ETC635 - Technology Planning and Professional Development

District Technology Plan

  • Select and upload or link to an assignment that demonstrates your ability to design, implement, and evaluate technology-rich professional learning programs (NETS*TD 6.1. Content and Pedagogical Knowledge: Candidates demonstrate content and pedagogical knowledge, skills, and dispositions in technology integration and current and emerging technologies necessary to effectively implement the NETS•S, NETS•T, and NETS•A.)

District Technology Plan
The plan website that I collaborated with a classmate on show the above standard the best.  As a whole, it shows the understanding I developed during this course.  We studied and created plans for assessing the technology needs of the district as well as the best means of implementation and evaluation.  The various portions of the plan created a unifying whole complete with professional development and program evaluation efforts.  The next two examples of my work in this course are two components of this plan.

Technology Plan Budget

  • Select and upload or link to the assignment that demonstrates your "Continuous Learning" (i.e., new knowledge and skills gained through ETC 635) (NETS*TD 6.4. Continuous Learning: Candidates engage in continuous learning to deepen their content, technical, and leadership and management knowledge, skills, and dispositions.)



Technology Plan Budget
Up to this point in the the program, I had not learned anything about budgeting for technology integration.  Every technology plan needs an accurate and planned budget.  The budgeting knowledge I did have related well to this, but was also expanded further with the concept of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).  This type of budgeting procedure becomes especially important when budgeting for technology which consumes resources and requires constant upgrading.  TCO calculations allow those planning to purchase technology equipment and software to ensure that continuous ability to use the purchased items.

Program Evaluation

  • Select and upload or link to the assignment that pushed you to "evaluate, reflect on, and synthesize their work and research to improve and strengthen their professional practice (NETS*TD 6.5)."







Program Evaluations
The Program Evaluations required a great deal of research.  My partner and I worked together to discover the best strategies and how to incorporate them into a seamless whole.  We used a unifying evaluation model -- collaborative evaluation -- and utilized strategies from other methods with that guiding principle.  Different evaluation strategies have different strengths.  If time and resources allow, it is important to evaluate from more than one viewpoint.