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CTAP8 Level Two Certification Resources

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2.1

Communicates through a variety of electronic media.  P2

 

 

Include range of screen shots and/or examples clearly demonstrating proficiency. Write a narrative addressing how the examples meet the standard. Possible examples include:

  • Presentations incorporating images and sound

  • Web pages

  • Electronic portfolios

  • Multimedia, hypermedia and video projects

  • Student projects that utilize digital tools to interact with subject matter experts or collaborate with others. (moved from 2.2)

See below 2.2

2.2

Collaborates with others through electronic media and computer-based collaborative tools.

 P3

 

 

Include range of screen shots and/or examples clearly demonstrating proficiency. Write a narrative addressing how the examples meet the standard. Possible examples include:

Evidence of sustained communication with parents, students, and/or colleagues (e.g., email, mailing lists, video conferencing, class web page, voice mail, homework hotline.)

Web Design Resources

WebTeacher site design tutorial Website Builder Gif Wizard
check you site for bloat
Filamentality
tutorial for dummies
The Netscape Internet Resources The Common Gateway Interface
ICQ
website enhancements and free email and chats
The Seven Cs of WebService Design excellent guidelines for web design and the UG site is a good model for IHEs Tapped In
hosts free chat rooms for teachers
Webmonkey HTML Tutorial Poll Wizard lets you put an interactive poll on your site FrontPage tutorial
Step by step instruction with good glossary at end, by James Johnson
Web Design Tools Resources for Designing a Web  Site MIT's Web Guide detailed info on creating ed web sites including Pedagogical Considerations
Cal Poly Pomona's Ed Web Resources Any Browser: View your Web Site  www.cnet.com has many resources

Free Website locations

angelfire.com/ spaceports  tripod.com/

 

2.3

 

Collaborate with other teachers, mentors, librarians, resource specialists, and other experts to support technology-enhanced curriculum.

P11

 

Include project/lesson, documents and/or examples clearly demonstrating proficiency. Write a narrative addressing how the examples meet the standard.

•  Collaborate on lessons or projects that incorporate the use of technology (e.g. locally, interdisciplinary, cross-grade level, world-wide, etc.)

Teacher Resources:
Collaborative Projects

TeachNet SAGE
global education
Teachers Helping Teachers
Classroom Connect MS Connected Learning Community Turner Learning projects
Homeroom
links to schools
iearn
links students worldwide
NetDay
directory of wired schools
  Tapped In
hosts free chat rooms for teachers
 

 

2.4

 

Contribute to site-based planning or local decision-making regarding the use of technology and acquisition of technological resources.

P12

 

 

 

Include artifacts from meetings or examples clearly demonstrating proficiency. Write a narrative addressing how the examples meet the standard. Possible examples include:

  • Participate in planning sessions with teachers, administrators and/or parents that involve the use or acquisition of technology at your site.

  • Be an active member of your site’s technology committee.

  • Attend conferences and share information with site colleagues.

 

  Cue Conference  

 

2.5

 

Demonstrate competence in evaluating the authenticity, reliability, and bias of the data gathered.

P4

Include project/lesson plan and student samples that demonstrate students were taught to evaluate authenticity of information from a variety of sources such as Internet, email, books, periodicals, etc.

 Evaluating Information, Authenticity, Reliability, and Bias
CTAP8 Proficiency 2.5

Evaluation of Information Sources Evaluating Web Sites: 5 criteria CSUB Library Information Literacy Resources
Links to Evaluating Web Information Evaluating Web Resources CSUB Info Literacy tutorials
An Educator's Guide to Evaluating The Use of Technology in Schools and Classrooms useful guidebook The Onion
bogus news 
 

 

2.6

 

Design or adapt lessons that promote the effective use of technology in teaching and state content standards or instructional objectives.

 

 

 

Describe an effective lesson using technology to meet content standards that you have implemented. Include all of the following, and appropriate artifacts from a single lesson/unit in portfolio, including student work samples:

  • Content to be taught.

  • Alignment with the state content standards or instructional objectives

  • Student learning styles.

  • Selection of relevant, effective software and hardware.

  • Technology resources and learning environments available in the classroom, library, media centers, and computer labs, and other locations. P5, P7

  • Assessment of student learning

  • Incorporate an Internet (or Internet derived) on-line project/lesson into a core subject, or incorporate a primary source document from the Internet into a curricular area.

Adapting and Designing Lessons
CTAP8 Proficiency 2.6

Problem Based learning    

 

2.7

 

Designs, adapts, and uses lessons which develop student information literacy and problem solving skills as tools for lifelong learning

P6

 

Include project/lesson plan and student samples that show students were taught to apply information literacy skills. Include all of the following:

  • Develop and teach learning units or lessons that encompass information literacy skills, using technology to increase each student’s ability to plan, locate, evaluate, select, and use information to solve problems and draw conclusions. P8

  • Determine outcomes and evaluate the success or effectiveness of the process used. P4

  • Develop and use a performance-based rubric for the project/lesson to demonstrate success.

 

2.8

 

 

 

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the legal and ethical issues concerned with the use of computer-based technology.

G4, S13, S14

 

 

Include a sample student AUP.

Write a narrative detailing how you have addressed all of the following issues in your work with students:

  • Intellectual property concerns.

  • Privacy concerns.

  • Copyright issues.

  • Security and safety issues.

  • Use of proper “net etiquette”.

  • School’s/district’s  Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).

