Technology Tool Application

2010-11

Technology Tool / Specific Administrative Tasks When this Tool
Can Increase Effectiveness/Efficiency
SMART Board /
  • This board can be used to give presentations to teachers to better help them to teach their students.

  • Review resources to identify quality and appropriateness for use in the classroom. Assist in evaluating teaching.

  • Presentations

  • Presentations
  • Inservices

  • Presentations to staff
  • Interactive teaching
  • Lesson plans

  • SMART Boards can be used in classes to bring assignments to life. It will give the students an opportunity to learn about new technology.

  • This technology is wonderful in the classroom and also as presentation for groups and Professional Development.

  • Observations
  • Faculty meetings
  • Assist teachers

  • Faculty meeting
  • Observations

  • I can use the evaluation tool to help teachers use SMART Boards to challenge creative thinking.

  • The information/rubrics shared by Mr. Phillips will be most beneficial for teachers.
  • Faculty meeting
  • Observations
  • Helping New Teachers w/JB’s.

  • The training helped give me a better understanding of how to utilize the SMART Board in the classroom and by administrators. I would like to have a workshop on SMART Boards at my school during the teachers planning.

  • 3 E’s
  • Teacher Rubric
  • Accessing Resources

Technology Tool Application

2010-11

Technology Tool / Specific Administrative Tasks When this Tool
Can Increase Effectiveness/Efficiency
SMART Board /
  • Activity designed with student interaction as the central focus.
  • Use with existing resources downloads and PowerPoint.

  • Provide this information to my faculty through Professional Development during a faculty meeting. Ask them to plan a lesson with an activity from the exchange at least once a week in the beginning of implementation.

  • Attendance management
  • Professional Development/faculty meetings

  • Professional Development for staff
  • Meetings

  • Use NB to develop new and innovative content, strategies and templates that can be adopted for use in any subject. I used Jeopardy.

  • For professional development; cycle of instruction, PST, COMP and Ruby Payne.

  • Instruction
  • Conducting workshops

  • Academic classroom instruction
  • Conducting workshops
  • Train students to interact with the Board
  • Train new teachers/aides/tutors

  • Increase student participation and motivation.

  • Student engagement!
  • Interactive teaching, learning, (cell phone use).

  • Safe meetings
  • Training
  • Professional Development (PD)

  • I loved the sites listed and the presentation. I can’t wait to share it with my teachers.

  • Professional Development

  • Increase teachers’ creativity

  • Enhance learning
  • To help implement Reading Street

Technology Tool Application

2010-11

Technology Tool / Specific Administrative Tasks When this Tool
Can Increase Effectiveness/Efficiency
SMART Board /
  • Training purposes
  • Great uses for classroom

  • Faculty Inservices/presentations
  • Use this with parents

  • Give to teachers as a resource
  • Knowledge on what is actually student interactive versus whiteboard/overhead use.

  • Improve rigor in classroom instruction

  • Presentations at Professional Development or faculty meeting sessions.

  • 3-E Teaching

  • Will use rubric for lesson analysis

  • Survey where my teachers are with integrating technology.
  • Determine where I want teachers to be in 3 years.
  • Develop strategic plan
1) Hardware
2) SMART Board
3) Digital Cameras
4) Moodle
  • I enjoyed the use of the cell phone in the presentation. This could be a valuable tool in the classroom with students.

  • Good way to have faculty meetings.

  • Will use in presentations to teachers.

  • ESL staff meetings
  • Training for classroom teachers
  • Small group work with ELLS

  • Presentations to teachers
  • Demonstration lessons for students.
  • Help provide assistance to teachers.

Technology Tool Application

2010-11

Technology Tool / Specific Administrative Tasks When this Tool
Can Increase Effectiveness/Efficiency
SMART Board /
  • Provide training on using SMART Boards more effectively.
  • Use interactive activities to increase student engagement.
  • Make sure teachers are using SMART Board appropriately.

  • Monitoring to ensure effective use with engaging activities.
  • Monitoring to determine the need for additional Professional Development.

  • Great science lessons, activities an assessments to share with teachers who are just getting familiar with SMART Boards.
  • Learn how to access SMART Board activities.

  • Customize calendar using SMART Board.

  • Lessons already created in music and art can be utilized in middle school general music classes, art classes and offer support in instrumental music classes.

