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** Standard 10 ** ** Teachers are connected with other teachers and the community. **  The teacher fosters relationships with school colleagues, parents, and agencies in the larger community to support pupil learning and well being and acts with integrity, fairness and in an ethical manner.

Evidence 1: Wiki: Emerging Technologies EDT 654

Rationale 1: During my EDT 564 class, we were asked to research a topic based on technology with a classmate. My partner and I were assigned emerging technologies. Unlike traditional group project, this assignment required us to use a wiki as our platform of collaboration. Through communication and editing our wiki, we were able to complete the process without having to meet in person. It was a surprising process to experience how collaboration could take place through online resources. After researching new forms of technology, it caused me to reflect on the various forms of technology I use in my own classroom. Furthermore, it challenged me to try to implement and advocate for my students to gain more advanced forms of technology in the classroom.

KSD

This project not only allowed me to collaborate with a classmate of mine, but she was also a colleague. This allowed us to pilot a new way to communicate without our school community. Our school then caught on to this collaboration process and started a school wiki for the staff and parents.

 10.K.1 The teacher understands schools as organizations within the larger community context and understands the operations of the relevant aspects of the system(s) within which she works.

 Since I found the collaboration process of using a wiki to be quite successful, I was able to talk with the technology team to allow student access to their own wikis. This process involved allowing students to have their own e-mail addresses. With consent from their parents, students were given e-mail address and access to their on wiki.   10.S.6 The teacher acts as an advocate for students.  This project allowed me to collaboration allowed to work with a colleague of mine on new forms of technology in education. We were able to brainstorm ideas that could be used in our own classrooms to help advance to the learning of our students.   10.D.3 The teacher is willing to consult with other professionals regarding the education and well being of his/her students.