3.5 Basic Troubleshooting
Candidates troubleshoot basic software and hardware problems common in digital learning environments. (PSC 3.5/ISTE 3e)
This artifact is a workshop that I created to instruct teachers on how to create a class webpage using Weebly. The one hour workshop was delivered to kindergarten to fifth grade teachers after school. Throughout this process I had to teach them the basics of Weebly, as well as troubleshoot common problems the teachers came across. I independently developed, modeled and facilitated the workshop.
Standard 3.5, Basic Troubleshooting, requires candidates to troubleshoot basic software and hardware problems in digital learning environments. This artifact demonstrates my ability to troubleshoot basic software needs in the spur of the moment. Before leading this workshop I made sure that I was an expert at using the tool myself. This meat spending several hours setting up a model class webpage that would be similar to the webpages that teachers would be creating. Familiarizing myself with the tool was very important when it came to helping other teachers troubleshoot issues they came across. Being able to quickly navigate the tool helped me quickly solve issues teachers had when using Weebly during the workshop.
Keeping patient and clam is an important thing I learned when helping other teachers troubleshoot issues during the workshop. When you are leading a professional development you want everything to run smoothly and having a technical issue can imped on the quality of your workshop. I believe that becoming familiar and checking to make sure the all the technology is in working order is an important step before using it to instruct students or teachers. I think that moving this workshop to an online module would have been beneficial to teachers so they could build their own webpages on their own time. There was not enough time during the one hour workshop and having video lessons and instructions on how to build a Weebly webpage would have been helpful to teachers.
This artifact expanded opportunities for faculty development for many of the teachers at my school. They attended the workshop to learn how to develop and utilize a class webpage. The impact was assessed through the quality of the webpages that teachers created and an evaluation at the conclusion of the workshop. The evaluation indicated that the teachers would utilize a webpage and continue to build a webpage to use with their students.
Standard 3.5, Basic Troubleshooting, requires candidates to troubleshoot basic software and hardware problems in digital learning environments. This artifact demonstrates my ability to troubleshoot basic software needs in the spur of the moment. Before leading this workshop I made sure that I was an expert at using the tool myself. This meat spending several hours setting up a model class webpage that would be similar to the webpages that teachers would be creating. Familiarizing myself with the tool was very important when it came to helping other teachers troubleshoot issues they came across. Being able to quickly navigate the tool helped me quickly solve issues teachers had when using Weebly during the workshop.
Keeping patient and clam is an important thing I learned when helping other teachers troubleshoot issues during the workshop. When you are leading a professional development you want everything to run smoothly and having a technical issue can imped on the quality of your workshop. I believe that becoming familiar and checking to make sure the all the technology is in working order is an important step before using it to instruct students or teachers. I think that moving this workshop to an online module would have been beneficial to teachers so they could build their own webpages on their own time. There was not enough time during the one hour workshop and having video lessons and instructions on how to build a Weebly webpage would have been helpful to teachers.
This artifact expanded opportunities for faculty development for many of the teachers at my school. They attended the workshop to learn how to develop and utilize a class webpage. The impact was assessed through the quality of the webpages that teachers created and an evaluation at the conclusion of the workshop. The evaluation indicated that the teachers would utilize a webpage and continue to build a webpage to use with their students.