Tech Trends

Here is a link to my technology trends assignment.

I chose to focus on cloud computing for this assignment. My district has been rolling out Google Apps for Education this year and it's successes and challenges have taken up a good deal of my time.  This experience has brought home to me the importance of incorporating digital citizenship and netiquette values at school and at home.

This assignment was another reminder of the value offered by Google Scholar. To some degree, the assignment was a little difficult to complete because I kept finding myself getting into articles that were just interesting and helpful at work, but off topic for this assignment.

EDTECH Research

This was a challenging assignment for me.  I have never written an instructional objective or used APA or similar formatting before.  The instructional objective alone took far more time than I anticipated.  Not coming from a teaching background has proven to be an extra challenge.
I did get to learn how I might use Google Scholar.  Diving into other people's research is certainly something that will prove useful in the future.  Additionally, I have gained an understanding of some of the research methods used and will adopt those to gain a better understanding of professional development that happens in my district.

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