  • Use with coaches in teaching specific sports.
  • Good health lessons.
  • Also good lesson on geometric shapes in sports.

  • This SMART Board Notebook will be helpful for student engagement for interactive learning from the delivery of information to student digital exposure.
  • We can be online learning posting of work, research, interactive listening, etc.

  • Faculty meetings
  • Open House
  • Parenting Day
  • Title I Meetings

  • 5 levels of implementation for snapshot

  • Walkthrough for Instruction in effective integration of technology in lessons.

  • I will use this tool to expand the knowledge of all teachers as relates to lesson planning.

  • Gives me the opportunity to evaluate teacher performance.

  • This increases interaction between faculty and staff and can be used for modeling and training.

Technology Tool Application

2010-11

Technology Tool / Specific Administrative Tasks When this Tool
Can Increase Effectiveness/Efficiency
SMART Board /
  • Interactive teaching

  • Get writing teacher to use SMART board sounds to enhance student interest in writing. Students will write and then present to class with sound effects.

  • This will better assist me to better evaluate teachers and train usage of the SMART Board in the classroom.

  • Staff Development to model use to teachers

  • Use during professional development and doing staff meetings.

  • The websites make lessons easily accessible and will encourage more use.

  • Anytime kids can get up and participate in SMART Board activities they are excited and involved. The activities already on wiki are very good!

  • Help teachers plan creative lesson.

  • Check on teachers uses.

  • Teaching tool for teachers, students and parents.

  • Help motivate and engage students.

  • Allows teachers to provide opportunity for HOTS and creativity.

  • Rubric will be useful

  • Embedded Professional Development

  • Instruction

Technology Tool Application

2010-11

Technology Tool / Specific Administrative Tasks When this Tool
Can Increase Effectiveness/Efficiency
SMART Board /
  • Share notebook lessons explored with teachers
  • Use during presentation

  • Assist with data and presentations.
  • Gather information with clickers.

  • Overall instruction

  • I will use the training I have received to provide multiple resources for effective instruction for my teachers.

  • Staff development opportunities/presentations

  • Increased awareness of possibilities

  • Unable to access

  • Assist with presentations
  • Displaying data
  • Quick checks using clickers

  • Faculty meetings
  • Job-embedded

  • Getting input from teachers
  • Displaying data
  • Assist with presentations

  • Student engagement
  • Increase student learning via immediate feedback

  • The presentation in SMART Boards helps me better understand how teachers can use this technology effectively.

  • Address all areas of learning
  • Different in instruction
  • Student engagement

  • Use during presentations and tutor teachers.

  • Teacher effectiveness

Technology Tool Application

2010-11

Technology Tool / Specific Administrative Tasks When this Tool
Can Increase Effectiveness/Efficiency
SMART Board /
  • Presenter timely and informative; broadened knowledge of technology that will utilize many aspects.

  • Lessons to help increase teaching/learning.

  • Display information during data/PST/SAE meetings.

  • To review and show data
  • Introduce RTI strategies

  • Data presentations – pulling teachers. It would decrease fear of use if ALL participated in faculty meetings.

  • Can be used during data meetings/PST meeting.

  • Modeling for teachers
  • Presenting information to teacher, students, parents, partners, etc.

  • EDUCATE Alabama – use of technology
  • Staff Development

  • Should have been more instruction on use of SMART Board.

  • Useable templates to use for lesson plans.
  • Games for learning key concepts

  • Professional growth
  • Professional knowledge
  • Teacher/Administrative creativity for student learning

  • I will be able to introduce and demonstrate new tools for teacher incorporation into the daily instructional lessons.

  • Effective when used as an interactive tool to help engage students.

  • Train teachers to use SMART Board to make lesson more interactive.

  • Provide an effective resource for improving instruction, engagement, interaction, and empowerment.

  • Great new information
  • I can’t wait to share.

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Technology Tool Application

2010-11

Technology Tool / Specific Administrative Tasks when this tool can increase effectiveness/efficiency (Please list multiple uses, is possible)
SMART Board /
  • I learned the potential of SMART Boards and what to expect when observing its use.

  • Formulate and research lessons and templates

  • Give teachers sites to help with classroom activities.

  • Professional Development, student engagement

  • Great introduction
  • Will help teachers improve SMART Board use.

  • More hands-on training for administrators.
  • Great interactive tool administrators can model

  • Sharing lessons with teachers
  • Create wiki for teachers to share “like” lessons with each other.

