January,+2011

** Lamar University – M.Ed. in Educational Technology Leadership ** 
 * Appendix F: Diane P. Revilla -- Field-based Activities Report **

Field-based Activities Monthly Report - Part 1: Log
|| **  Week’s Activities   ** ||   --Created and upload grade level newsletters to teacher’s webpages. --Maintained my webpage and colleagues’ webpages. Provided a Welcome Back Message for my colleagues. --Collaborate on lesson planning and provided technology integration in core curriculum. --Researched and modified a colonies web quest for GT students. Each teacher has three students, GT students will collaborate with me on their projects. I will be facilitating GT and all technology. ||   ||  4  || || --Star Gazing Family Night. Set up computer research lab with websites to planets, moon, stars, etc. for parents and student access. Sites were places on my website for easy access. Walked parents and students through internet to locate my website. --Online Professional Training: TELPAS Re-certification. ||  ||  4  || || --Presented After-school Happy Hour on SmartBoard resources and interactive websites. ** --  ** Trouble shoots LCD/SmartBoard connections that were not working. I am more of a software person and not hardware. Yet, previously I experienced the same problem and was able to synchronize the LCD projector and SmartBoard. ||  ||   3hr 30 m  || || ||    ||   30m   || .A.1,2,3; II.A.1,2,3; B.1, C.1,2, D.1, E.1, F.1; III.A.1,2,3,4,5,6,7; IV.C.2; V.B.1; D.1,4; VIII.D.3,4 ||^   || ||  ||  1  || || **  Appendix F: Diane P. Revilla -- ET Field-based Activities Report   **
 * **  Date: ____January, 2011______ Total Internship hours at the start of the month:   ** ||      ||
 * ** Week  ** ||  **  Functions  **  || **  Description  ** ||  **  Hrs  **  ||
 * ** 1  **
 * ^  ||  **  Standard/Indicator  **   ||   .A.1,2,3; II.A.1,2,3; B.1, C.1,2, D.1, E.1, F.1; III.A.1,2,3,4,5,6,7; IV.C.2; V.B.1; D.1,4; VIII.D.3,4   ||^   ||
 * ^  || **   Communication with Site Mentor   ** ||   Collaboration with colleagues   ||^   ||
 * ** 2  **  || **   Week’s Activities   ** ||   --Created and upload grade level newsletters to teacher’s webpages.
 * ^  ||  **  Standard/Indicator  **   ||    .A.1,2,3; II.A.1,2,3; B.1, C.1,2, D.1, E.1, F.1; III.A.1,2,3,4,5,6,7; IV.C.2; V.B.1; D.1,4; VIII.D.3,4    ||^   ||
 * ^  || **   Communication with Site Mentor   ** ||    Collaboration with colleagues on newsletter. My Academic Coach asked if I could find astrology sites for parents and students to visit.     ||^   ||
 * ** 3  **  || **   Week’s Activities   ** ||   --Created and upload grade level newsletters to teacher’s webpages.
 * ^  ||  **  Standard/Indicator  **   ||   .A.1,2,3; II.A.1,2,3; B.1, C.1,2, D.1, E.1, F.1; III.A.1,2,3,4,5,6,7; IV.C.2; V.B.1; D.1,4; VII.1.1,8;VIII.D.3,4   ||^   ||
 * ^  || **   Communication with Site Mentor   ** ||   Collaboration with colleagues   ||^   ||
 * ** 4  **  || **   Week’s Activities   ** ||   --Created and upload grade level newsletters to teacher’s webpages.
 * ^  ||  **  Standard/Indicator  **   ||  ||   1hr
 * ^  || **   Communication with Site Mentor   ** ||   Collaborated with colleagues. Academic Coach back in the classroom asked that I synchronize her LCD projector and SmartBoard.    ||^   ||
 * ** 5  **  || **   Week’s Activities   ** ||   --Created and upload grade level newsletters to teacher’s webpages.
 * ^  ||  **  Standard/Indicator  **   ||   .A.1,2,3; II.A.1,2,3; B.1, C.1,2, D.1, E.1, F.1; III.A.1,2,3,4,5,6,7; IV.C.2; V.B.1; D.1,4; VII.A.8; VIII.D.3,4   ||^   ||
 * ^  || **   Communication with Site Mentor   ** ||   Collaborated with colleagues   ||^   ||
 * **  Hours worked this month:   **  ||   ||   14   || ||
 * **  Total Internship hours to date including this month:   **  ||   ||   63h30m   || ||

Field-based Activities Monthly Report - Part 2: Reflection
I started the New Year on the run, new projects for GT, Star Gazing Family Night, SmartBoard Happy Hour, TAKS is around the corner and Lamar homework. My colleagues and I were planning our lessons for science and at the end of the month we were going to start with habitats, biomes, and ecosystems. I suggested that we (me) create a web quest for our GT and high level students. Once the project was completed, they would share their findings with fifth grade. They liked the idea and asked if I could set it up. I goggled biomes and found many sites and shifted through the wealth of information. I chose what I liked best from each site and developed our own web quest. It took a while about 3 hours of and on, but I needed to complete the project right away so that the GT students could begin immediately. They enjoyed the research and more so creating the biome movies. The second week of this month we had Family Night Star Gazing. Each grade level had to create a project to do that night; I had suggested that we use a couple of websites: [|www.kidsatronomy.com], [|www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub] and []. They liked the idea but were not sure how well it would go over. I decided to ask our Academic Coach. As I set out to find her, she found me first and asked if I could set up the library research lab with sites for the parents and students. It worked out great for our grade level and I was able to go solo that night. The third week was preparing for my staff development on the SmartBoard. I wanted to make it as easy as possible for my teachers and decided to explore the Essential Educators tab with them. I also shared a few websites with them that would be ideal using on the SmartBoard. They asked if I could upload the information on First Class. I also told them that I have saved resources and sites on the shared drive which everyone has access to. After my session, my Principal stepped in and said that he wanted to see more use of the SmartBoard and technology integrated into the curriculum. He said that I would be available to help teachers or provided one-on-one training if needed. I felt a little uncomfortable with this because our campus does have a Computer Lab Teacher who has a Master’s in Technology. Her job is to teach students and provide help to teachers and staff. I felt that I was over-stepping my boundaries. When I approached our Computer Lab Teacher (who fortunately is a friend), she said that this would be an opportunity to provide more internship hours for me. I have been very fortunate to have a campus willing to support my endeavors in completing my Master’s. In fact, Ms. Silva (our computer lab teacher) has been a great mentor and sounding board these past 18 months. 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.