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EDET 698 Masters Project, Spring 2014
Tracie Weisz, Barbra Donachy

About : This project was conceived in the fall of 2013 during a research course we were both taking. The idea was to build a searchable tool in which teachers could access by grade level, standard, or level of comfort/competence with educational technology. Teachers would then be able to search for ideas to integrate technology into their classrooms that aligned with standards, was appropriate to their grade level, and also would be workable based on their own comfort/confidence level with technology. Through this tool, we hope to support Alaska teachers in accomplishing the following: -Growing comfort, confidence, and competence with technology integration -Alignment and instruction with the New Alaska Standards with 21st century skills built in

Throughout the fall of 2013, we researched and read a great deal about technology integration, the New Alaska Standards,and professional development. We have extensively surveyed and interviewed teaching staff in our own districts, collecting data from over 100 teachers, to generally inform us about what specific wants and needs of Alaska teachers are in the area of standards and technology. We have used that data to inform our decisions about how to proceed with our work.

Beginning with the spring semester of 2014, we have begun the actual work of the project. We have set up collaborative spreadsheets in which ELA and Math standards are vertically aligned k-12, and then broken out by grade level into separate sheets. In these grade level sheets we are collecting, adapting, and revising resources, and beginning the work of determining which of these represent beginner, intermediate, and advanced (with regard to teacher technology readiness). This format was chosen, because when we begin working with some form of database for this information to be searchable, we'll need it organized in this fashion.

This wiki represents a collection of: 1. Discussions, ideas, and reflections on the work (found throughout the wiki) 2. Plans for how the tool might look once it is searchable 3. Plans for how we will be presenting this project at the ASTE conference in February (presentation has been accepted by ASTE) 4. Data we have collected to inform our research (here and here) 5. Research paper written by us based on needs for this kind of tool by Alaska teachers 6. Common frameworks for calibrating and guiding our thinking about technology integration 7. New Alaska Standards, where we have specifically parsed out standards that speak directly to technology integration 8. Alignment of our project work and goals with the objectives and standards of the EDET 698 Portfolio Class 9. Literature reviews

Work in progress: The actual work with Standards alignment and resource collection data can be found on our working spreadsheets in Google Docs. These can be shared with UAS course advisors as needed.