Week 1: Technology Assessments

After completing the week 1 technology assessments, I feel fairly confident that I am familiar with most of the technology that is currently being "pushed" on an educational level. I was proficient at everything listed in survey #1 (Technology Applications Inventory) with the exception of only a few things. I am not experienced in the processes required to move back and forth between digital and analog technologies. I am VERY good at keyboarding! I do not have any idea what a vector or bit-mapped graphic file is. I also believe that I have some experience doing virtual simulations in the way of completing (and asking my students to complete) virtual lab experiments. I have cleared a lot of these items off the checklist simply due to this masters program, including participation in an electronic community, using technological collaboration and groupware. I am slowly seeing that this masters program has forced me to be more technologically savy, and I feel like as we move through this class on the technological side of educational leadership, I will see that this program along with many of the technologies that are offered to me by my district, are enabling me to be a better 21st century teacher. The second survey that I selected, "SEDTA Teacher Survey," opened my eyes to exactly how much technology that is out there for us to utilize and engage our students with. I do feel that my students are exposed to technology on a fairly regular basis, but from this survey I learned that there is much more that I can incorporate. I also realized that my school is excellent in what technology they offer to our teachers. We are expected to incorporate it into our lessons and held to that standard. They do encourage us to find new ways to use technology and share those ideas with our colleagues.