Westmoreland County Public Schools
Technology Certification
Part One: Technology Terms to Know Assessment
Click here for a list of the Key Technology Terms that you will need to know for the assessment
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Part Two: Ethical/Legal Assessment
Complete this true false assessment on ethical/legal components of using technology correctly.
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Part Three: Technology Lesson Plan
To satisfy these requirements, please complete and submit the following for review:
Please submit a lesson plan via e-mail to Chris Evans, Instructional Technology Specialist and copied to your Technology Lead Teacher that clearly states the following:
1. Explain the technology you have chosen to use as part of your lesson;
2. Where you found the technology and how you evaluated it to determine that you would use it in this lesson.
3. How you plan to use this technology to meet the needs of diverse learning styles.
Here are some IDEAS to fulfill the requirements:
1. Demonstrate an effective lesson integrating an Interactive Whiteboard activity.
2. Demonstrate an effective strategy incorporating a collaborative online learning environment (i.e. wiki, web 2.0 technology such as google docs)
3. Conduct an activity that has students create content in a digital presentation integrating multimedia (student created content driven video).
4. Use your class page to post a lesson and have students use resources from your class page.
5. Integrate United Streaming clips into a lesson plan and create a blog about what they have learned.
Please submit a lesson plan via e-mail to Chris Evans, Instructional Technology Specialist and copied to your Technology Lead Teacher that clearly states the following:
1. Explain the technology you have chosen to use as part of your lesson;
2. Where you found the technology and how you evaluated it to determine that you would use it in this lesson.
3. How you plan to use this technology to meet the needs of diverse learning styles.
Here are some IDEAS to fulfill the requirements:
1. Demonstrate an effective lesson integrating an Interactive Whiteboard activity.
2. Demonstrate an effective strategy incorporating a collaborative online learning environment (i.e. wiki, web 2.0 technology such as google docs)
3. Conduct an activity that has students create content in a digital presentation integrating multimedia (student created content driven video).
4. Use your class page to post a lesson and have students use resources from your class page.
5. Integrate United Streaming clips into a lesson plan and create a blog about what they have learned.
Part Four: Online Assessment
Create an online assessment using the Internet, Interactive Achievement, etc. and explain how you will use the data based on your results.