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Lorenzo De Zavala Elementary 3605 W. Rogers Rd. Edinburg, TX 78541 (956) 289-2350

3rd Grade Initiative for Techology in the Classroom **
 * Moving Lorenzo De Zavala into a 21st Century Learning Environment



*) Purpose:
The purpose of this page is:
 * To improve the efficient use of technology in the classroom...
 * Integrate technology into the everyday curriculum.
 * Expand the integration of technology not just into the classroom, but the entire campus
 * Establish an on-going 21st Century learner-centered community through the use of technology
 * Expand the learner community beyond the campus and district level to a regional, state, country, and even world-wide 21st Century Community

*) Methods:
In order to begin and ensure the integration of technology we must consider several key pieces of data. That data will be obtained from:
 * Texas Long Range Plan for Technology
 * Texas School Technolgy and Readiness Campus and Teacher Charts
 * Campus AEIS reports to analyze student performance on their use of technology
 * Texas Technology Application TEKS

*) De Zavala 3rd Grade Team:

 * Miguel Leija- 3rd Grade Teacher
 * Maria Barton- 3rd Grade Teacher
 * Normal Rydl- 3rd Grade Teacher
 * Francis Trevino- 3rd Grade Teacher
 * Veronica Trevino- 3rd Grade Teacher

*) Online Learning Community Team:
Dear Administrators, Lamar Colleagues, and teachers from other schools/districts please feel free to sign up and help us by giving us you opinions on improving our Lorenzo De Zavala Technology Initiative...
 * Miguel Leija- 3rd Grade Teacher/ Lamar EDLD 5306 student
 * A. Bordelon - Technology Director/Lamar EDLD 5306 student
 * K. Burkhalter- 6th grade inclusion teacher/ LamarU. EDLD 5306 student
 * Scott Sowers/Lamar EDLD 5306 student
 * Alma Godoy, Graphics Designer
 * S. Kendell, District Instructional Technology Specialist/Lamar EDLD 5306 student
 * Carl Graf, 4th grade bilingual Alief ISD.
 * Ruth Adame, 6th Grade Reading and English Inclusion Teacher

__**STaR CHART**__ **__*) State Wide STaR Chart goals__** The following model represents the target we want to reach as a classroom and expand for the campus. These guidelines are helpful considering that the STaR Chart Key Areas were developed in Alignment with the Texas Long-Range Plan:

media type="custom" key="4008617" __*) Current Campus STaR CHART for the 2007-2008 year at Lorenzo De Zavala:__ The following model represents the current STaR Chart for Lorenzo de Zavala Elementary. They will be divided into the 4 Key Areas with a starting point for questions working towards improvement:

1) Patterns of use: How is it that you use technology in your classroom? What available methods of digital technology do you as a classroom teacher use? How can we improve on this area?
 * KEY AREA I: Teaching and learning

2) Frecuency: What is the Frecuency that you use technology in the classroom?

3) Student Mastery of Technology Applications: How can we involve our students more toward becoming a 21st century classroom?

4) Online Learning: Besides letting the kids use such district wide programs as TickettoRead.com or Knowledge Box, what other online resources do you find helpful for the students to be engaged in the curriculum?


 * Key Area II: Educator Preperation

1) Profesional Development/ Models: What type of professional developement would help you have a better understanding on the integration of technology in the classroom?

2) Capabilities: As an educator do you feel capable enough to integrate technology efficiently for use in the classroom with students or to efficientely communicate with other teachers and staff throughout the school?

3) Access to Professional Development/ Online Professional Development: How often would you think is ideal to receive staff development for technology integration in the curriculum? Would you be open the idea to extend the professional development to online training/ Collaborative team work?

4) Improvement: How do you feel it is that we can improve over all Key Area II of our Campus STaR Chart?

Although, this area is shown as Advance Tech, there is always room for improvement. The goal is to reach TARGET TECH...
 * Key Area III: Administration and Support

1) Planning: What suggestions would you give as far as team planning for technology integration?

2) Instructional Support/ Communication: What technological methods would you use for communication and collaboration to keep a continuum of team planning? (i.e. blogs, wikis, email?)


 * Key Area IV: Infrastructure

1) Students per Computers: How many students can you accommodate per computer? What suggestions would have if the number is less than 3 computers per students?


 * - If you only have 3 or less computers in a classroom, cooperative storytelling lessons can be created where students work in teams to find story-related information on the Internet (such as locale or history), while other students create illustrations on paper that will later be scanned, while still other students brainstorm and create characters and situations. Students then rotate through the computer usage so all students get a chance to interact online as they take turns posting the story in a blog. (A. Bordelon)**

2) Other Classroom Technology: What equipment and sources of technology do you have available in the classroom. What is one useful tool you can suggest can be integrated in the classroom and how? Any Web 2.0 Tools, open source, blog/wiki pages?

3) Technical Support: There is district wide support, however, what would be one way to improve on campus technical support?

4) Distance Learning: If the possibility existed for establishing some form of distance learning... As an educator would you be up to the task if given the proper preparation?


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