IDC ICT Placement Expectations

IDC ICT Placement Expectations

Attached (soon) is the list of your placements. Some of you are working with more than one teacher because either the requests are small or very similar. Your placements begin today. Your teachers will be notified by the end of the day. If you have more than one teacher, please assign a lead team member to each teacher.

Expectations:

1.  Placement Interview

2.  Placement Plan (written and meeting with me) – updated when things change

3.  Daily Log Updates

4.  Teacher Evaluation

5.  Portfolio

Details

Placement Interview

Based on their application, develop a list of questions to go over with your teacher. The answers to these questions should help you complete the placement plan. They should also give you enough information to get started on your projects.

Some questions to consider:

―  What is the best method of communication between you and your teacher?

―  Does the teacher require you in the classroom at any point? You can definitely miss IDC class. If you would need to miss another class, you are not required to go to the teachers classroom. If you are comfortable missing class, and the teacher of that class agrees, then you may do so.

―  What help is the teacher looking for? (consider what they would like you to do, what they would like you to teach, the best form of reference materials, etc) Keep in mind, one of our goals is to help the teacher become more self-sufficient with technology.

You want to leave your initial interview with enough information to develop a work plan and begin an initial set up of technology required and/or research.

If the teacher is going to provide you with materials, try to set a deadline of when you will receive them. If the teacher needs to make decisions (which sites, which technology) be sure he/she has enough information to make that decision.

Do not finish the interview without setting up the next time you will communicate and/or meet.

Placement Plan

One team member should open andcopy the google documentfor the placement plan. Share the document with all group members and me.

Complete the plan once you have conducted your initial interview. You can look at asample planfor ideas on how to complete it.

You will update the plan (add/modify tasks, update deadlines) as things in your placement change.

Placement Meeting

Once you have completed your interview and your plan, arrange a time to meet with me during class to review your plan. The meetings will be in class on Monday, November 14th to Wednesday, November 16th.

Materials and Support

I will be setting up a class moodle with all the resources from all the groups to help you. There is no need to recreate instructions if they have already been written/filmed.

I will also add all the tech idea assignments for those teachers that aren’t sure what they want to do.

If you need technical resources, please see me asap and we will try to arrange what you need.

If you get stuck, ask for help from me. If you have a problem getting materials/instructions/feedback from your placement teacher, talk to me. Keep me updated and informed. If you don’t have something to do, let me know.

Portfolio

The portfolio is the final part of your placement. We are going to try using Weebly for this part of the course and see how it works.

I’ve created a weebly site (http://idcict.weebly.com) for the portfolios and I will add each student as an administrator to the site. Please make sure that you can access the site. Your portfolio will be a page on the site.

Portfolio piece:

―  A presentation of what you created for your placement using a relevant piece of technology. (Suggestions: a jing video that tours a website, a prezi of your resources/videos, a google doc summary, voice thread description of your materials, etc (feel free to come up with something better!))

―  A note on Jing videos – you can leave them up on the Jing video hosting service and then embed the link in your post or you can upload them to youtube and embed them in the site.

―  Links to and/or uploads of any material that your created for your placement.

Written Material:

―  Teacher and subject area

―  Description of project

―  Technology used

―  Possible uses in other classes/subject areas

There is a sample from last year on the weebly site so you have an idea of how to approach the assignment.

If you worked with more than one teacher you must create a portfolio for each teacher. If you worked with a partner with more than one teacher you can divide the work with the understanding that the final grade will be shared unless you talk to be ahead of time.

Blog Entry

On your blog, write a post summarizing and evaluating your placement. Consider the following questions:

―  Did you enjoy the experience? Why or why not?

―  What went well with your placement?

―  What difficulties did you have with your placement?

―  Do you consider your placement a success?

―  Do you think the project is useful/has value for IDC students/teachers/students of placement teachers?

―  How could the project be improved for future IDC classes?

Everyone must complete the blog entry. You only have to do one blog entry for the entire placement so if you worked with more than one teacher you can combine the response in one blog post.

Evaluation

You will be evaluated on four dimensions:

―  My assessment of your planning, preparation and use of class time (including the daily log)

―  Your placement teacher’s assessment of your work

―  Your portfolio piece

―  Your blog entry (as part of your blog evaluation (ISP))