Xtra credit

This standard comes from the ten  Utah INTASC standards, which are actively used in evaluating teachers. I believe all the assignments we have done this semester fall under this category. The three listed are my favorites.
Standard VI. Communication and Technology- Has a beginning knowledge of effective verbal, nonverbal, and media communication techniques to foster active inquiry, collaboration, and supportive interaction in the classroom.  

Prezi- Having just completed the homework assingment this is the freshest in my mind. It's uses will help me meet the above standard by adding another dimension to class lectures. The feature that allows you to paste the url of youtube videos and that video automatically plays is awesome! An earlier assignment we had was using download helper and mpeg streamclip, while that method  of including media definately works, the process involved with prezi is much more streamlined.  

wikipages- Any student that misses a day, can access our class wikipages and find the calendar for that class, and see a detailed list about what we did that day they were gone. When students find out what they missed from wiki pages their first quesion to me will not be "What did I miss?" the dialouge will go like this. "I have the assignment I missed the other day, I am not sure how to do it." The benefit will be how that students focus will change and teacher and student can collaborate on that work. 

GoogleDocs- I love the feature of this program when it comes to sharing documents! I can assign a project to individual groups, who can collaborate online to work on it. Their groupwork is sent to me as one document, which can be reviewed by me and sent back, all of it done online! The same process can be used for papers. In class guidance as well as online revisions will dramatically reduce the amount of papers that would otherwise sit in piles until graded and handed back.

These programs will not eliminate the need for a teacher in the classroom, but they will help me better manage those classes and effectively guide students to produce quality work, every step of the way.