Shante_Freeman_FinalProject

=** ﻿ **= =﻿ = = = =Urban Elementary School: 21st Century Training Ground = =Integrating Technology and Improving Student Achievement =

Urban Elementary School is located in the heart of Richmond’s industrial South Side and serves students in grades K-5. The school and community are surrounded by several large trucking companies and annex buildings from the Philip Morris tobacco factories. In spite of being surrounded by a plethora of booming industrial businesses, data drawn from zipskinny.com shows that the median income in the area is $27, 132, and 25.9% of the community’s residents live below the poverty line. Urban Elementary is recognized as a Title 1 school in both reading and math.

The student population can be broken down into the following groups: male and female students; White, Black, and Hispanic students; disabled and non-disabled students, economically disadvantaged or not economically disadvantaged, and/or students with limited English proficiency or students who do not have limited English proficiency. Current student enrollment is 439 children with 90% of the students receiving “free or reduced lunch”(economically disadvantaged). Demographic data drawn from the zipskinny.com site reveals that 97.4% of the student population is Black.

The Virginia Department of Education’s website shows that Urban elementary did not make AYP in either 2006-2007 or 2007-2008. Urban Elementary’s overall performance has consistently fallen behind the overall district and state performance in each school year. The school’s performance was particularly low during the 2007-2008 school year, but student achievement was otherwise “stagnant” in the 2006-2007 and 2008-2009 school years. In comparison, both the district and state realized steady gains in achievement for each of the three years.

I will use this data as I create a plan for Urban Elementary to integrate technology into instruction during reading instruction with the goal of improving student’s mastery as evidenced by improved performance on standardized assessments.

Internet Safety Policy (Collaborative Creation of Group#1 from Previous Lesson): This policy was created by the school’s internet policies committee, which includes administrators, teachers, parents, and computer specialists from the district. They will meet regularly to set the guidelines of the policy. If a violation of the policy is reported, the committee will respond in a proactive manner before a problem becomes widespread. The intent of this policy is to ensure that students utilize access to technology in a responsible manner consistent with the purpose of providing students the opportunity to engage with technology in a positive manner. In order for students to learn the best practices for safety, it is imperative that all staff members model appropriate use. Members of our school community are responsible for good behavior on school computer networks just as they are in a classroom or school building. General school rules for behavior and communications apply. Here are some general guidelines that all staff members should follow:

· Keep personal information such as last names, addresses, telephone numbers, photographs private to help maintain security. · All individuals should keep their passwords private, and should use only one password. Also, when a session has been completed, all individuals should log out of whatever programs they have used. · As with all internet use, all community members should present themselves with integrity and in an ethical manner in regards to others. · Professional and appropriate language should be used in all public and private communications. The language we use should be respectful of the diversity of all community members. · All materials used should be appropriate, and accessed to achieve the goal of improving the educational experience of all students. · Users should assume that all materials available on the Internet are protected by copyright, and follow appropriate standards for use.

To view multi-media portions of this assignment, please click on the links below [|Integrating Technology at Urban ES]

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I used "RockYou" to create the slideshow and I can't believe I didn't pull all of my hair out! I had to re-record the presentation SIX times and still couldn't get it to play although it said I saved it. Finally, I had the sense to capture it playing in Jing, but the quality sucks compared with how it originally played in Rock You. Question...why can't I get hyperlink for Jing portion of project (slideshow) to play in the PowerPoint presentation? I've done that before. Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong here. Just for kicks, I am including several of the links that should have led to my Rock You presentation. Let me know if it plays for you. Please help. Oh! P.S. (Jen and Elendar...I wanted to link our tech statement to my project but looks like it's been converted to 2007. Will one of you please copy and email it to me in 2003? Thanks if you can do it...Oh well: No worries, if you can't.)

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