Thing #21 - Capstone

A. Many of these tools have helped me improve my teaching and delivery methods.  Several of the tools, Prezi and the mind maps have helped me organize my lessons to emphasise the most important areas.  Prezi, Jing, Wordle, and Photo Story have improved my delivery options.  Google Docs, RubiStar, Google forms, and graphic organizeers give me ways to communicate and collaborate with students.  Other tools have increased my abilbity to network with other professionals and find ways to stay updated on technology tools and programs.  All of these options also have the abiltiy to give the students and teachers I work with more choices for projects, increases their opportunity to use online tools, and find support to succeed on their projects. A diversified tool box creates more diversified lessons.

B. The technology applications that I am including in my lessons and incorporating into future lessons witll support a variety of the Marzano stategies.  Organizers will help students utilize questions and cues, online researching presentation tools will help students test hypothesese, set objectives and provide feedback, allow for non-linguistic representations and reinforce homework, notetaking and summarizing.   Mindmaps, presentation tools and online study tools will increase value in homework and allow students to build understanding of similarities adn differences.

C. I plan to use Bubbl.us with our health classes for stress management.  I would like to have the students work in groups to create charts with how they react to stress and how they can better deal with stress.  This project would support health standards - Strand 4 - Social and emotion health.  Technology standards and could hit all the main areas of the NETS for students:

• Demonstrate creativity and innovation
• Communicate and collaborate
• Conduct research and use information
• Think critically, solve problems, and make decisions
• Use technology effectively and productively