Game PLAN part 3

Goals:

1.      I will communicate ideas and information with parents and colleagues using digital media.

2.      I will participate in learning communities that will allow me to learn more about using technology with my preschoolers. 

·  Are you finding the information and resources you need?

           I am doing fine with my first goal.  I have found a couple of newsletters that I like.    I am having trouble with my second goal.  I can't seem to find a good learning community that deals specifically with preschool age.   

·  Do you need to modify your action plan?

.           For my second goal, I may need to modify my learning community to using technology with early childhood (grades PK-3). 

·  What have you learned so far?

            I have learned that many teachers have websites/blogs out there for parents and colleagues. 

·  What new questions have arisen?

For my first goal I am questioning if  I should do a blog or a website.  I thought I would be doing a blog, but now I am not sure.  What are the advantages/disadvantages  between a blog or website?  

GAME Plan continued

Goals:

1.      I will communicate ideas and information with parents and colleagues using digital media.

• What resources will you need to carry out your plan (video, reading, experts or colleagues, etc)?
• I will need a computer, a digital camera, a video camera to create ideas and information on my blog for parents and colleagues.   I will participate in learning communities that will allow me to learn more about using technology with my preschoolers. 
  

  • What resources will you need to carry out your plan (video, reading, experts or colleagues, etc)?
  • I will need to find learning communities that will allow me to learn more about technology and preschoolers. 
    
• What additional information do you need?


• Nothing at this time.
• What steps have you been able to take so far?


• I have begun looking for learning communities. 

GAME Plan

There are two standards from the International Society for Technology in Education that I want to improve on using in my professional life.  These two standards are (ISTE, 2008): 
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:

3. communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital-age media and formats.

5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources. Teachers:

a.       participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning

In order to use these standards more in my professional life, I will be creating a GAME plan.  A GAME plan sets goals, takes actions to meet those goals, monitors progress toward achieving these goals, and evaluates whether the goals were achieved (Cennamo, Ross & Ertmer, p. 3, 2009). 
GAME Plan
Goals:

1.      I will communicate ideas and information with parents and colleagues using digital media.

2.      I will participate in learning communities that will allow me to learn more about using technology with my preschoolers. 

Actions:

1.      To reach my first goal, I will set up a blog that parents and colleagues can view.  On this blog, there will be ideas on working with preschoolers. 

2.      To reach my second goal, I will search the website to find two learning communities that gives ideas on using technology with my preschoolers. 

Monitor progress

1.      To monitor the progress of my first goal, I will make sure the blog is updated every other week.  I will inform my colleagues about my blog by posting a sign in the lunchroom as well as sending out an e-mail.  I will inform parents in my classroom by putting it in my newsletter and the memo board outside the classroom.

2.      To monitor the progress of my second goal, I will implement two ideas I learned from the learning communities into my classroom every month. 

Evaluate

1.      To evaluate the success of my first goal, I will ask two parents and two colleagues to give me feedback on the blog.

2.      To evaluate the success of my second goal, I will keep a running record of how the lesson went that implemented the two ideas I learned from the learning community. 

References

Cennamo, K., Ross, J., & Ertmer, P. (2010). Technology integration for meaningful classroom

     use: A standards-based approach. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.

ISTE (2008).  International Society for Technology in Education.  Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/standards.aspx