My Personal Technology Assessments

In terms of agreeing with these assessments, I agree they could be considered effective tools in determining the individual and campus needs in the area of technology. These types of reflective surveys allow one to find areas of strengths and areas of improvement. As an administrator, utilizing surveys such as these allow one to analyze the current state of technological resource use and identify the professional development needs of my campus. These surveys showed me that in some areas we are doing well, but the feedback also displayed some definite areas for improvement.

I discovered, through the technology applications inventory, a variety of strengths and weaknesses. I found that, for the most part, I am fairly strong in three of the four domains. My strengths are definitely with my wide knowledge base of platforms, software and my ability to communicate in various electronic ways. That level of comfort becomes important when attempting to support staff members who are not well-versed in technological applications and resources. I discovered that my weakest area in technology was problem solving. In particular, I discovered I was weak in collaboration regarding technology.

With the SETDA survey, I found similar results. While our school exhibits many strengths with regards to the implementation of various technologies, our school still has room to grow. Strengths discovered in this survey include the variety of technology, such as word processing and spreadsheets that my students use within the classroom. In addition, similar to the technology application inventory, it was noted that I am fairly skilled in a variety of software applications, that I have my students use regularly. Areas of weakness that I need to obtain more professional development in are in the areas of distance learning, multi-media editing and utilizing research sources such as EBSCO and ERIC. The biggest area of improvement needed is in obtaining knowledge of how to engage students in online collaboration and communicating with others. In addition, while our district has provided up to date technology for each campus, teachers are not using these resources daily or even weekly in classrooms.