  • Use of SMART Exchange helpful

  • How to share in exchange.SMARTtech.com

  • Planning meeting to increase student achievement.

  • Poll everywhere
  • Recording device (provide re-teaching or repeat lessons/presentations)

  • SAE development/monitoring
  • Parenting orientation
  • Teacher Instruction/Coaching
  • PST meeting minutes/documentation

  • SMART RESPONSE
  • Bell ringer/exit slips

  • Use in providing PD for faculty/staff.
  • Use in presenting parent information.
  • Use in encouraging teachers to engage students in own learning.

  • Hands on manipulation. Notebook PowerPoint shown

  • Use as a resource for improving teacher effectiveness.
  • E-mailing sessions

  • Individual professional development with teachers
  • Group professional development – focus
  • Personal professional development
  • Discussion threads

  • Faculty presentation
  • Designing lessons for engagement RTI

  • Excellent Professional Development resources for all educational professionals.
  • Can be used with professionals who need additional information with certain ideas and strategies.

  • Assistance with new teacher book study.
  • New concept assistance with struggling teachers.

Technology Tool Application

2010-11

Technology Tool / Specific Administrative Tasks When this Tool
Can Increase Effectiveness/Efficiency
PD 360
  • Use as Staff Development tool to introduce to teachers.
  • Use in grade level meetings, individual conferences
  • E-mail link with follow-up dialogue

  • Used to address specific concerns after walk through and observations.

  • To help teacher’s access quality professional development video related to specific school related issues.

  • New Teacher Mentoring
  • Learn strategies to use for Tier 1, 2 interventions to support RTI Students tiers use with teachers when needs are identified.
  • PLP’s for Educate Alabama
  • To support cycle of Instruction
  • To earn hours credit for certification

  • Can be used to help evaluate teachers.
  • Find out what they are learning and preparing for.

  • Focus Professional Development on specific real time issues.
  • Send out “Meet Me”” notes and facilitate specific 15 minute professional development conversations with teachers around a pre-determined segment

  • Reflection button – use reflection as a check of teacher viewing suggested PD360 video.
  • Creating collaborative viewing list

  • Creating custom courses and interacting with participants.
  • Participants can acquire credits and receive a certificate.

  • Address specific Professional Development need for teacher/faculty/staff.

  • Locate programs for individual school needs
  • In house staff development
  • Guidebook for professional development
  • Excellent researched activities
  • Good questions & answer sessions
  • Share a link with tutor/aides in advance of the workshop

  • To ensure teachers and others have the resource to enable them to introduce needed materials.

  • I would be able to increase teacher learning to increase learning for all students.

  • Assign to new teachers in areas of need. Assign topics to teachers to increase learning in areas identified as emerging.

  • Professional Development
  • Improve Teaching and learning
  • Follow-up with teachers

Technology Tool Application

2010-11

Technology Tool / Specific Administrative Tasks When this Tool
Can Increase Effectiveness/Efficiency
PD 360 /
  • I will use this for on-going Professional Development with specific grade levels as well as school wide.
  • Also use for accountability

  • We are using PD360 instead of a book study.

  • Completing PLP’s with teachers

  • Reading across the Curriculum is a focus area for the year. The videos will be used by various departments.

  • Creating folders with information specific to certain groups of teachers.

  • Learned more about implementing PD360 to fidelity for trainings. Will use in trainings. (Guidebook/reflection)

  • Will use to provide targeted training to teachers and paraprofessionals.

  • Use with classroom teachers who have questions about working with ELLS.

  • Great way to send professional development for review by teachers.
  • Great way to share RBS with faculty.

  • This session is very good for online courses or grading.

  • Align to PLP’s

  • Sometimes I forget that this tool is available; thanks for the recap.

  • Assign teachers to in-service that will improve their skills.

  • Increase Professional Development opportunities for all stakeholders.

  • Provide training in small segments so that teachers don’t miss time in classroom.

  • Build a Staff Development plan that can be implemented on a teacher’s schedule.

  • Quick and easy training for needed topics
  • Many varied aspects to involve the learner

  • Easy access to Professional Development
  • Professional Development credit

Technology Tool Application

2010-11

Technology Tool / Specific Administrative Tasks When this Tool
Can Increase Effectiveness/Efficiency
Moodle /
  • It eliminates paperwork for teachers and students, allows for student discussion/forums.
  • Teacher can allow students to drop box their work.

