Lesson 8

Last Updated: 08/21/2023

Wrap-Up

Goals

• Complete ETC Program portfolio: ETC645 Reflections.

• Wrap-up the course.

Instructor's Note

We have very short lesson to wrap-up our class.  Be sure you complete all the requirements.  Remember everything must be completed by the last day of the class. 

Assignment 6: ETC Program Portfolio: ETC645 Reflections must be completed and submitted via Canvas.  Your course grade will not be released if the Portfolio link is not submitted is not submitted to Canvas by the deadline.

Don't forget we have Lesson 8 discussion activities to complete.  We will evaluate TWO other groups' final projects.

Now we almost complete the course.  Frequently, ETC students asked me what they should read after the course so they can continue challenging themselves and keeping themselves up-to-dated.

Activity

Online Discussions (4 Points): Peer review PD.

• As an individual, you will evaluate TWO other groups' Assignment 4 final PD.

  • Group 1 members review Group 2's and 3's PDs, Group 6 reviews Group 1's and 2's PDs.

  • Review more than two are encouraged. Previous students reviewed 4 on average.

• Use the final PD rubrics with narrative evaluations to provide your review.

• Individual Work

• Rubric Template:

  • View: Peer Review Template

  • Download: Peer Review Template

• Optional

  • Highly encouraged to review more than the two assigned. More than 1/3 of previous students reviewed four or more.

  • Highly encouraged to respond to the received feedback and comments.

Assignment

Assignment 6: ETC Program Portfolio: ETC645 Competency & Reflection (Signature Assignment)

• Due: See Assignment Page

• Grade: 10 Points (If it is not submitted by the deadline, the final grade will not be posted.)

• Individual Project

• Easy (1) - Challenging (5): 4 (Previous students' ratings)

• Submission Method:

  • Canvas

  • Provide a link to your ETC Portfolio (Google Sites or others) that you created in ETC547 & ETC567 etc.

  • Be sure your ETC Portfolio contains a tab/page that displays your ETC645 Competency & Reflection Sections.

  • If the permission/privilege is required to view your portfolio & documents in your portfolio, be sure to provide the permission to the instructor at ct68@nau.edu. Be sure the permission/privilege is given to all Google Sites AND Google Docs etc. (If the permission is not provided, your portfolio will be reviewed with the part that is accessible to the instructor.)

Assignment Instructions:

ETC645 ETC Portfolio is a reflective activity which is considered as an effective learning strategy. Don't rush. Let's take time to reflect on our learning journey in this course. Can we call reflection a type of self-self interaction?!

In ETC 547, you were asked to create a web-based Educational Technology Program Portfolio. This professional presentation portfolio holds key assignments that you have produced and will continue to produce while completing your program of study.

NOTE: If you are NOT enrolled in the Educational Technology Certificate Program or MEd, please contact the instructor for alternative instructions for this assignment based on your program of study or situation.

The Educational Technology Program Portfolio ETC 645 tab provides you with the opportunity to respond to standard-based questions that demonstrates your knowledge and skills related to areas of the ISTE NETS for Technology Directors (competency), and thoughtfully evaluate, reflect on, and synthesize your work on course assignments in order to improve and strengthen your personal and professional practice (reflection).

Portfolio reflection is the way to engage you in an iterative process in which lessons learnt from the course experiences result in deeper learning and informed decisions for upcoming event. Take time to reflect your learning experiences in ETC645 to you can conclude your learning.  It is an easy assignment to complete it if you take time to complete it.  It not, you may not earn full points.

You need to have two sections for the ETC645 Reflections Tab in your Educational Technology Program Portfolio:

• Competency Section &

• Reflection Section.

Competency Section

Be very thorough with your responses.  This is more like a comprehensive exam or final paper to examine your understanding on the course content):  

In this section you will discuss the standards associated with this course and provide examples and resources that demonstrate your understandings of Standard 2: Digital-Age Learning Culture, Standard 3: Excellence in Professional Practice, Standard 6: Content Knowledge & Professional Growth & Standard 5: Digital Citizenship.

Standard 2: Digital-Age Learning Culture

Technology Directors create, promote, and sustain a dynamic, digital-age learning culture that provides a rigorous, relevant, and engaging education for all students. Upon 

Element 2.5. Learning Communities

Candidates locate, develop, and disseminate models of local and global learning communities and support implementation through local infrastructure and policies.

