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=**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: ====

====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. ====

=MEDT 7462 Internet Tools= =Using Blogger=

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Annotation: I created this blog and explored how it can be utilized to enhance learning in the classroom. Blog is short for "web log", where private members or public can express their thoughts about a topic. Many news sites utilize blogs so that their readers can have a forum to express their opinions.

Reflection: In the realm of education blogs can inform many audiences at a faster rate than websites. Blogs are more often updated than websites. Blogs can be used to inform parents and teachers of important events in a particular class. Blogs may also have some educational value in the improvement of a students written expression skills. Students have shown that if they know that their work will be published for friends and family to view then they have a tendency to work increasingly hard to do their best work. Blogs make writing fun for students because they often do not view writing a blog as school work. By using blogs as a tool for completing assignments teachers can teach and assess students in the environment that they use on a daily basis.

Using Google Docs


Annotation: This was my first look at Google Docs. I explored Google Docs and its many web 2.0 functions.  Google Docs has many uses in the educational setting from teachers using it for planning lessons collaboratively to students collaborating on assignments. Students and teachers can use Google Docs to store their own personal files, for free, and access them anywhere the Internet is available.

Reflection: There are many times in the math department at my school that we brainstorm together to plan lesson tasks and even entire units. With Google Docs the task of planning with other teachers is made simple and now does not require a face to face meeting. Planning can take place on our own time and anywhere we have access to an internet connection. I really like the revision history tool that provides users the opportunity to view changes of the other users that were invited to edit the document. You are allowed to see exactly what they changed and when they changed it. Google Docs also appears to have an unlimited amount of "undos".

I would really like to see English teachers use Google Docs to have their students work together on writing assignments that can be published for larger viewing audiences. Written expression is a deficit that seems to be most common among those that I teach with disabilities. I feel that students can certainly benefit from working together on parts of a writing assignment. Students can possibly learn more from the writing of a peer than the analysis written on a returned paper by the instructor. There are so many benefits of collaborating on assignments between students.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Another really nice feature that all Google documents have is the ability for them all to be shared on a website by embedding them by copying and pasting the html code. This requires no knowledge of how to write html code.

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