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 * Project Summary:**

Project 1: As a Special Educator and Case Manager, one of my primary responsibilities is to monitor the progress of the students on my caseload. This is typically done through various correspondence, including the distribution of a Progress Report that allows teachers to report general information about how students are perfoming in their class. I created an electronic version of the form using Google Forms.

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Project 2: One of the many duties a teacher must perform includes communicating regularly with parents. Often times, parents' contact information change between the time when students are enrolled in school and the time when a teacher attempts to contact them, therefore, keeping updated contact information is essential to a teacher's ability to communicate with parents. Therefore, I created a Google Form that parents could easily access on our class Google Site, Christian English 10, on the PARENT page.

See //**Parent Contact Form**// by clicking the link below: @http://sites.google.com/a/pgcps.org/christianenglish10/parents

[|**Standard I: Technology Information Access, Evaluation, Processing and Application**]
 * Technology Standards Addressed:**

Access, evaluate, and process information efficiently and effectively [|**Standard II: Communication**]

A. Use technology effectively and appropriately to interact electronically. B. Use technology to communicate information in a variety of formats. [|**Standard III: Legal, Social and Ethical Issues**]

Demonstrate an understanding of the legal, social, and ethical issues related to technology use. [|**Standard IV: Assessment for Administration and Instruction**]

Use technology to analyze problems and develop data-driven solutions for instructional and school improvement. [|**Standard V: Integrating Technology into the Curriculum and Instruction**]

Design, implement and assess learning experiences that incorporate use of technology in the curriculum-related instructional activity to support understanding, inquiry, problem-solving, communication or collaboration. [|**Standard VI: Assistive Technologies**]

Understand human, equity, and developmental issues surrounding the use of assistive technology to enhance student learning performance and apply that understanding to practice. [|**Standard VII: Professional Growth**]

Develop professional practices that support continual learning and professional growth in technology


 * Reflection:**

Project 1: The Google Forms made what is typically a daunting task far easier than ever before. I simply emailed the forms I created to all of the students' teachers and almost immediately began receiving feedback. Using the Google Doc made it extremely easy for me to disseminate and collect the desired information from teachers, as well as easier for the teachers to fill out and communicate information on each students progress. The Google Docs have proven to be one of the most useful tools to communicate with direct service providers, in turn improving my ability to ensure that all of my students' IEP needs are being addressed, therefore increasing their access to the curriculum and their education!

Project 2: The Parent Contact form is something that I know will be useful for years to come. No matter what changes in curriculum, exam, or even graduation requirements, one thing tht will never change is the need for teachers to communicate regularly with parents. The form has enabled the parent to easily keep contact information current, providing a simple way for parents to increase their involvement in their students education.


 * Results:** The results to both forms were timely, almost immediate feedback from teacher and parents. However, due to the sensitive nature of the content on these forms, the information cannot be shared publicly.