flipcharts]
 * 6) [|Using the Reveal, Spotlight, and Zoom Tool]
 * 7) [|Annotating over the Desktop]
 * 8) [|Activote Questions and Setup]
 * 9) Activotes in Action[[file:Activote_User_Guide.pdf]]
 * //Trained Northwest HS teachers on the uses of blogs as a means of enhancing student writing, collaborating, or for personal reflections on best teaching practices.//
 * [|//Edublog Tutorial//]
 * TF-V.C. Apply technology to increase productivity. Candidates: **
 * //See// //TF III// //- Student work samples.//

2. Assist others in locating, selecting, capturing, and integrating video and digital images in varying formats for use in presentations, publications and/or other products.
 * //See// //TF II// //- Email discussion with student intern.//

3. Demonstrate the use of specific-purpose electronic devices (such as graphing calculators, languages translators, scientific probeware, or electronic thesaurus) in content areas.
 * //See// //TF V// //- Use of Promethean Activotes to assess student learning.//

4. Use a variety of distance learning systems and use at least one to support personal/ professional development. 5. Use instructional design principles to develop hypermedia and multimedia products to support personal and professional development. 6. Select appropriate tools for communicating concepts, conducting research, and solving problems for an intended audience and purpose. 7. Use examples of emerging programming, authoring or problem solving environments that support personal/professional development. 8. Set and manipulate preferences, defaults, and other selectable features of operating systems and productivity tool programs commonly found in P-12 schools. 1. Model the use of telecommunications tools and resources for information sharing, remote information access, and multimedia/hypermedia publishing in order to nurture student learning. 2. Communicate with colleagues and discuss current research to support instruction, using applications including electronic mail, online conferencing, and web browsers. 3. Participate in online collaborative curricular projects and team activities to build bodies of knowledge around specific topics. 4. Design, develop, and maintain Web pages and sites that support communication between the school and community.
 * TF-V.D. Use technology to communicate and collaborate with peers, parents, and the larger community in order to nurture student learning. Candidates: **

//This is a website created by myself and a fellow teacher to help communicate information to our students and parents in regards to curriculum and assignments.// http://techedclass.com/ Reflection: As sixty-seven classrooms were installed with brand new interactive Promethean Boards a lot of training has been needed with the boards. This year’s focus for the Technology Committee was to have the teachers create an understanding of the features of the Promethean boards. This way the teachers would feel comfortable use them and begin to integrate them into instruction on a regular basis. My job was to create video tutorials for the entire staff that demonstrated these features in ways that were simple, quick, and easy to follow. We also offered hands-on training each week to model and demonstrate the feature covered in the videos, however this was optional therefore we felt video tutorials would reach a large amount of teachers. The feedback I received from the video tutorials was very positive. More training is already planned and the teachers seem to be motivated to learn. I want to begin constructing ways to integrate the Promethean Boards into curriculum and create a more of a sharing aspect to grow a wealth of use and support for the technology. The techedclass.com was created by me and my teammate Mike Ames. We have used this site as a resource for our classes. This site has been used as a place to store documents that we have passed out to the students as well as place we post news and announcements for parents and others looking for information about our classes. We have also had our students post responses to discussions that we have started in class and then completed online. It has been a very useful tool and we hope to expand next year to incorporate more interactivity.