Palmer+Goal+3

Name: Ruth Palmer Date Completed: April 12, 2010

=**3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning**=

Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society. Teachers:
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 * a. || demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations. ||
 * b. || collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation. ||
 * c. || communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital-age media and formats. ||
 * d. || model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning. ||

=**Step 1: For standard three, select the indicator that is your strongest suit for the standard and give two examples (artifacts) of why you selected it as your strongest suit.**= Indicator selected: b. collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation. Artifact 1: Community APR report Artifact 2: SIAC report to the Board of Education

=**Step 2: For standard three, select the indicator that is your "least strongest" suit for the standard and write a professional goal of how you are going to increase your competency with the goal this year.**= Indicator selected: d. model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning. Goal: Emerging digital tools, including freeconference.com, SurveyMonkey, Google Docs, internet searches, web pages, FlipVideo, and Facebook will be used to help in the decision on selection of a new math series =Step 3: On the final TCL day, reflect on each standard and goal you set for yourself. How did you do and why?=

Reflection: I feel I had partial success with this goal. I did create surveys using SurveyMonkey to gather the baseline data from our faculty on the professional development outcome. We have used Google Docs, and our faculty and some classes are really using the collaborative strength of this toos, but I have not done as much with it as I need to do to become comfortable with using it easily and thinking of using it as a tool rather than an email questionnaire. I have used FlipVideo and am very comfortable using its capablities and created a short movie on a day in the life of our school for Open House. I did not warn teachers about what time I would be doing this, so it was not "staged." The exciting part of this was the variety of strong teaching strategies I saw happening in our building and was able to get video clips of these.