This electronic portfolio outlines Kasey Graves' educational goals and plans to incorporate technology into her future classroom. It includes sections about her personal background and goals of becoming an educator, as well as how she intends to use word processing, telecommunications, spreadsheets, presentation software, and favorite internet sites to enhance lessons and engage students in various learning styles. The portfolio provides examples of specific technologies and online resources Kasey plans to utilize.

1. Electronic Portfolio
EDUC 215
Fall 2011
Kasey Graves

2. Table of Contents
Personal Information………………………………………………………………………………………..3
Role of Technology……………………………………………………………………………………………5
Word Processing……………………………………………………………………………………………….7
Telecommunictions…………………………………………………………………………………………..8
Spreadsheets…………………………………………………………………………………………………….9
Presentation Software………………………………………………………………………………………11
Favorite Internet Sites……………………………………………………………………………………….12

3. My name is Kasey Graves. I am from
Idaho, born and raised in Challis. I headed
to Boise to continue my education shortly
after high school. I have dreamed of
becoming a teacher since I was in the 4th
grade. I look forward a career helping
children learn and grow. I explored a few
other occupations right out of high school
but I always turn back to education. I had
a beautiful little girl about 20 months ago.
I want to continue my education for her. I
cannot think of any other career that would
allow me to spend as much time with my
children as educator. When I am not doing
school work, or occupied with my daughter I
am a foodie. I eat new foods, critique
restaurants, and then of course I myself
create new and exciting dishes for my
family and friends to enjoy. Besides

4. Simply stated my goal is to be a great
educator. I do not just want to teach
materials. I want to bring my class to
life. I want the students to not only
enjoy learning, but also to retain the
information that I provide them. To
accomplish this I believe it is crucial
incorporate all learning styles into my
curriculum. I will not be the teacher
who just lectures. I plan on presenting
material in as many different ways as I
can as well as provide my future
students with different ways to
complete tasks. Classroom management
is also a HUGE goal of mine. Not just in
the way I treat my students, but also in
the way I have my class arranged.
Little things make big differences.

5. In my classroom I plan to use technology to enhance the lessons
that I provide for my students. I will do this by creating
PowerPoint, or Prezi presentations. I also will use a classroom
blog. I think a blog is a great way to keep the students and
parents connected to the classroom outside of school. I also
would like to utilize the internet as a source for my classroom as
often as possible. YouTube has great educational videos. I also
think it would be great to somehow use Skpye in my class. Doing
research and being able to talk to anyone from anywhere is truly
a great opportunity. I also plan on gathering useful materials
from the internet. I can provide my students with webquests that
they can do, I also can create all my own lessons online. I will use
Word to send out letter to parents, or to create newletters. I will
use a program like Excel to create a grade book.

6. Technology provides us with a new
world of communication. I will use it
with other teachers, and
administrators in the school. It is a
great way to gather everyone's
information and compile it into one
file. When I think of why we would
need that IEP students come to mind.
I also believe e-mail is great. It is a
fast and efficient way to send a
message out to many people. If the
principal were to call a staff meeting I
am sure they would do it through e-
mail. It would also be a good way for
the teachers and staff to reach
parents. I can’t tell you how many
times I was sent home with a note
that I “lost” on my way home.

7. Word Processing
In my class I will use work to do amazing things like
create my class newsletter, or other letters that I need to
send home to parents. I will also have my students
complete some of their projects using word. They could
type there spelling words five times each. I will use grids
in word to create my lesson plans. I can go in and create
a template of my own and just modify it to fit my day. I
also will use it to keep track of my students and their
grades. I can take role if all their names are on a
clipboard in front of me. For grades I will not use a grid
to complete all of them but maybe weekly points they
Word and
Newslett from reading. (Reading log)
would earn
Standards
er

8. Telecommunications
I will use the internet to provide my students with
materials that they would not find anywhere else. We
can watch science experiments from a YouTube video
that we may not be able to perform in class. We can
communicate with other cultures via Skype. Those are
just a few examples…the possibilities are endless.
E-mail is a great way to communicate with others. I will
send my parents an e-mail when I need to get in touch Blog
with them rather than over the phone or a letter Two
reasons I think e-mail is the best communication. First,
it is not going to get lost. Second, you can save
everything so if a parents were to argue that “this is the
first I have heard of that”, you could always refer back
to the e-mail.
I will most certainly have a class blog. I want to provide
my students with additional information that they may
not be getting from the textbooks. I want to post useful

9. M&M's
Graphing
Grade Book I wi l l u s e
s p r e a d s h e e t s i n my
c l a s s r o o m t o c r e a t e
a g r a d e b o o k . I wi l l
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k e e p t r a c k o f my
s t u d e n t s ;
a t t e n d a n c e , f i r e
d r i l l s e t c . I wi l l
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s h o w my s t u d e n t s
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s t a n d a r d i z e d t e s t s
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wh a t a r e a s we n e e d
t o b e wo r k i n g o n . I
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g r a p h o f s o me s o r t

10. Pr e s e n t a t i o
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Back to School Content Area
Slideshow Slideshow
I will use presentation software in my
class to provide a better visual aid for
my students. I am thinking ‘warm-up’
problems would be great to do on a
slide show for math lessons, or
reading lessons. I like this because I
can personalize the information to
suit my students. I also will have my
students create some sort of
presentation that they can show to the
class. I really like PowerPoint, but I
also think that Prezi would be a great
resource to get students
brainstorming…for instance I would
recommend using Prezi while
preparing to write a book report.

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