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Using the Eye Ball Webcam

Technology Standards Teacher Standards I. Information Access, Evaluation, Processing and Application - Access, evaluate, process and apply information efficiently and effectively. II. Communication - Use technology effectively and appropriately to interact electronically II. Communication - Use technology to communicate information in a variety of formats. III. Legal, Social, and Ethical Issues - Demonstrate an understanding of the legal, social, and ethical issues related to technology use. IV. Assessment for Administration and Instruction - Use technology to analyze problems and develop data-driven solutions for instructional and school improvement. V. Integrating Technology into the Curriculum and Instruction - Design, implement, and assess learning experiences that incorporate use of technology in a curriculum-related instructional activity to support understanding, inquiry, problem-solving, communication and/or collaboration. VI. Assistive Technology - Understand human, equity, and developmental issues surrounding the use of assistive technology to enhance student learning performance and apply that understanding to practice. VII. Professional Growth - Develop professional practices that support continual learning and professional growth in technology.

Description: In talking to Susan Brown, we are planning to use the webcam and she will be giving a group of students instructions on doing a pod cast reviewing books. We have not set the date yet but the students are excited.

Reflection: Sometimes I really wonder what I am doing. When I connected the webcam, I had problems. The problems were more on the computer end then the webcam. I saw that Susan Brown was available to video chat so I clicked on her name and then I clicked on the pop out. The pop out had difficulty in loading. I could understand the difficulty at home but not at school. I kept getting the message "That it is taking longer than usual to load the page. Try reloading the page" which I did several times. Since I was having trouble, I did go to speak to Mrs. James (since she had earlier had a video chat with Mrs. Opeda) and reviewed what I had done. She did not see where I had gone astray. Then I noticed that Susan was no longer available. A little later, I noticed that Susan was available again, so I tried again and this time we did connect. However, I could see her but she could not see me. We talked about a number of different things. And she did offer to to a webcam with a group of students to have them do a pod cast on books. We did not set a date yet, but we will. Susan planned to stop by Seabrook to see if we could figure out why I could see her and she could not see me. After we disconnected and I was getting ready to shut down the lap top, I noticed a wizard for the webcam. So I clicked on the wizard and installed the software for the web cam. I thought that we had installed everything we needed at the last training but I was wrong. Since Susan was still available to chat, I called her again and this time she could see me so we cancelled her trip to Seabrook since the problem had been solved. We are consulting our schedules to plan the webcam experence for the students.