My Professional Development

I would like to have some recommendations to improve specifically the needs. I really don't know how to identify my needs. For me is very difficult to identify my needs and relate them to the standards because at this moment I'm not working formally as a teacher. So I will very thankful to receive some recommendations from you.

STANDARD

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning Creativity.
   

   * Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:
   

   SUB-STANDARD
   

   d. Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.
   

   CURRENT ABILITY
   

   I use audio and video clips in order to improve my knowledge on different areas. For example I use Teachertube and Youtube to learn how to use different medias, most of the times I look for tutorials or to watch experiments on the usage of different psychological theories, for example the experiment of Piaget's experiments. Also I recently learned how to download free podcast from ITunes store into my IPod.
   

   NEED
   

   I need to identify the web sites where to find
   

   GOAL
   

   Given a selection of Educational Psychology podcasts, I will be able to listen a podcast once a week and write a summary or a reflection on what I listened and the educational implications
   

   MEASURE
   

   By the end of this year (2010) I will listen at least 1 podcast every week and by the beginning of next year I will set my schedule in outlook to have reminders to listen the podcast.
   

• Itunes.com
  
• www.stager.org/podcasting.html
  
• www.epnweb.org
  

SHORT TERM PLAN

1. I will look for different podcast related with educational technology and psychology.
   
2. I will create a selection of the best places to find podcast related with educational technology and psychology.
   
   1. I will listen the podcast selected at least once a week
      

   LONG TERM PLAN
   

   1. I will took notes while I am listening the podcast
      
   2. I will write a reflection on what I listened and the educational implications
      
   3. I will post these summaries into my blog in order to share the podcast and the review with others.
      

   ASSESSMENT
   

   I will be successful when I have set up my schedule in outlook (OU email account) as reminder to listen a podcast every week and be able to write at the beginning of next year at least 20 reviews of the podcast that I listened and published on my Blog.
   

STRATEGY FOR MY TARGET AUDIENCE.

I would like to use the program Audacity, because the majority of the students that take Spanish at the University of Oklahoma need to use this program to record short oral presentations with the directions of his/her professor give to them. Also in the students that I tutor, they are enrolled in Spanish on-line courses. They already know how to download the program and the support program for audacity that is lame in order to export the file as MP3. But I would like to focus my lesson and the strategies that I will use in the editing of the audio file, because I believe that if they learn how to edit their oral presentations, they will have the opportunity to create a variety of versions and cut and paste the best options.

Text Book - Teaching English Language Learners through Technology - page 105 and 106