Goal 9: Teachers use technology effectively, creatively, and wisely

9a Operate computers and other technologies and evaluate their potentials and limitations

1. Refer to the I.E.P. section of my MAT blog where I document my use of computers through blogging in my MAT classroom. Under the I.E.P. section of my blog the reader will be able to follow along my lessons where I got my Science Fiction Seminar class to start blogging and posting their assignments online. There is a date followed by what was accomplished that day, as well as details about the problems that I ran into and overcame.
   
2. Refer to the Anthro-tech assignment, where I document the technologies available at my school. This paper documents my findings as I went around Thunder Mountain High School in order to see what I could do technologically and what problems I would encounter so that I could trouble-shoot past them before they happened.
   

9b Integrate technology in planning, instruction, and assessment to support students learning.

1. Refer to the Brave New World blog assignment where students posted their research online. Students explored different parts of the novel Brave New World and posted their research online. The Brave New World Blog was the home site where all the students could gain access to the other student blogs and comment/ explore their research. Due to the slow computers at the school I was only able to cover the top of the iceberg, but this shows that I am using technology in my classroom and teaching the students to be literate in it as well.
   
2. Refer to an example student blog where they have posted their final assessment for the unit. This shows the ways that students used technology in order to create a final product that explored a topic, but also helped gain technological literacy.
   

9c Value technology as a tool for student and teacher lifelong learning.

1. Refer to the evaluation where my supervisor and mentor teacher commented on my technology usage in class. you will notice that my successful rating shows that the two master teachers think that I am utilizing the technology at Thunder Mountain High School for lifelong learning with the students.
   
2. Refer to the "Socializing Online" section of my MAT blog where I document my continual effort towards learning new technology. This section documents the new technologies I found, and the date that I found them on. Then, I explain how I can use these new technologies in my classroom.