Digital Learning Inventory
During Week 4 of the online course, all Teachers For Global Classrooms participants completed a Digital Learning Inventory of their school and classroom.
1. What tools, software, operating systems, and equipment are available in your school and classroom?
2. How does your school make use of school and/or teacher websites?
3. How are you currently utilizing technology for learning?
4. All of the global e-learning sites are available: Choices, Connect All Schools, Edutopia, World Savvy, Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and iEARN.
5. What tools and sites are colleagues in your building using?
6. Is there a system for evaluating student technology literacy in your school? If so, how effective or helpful have you found the assessment?
7. What tools are not presently available and would help to achieve district objectives?
1. What tools, software, operating systems, and equipment are available in your school and classroom?
- MacBook teacher computers and laptop carts (1 laptop: 3 student ratio)
- Internet
- Google Sites websites
- Skyward Family Access gradebook and online calendar
- Moodle
- Google Cloud Apps
- SMART and Promethean interactive whiteboards
- WordPress Blogs
- Wikis
- Podcasts
- Skype
- Interactive Video Conferencing Services
- Photo sharing
- Video sharing - YouTube and Vimeo
- Various Web 2.0 applications
- Video cameras
- GPS (Global Positioning System) units
- Document cameras
- iPod Touches
- Vernier Probes
- Proscopes
- Robotics Kits
- Twitter is available, Facebook is not
2. How does your school make use of school and/or teacher websites?
- School website - provides news, contact info, calendar, links to online gradebook and teacher websites
- Teacher websites available - not all are utilized or maintained
3. How are you currently utilizing technology for learning?
- Moodle
- Google Cloud Apps
- WordPress Blogs
- Wikis
- Skype
- Various Web 2.0 applications
- GPS (Global Positioning System) units
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- SMART interactive whiteboard
4. All of the global e-learning sites are available: Choices, Connect All Schools, Edutopia, World Savvy, Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and iEARN.
5. What tools and sites are colleagues in your building using?
- All tools listed under #1
6. Is there a system for evaluating student technology literacy in your school? If so, how effective or helpful have you found the assessment?
- No system exists
7. What tools are not presently available and would help to achieve district objectives?
- More MacBooks
- Tablet computers for students
- A "Bring Your Own Device" program is being explored