My name is Beth Albery. I am a senior at Albion College, and I am applying for the M-COATT Technology Certification. I taught in a third grade classroom that had four Windows computers for students. We also had access to a computer lab where the entire class could work at one time. Microsoft Word and HyperStudio was installed on all computers in the school, and all computers were equipped with headphones so that students and parents could hear the audio portion of our HyperStudio project.

Standard C: I taught a writing unit in which students became familiar with multimedia to publish and illustrate a digital book. Students practiced typing skills on Microsoft Word and learned to use the HyperStudio drawing tools, textboxes, buttons, and graphics.

Standard D: I used an instructional resource called PIViT to design transdisciplinary units in health and science. I created a visual concept map that shows the connections between the lessons and objectives within the units.

Standard E: My class presented our HyperStudio project to friends and family during a parent night at our school. We communicated to parents the process we went through to create our project. The students were able to use the computers in our classroom to show their parents our digital book.

Personal Reflection