II.B


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 * ===Standard=== || ===Description & Link(s) to Artifact(s)=== || ===Rationale=== || ===Reflection=== ||
 * II.B.1 || ...Pennsylvania Academic Standards

|| This unit meets the Pennsylvania Academic Standards in Reading, Writing, & Speaking as well as in the several other disciplines, including technology. || I always find it interesting to sit down with the standards and see just how much the disciplines have in common. There are days I think that we are all doing the same things in our silos and the students are conspiring to make us think that we are teaching them something new so that they don't have to work as hard. ||
 * II.B.2 || ...strengths and needs of learners at all levels of technological proficiency

[|Central York/Warwick High School Moodle Discussion] || The use of Moodle, wikispaces, digital cameras (still and video) and the itunes, GarageBand, iPhoto, iDVD, etc. allowed students to use templates if they were novices while more advanced students could create the projects using more self made design. The click and drag nature of the iWork and iLife applications make these programs especially user friendly. || I found this project very gratifying. Even the technophobes were able to SUCCESSFULLY complete this project. The students were so proud of how they made the content look good. This was great because it was about the content not about the bells and whistles. Those bells and whistles just made it more fun. ||
 * II.B.3 || ...established technology implementation plans

[|Technology Implementation Plan] || The tech plan that I did during my sabbatical resulted in the retrofitting of a classroom into a computer laboratory with 29 student work stations. This plan required that I do the needs analysis right through to the installation of the hardward, networking, and the cloaning of the computers || This lab became almost obsolete within only a few weeks of the time that it was first used by students in September of 2006. When the Governor announced the recipients of the CFF grants and WHS was a major recipient. With the laptops and interactive white boards that were recieved with grant monies, few teachers are in need of the labs. An outcome that I had not anticipated when I developed this lab was how quickly it was obsolete. Students who became used to having authoring software and iLife and iWork along with Garageband and Comic life at their finger tips, were no long content to go to the labs. Students get passes to come into CFF classrooms to use the extra computers that are available duing a class period. Study hall students don't go down to the computer lab or library to use the computers in the classroom...hey the carts have COLOR printers! ||