  • Online Course Management
  • Surveys
  • Collaborative Work

  • Moodle can be used by teachers and administrator’s for different things. I t can be used for online quizzes, drop boxes and forums, etc.

  • Great for classes or courses.

  • Teacher Professional Development
  • Share resources
  • PLC

  • Schedule should accommodate Assistant Principal Schedules or compensate accordingly. Teachers are too overwhelmed with INOW to tackle Moodle, Great too!

  • Used for book study. Lee vs. Macon etc.
  • Power Point for students.
  • Can be accessed easily.

  • Teachers can communicate information to students in a secure, non-commercial environment.
  • Sponsors can set up enrichment activities.

  • Another professional development resource to use in connection with participation workshops/services that have been consolidated from various places and in various forms.

  • PST’s
  • Focus teams
  • Students and Teacher data collection

  • We just got a rolling cart with mini-laptops, but the teachers aren’t using them. This will give me an opportunity to give them specific examples of how they can use them easily and effectively.

Technology Tool Application

2010-11

Technology Tool / Specific Administrative Tasks When this Tool
Can Increase Effectiveness/Efficiency
Moodle
  • Moodle Access
  • Examples of Teacher set-up and program capabilities.
  • Professional Development capabilities

  • Do the PD360 in a Moodle module
  • Collect feedback in the module as well.

  • Manage lab assignments and paperwork
  • Use for Professional Development
  • Can use for branching content, great resource.

  • I would use this technology to do a book study with my faculty on classroom spaces that work.

  • Lee vs. Macon
  • Addressing Disproportionally
  • Make Sense Strategies and Positive Behavior Support.

  • Organization

  • Online resources for tutors
  • SMART notebook lessons for Staff Development
  • Teacher can use for student interaction.

  • Teachers in upper grades need this for technology use for kids.

  • Was very new to me.

  • Lab Work

  • Online experience for 10th grade students

  • I want to share this with my teachers and play around with it.

  • Yeah! Great
  • PACE and to challenge upper level students.

  • I don’t have a computer lab or class set to implement.

  • I can have five teachers and students to use this to complete assignments.

  • Enhance learning
  • To help implement Reading Street

  • To save assignments

Technology Tool Application

2010-11

Technology Tool / Specific Administrative Tasks When this Tool
Can Increase Effectiveness/Efficiency
Moodle
  • Would like this
  • Not available

  • Utilize this with teachers and students for effective sharing and collaboration.

  • Use by teachers to collect assignments
  • PD support provided for teachers.
  • Not just a course but a place to put stuff.

  • To measure success of programs – SAE Data
  • Communicate to parents
  • Students and community school functions.

  • Parent, staff student surveys.
  • Collecting data from PLT”s and PST’s.

  • Share with teachers to use for various forums

  • Moodle will encourage use to eliminate jump drives and student access to lessons and assignments.

  • Valuable information
  • 21st Century learning
  • Would love to attend the hands-on session.

  • Will use to gather information from teachers in my assigned schools.

  • I can use it to support Math teachers in the district.

  • Students participate (forum/photo galleries)
  • Moodle consolidates several types of services.
  • Use for PD/sharing and collecting resources.

  • Teachers can use to organize assignments
  • Students can drop in assignments.

  • Learned what “Moodle” is.
  • Online course management.

  • SCS
  • Full evaluation – surveys
  • Posting important dates
  • Pertinent information – uniforms, open/close, handbooks

Technology Tool Application

2010-11

Technology Tool / Specific Administrative Tasks When this Tool
Can Increase Effectiveness/Efficiency
Moodle
  • Survey my parents, students and teachers to gather input.
  • Boo Hoo – not offered!

  • Moodle,mcpss.com ( online assignments)

  • Will provide training for faculty. Also will be focus of feeder school.

  • Teacher Tools

  • Multiple uses for professionals and students.

  • Homebound, extended absences of students and/or teachers for lessons.
  • Book studies
  • Surveys (choice)
  • Home/School Connection

  • Professional Development for faculty

  • Communicating between teacher and students
  • Way to interact online

  • Multiple uses for professionals and students.

  • Homebound, ext – absences of students and/or teachers for lessons.
  • Book studies
  • Surveys (choice)
  • Home/School Connection

  • Professional Development for faculty

  • Communicating between teacher and students
  • Way to interact online

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