  •  Appropriate citation of resources

Evaluating Legal and Ethical Issues on the Web
CTAP8 Proficiency 1.4 and 2.8

Copyright Bay:  
Good tutorial on copyright
ICYouSee
good info on bad info
Copyright/fair use policy
CSUB Library Information Literacy Resources CSUB Reference Sources  
US Gov on copyright CSUB AUP CSUB AUP2

 

2.9

 

Use a computer application to manipulate and analyze data.

P1

 

Include artifacts that demonstrate these two key components of this standard: manipulating and analyzing data.

  • Disaggregate data from multiple sources to compare or show student achievement among sub-groups; for example, state and local measures, classroom assessments, etc.

  •  In narrative, draw conclusions from the data

 

2.10

 

Use technology as a tool for assessing student learning and for providing feedback to students and their parents.

P9

 

 

Write a narrative addressing how the examples meet the standard. Possible examples include:

  • Give an example of how technology was used to assess student learning in a lesson.

  • Electronic portfolios.

  • Student multimedia projects with a rubric.

  • Video of student performance.

  • Student web pages with a rubric.

  • Individual learning reports for parents and students.

  • Classroom website

Assessing Student Learning
CTAP8 Proficiency 2.10

Profiler for graphic display of quizzes/surveys Zoomerang for online quizzes and survey TaskStream has rubric wizard

 

Internet Resources

Latest Windows Updates VersionTracker
for OS upgrades
About the Internet
Warriors of the Net streamed movie on the Web Netscape Navigator Handbook Cookie Central all about cookies
Tapped In MOOs free chat rooms MS Mactopia
can you believe an MS site especially for Macs?
Open Source Texts: Wikibooks
Diversity University
MOO forums
Spectrum Virtual University  
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing   EdIndex: Bernie Poole's Internet Resources for Teachers

Journals/Periodicals on Internet Issues

Wired News EduCause
Ed tech e-journal  that accepts submissions
Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
  Distance Learning Publications  

Evaluating Software and Electronic Resources

California Learning Resources Network CLRN 
CDE standards based electronic resources
CSUB Library Information Literacy Resources The Review Zone
Educational Software Cooperative All Star Review Kids Domain
  Super Kids Children's Software Review

 Virus/spyware/adware Sites

  MajorGeeks contains many freeware/shareware apps  
Symantec Virus Hoax Center Symantec Virus Research Center Current Threats 4virus.com/ 
http://antivirus.miningco.com/  virusbtn zdnet.com/ 
type in 'viruses', click FIND IT to get news and updates

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Web Design Online Communities

Slashdot most geeky community Site Experts Community Web Monkey Developers Resources
CNET Builder Website Builder Web Reference

Distance Learning Resources


Pew Learning and Technology Center Distance Learning and Telematics
Distance Education at a Glance information on all the technologies and strategies for successful planning, deployment, and evaluation. Series of guides, including an overview of distance education, teaching strategies, instructional development, evaluation, instructional television and audio, computers in distance education, research, videoconferencing, copyright issues, a glossary of terms, and more. Chronicle of Higher Ed Distance Education Site Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks

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Image/Sound/Movie Collections
Google has image search

ClipartConnection

Web Pages that Suck
learn good design by looking at bad
Yahoo clipart collections
webclipart.miningco
 an annotated gaggle of links with a little something for everyone. About twelve or more sites of backgrounds, buttons, lines, & such. Heavy on history stuff and some cool peace signs and lava lamps.
The Amazing Picture Machine
A searchable index of Internet graphics supporting a wide variety of topics from historical photos to science diagrams.
The Free Site contains free graphics and other stuff, as recommended by the walking zombies
nasa.gov/gallery/photo/
Pat Hayhurst cited aircraft pictures
Lighthouse icons www.barrysclipart.com/
free clipart
Webshots has zillions of jpg photographs chibicreations has graphics and is a  member of the graphics web ring and the creativity web ring animation-station
 has some good-stuff and is simple to use (with IE5). 
megawebtools  is the site where I got the LavaLamp.gif file  Webgrafx-fx
is a powerful site with a great selction of gifs, animated gifs, and backgrounds.
clip-art
 This site has good clip art images and links to a lot of other clip art sites.
flamingtext.com  This is a cool site that lets you type in a line of text and then choose a logo style, even some animated ones, and it creates a logo for you. You can get some cool text effects from this page, like glowing or flaming letters, and its FREE. knightvision.com has a few good graphics, but it has an even better graphics links page. This site also has the best MIDI archive I have found so far.  clipartguide 
This site has lots of free images (gif and jpg inlcuded) and sound files.
www.caboodles.com  The name says it all: Caboodles of ClipArt.  Corbis for Photos coolarchive.com    
and
iconbazaar.com 

Fotosearch Stock Photos allows web developers and other users to search from more than fifty quality stock photography vendors at one site. They can also find clipart pictures, royalty-free illustrations, royalty-free motion stock video clips, royalty free vector maps, and background clip art imagery.

www.webplaces.com  It is categorized, copyright safe and filled with over 150 gigabytes of images. some really great graphics for an elementary web site.
home.att.net

 blueharegraphics

 rad-gfx

Open Source Projects

Open Office Mozilla browser Wikiversity textbooks

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Registering and Publicizing Your Site

The following links allow you to be included in directories and search engines so others can find your site

Register.com Cheap-Domain Registration  
Internick 
for registering domain names
Self Promotion 
full service publicizing
Network Solutions  
can register your domain name
searchenginewatch

 

 

Register your Domain name

 

Hit Box 
provides hit info on your site, but requires you to have a banner

 

CTAP 1.8 Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting Macfixit.com Oxford University Troubleshooting Guide
Basic Macintosh tutorials Computer Troubleshooting  

 

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