TPACK PROJECT REPORT

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Week 13

1. What article did you choose to read for your article of choice? "Let Our Voices Be Heard" By Elder M. Russel Ballard
Describe the video resources you watched? I watched the video resource of a 15-year-old girl who met an older man in a chat room. They were conversed quite often. He showed up at her house and wanted her to go with him. She was lucky she survived because she could have died.
Write a paragraph describing what your most important "take-aways" were from the readings and video? My most important "take-away" was that I need to teach my children internet and media safety. I know that I want to have a clean home, clean from any immoral or violent media or internet. I will make sure that I have my computer in a public area in the home where there are people around it often. I will make sure I have safety blocks on my computer as well. I really want to make sure my children are protected and can feel safe at home.

Week 11

I learned quite a bit about TPACK. TPACK stands for Technological Pedagogical And Content Knowledge. There are different parts of TPACK. The first is pedagogical knowledge which is just general knowledge and skills in teaching. An example of this would be a elementary school teacher. They have a general knowledge of all subjects and they have a great skill on how to teach those subjects to their students. The second is content knowledge which is having great knowledge of something, but not being able to teach it. An example of this would be a Scientist who is really intelligent, but can not seem to teach others about science very well. The third is technological knowlege which is knowledge with technology and understanding how to communicate to others how to use technology. An example of this would be my IPT teacher, Keith Proctor! There is one example of my past that I can think of where the TPACK model was used. My chemistry teacher in highschool was great! She was a chemist and very intelligent in chemistry. She was an example of content knowledge because she was very knowledgable in chemistry. She was great at teaching the subject of chemistry as well which shows she had great pedagogical knowledge. She used technology to us experiments and she would show us films and things to show her technological knowledge. There are different kinds of representations of technologies. There is textual, which is reading the text. There is visual, which is watching something. There is auditory, which is listening to something. There is dynamic, which is interactive. Last there is multimodal, which is using all of the different representations. I explored many technologies in this class. One that I enjoyed quite a bit was Google Earth. On Google Earth there were several representations of textual, visual, auditory, dynamic, and multimodal. This is amazing! Google Earth uses all representations. This would be so helpful for the students because each student learns a different way. One student may be a visual learner while the other is a textual learner. This is great for all students!

Week 10

What is the technology called? Kerpoof
What does it help you do? It helps you make videos and drawings on the computer. It is very interactive.
Where can it be found? www.kerpoof.com

What is the technology called? Google Earth
What does it help you do? It helps you explore the earth and to get an inside look on many specific places.
Where can it be found? You can download the Google Earth program onto your computer.

What is the technology called? Photostory
What does it help you do? It helps you create stories and slideshows.
Where can it be found? It can be found on the photostory program on your computer.

Week 12

I learned so much from watching the videos of the teachers using technology with their students. It was amazing how much the students learned and how captivated they were with what the teacher was teaching them. I loved how the teacher implemented another teacher and her class from a different state into the lesson. The students took pictures of spiders and posted them on the class website and then they shared the photos with a class in Missouri. This way they were educated about spiders in Missouri and in Virginia. It was also really neat to see the kids drawing on paint the vehicles they wanted to use for their "Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see?" story. It just seemed that they were learning so fast and loving every second of it!

TPACK Planning

Language Arts, Science, and Math lesson plans

Week 9

What are some ways you can tell that you have successfully integrated technology into your lesson?
I believe you can tell you have successfully integrated technology into your lesson by seeing how it relates. If it enhances the learning to the lesson or relates to the lesson objective well then it is successful.

What do you feel technology should accomplish in order to be a legitimate addition to your lesson?
It should use interaction. It should be attention getting. It should expand their knowledge on the subject and help them become enthusiastic about learning.

What indicators can tell you whether or not you have chosen an appropriate technology for your lesson?
I think if it is easy enough for the students to use. I think it also needs to follow the lesson and add to the knowledge on the subject.