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Jaclyn Hawkins Pre-Competency Verification =Reflections:=

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
The school I work at has a science project for the middle school that is called Invention Convention. Students are split into groups and given the freedom to invent something that will better the world, or make our lives easier on a daily basis. They make replicas of the inventions and then film a commercial selling their product. The commercials are filmed in class and other classes watch the commercials to grade how well it was presented. This falls under 1b. because that project is facilitating activities that engage students in planning and managing projects focused on real-world problems. The students also use a video camera as a digital tool to enhance their projects.

2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
Study Island is a program that I use with my students for math. 2c. As a teacher, I can go into Study Island and create a learning path or test for my students, and assign it to the whole class or specific students. When students start a new topic, a learning path is created to help them learn the concepts that they have not mastered. There are different ways each concept is presented to help accommodate different learning styles. All of the data from each student can be viewed from the teachers page.

3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
I created a Delicious page to keep all of my educational websites organized. It has been very helpful to use to help stay up to date with emerging digital tools, because when I hear of a new one I simply add the site to my Delicious page. My page can be viewed by parents and students to give them resources when they are not at school. This supports learning for myself and my students by making resources readily available. 3d. [|Delicious]

4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
The school I work at had a digital threat and we had to put the whole building into a level 1 lock down. A few of our students had been commenting on a picture on Facebook with a student from another school. The talk got tense and then the other student said that he knew where their school was and would "shut it down" the next day. The next morning administration was informed and we performed the lock down. The lock down was lifted once police had located the student that made the threat. After this happened, we had talks with each class in our building about appropriate things to say on the internet to each other, and had discussions about how things can be taken the wrong way. We used this as an opportunity to talk to the students about appropriate interaction to have, especially on social networks.

5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
I participated in a four class online cohort with Ashland University last school year. The titles of the classes were: These mainly fall under 5a. because I participated in a local learning community and learned about creative applications and resources available online to improve student learning. I gained a lot from these classes, and they are what sparked my interest in pursuing this masters program in Instructional Technology.
 * Meeting Student, Staff, and Parent Needs in the 21st Century
 * Learning and Innovation in the 21st Century
 * Information, Media, and Technology in the 21st Century
 * Life and Career Skills in the 21st Century