TF-V. Productivity and Professional Practice
Educational technology facilitators apply technology to enhance and improve personal productivity and professional practice. Educational technology faciltators:
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Use technology resources to engage in ongoing professional development and lifelong learning. Candidates: |
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1. identify resources and participate in professional development activities and professional technology organizations to support ongoing professional growth related to technology. |
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2. disseminate information on district-wide policies for the professional growth opportunities for staff, faculty, and administrators. |
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| 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. |
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| C. | Apply technology to increase productivity. Candidates: |
| 1. model advanced features of word processing, desktop publishing, graphics programs, and utilities to develop professional products. | |
| 2. assist others in locating, selecting, capturing, and integrating video and digital images in various formats for use in presentations, publications, and/or other products. | |
| 3. demonstrate the use of specific-purpose electronic devices (such as graphic calculators, language translators, scientific probeware, or electronic thesaurus) in content areas. | |
| 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 PK-12 schools. |
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| D. | Use technology to communicate and collaborate with peers, parents,
and the larger community to nurture student learning. Candidates: |
| 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. | |
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4. design, develop, and maintain Web pages and sites that support communication between the school and community. Reflections Today, every company and organization has a web page. Schools are no different. Parents and community members expect that a school will have a website that will have up to date information on a variety of topics. A school library website is an important link for students on a 24/7 basis. The library web page becomes the "go to page" for all library driven research and information. I needed to evaluate what the parents, students and teachers would need from the library page. Of course, the card catalog was the first item. I also needed to place the databases and e-books in a place that would be easy to find and navigate. For ease of use, I placed the user id and passwords under each database and password protected the page. I added book trailers and reading lists as well as useful sites. These web pages will never be complete they will change and evolve as the school community's needs change and evolve. Please click on the icon of the Old Bridge Schools to view the library page. The password for the databases is "purple"
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