Technology Skills That You Can Use

1. Technology SkillsThat You Can Use Prepared byKarla M. Jones, M.Ed.School Librarian

2. 21st Century Technology Skills • To prepare for post-secondary education or the marketplace, you will complete the following three technology projects: • Express Yourself • Create an ePortfolio • Authoritative or Bogus? • Evaluate Websites • Picture This • Take Digital Images to create Power Point Presentation

3. Express Yourself • To prepare for post-graduation, i.e., attending college, trade school, enlisting in the service, or entering the workforce, you will create an ePortfolio showcasing your accomplishments by doing the following: • Review Miss Jones’ ePortfolio http://www.wikispaces.com/user/my/KarlaJones • Sign up for a Wikispacehttp://www.wikispaces.com/ • Learn and practice what the tools can do, i.e, upload word document or photograph or provide link to the internet

4. Express Yourself continued • Upload five items. Possible options include: • Transcript • Resume • Awards • Photographs of events • Graduation Project

5. Express Yourself continued • Complete worksheet stating the rationale for each selection • Rubric Evaluation

6. Questions and Answers • What say you?

7. Authoritative or Bogus? You Review and Decide • To further develop your research skills and learn how to evaluate websites for authenticity you will: • Read the article: • “Evaluating Internet Research Sources” located on Robert Harris’ .:VirtualSaltwebsite http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm • Review for proficient understanding: • The CARS Checklist Summary • The CAFÉ Advice • View the video: • "Think Out Loud"

8. Authoritative or Bogus? You Review and Decide continued • Use CARS and CAFÉ criteria : • Determine if the assigned websites are authoritative or bogus • Complete Website Evaluation Worksheet for each website • Complete Quiz • Discuss outcome of each site as a class • Rubric Evaluation

9. The CARS ChecklistSummary • Credibility • Goal: “an authoritative source, a source that supplies some good evidence that allows you to trust it.” • Accuracy • Goal: “a source that is correct today (not yesterday), a source that gives the whole truth.” • Reasonableness • Goal: “a source that engages the subject thoughtfully and reasonably, concerned with the truth.” • Support • Goal: “a source that provides convincing evidence for the claims made, a source you can triangulate (find at least two other sources that support it)”

10. The CAFE AdviceSome Last Thoughts • Challenge • “Challenge information and demand accountability.” • Adapt • “Adapt your skepticism and requirements for quality to fit the importance of the information and what is being claimed.” • File • “File new information in your mind rather than immediately believing or disbelieving it.” • Evaluate • “Evaluate and re-evaluate regularly.”

11. “Think Out Loud” • View Video • Think Out Loud" • Consider The CARS Checklist • Consider The CAFÉ Advice • Ask yourself the following questions • What characteristics from The CARS or CAFÉ lists do you see included in this website? • What additional information would you need to determine if it is authoritative or bogus?

12. Questions and Answers • What say you?

13. Picture This • To reinforce our School Wide Behavior Program (SWBP), “Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Safe, and Be Caring,” you will complete the following: • Complete worksheet “Photographing the Be” • Read ”How to Make Great Photographs” http://kenrockwell.com/tech/howto.htm

14. Picture This continued • Take digital photographs of expected behaviors of your classmates • Use Paint program to crop photographs • Prepare Power Point Presentation for district administrators’ approval of photographs prior to their display

15. Picture This continued • Critique of Photographs • Explain how approved photographs demonstrate the behaviors of Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Safe, and Be Caring. • Rubric Evaluation

16. Be Respectful • Sample Ideas • Student(s) looking at teacher presenting lesson • Student(s) looking at a referee calling a play during a sports game • Student(s) raising hand in classroom

17. Be Responsible • Sample Ideas • Student(s) throwing away trash • Student(s) turning classwork in on time • Student(s) arriving to class on time

18. Be Safe • Putting a seatbelt on prior to leaving school • Using equipment in the Technology or Family and Consumer Science Departments properly

19. Be Caring • Holding the door open for teacher or fellow student • Helping another student with homework or special project

20. Questions and Answers • What say you?

21. References • Abilock, Debbie. (2011). Noodletools.com. Think Out Loud A Think Aloud to Model Reading Online. Retrieved July 22, 2011, from http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/basic/readstrat/readingstrategies.viewlet/readingstrategies_viewlet_swf.html • Franker, Karen. (2011). A+Rubric. Wiki Rubric. Retrieved July 22, 2011, fromhttp://www2.uwstout.edu/content/profdev/rubrics/wikirubric.html • Harris, Robert. (2010, November 22). Virtual Salt. Evaluating Internet Research Sources. Retrieved July 22, 2011, from http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm • Jones, Karla. (2011, July 22). Rubistar. Authoritative or Bogus You Review and Decide. Retrieved July 22, 2011, from http://rubistar.4teachers.org

22. References • Jones, Karla. (2011). Wikispaces.com. Welcome to the e-Portfolio of Karla M. Jones, M.Ed. Retrieved July 22, 2011, from http://www.wikispaces.com/user/my/KarlaJones • Rockwell, Ken (2008). How to Make Great Photographs or Everything You Really Needed to Learn About Photography That They Didn't Teach You at Brooks. Retrieved July 22, 2011, from http://kenrockwell.com/tech/howto.htm • Vandervelde, Joan. (2011). A+Rubric. EPortfolio (Digital Portfolio) Rubric. Retrieved July 22, 2011, from http://www2.uwstout.edu/content/profdev/rubrics/eportfoliorubric.html • Vandervelde, Joan. (2011). A+Rubric. PowerPoint Rubric. Retrieved July 22, 2011, from http://www2.uwstout.edu/content/profdev/rubrics/pptrubric.html