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=Technology Operations and Concepts. = Teachers demonstrate a sound understanding of technology operations and concepts.  1.demonstrate introductory technology literacy knowledge, skills, and concepts (described in the ISTE NETS Technology Foundation Standards for Students). 2. demonstrate sustained growth in technology knowledge and skills to stay abreast of contemporary and emerging technologies.
 * Performance Indicators: Teachers:**

Learning Community What it is like to be part of an online community.

I am truly in awe at the amount of information, tools, and technology that exist! I simply cannot detail all that I learned during this course because just the thought is overwhelming! I am truly grateful for the opportunities to practice and investigate all of the technology, digital tools, and research. The exposure to these things will have not only a great and positive influence upon my own personal life, and I cannot fathom the inspiration it will have upon my students.

There are so many things that I want to do with my students now that I really need to reign in my enthusiasm! I would love to do a lesson a day until the end of the year! My plans are to use ePals, Diigo, Wikis, Ning, Moodle, WolframAlpha, EasyBib, etc. I simply cannot name everything! I feel confident that the true extent of the content of this course will not hit me for awhile! The resources are enormous and mostly //__free__//!

Idea and Tool Exploration I have found and played with many of the tools that were introduced to us. I have not been able to thoroughly investigate the majority of them, but a few of them intrigued me enough to learn right away. I really enjoy ePals, the WolframAlpha site, Diigo, and Moodle. The real lesson to be learned in this class, I feel, is that now that we have been exposed to this world of technology, we are the ambassadors of it. We need to build the bridges that will lead it to our students. What is your ultimate goal when the class is over? Mine is to make education for my students more exciting, more realistic, and more, well, just more! I still believe that the greatest tool that we have is our desire to learn. The technology, digital tools, software, etc. that we are learning to manipulate today will be out of date far too soon. So, what makes us successful? It is our desire to never stop learning ourselves and to teach our students to be active participants in our global environment.

Innovative Project I chose to create blog account on “//Edublog”// for my innovative project. I wanted to design a project that I would actually use and could use immediately. I feel that our school is in the very basic steps of devising a technology curriculum. At this point we have a one page “Computer Usage” contract for the students to sign that simply states that they won’t go to unacceptable sites. Therefore, the best starting point is to begin teaching the basics of digital citizenship. How better to decide how to approach this topic than by blogging with my fellow teachers and students! This is such an important subject that I will not constrict it to the students in my classroom only. I am convinced that this should be a school-wide discussion between students, teachers, and administrators. Please visit my new blog at []

===**My Reflection on meeting this standard (So What?)**===

//My discussion post on being a part of an online community represents the goal of demonstrating sustained growth in technology knowledge and skills to stay abreast of contemporary and emerging technologies because it shows my enthsisasm for continuing my own personal education in technology.

My discussion post on idea and tool exploration represents the goal of demonstrating sustained growth in technology knowledge and skills to stay abreast of contemporary and emerging technologies because it shows that rathe than focusing on individual technology the most important characteristic that we can possess is our desire to never stop learning!//

My innovative project represents the goal of // demonstrate sustained growth in technology knowledge and skills to stay abreast of contemporary and emerging technologies because I started a blog to begin awareness of our responsibliities as teachers, students and citizens of digital technology. //

===**My Future Learning Goals related to this standard (Now What?)**=== // My future learning goals related to this standard are to promote the nine elements of digital citizenship to my students and colleagues to begin new policy changes and awareness of digital responsibility. //