School 2.0: Technology Self Assessment

School 2.0 is a reflection tool that allows educators to answer a questionnaire designed to help you reflect on your skills in technology and gives you a good idea of how well and how often you integrate technology into the classroom. For new and seasoned teachers this is a great way to get ideas for creating lessons using technology and gives educators a way of keeping track of strengths and weaknesses using technology in the classroom. The best part? It lists many great links to resources for technology that can easily be incorporated into daily lessons. [NETS-T II, V]

My School 2.0 screen shot

Reflection results for NETS-T Module: Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

3. I engage students in reflecting on and clarifying their own thinking, planning, and creative processes, in correcting misconceptions, and in using meta-cognitive thinking strategies with collaborative tools and environments.

I chose to focus on this particular section because I love to learn and explore sites that will help students find different routes of being creative in the classroom. For me, my weakness is art. I love it, but I don't have an artistic bone in my body. I am the girl that relies on stick fingers when it comes to sketching and my best form of coloring is using a crayon to stay inside the lines! ha! I am quickly lowering my artistic stress though, because I am realizing there are many ways to express your little or big artistic abilities and creativity. "Creating Art All Together Now" by Google is way of bringing a new perspective to art by using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. The best part....the finished masterpieces can be displayed with an "online art show," something that could be displayed on an overhead, (ex: during parents night). 

Keep in mind it doesn't always have to be about art. Going back to the standards, I loved the resources attached to this sections because they allow for creative strategies that can be applied to any subject. Google Groups would be a social, interactive way of chatting and discussing school related subjects and finding a connection with students from various cultures. (another way of forming a multicultural classroom). The similarities, differences, and new ideas will bring fresh air into what might have been a limiting or stale discussion. Google groups is also handy for uploading files, getting rid of those pesky storage drives and a teacher could ask students to upload docs here to save paper! 

iCollaboratory would be a great way to teach students how to work together well on group projects. There are always students who want to work by themselves but its important to be able to work in groups because it won't be the last time both in school and at work that we have to collaborate with each other to make a better finished product! iCollaboratory is a wonderful tool to connect with group members, teach responsibility, and see how all group members are participating. This site also works with Moodle which we am learning about in ED 422.