Carrying Out My GAME Plan

The strand that I chose to strengthen is The Promotion and Modeling of Digital Citizenship and Responsibility. The indicator I am focusing on requires teachers to participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning. The resources that I will need to carry out my GAME plan include collaborative networking with colleagues, our district’s web site, various online resources, and my Portaportal web site.

To this point, my GAME plan has been slowly moving forward. Networking across out district servers has been a positive experience. I decided to create folders and subfolders for public view, and I categorized my technological resources in appropriate locations. I am hopeful that this idea will catch on in our district. My next idea is to create a web page on our district’s web site. This may take some time because our district’s site is in the process of being redesigned and updated. I am constantly searching for online resources, especially ones related to video streaming. I feel that I need to incorporate more of this into my classroom and as an instructional strategy. INFOhio Digital Video Collection (http://www.infohio.org/dvc.html) seems like a good resource to investigate further. Portaportal (http://www.portaportal.com) is a site that has helped me to implement my GAME plan. This site allows me to collect, categorize, and link sites and resources to each other for convenient access. It also enables file uploading, which I have found to be very useful in networking with my students and their parents.