Strengths & Weaknesses

My Strengths according to the Net standards are that I can “implement curriculum plans that include methods and strategies for applying technology to maximize student learning.” My strength according to the UNI survey would be number seven. I have worked as an aide in special education so I have seen a lot of the resources available to help students with special needs. I am sure there are many out there I don’t know about but I feel I can find out about those easily and help my students with special needs.

My weaknesses according to the Net Standards would be that I Teachers understand the social, ethical, legal, and human issues surrounding the use of technology in PK–12 schools and apply that understanding in practice. I know there are a lot of rules as to what goes into technology and copyright and those things but I don’t feel confident in teaching them or know all of them. In the UNI survey number six it talks about the copyright law of 1976 and the multimedia fair use guidelines of 1996. I don’t know what these are and need to look into them. Another weakness I have is I do not know what the ICN is. I have never used it and would like to learn more about it.

A goal I would like to make for myself is to teach my students about copyright and things like that. As a theatre teacher we will be using a lot of resources from the internet for monologues, plays and things like that and we will need to know what they can use and what they have to get the rights for and things like that. Along with this I would like to help the students stay safe and be ethical on the internet. A mini class I could go to is offered on UEN called, Internet safety for educators that helps educators learn about the threats that are out there to harm our students and gives teachers resources that can help them do this. Another goal I can work on is to learn about Video conferencing and how it can help me as a teacher. I found a on-line tutorial at SearchUnifiedCommunications.com that can help me learn more about this. It offers the basics, implementation and explains telepresence.