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 * GOOGLE PRESENTATION**

MARYLAND TECHNOLGY STANDARDS FOR SCHOOL ADMINSTRATORS

II. Teaching and Learning //E. Supports the effective use of a varity of technologies to facilitate collaboration in teaching and learn//ing V. Professional Practice and Productivity //A. Models the routine, purposeful, and effective use of technology D. Maintains an awareness of emerging technolgies and their potential uses in education//

MARYLAND TEACHER TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS

V. Integrating the technology into Curriculum and Instruction //2. Evaluate technolgy materials and media to determine their most appropriate instructional use 5. Select and use appropriate technolgy to support content-specific student learning outcome//s

DESCRIPTION

I decided to create a Google Presentation on Grolier's subscription database. The county has purchased it for students, parents, and staff to have access at school and at home. As part of my library media program, I introduce the students to the Grolier site and the many ways that it can help to fulfill their information needs. I have never been able to get the time to teach the teachers how to use the site. This presentation document and the standards it addresses are aimed at satisfying that need in what I feel will enhance Rockledge's staff's technolgy enlightenment.

REFLECTION

I have not yet been able to use this presentation for the teachers yet. I embedded it in the Google Site. Students have seen and learned about Grolier. Since it is in the Google Site the teachers and students will get a lesson on how to use Grolier.

What was interesting about creating this presentation this presentation was that I did a number of screen shot. I was lucky to do it with the experts of the STEP training team. I don't think it would have looked as nice if they hadn't used a critical eye on the arrangement of the slides. I know that I would not have been able to do screen shots without thier guidence.

[|Google Presentation Grolier] As far as working with Google Sites is concerned, I did not take the training the other members of Rocklege's team took. I gave Ann Starr, our technology teacher, ideas for web sites and she put them in with bare bones descriptions. Since this was not what was expected, I had to go back in and change many things on the site with no training at all. I think I did pretty well. I got rid of the critters that were the opening page and got the image of Rockledge off the PGCPS web site and put it on the Rockledge e-org site. I added my photo to the administrators. I added some annotations to the websites for both teachers and students. I scanned and added some files that teachers could use in the file cabinet. I added the entire month of February's events to a new announcements page that I added on. I uploaded photos and added a text description about a fourth grade project.

Frustrations I faced were that the upload of the photos took forever. Once the photos were up, it took a while to figure out how to make the image reduce. The trick was to find an edge of the huge image and then a tool bar came up that said S, M, or L. I could also change orientation of where the images went on the page.I could not get a video to upload. To check out the new look click on this link.[|Rockledge E-Org]