Welcome to my blog!
I'm glad to be participating in this class, I'm looking forward to the different projects and activities.
Learning Contract:
I plan to complete the 3 projects. I'm currently brainstorming ideas on how these can be benificial to my current job.
Ways of approaching technology;
Area 1
I work as a project assistant for a grant at CSUSB to assist teacher internts at different districts in the Inland Empire. For me it is important to use technology to increase my effectiveness in order to provide a better service to our students and to be able to effectively showcase our progress to our administrators. When I arrived at this position there was very little use of technology, but now we have all of our forms posted on our website and available for download. Also we constructed several online assessments in order to better serve our students. It is always my goal to keep our site updated so that students can have better access to our information, for example I have converted the site from basic HTML to include CSS and in the future some audio and video resources.
Area 2
At times it can be a challenge to implement changes to processes that have been in place for a long time. Fortunately I work with a great group of people who are always looking forward on how technology can improve their daily tasks. This happened to me when we posted our student supervisor forms online as PDF documents. As part of one of our inservice sessions we took some time to guide them through the download process of the software, making changes, and saving them so that they could be used through out the course of a quater without having to fill out recurring information each time they supervised a student.
Area 3
Supporting the effective use of technology for planning for technology use, promoting, and staff development. I help create two online testing resources for our students and our student mentors. For our mentors we created an online quiz that guides them through our program information, at the end they can print out a certificate to provide successful completion. Before I arrived to this position there was an online assessment but it was very basic and provided little to non security features. Also, because of a state lawsuit our students needed to completed 10 hours of orientation in teaching english learners, but instead of having them over the weekend in long full day workshops we created an online assessment that they can do at their own pace.
6 comments:
I am interested in seeing what projects you work on. Creating online assessments is something that I have been curious about. How do you keep them secure?
Edgar,
I like your approach for developing a more user friendly environment in a website, not only more attractive to the eye but more effective. Browsing the web for research, I often find websites that have poor commitment to user friendliness and ease of navigation. Doing a large amount of research via internet is at the very least time consuming. It is of great help to go on a website that understands its users' needs and meets them. So keep up the good work.
Howdy Edgar, nice to see you online. Were you in Newberry's podcasting class this summer?
I like the idea of online assessments and I might have to give that a shot for one of my project focuses. I would love to have those tests graded for me and to be able to 'crunch' the data instead.
Looking forward to the quarter.
See oyu online,
Dale :-)
Hello Edgar,
Nice to meet you. The idea of online assessments intrigue me as well. Any developments with this I would love to hear about.
Robert
Edgar,
I understand the challenges of trying to change a process that has been in place for such a long time. It is only within the last year that our college has started putting our student tutor's timesheets online. This saves me time as Math Lab coordinator from having to write in duplicate information for each tutor. Plus, I can input their hours, print out a copy for my records and then email copies of the time sheet to the appropriate individuals, instead of using the carbon copy method which would take a while to get to the correct people.
James
Great session 1 post. I also liked your comment to Jennie about why parents might not buy computers for students to use. It is very important to understand that most people won't have had the same positive experience with technology being a productivity tool as some of us have had. It is important to approach technology use by others by understanding that!
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