PowerPoint of my Field Study Action Plan for the Fall (2010).....focus is using web-based technologies in the classroom

1. Simon Fraser University: Learning and Teaching with Technology Action Plan for a Field Study Fall 2010 Scott Smithson

6. 4. Learning Activities Time Activities (S) Student (T) Teacher (P) Parents Between now and September (T) •Continue to explore applications in Google (T)•find relevant readings and/or blog posts (T) •continue working on setting up my new class website (Google site) September (T)•send home letter to parents articulating rationale for using Google Docs with students (T,S,P) •set up Google and/or Gmail accounts for each student (most done at home with families) (T,S,P) •survey (Google) to collect emails/ passwords and other important student info. (S) •as class, watch “Plain English” videos and explore Google Docs (S) •some simple writing assignments using Google Docs (independent) Data Collection: (S,T) •Formative assessment data — assignment(s) done and comments collected (S) •Student perspectives on using web-based technologies – (reflections, quick-writes, survey) (T) •reflective journaling about my own learning October (S) •on-line peer editing of writing assignment (S)•simple collaborative mini project (S) •Math:Geometry Assignment using Draw tools in Google Docs (S,T) •Explore on-line, digital citizenship and responsible and ethical on-line behaviour (T) •continue to explore different uses of website (blogs, embedding videos, linking web-sites) Data Collection: (S) Student perspectives on use of websites – (reflections, additional independent uses) (T,S) Formative assessment data (on line Math activities) (P) Parent on-line surveys and face-to-face interviews (ask questions re: web-based learning) November (T,S) •use Google survey for in-class or at-home test on a particular curriculum area (Science?) (T) •compile data from test and articulate that back to students and parents using Mail Merge December - Complete portfolio

7. 5. Readings

8. School Colleagues: Peter Bramhall: other Grade 7 teacher & former T-Lite mentor Deanna Neustaedter: other Grade 6 teacher and LTT (Abbotsford) student Zoltan Bako: school administrator Other Professional/Educational Colleagues: LTT cohort - classmates LTT moderators/mentors/facilitators Sandra Averill ( Langley School District Technology Resource support) 6. Support system

9. • results of Google surveys of students and parents • teacher reflective journal: • student journaling / “quickwrite” responses • examples of student responses in some sort of on-line forum (wall-wisher?) • development of Google website 7. Strategies for documentation

10. For each of the previous portfolios (Summer — Baseline Portfolio; Fall — Working Portfolio, Spring — Working Portfolio) I chose a program that I was previously and entirely unfamiliar with using in any way. I had never used Powerpoint until I did my Baseline Portfolio last Summer and likewise had not even heard of “Prezi” until I decided to do my Working Portfolio using that online presentation tool. I continued the challenge by using the on-line presentation tool “Zoho” this past Spring As I found it very valuable to have to familiarize myself with something new in order to represent my learning and findings in a way that I found helpful, I will probably take a similar approach with this continued Field Study. If, at the end of this semester, I find some new tool that looks to be valuable as a way of presenting, I will likely use it. I’m thinking that it will be some sort of application associated with Google.docs. 8. Summarizing and representing strategies