Technology Integration Form – STUDENT PORTFOLIOS

GENERAL INFORMATION
Selected Technology/Resource Name: Age/Grade Level: Technology/Resource Type:
Google Sites 8 Application Software Device Website
Source: (Web address, company name, etc.)

https://sites.google.com/a/asu.edu?pli=1
Associated Learning Standard(s): The resource may be generally applicable, if so, simply state that. List any ISTE-S standards that
seem to naturally align with the selected resource.

This resource is generally applicable to all the standards depending on how you choose to use it.

1. Empowered Learner Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating
competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences.
c. use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their
learning in a variety of ways
2. Digital Citizen Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an
interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.
a. cultivate and manage their digital identity and reputation and are aware of the permanence of their actions
in the digital world.
3. Knowledge Constructor Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge,
produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.
c. curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of
artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.
5. Computational Thinker Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways
that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions.
b. collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them, and represent data in various
ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.
6. Creative Communicator Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes
using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.
d. publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences

RESOURCE DESCRIPTION
Give a brief description of the technology/resource.
Google sites is a platform to create your own website.
“Create a one-stop destination for all important information, including videos, images, calendars, presentations,
documents, folders, and text. Then, quickly and securely share it with an entire organization or the world.”
https://gsuite.google.com/learning-center/products/sites/get-started/#!/

INTEGRATION IDEA - PORTFOLIOS

How might you use this resource in a lesson plan to promote student-centered learning?

This would be a great way to organize and work on project-based learning advocacy project. Students could each have their own
site to organize and display their work. Students can also collaborate, share information, and publish their work for others.
Students could used sites to post resource, collect information, and work on parts of their project. Students could all see
community or even global support or spread awareness by networking through their google site.
 Value-Added Rating Scale

3 2 1

The integration idea described: The integration idea described: The integration idea described:

• aligns to content standards • aligns to content standards • aligns to content standards

• transforms a lesson in a way that would • enhances a lesson; likely to • serves as a nice supplement to a lesson
be impossible or very difficult without it; increase student engagement and but wouldn’t necessarily play a critical
very likely to increase student engagement support mastery of the concept(s) role within the lesson
and contribute to mastery of the
• will most likely be used by the • will most likely be used by the teacher
concept(s)
students directly during a lesson (e.g., a demonstration)
• optimal in a student-centered
environment where students are active
and engaged in learning content

VALUE-ADDED EXPLANATION
 Based on the “value-added rating scale” above, how would you rate the technology integration you described, using the
selected resource?
 Explain your rating based on the rubric indicators.
This would be a 3 on the scale. Project-based learning transforms a lesson but without google sites it would be more difficult to
accomplish. Google sites is fluid enough to encourage creativity and ownership but structured enough for anyone to use. This
would allow the students to pursue an area of interest, cultivate their own ideas and reach out to their communities. Teachers
would really take a back seat and help guide and refine their students own learning.

This template has been adapted from the following resources:

Christie, A., (2007). Dr. Alice Christie’s 6C Model for Evaluating Apps. Retrieved from
http://www.kathyschrock.net/uploads/3/9/2/2/392267/evalipad_content.pdf
ISTE, (2012). iste.nets•s Advancing Digital Age Learning. Retrieved from
http://www.iste.org/docs/pdfs/nets-s-standards.pdf?sfvrsn=2.
LearnZillion, Inc. (July 2014). TeachFest Guide | Mathematics. Retrieved from http://ctcorestandards.org/wp-
content/uploads/2014/08/Math_TeachFest_SA_Guidebook.pdf.
Schrock, K., (2011-14). Critical Evaluation of a Content-Based IPAD/IPOD APP. Retrieved from
http://alicechristie.org/6C/6C.pdf.