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As a teacher, I believe that having a class blog would help you meet the National Educational Technology Standards for teachers. By developing a blog and sharing it with your students and parents, it would show that you are indeed fluent in technology. This all fits under the Model-Age Work and Learning standard. Blogs would allow you to collaborate with your students and their parents, from one spot. This way, if there are questions from students or parents, they can ask you through the blog. Another great possibility is that their questions could be answered just by looking at the blog. This would require you to be very thorough with the posts and links, which would also demonstrate your capabilities.
Through this blog, you could have links to lesson plans and power points. This is a great way for parents to know what is happening in their child's classroom. In addition to lesson plans and PowerPoint's, the assignments can be posted. I feel like this is still and example of Model Digital-Age Work and Learning, but nonetheless, it would be very helpful for parents and students alike. I know that I seemed to forget about my assignments as soon as a left school, and I'm sure my mother would have appreciated something like this to check.
Whether this is through the blog, or in a parent-teacher conference, Excel is a great way to show the students overall performance. I believe that this would fit under the Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments standard. Excel allows you to show the students grades, but it also allows you to do so much more. With Excel, you can record students progress in all of the different types of assignments. You can also attach charts showing students progress and performance versus the class average or class high. You can keep scores anonymous or have code names if you were to post these things on the blog.
I think it is very important to Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility in front of your classroom. A very important aspect that should be taught to students is citing all of your resources. In documents that you use for class, you can always add a bibliography at the end. It is very important to show the kids that it is okay to research, in fact it is encouraged, but you need to give credit where it is due. In PowerPoint presentations, you can always mention where you found some information and that will help the students when they are asked to do the work on their own. In addition to mentioning your resources, the bibliography staples the idea of copyright and plagiarism into their minds.