Instruction

=**Delivery of Instruction **= Educators must display a wealth of knowledge about content and pedagogy while using a wide variety instructional strategies to achieve the following goals while delivering instruction: The use of technology is an outstanding way to engage students while differentiating instruction to address multiple learning styles. Teachers need to address curricular goals while infusing the use of technology to teach students the skills they will need to compete and succeed in the 21st century. Some of the tools I have used with teachers and students to achieve curricular goals include: Google docs, Wikispaces, Moodle, iClickers, Voicethread, presentation software, word processing, digital media, Polyvision software, Comic Life, and other web 2.0 tools.
 * Communicating with Students
 * Using Questioning and Discussion
 * Techniques
 * Engaging Students in Learning
 * Using Assessment in Instruction
 * Demonstrating Flexibility and Responsiveness

 The position I have held for the last five years has been one where my main responsibilities are to assist teachers with infusing technology while addressing curricular goals and to provide professional development. Therefore, my portfolio will differ from that of a classroom teacher. I would like to offer some samples of projects where I was able to offer my integration expertise. I would also like to display some of the professional development sessions I have presented.

=Professional Development: = The links below are multiple professional development sessions I have presented in my school district and at various conferences. Each one contains an agenda, slides, resources, contact information etc. for a particular topic. 

 Wikispaces in the Classroom  This presentation was created and delivered by me at the Classroom 2.0 Conference at the Capital Area Intermediate Unit Welcome to Web 2.0 in the Secondary Setting <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> This presentation was delivered in my school district for asummer technology workshop <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Polyvision Boards in the Secondary Classroom <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> This presentation was also delivered in my school district for a summer technology workshop <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Podcasting in the Classroom <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> This presentation was created and delivered at the Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference (PETE&C) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Tech Tips Podcast <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> This podcast is produced by me for teachers in my school district and offers assistance with basic technology skills.

=<span style="color: #142a99; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Instructional Materials and : = <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The following project was designed as a more stimulating way to teach middle school students about poetry <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Middle School Poetry WebQuest <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Poetry WebQuest Rubric

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The following document is one that was created to introduce teachers to blogging and to motivate them to make an attempt at blogging. Blogging can be a powerful way to share ideas, receive feedback from an authentic audience, and develop critical thinking skills.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This link is to a blog a fourth grade teacher and I used last year in her classroom for writing. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">You will need to change the drop down menu for "Posts" to "Anytime" in order to see what students wrote last year. In addition, you can click on an individual student's name to see their blog entries.

Mrs. Hoffman's Class Blog

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The document and link below showcases a project in a high schoolEnglish class where students were given the freedom to demonstrate their understanding of Mary Shelley's //Frankenstein.// <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Frankenstein Projects Fall 2011

=<span style="color: #142a99; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Student Work: = <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I designed this podcast in order to showcase great work that students are doing throughout my school district. Teachers contact me with an idea they'd like to share from their classroom. I will send them a form for students to work on to prepare for the podcast. I will then visit the school and work with the students to create a podcast that features their classroom work and what they learned. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Student Showcase Podcast

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This link features a project in which I worked collaboratively with a Gifted class and their teacher to create a Presidential Debate Voicethread. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">

<span style="background-color: initial; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Presidential Debate 2008 Voicethread

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The following is an example of a digital book review. This project is done by sophomores in one of our high schools. Students read an adolescent fiction book and as part of their assessment, they need to produce a digital book review to be posted online. Here is one example of a student's final product. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="file" key="Diary of a Teenage Girl - Janelle.m4a" width="210" height="210"

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> This artifact comes from an elementary classroom. A template was created for the students to fill in with the information they constructed while researching. In addition to the information they discovered, students were required to write a persuasive piece convincing the audience to make an effort to save the animal. Students then extracted the audio from a Discovery Education video clip and recorded themselves reading their persuasive piece. Finally, they embedded that new video in their PowerPoint. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> You will need to download the Kangaroos.zip file and then unzip the file to watch the project.