GAME Plan Resources

Erin Schilling: Blog Application 3


There are a few tools and resources that I will need in order to carry out my GAME plan.

First, I will need to network with my Library/Media specialist in order to find out our access to the Web 2.0 tools that I want to incorporate into my lessons. I have experimented with this a bit myself, but have run into many roadblocks, including district-blocked sites and the need for student email accounts in order to access many of the tools. Rather than spending a lot of time doing “guess-and-check” work myself, I need to quickly turn to someone with the knowledge and expertise to find these online resources. This way, I can spend my time developing activities and evaluations that will help my students to best learn the content that I am teaching.

For my second goal, regarding taking a leadership position and continuing with my professional growth in the area of technology integration, I will need to become more familiar with my district’s policies on internet use, available hardware and software, and our continuum of technology instruction. I think that technology integration is something that is on people’s minds, but we have been very focused on literacy (reading and writing, aside from technology) and math, and have not taken into consideration the need for many of the 21st Century literacy skills. It will be interesting to research more on our district’s current position on these things; many of the ideas are developed by the Information Technology department, but are not necessarily communicated to or carried out by our teaching staff. I hope to become a link between those people who have had experience and done research from an IT perspective and those of us who are teaching the skills to our students in the classroom.