Brandy Tackett, MA.ed., M.Ed.
Technology
Standard 9: Communication
Education leaders use and promote technology and information systems to monitor, manage, and enrich the learning environment. They know how to assess and apply current technology for time, task, and systems management; effective and timely communication; information access, management, and presentation; curriculum enrichment; and diversification of instructional strategies. Education leaders act as informed consumers of technology, selecting technology appropriate to organizational vision and performance goals, evaluating technology effectiveness, and addressing issues of technology access and equity.
Language above regarding the Description of Domain was taken directly from the USF EDA 6945 Administrative Practicum: Educational Leadership & Policy Studies: Description of Program Domains and Corresponding Florida Principal Leadership Standards (FPLS.)
Resources For Teachers
Resources copiled through joint efforts by GCP 2013
A site for blogs expressly by K12 students. Set up a blog for each member of your class at http://kidblog.org/home/.
Create your own blog with the help of Google’s Blogger.com. It’s free!
Check out a sample blog:
http://cococakecupcakes.blogspot.com/
Conversely, the site can be used to have a conversation among students:
http://paideiaseminar.blogspot.com/2013/03/paideia-seminar-experience.html?m=1
Use edublogs to keep students and parents alike abreast of what we were doing in class. Here’s a lnk to a district teacher blog from a few years ago.
Socrative is available online and as an app. It also replaces clickers by utilizing students’ smart phone, tablets, or laptops and provides several instantaneous means for formative assessments.
ClassPager replaces clickers and allows students to use their smart phone, tablet computer, or laptop during class for polling purposes & other formative assessments. When answering open ended questions, all students’ work can be displayed anonymously via the teacher computer/projector/smart board, and students can comment on each others’ responses like posting on a blog.
An online bulletin board perfect for anonymous formative assessments throughout the class period & entry/ exit tickets.
Website: http://en.linoit.com/
Example: http://linoit.com/groups/Gulf Coast Partnership/canvases/Class Facilitation 4a.
Spiderscribe is an online, collaborative means to brainstorm & create mind maps.
Example: http://www.spiderscribe.net/app/?fea50e73a7db2719a5be3c9d13d726d2
Use Google apps to cut down on paper waste, allow students to peer edit each other’s work in real time, and facilitate collaborative group work without the hassle of emailing bits and pieces of the project back and forth. Access your work from anywhere – mobile device, public computer, home/office laptop. Documents, calendar, and websites can be accessed from the cloud whatever your location.
Create a visual representation of a debate with argunet.
Publish your own magazine online!
Example: http://www.joomag.com/magazine/bullying-poems-1/0696781001357844711
An alternative to a Powerpoint …
Example: http://prezi.com/l5cwpl9cz8jy/mills-educational-life-history/
Another alternative if you want to try your hand at animation …
Referral Data-base-2013 Data with Introduction to SSS for Problem Identification (CURRENT)
This is a database I created where we can look and analyze data referral to get an idea of the types of behaviors that occur, the location, the administrative response as well as who is writing the referrals. This system has endless possibilities, you can also utilize this to track sub group data. I found it most beneficial to target behavioral coaching cycles. When we have a number of referrals written by a singular individual, we could target that area.