Introduction

I am a student at a four year university majoring in Education. IT 365 is a required course for my program. The purpose of this course is to help pre-service teachers become profecient in using technology to enhance their lessons and help with assessments. The curriculum for this class reflects the National Educational Technology Standards as created by the International Society for Technology in Education. The assignments created by stduents throughout the course include:

• Concept Map
• Integrating technology into a lesson plan during the teaching and assessment phase
• Evaluating websites for content and usability
• Creating artifacts using Web 2.0 tools
• Creating a teacher web site
• Creating a video using Movie Maker
• Case study utilizing technology to aid special needs students
• Utilizing turnitin to detect plagiarized material
• Blogfolio as a reflection of what was learned in addition to exposure to the latest trends in technology.
• Wiki

What follows is the NETS standards and what assignments related to each standard, a reflection on what I learned about each standard and future learning goals.