Intern+Hours+December

**Week 1**

In the remaining days of this week. I wanted to start my video skills project. I ask teachers for difficult skills. I ask teachers to show the school way of taking on that difficult skill. This week I video taped a fourth grade teacher. We videoed him demonstrating two digit multiplication in a variety of ways and long division in a variety of ways.

The cable management tray came in for the library. I installed the trays for one row of computers on Monday and the second on Tuesday morning. This safely tucked the wires under the tables so that students can walk behind the computer with accidentally getting snagged on a wire. This is the first week I had time to update the website since deployment. I had trouble getting the server to allow me to post updates. It took two days for me to find the problem I was having (I forgot to select secure FTP). After updating the website I felt that the deployment was finally behind me.

**Week 2**

Monday I had one of the teachers for the after school program ask me to set up a laptop and projector for him in the library because he wanted to show an interactive quiz he had created that went with an online video. I assisted him in setting it up and added the Classroom Performance System Clickers to his show so the student could vote and the results be documented.

On Tuesday the CITs met and had a meeting using Prezi Meeting. Each group was given a topic to research and come up with a presentation to share with the rest of the groups. I really think this was an exciting way of presenting because it kept the CITs from being bored from listen to someone else speak. One thing I have noticed that our group of CITs tend to be very active and need to be doing something to keep our attention. On THursday in the lunch room the administration and I had an informal meeting about spending our stimulus money. They wanted suggestions of what technology we should invest in. I instantly thought of the technology proven to give results: Document cameras, Projectors, more student computers. I then thought after the deployment we have these tools we need to invest in software to make the computers more useful. I was given the task of pricing and selecting the best software for our campus needs.

**Week 3**

The last week before winter Break In this week I went over the technology portion of the safety audit. I had to make sure that no security information was posted on the website along with no personal information about students or staff. I had already looked over the website for these security breaches when I first started but it is always a good plan to double check and make sure that nothing is on your website that you don't want. My big project this week was getting my first grade team to try a project with the kids using a web 2.0 tool. I have set up students with student accounts. I then showed the students how to set up a Glog. The students quickly picked up the skills and created holiday page with a wish list. The teachers have been really impressed by their students work. By showing the teachers how to work with digital immigrants in a way that strikes there knowledge and interests (Prensky, 2001). They are now excited to do their desert project using the Glogs to present information on their animals. But it is still very interesting to see the gap in skills that is present already in the first graders just proving that the digital divide is still strong in my school and I need continue to work to equalize the playing field (Mason & Dodds, 2005).

**References**

Mason, C., & Dodds, R. (2005). Bridge the Digital Divied for Educational Equity. //The Education Digest// //, 70// (9), 25-27.

Prensky, M. (Sept./Oct. 2001). Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part 1. //On the Horizon, 9(5)//, 1-6.

Williamson, J. & Redish, T. (2009). //ISTE's technology facilitation and leadership standards: what every k-12 leader should know and be able to do//. Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education.

