Enhancing+personal+productivity+and+professional+practice

Interpretation
Technology is also a tool to help technology facilitators be more productive and share knowledge with their peers.

[[image:diigo.jpg align="left" link="@http://www.diigo.com/user/jidavis1"]]Sample artifact: Diigo Library
This is my personal Diigo library of web-based resources that I have collected over the past two years. At this writing, it includes links to 551 resources organized into 69 lists indexed by 741 tags.

Rationale
Diigo is useful tool for managing bookmarks, and sharing them with teachers and other technology facilitators.

The standard
Educational technology facilitators apply technology to enhance and improve personal productivity and professional practice. Educational technology facilitators:

 A. Use technology resources to engage in ongoing professional development and lifelong learning. Candidates:
 * 1) identify resources and participate in professional development activities and professional technology organizations to support ongoing professional growth related to technology.
 * 2) disseminate information on district-wide policies for the professional growth opportunities for staff, faculty, and administrators.

B. Continually evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding the use of technology in support of student learning. Candidates:
 * 1) continually evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding the use of technology in support of student learning.

C. Apply technology to increase productivity. Candidates:
 * 1) model advanced features of word processing, desktop publishing, graphics programs, and utilities to develop professional products.
 * 2) assist others in locating, selecting, capturing, and integrating video and digital images in various formats for use in presentations, publications, and/or other products.
 * 3) demonstrate the use of specific-purpose electronic devices (such as graphic calculators, language translators, scientific probeware, or electronic thesaurus) in content areas.
 * 4) use a variety of distance learning systems and use at least one to support personal/professional development.
 * 5) use instructional design principles to develop hypermedia and multimedia products to support personal and professional development.
 * 6) select appropriate tools for communicating concepts, conducting research, and solving problems for an intended audience and purpose.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">use examples of emerging programming, authoring or problem-solving environments that support personal/professional development.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">set and manipulate preferences, defaults, and other selectable features of <span class="wiki_link_ext">operating systems and productivity tool programs commonly found in PK-12 schools.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">D. Use technology to communicate and collaborate with peers, parents, and the larger community to nurture student learning. Candidates:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">model the use of telecommunications tools and resources for information sharing, remote information access, and multimedia/hypermedia publishing in order to nurture student learning.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">communicate with colleagues and discuss current research to support instruction, using applications including electronic mail, online conferencing, and Web browsers.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">participate in <span class="wiki_link_ext">online collaborative curricular projects and team activities to build bodies of knowledge around specific topics.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">design, develop, and maintain Web pages and sites that support communication between the school and community.