Bianca Becker
Professional Portfolio
Advanced Educational Technology
This course deals with both instructional and multimedia design principles. Students design, implement, and evaluate an extended technology project to solve an instructional problem.
Context
Course: EDTC 5315: Spring 2014
Instructor: Dr. David Byrum
Artifact(s) Selected:
Artifact Reflection
This course was centered around the basics of digital imaging and editing, as well as digital citizenship and copyright for educational use. The course focused on the use of photography, filming, editing, and general imaging. The four artifacts selected highlight my abilities to create timelapse and stopmotion videos. In addition, I was able to create an instructional video and a feature film addressing student/educator collaboration.
Throughout the creation process I dealt with issues with sound and image editing. In my feature film I wanted to make sure that the sound was clear and the segment transitions were as subtle as possible. That was also the first time I used greenscreen. The timelapse and stopmotion videos proved to be the most challening because they required lots of work, patience, setup, and shooting. After completing both projects I was eager to have my own students use them. My third graders used timelapse videos to show plant life cycles and and stopmotion to create their own stories for language arts and social studies.
EDTC 5315 provided me with a better understanding of copyright and creative commons, and developing project-based experiences for instructional purposes.
ISTE Standards for Teachers
1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity // Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, cretvity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:
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(A) Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
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(B) Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
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(D) Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.
2. Design & Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences & Assessments // Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessmetn incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS•S. Teachers:
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(A) Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.
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(B) Develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress
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(C) Customize and peronsalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.
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(D) Provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments alinged with content and technlogy standards and use resulting data to ifnorm learning and teaching.
3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning // Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society. Teachers:
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(A) Demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations.
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(B) Collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation.
4. Promote & Model Digital Citizenship & Responsibility // Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices. Teachers:
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(B) Address the diverse needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies providing equitable acess to appropriate digital tools and resources.
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(C) Promote and model digital etiquette and responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and information.
5. Engage in Professional Growth & Leadership// Teachers continously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and decmonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources. Teachers:
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(B) Exhibit leadership by demonstrating a vision of technology infusion, participating in shared decision making and community building, and developing the leadership and technology skills of others.
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(C) Evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning.