Monthly+Internship+Reflection+-+August+2010

August was the month that I decided to start my internship hours. Due to the fact that for the first two weeks of this month I would not be teaching as yet, it allowed me to sit down with my site mentor and map out a plan of the activities that I would undertake in order to meet the requirements for Internship. We were able to go through and come up with ways in which the objectives can be met. We also sat down to schedule a time that we could meet in order to discuss any issues that I was having with my internship or any adjustments that need to be made to plans that were made. Majority of my internship time was spent helping other teachers on my campus with their technological issues. They ranged from helping to rewire their classroom to providing tutorials for programs that they could use in their subject area. I found that they teachers were very receptive to the ideas and suggestions that I made. I also spent some of my time in discussions with my campus supervisor about transitioning my classes to more of a project-based learning environment. The idea for this came about from a video that I watched while taking //Teaching with Technology//. I felt the ideas presented were something that I could incorporate in my own classroom. In order to achieve this I introduced my students to blogging and how to create effective PowerPoint presentations. I believed that in teaching them these skills I would be introducing my students to technologies that will help them later one and could be used in the transition to a project oriented environment. The students were more enthused about learning how to develop their own blogging site as opposed to learn more about PowerPoint. However when I showed them some to the features of PowerPoint that aren’t normally used they came around. The work that they created using these two mediums was excellent and I will be using these tools throughout the school year. I believe that the activities that I’ve completed this month have given me a better insight into the direction that the technology standards are aiming for. It is one thing to read it, but by developing a task based on the standard and then seeing the results that take place really puts the purpose of the technology standards in a new light.
 * Standards Met: ** TF – I.B, TF – III.B, TF – III.D, TF – III.E, TF – V.B,