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Standards II: Acquire,
Analyze, and Evaluate Information
Identify task requirements, apply search strategies, and use
current technology to efficiently acquire, analyze, and evaluate a
variety of electronic information.
This standard is vital to the
technology applications classroom. In teaching web mastering
the year prior to my TATC experience, I began exercising the
components of this standard as I worked out my first year
curriculum. It was and is important to me to conduct a task
analysis before, during, and after a given assignment, and to make
revisions to my curriculum accordingly. Search strategies are
also key to the tech apps classroom. With 900,000,000+ web
pages on the internet, it is an absolute necessity to have a game
plan before searching! Finally, the last element in this
standard, to use current technology to efficiently acquire, analyze, and evaluate a
variety of electronic information, is an area where I have
experienced tremendous growth through TATC. Since teaching the
actual use of software is not really included throughout the
curriculum, the learner is forced to become adept at working with a
variety of software independently. This is what I hope to
accomplish in my classroom: to teach skills in such a way that
the students are then able to transfer their abilities to other
software without my assistance.
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Caption 9
Indicators: TA TEKS
11.29
Artifact
#9
Descriptors: Web
Authoring, Web Tools, Educational Value, Technology, and Limitations
Title: On-Line Web Tools
Course: 202 Web Elective
Date Created: November 24, 2002
Source: Internet research,
knowledge of software programs
Media: Web Page
Description:
*explore various web
tools on-line
*produce a web page summarizing the three technologies and evaluate
for educational purpose, value, and limitations
*create a "how-to" for one of the technologies
Rationale:
I chose this project
because it best meets the purpose of this standard of
identifying task requirements, applying search strategies, and
using current technology to efficiently acquire, analyze, and evaluate a
variety of electronic information. I identified my
requirements, applied search strategies using the internet, and used
the current technology of web authoring to present my "how-to:
on how to create a PowerPoint presentation.
Implications for future:
I have
and will continue to use information from this project in my
classroom in the subjects I am currently teaching. The dynamic
HTML technology that I researched is useful in my web mastering
course, the multimedia research on video technology is beneficial in
my multimedia course, and the PowerPoint research and summary is
excellent for both of the above and my middle school technology
applications classes. In fact, I have used the PowerPoint
presentation in my middle school classes and will use it again in my
adult education computer classes that I am teaching this summer.
Reviewer's Comments:
For beginners, your site design is very impressive. I loved the
image that you used for the background and the complimentary colors
that you chose to use for the table and the fonts. Very nice design.
:-)
Your information was concise and descriptive. Nice work.
The extra example column was a nice touch too. You really out did
anything I could have done. Great work!
Diana
Reviewer's Name: Diana Saenz
Title: TATC 02 Participant
Date Reviewed: November 25, 2002
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