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During my coursework in EDLD 5352, Instructional Leadership, I learned about the Texas Long Range Technology Plan. This plan includes the idea of all schools in Texas to be tech savvy by 2020. The Long Range Technology Plan gives reasons why change is needed, who should be implementing the long range plan, how it will be accepted by today's learner, the benefits it will bring, support that should be in place, and it addresses some restraints of integration of technology. It also includes recommendations for schools in Texas made by different organizations. During this assignment, we reviewed the four strands of the TEKS curriculum. These were foundations, information acquisition, solving problems and communication. The foundation is what the child should know to begin with. Information acquisition is what stages students are able to process information. Problem solving is when students collaborate to solve problems. Tech Savvy students are constant communicators and should be able to work as teams. Communication is the publication stage of students work. This asks the question: How they can deliver their product?

When taking the TEA inventory, it showed that I am best at solving problems. I bought my first computer when I was 16. I taught myself all about computers just by playing around and doing. Hands on experiences are how I learned most of what I know. In college, I took a few courses dealing with technology, and I have taken a few professional development courses since becoming a teacher. However, technology is ever changing and it’s hard to keep up.

The Texas StarChart was the next assignment during this course. Our summary of findings for LISD was that our strengths were our connectivity rate and that there was not much downtime. We found that our weaknesses are funding, technical support, and low professional development choices. This worries me because without our professional development activities, we will not have educated teachers that are able to integrate the curriculum with technology.

We then rated websites for validity. During this course, we created our blog and our first wiki. These are very useful tools in collaboration with teachers and students. We found them very useful during our coursework at Lamar. I found that they are useful at work as well. It is an easy way to collaborate with our team. We set up a timeline for online collaboration with our wiki and our team members. We learned how to facilitate an online learning community.

Williamson, J. & Redish, T. (2009). //Technology facilitation and leadership standards: What every K-12 leader should know and be able to do//. Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education.

Texas Education Agency, (2002). TEA guidelines for Technology Applications. Retrieved June 22, 2008, from Texas Education Agency Web site: []

(11/2006). Long Range Plan for Technology 2006-2010. Retrieved June 22, 2008, from Texas Education Agency Website Web site: http://www.tea.state.tx.us/technology/lrpt/LRPTCompleteDec06.pdf