Field Experience

1. Blogging Help- Day Two

2. This was day two in helping a third grade teacher create and set up her teacher blog. In the first day we spent a lot of time creating the blog, coming up with a design that she liked and creating pages to go on her blog that are applicable to her class needs. In day two, we focused on the tools that she will need to know how to use in order to add media such as videos: audio, and a Google calendar into her blog. I introduced HTML codes (very basic), so the teacher will understand what she is doing and why when adding media to her blog. For the video, we used SchoolTube to upload our videos to. Then from there we used the HTML code given to use to add the video to her new blog. For the audio, I showed her AudioPal, where you can add a recorded audio and the site will give you the HTML code to put on your blog or website. Google Calendar is pretty easy to use to add to a blog or website, but it took us some time to create the Google Calendar.

3. The TF standards/elements met by the Field Experience: TF-III.c, TF-V.b

4. Summer 2011

5. 3

6. A description of the population involved:

• Race/Ethnicity: White

• Subgroups: Teacher

• Role/Grade Level of Faculty/Staff, Grade Levels of P-12 Students: Third Grade Teacher

7. Reflection

What did you learn about technology facilitation and leadership from completing this

field experience? This was the fun part of this experience for me. I love to add videos, audio, etc... to my classroom blog and I knew that we would have fun playing around! It was fun to see the results of our completed work as well, especially since this ended up taking two days to complete. I think the teacher was a little apprehensive at the begining, because she didn't know how easy it was going to be. She kept saying, "is that it? That's so easy! I can do this!" That made me feel good, because sometimes (not all the time) it is that easy and everyone can do it. It's so funny how many people of all ages are intimidated by technology and it feels great to be able to help easy some of the uneasiness they have with technology.

8. Describe how this field experience impacted student learning.:As I said in my earlier field experience write-up, teacher blogs are so important for students and parents. I know from experience that parents appreciate updates and knowing what their students are learning about each week. Adding this extra element of video and audio is another way for students to see their published work. I often take pictures and create a slide show to put on my blog for the students and the parents to see what we have accomplished in our classroom. This is just another way for the students to feel proud of their hard work! And they can show it off! :-)

Field Experience

1. Blogging Help- Day One

2. A teacher in Chattanooga, also a family member, has been wanting to start a blog for some time and asked for some help creating her blog and using video, audio and calendar technologies to make her blog more interactive. Over two days, we created her blog. Day one, we decided on a blogging software, design, and added the pages necessary for her blog.

3. The TF standards/elements met by the Field Experience: TF-III.c, TF-V.b

4. Summer 2011

5. 4

6. A description of the population involved:

• Race/Ethnicity: White

• Subgroups: Teacher

• Role/Grade Level of Faculty/Staff, Grade Levels of P-12 Students: Third Grade Teacher

7. Reflection

What did you learn about technology facilitation and leadership from completing this

field experience? I always say that I use all my patience with my students that I never have quite enough for adults. However, I impressed myself with the level of patience I had when teaching another adult how to create a blog. Especially when that person is a family member! I resisted the urge to take over and do it myself, and let the teacher do it herself with my guidance. It can be easier for me to just do it for her, and when I help teachers at my school I often find myself doing it myself because it's faster and we have so much on our plates. However, they don't learn anything if I do it for them. So what I've really learned, is although I may run out of patience, it is not beneficial for anyone if I just do it for them, and not let them explore and learn by doing. We got a lot accomplished on this first day! She is looking forward to showing her new blog off when the new school year begins!

8. Describe how this field experience impacted student learning.:A teacher blog is so important. It keeps the parents up to date with what their students are learning, but it can also be a place where students can publish their work, and feel proud of it. The students can also use the teacher blog to get access to homework, lessons, and links that they might have done in the classroom. The teacher blog will be the students "go to" website during the school year, so they will continue their learning outside of the school building.

Field Experience

1. Core Content Reteach

2. I had an opportunity to meet with my team teachers during the summer. There are interested in what I’ve been learning because they also want to use more technology in their classroom. I showed them my presentation and presented all the great new tools I learned from my peers’ presentations.

3. The TF standards/elements met by the Field Experience: TFI.a, TFIII.a

4. Summer 2011

5. 3

6. A description of the population involved:

• Race/Ethnicity: White and African American

• Subgroups: Teachers

• Role/Grade Level of Faculty/Staff, Grade Levels of P-12 Students: First Grade Teachers

7. Reflection

What did you learn about technology facilitation and leadership from completing this

field experience? I learned a lot about technology facilitation and leadership from this experience. I was so excited when my teammates agreed to meet and learn about the new tools I had to share. Of course, it took a little motivation of lunch, but it was worth it! We spent a lot of time playing around, and coming up with great ideas for using the new tools in the new school year. The time flew and it was great for me to see my fellow teachers embracing and enjoying the new tools I've shown them!

8. Describe how this field experience impacted student learning.: These new tools that we learned help to make our lessons more engaging and authentic. If our students are engaged in learning then they will retain more, and in turn will help improve test scores for our school data and personal data collection.