Standard 3: Excellence in Professional Practice

Element 3.2. Information and Communication Infrastructure

Candidates ensure a robust information and communication infrastructure to support learning communities and assist educators in using this infrastructure for professional learning.

Element 3.4. Current Research and Emerging Technologies

Candidates maintain in-depth knowledge of current educational research and emerging technologies and evaluate potential benefits and implementation requirements (purchase cost, training, human resources, installation, maintenance, compatibility).

Standard 6: Content Knowledge & Professional Growth

Element 6.2. Technical Knowledge

Candidates demonstrate knowledge, skills, and dispositions in all the technical areas necessary to ensure a sound technology infrastructure, including industry standards, data analysis/warehousing, and safety and security of data.

Please respond to the following three items:

1. Please use your own words to describe a model of Community of Practice (CoP) in Digital-Age Learning Culture? Draw a figure to represent the model of digital CoP. The model and the figure should be original.  (Be sure to give the instructor the privilege to view your figure.)

2. Provide an example of how you might integrate emerging online technologies (LMS) to develop and disseminate a model of local and global CoP and support implementation through local computing/digital infrastructure and policies?

3. List at least three resources that will support you being a leader of Digital CoP. (The resources could be digital tools, design information, websites, models etc. that you may suggest other educators can use to learn and/or create CoP.)

Reflections Section

Standard 5: Digital Citizenship

Technology directors model and facilitate understanding of social, ethical, and legal issues and responsibilities related to an evolving digital culture. Upon completion of the program:

Element 5.1. Digital Equity

Candidates facilitate equitable access to digital tools and resources, including adaptive and assistive technologies, to support the diverse needs of all learners.

Element 5.2. Policies for Safe, Healthy, Legal, and Ethical Use

Candidates lead district in the collaborative development, dissemination, and evaluation of district

policies and procedures designed to guide, in the least restrictive manner possible, the safe, legal, and

ethical use of digital information and technology resources among all stakeholders.

Element 5.3. Programs for Safe, Healthy, Legal, and Ethical Use

Candidates develop and implement programs to educate all stakeholders about the safe, legal, and ethical use of information and technology resources, including district policies and procedures regarding filtering, netiquette, cyberbullying, acceptable use, and fair-use guidelines for online resources.

Element 5.4 Diversity, Cultural Understanding, and Global Awareness

Candidates model and promote diversity, cultural understanding, and global awareness by providing and supporting digital-age communication and collaboration tools for students and faculty to engage in crosscultural, collaborative projects addressing global issues in the context of curricular goals and objectives.

Please respond to the following three items:

1. Please describe what digital citizenship means to you, as technology directors? (Be sure to cover the elements of Adaptive and Assistive Technology, Policies and Program for Safe, Healthy, Legal, and Ethical technology uses, or Diversity, Cultural Understanding and Global Awareness.)

2. Provide an example of how you, as a technology director, might model and facilitate digital citizenship in evolving digital culture?

3. List at least three resources that will support digital citizenship in evolving digital culture.

Reflection Section

(Be thorough and be sure to justify your reflections.  Simply list the artifacts doesn't meet the requirements. Provide your thorough narratives to justify your learning experiences/journey):            

The Educational Technology Program Portfolio provides you with the opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge and skills related to the ISTE NETS for Technology Directors Standards 6.1, 6.4, and 6.5.

For the ETC645 tab, add the following along with a reflection that discusses both the process you engaged in to complete each of the assignment selected and your learning in relation to the topic of the assignment selected (one to two paragraphs in length):

• Select and upload or link to an assignment that demonstrates your ability to design, implement, and evaluate technology-rich professional learning programs (NETS*TD 6.1. Content and Pedagogical Knowledge: Candidates demonstrate content and pedagogical knowledge, skills, and dispositions in technology integration and current and emerging technologies necessary to effectively implement the NETS•S, NETS•T, and NETS•A.)

• Select and upload or link to the assignment that demonstrates your "Continuous Learning" (i.e., new knowledge and skills gained through ETC 645) (NETS*TD 6.4. Continuous Learning: Candidates engage in continuous learning to deepen their content, technical, and leadership and management knowledge, skills, and dispositions.)

• Select and upload or link to the assignment that pushed you to "evaluate, reflect on, and synthesize their work and research to improve and strengthen their professional practice (NETS*TD 6.5)."

Rubrics

Educational Technology Program Portfolio, ETC645 Reflections