Standard+Three

=Standard Three= =Model Digital-Age Work Learning=

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Reflection
This Springboard page that I redesigned is an excellent example of my abilities in standard three. I was given the task of making this page more user friendly and more accessible for the students. The first stage of that came with the introduction page, which is the first screen shot. For this page I had to go into the source HTML code for the page and call upon some the page templates available in Springboard. Once the template was in place, I integrated the original text into the new page.

The course was an orientation course and the instructor wanted it to seem less like a class, so my second objective was to reorder and rework the tabs. This is the second screenshot. I changed the names of the tabs from content to learn and prepare, quizzes to evaluation tool, and classlist to peers. This gave the page less of a daunting “class like” feel. I also added a survey tab (screenshot three) to the browser and created a survey to assess the effectiveness of the course, this was a desire of the instructor.

In order to make navigation easier within the course I converted all of the documents to PDF format so that they would open in the browser (Screenshot four). The course surrounded PowerPoint presentations (screenshot five), so what I did here was convert the presentations to multiple files types just to give the instructor ideas of what could be possible. I left some as the standard PowerPoint, I used Jing, a screen capture tool, to capture one of the PowerPoints as a flash video so that it opened in the browser and made navigation easier, and I also used Empatica to convert one of the presentations to a single video file that could be saved.

Finally, I updated her pages within the course with the same template I used on the introduction page and I imported the instructor’s department logo onto the bottom of the page (screenshot six). The same skills that I used in this webpage I have been using for the past two years on my school webpage I maintained for my students and parents. On that webpage I kept daily assignments from the previous week and the current week displayed. The assignments contained page numbers and materials so that even if a student was absent, they could be keeping up to date with what was happening in class. The page also contained my contact information and important dates for my classroom as well as the school and district.

In these ways I demonstrate fluency in technology for standard three. Through the revision of the webpage and the upkeep of my teacher webpage I was able to collaborate with peers, students, parents, and the community. The revision of the page above made the page much more user friendly and my webpage kept up for the school system was updated often to reduce clutter in order to communicate effectively. Through these webpages I was able to model emerging technology not only to students and parents, yet to faculty and the community. I was able to exhibit my knowledge and skills as a professional in an emerging digital society.