During the Fall of 2018, I undertook an Independent Study. The purpose of the independent study was to provide colleagues in my department with resources to enhance their use of technology in the classroom. Our district is a one-to-one district where students are provided with a Chromebook that is theirs to keep until either graduation or they leave the district. While there is a lot of support from our technology specialists, some teachers were needing additional resources to help innovate their teaching using technology.

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I provided the teachers with nine resources to help them integrate technology in meaningful ways. The example here is a one page infographic that shows teachers a quick way to use the web-app PearDeck to work on vocabulary.  The students are creating digital flashcards of the unit vocabulary terms. They are practicing using the terms in sentences and also illustrating examples of the terms. The discussions that are had during the “quality control” section of the activity are rich because as a class you can discuss misconceptions as well as “aha” moments.This infographic was given to the teachers after a quick walkthrough of the process during a department PLC.

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Other resources that I presented to the team included information about do’s and don’t concerning copyright and fair use laws, student data tracking, and student assessment.