TF-I.A. Demonstrate knowledge, skills, and understanding of concepts related to technology (as described in the ISTE National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers).
• TF-I.A. Artifacts and Justification (Click to open)
TF-I.B. Demonstrate continual growth in technology knowledge and skills to stay abreast of current and emerging technologies.
• TF-I.B. Artifacts and Justification (Click to open)
REFLECTION:
I started Technology Based Education program at CSUDH with the highest level of confidence in my technical skills regarding commonly used design softwares and applications in graphic design and desktop publishing. But, I had lack of skills and confidence in networks, and educational technology field.
Since the beginning of my career as a designer, I have been known by my fellow co-workers, classmates and even my instructors as someone they can go to for help when they are having technical difficulties with the computers, at the computer labs or on their own personal computers / personal high-tech devices. My deep interest and passion for technology always helped me to gain new skills and get to learn and follow demanding technologies over the years. I have been a self taught tech savvy guy where I worked and where I have studied.
This standard encourages educational technology facilitators to explore and demonstrate their understanding of their technology. During the course of my studies, I created documents, workshops, and technology based lesson plans to aid other users of technology (both my colleagues and my students in the classroom or online) continue on their journey of technological knowledge.
While I was creating one of my artifact called “Operation System Summary”, I realized that this exercise was giving me the chance to organize all the terms, shortcuts and many other technology related terms and operations and present them in a way to aid others in this basic manual. It was a bit challenging and an exciting experience for me to create a manuals like this while I already have the very long term knowledge in computers and how to operate them properly.
While I was working on the second artifact called “Troubleshooting Guide”, it allowed me to organize all my techniques for working through many of the most common (and easiest to fix) quirks that can occur with computers. The majority of users that I come in contact with, doesn't have enough experience to feel comfortable when confronted with these simple problems, and end up wasting a lot of time and money to fix the simple basic problems that they could have fix by themselves. Helping other people was such a great experience for me.
I am fluent user on Mac OS and Windows OS operating systems. I created these hands-on manuals on both platforms. It is very important and essential for the users that they are going to use these manuals, because we never know what type of Operating Systems they are using or familiar with at their own. I took the knowledge and experiences I had and organized it in a way to make it easy for other people / students to comprehend and learn. Some people say that this is just the standard bag of tricks for any teacher, but when it comes to technology, it is a little trickier. Technology can frighten many students (who sometimes thinks that the computers are smarter than themselves), so bringing up their level of understanding is a great way to increase their comfort level, and their productivity with their computer operating systems and hardware. TBE program has also taught me the proper and ethical way to use and disseminating useful information I’ve found in research, articles and on the website to enhance my students higher learning skills.
