Response to Feedback:
Ezra offered some great feedback to help strengthen my blog assessment. I appreciated their care and attention throughout the process. I adapted the rating system that Ezra created in order to present my own strengths and weaknesses. Thank you, Ezra, for the creation of this rating system and the offers to help with Office 365 and Excel. Also, your idea for posting image IDs is a great one, I will plan to do this in the future.
In response to your comments on my final post, Schoology is available to me because my school uses it. It is a VERY useful tool that I would recommend to other schools, especially during this pandemic/ digital learning era. Also, I believe Read and Write is a fantastic tool for motivation and engagement because it can provide students with the opportunity to complete work that they may have been unable to complete before. The accommodation helps keep the work equitable for the students with reading or language difficulties and gives them a sense of independence and fulfillment.
Educational Technology Ratings:
Key
(-) No knowledge of topic
(✓) Rudimentary Understanding
(✓✓) Fluency
(✓✓✓) Mastery
Content and Media Creation
Web pages (✓)
Links (✓✓)
Embed video (✓✓), photos (✓✓), and audio (-) Taking photos (✓✓✓)
Sharing photos (✓✓✓)
Creating videos (✓✓)
Editing videos (✓)
Convert digital video/ audio (-)
Upload to hosting sites (✓✓)
Charts/diagrams (✓✓)
Sharing charts and diagrams (✓✓)
Teaching (✓✓)
Connected Learning
Professional use of social networks (-)
Use of social networks to support K-12 learning (-)
Connecting with other educators via social networks (✓)
Ethical and privacy standards (-)
Data and Data Visualization
Useful interet searches with text (✓✓✓) and images (✓✓)
Useful searches for scholarly research (✓✓✓)
Help guide others on useful searches for reliable information (✓✓)
Organization of data (✓✓)
Visualizing patterns (✓✓)
Tools for visualizing data/infographics (✓✓)
Teaching (✓✓)
Collaboration, Feedback, Annotation
Google Drive (✓✓)
Office 365 (✓)
Mural (✓)
Padlet (✓✓)
Hypothes.is (✓)
Teaching (✓✓)
Computational Thinking Key concepts (-)
Guiding learners in concepts (-)
Tools (-)
Teaching (-)
Motivation and Engagement
Understanding of educational tech tools (✓✓)
Educational Research Connections (-)
Anything Else Risk taking (✓✓)
Remain teachable (✓✓)
Find answers (✓✓)
Final Thoughts:
My priorities for the development of my educational technology skills are written above in red. These are the items in which I have no prior knowledge, and therefore must expand upon. Sharing/adding/embedding audio media into web pages
Professional use of social networks
Appropriate use of social networks to support K-12 learning
Ethical and privacy standards of social network use in education
Key concepts of computational thinking
Guiding learners in key concepts of computational thinking
Tools that support students in computational thinking
Teaching computational thinking
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