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[|Seabrook Climate Survey Form] [|Seabrook Climate Survey Results] ** Collecting and Publishing School Climate Data **

**This year, we started a Character Education Program at Seabrook. I wanted to gather baseline data about how our staff and students feel about Seabrook using a Lickert Scale. I created a Google Survey Form of 21 statements. I embedded the form in my Google Site. Then, I randomly selected 5 students from each of the classes from 3rd through 6th grade. I gathered half of them one morning in the computer lab and the other half the next day. I directed the respondents to my website and they were able to access the forms from there. The responses were automatically captured and reported in a spreadsheet. The results summary reveal a general feeling of well-being and acceptance in Seabrook. I like working at Seabrook and I assume everyone else or at least most of the staff and students feel the same way, too. With the school climate data that I now have, I no longer need assume. I know and I can back up my claim with hard data.

Technology Standards** [|**Standard I: Technology Information Access, Evaluation, Processing and Application**] Access, evaluate, and process information efficiently and effectively

[|**Standard VII: Professional Growth**] Develop professional practices that support continual learning and professional growth in technology

 [|Google Presentation] **Using Visuals to Generate Ideas for Writing** ===When my 5th grade students were asked to write about something new that they might want to learn to do or make, their responses showed an impoverished stock knowledge - perhaps from their lack of experience and exposure. In order to call their attention to the plethora of activities that are available around them or that they could dream about, I decided to show them a sampling of those activities through photographs. Hopefully, the presentation will get their juices going and spark more ideas. I included graphic organizers at the end to help them write their first drafts of their descriptive paragraphs. ===

[|*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 VII: Professional Growth**] Develop professional practices that support continual learning and professional growth in technology

=Reflection =

This is the age of miracles! In two days, I had gathered and published the data that I needed.

I have gotten used to using PowerPoint to create my visual aids. If it were not for this project, I would have most definitely created my instructional aid on PowerPoint. So, initially I was moaning and groaning as I was creating a Google presentation, declaring that this was an utter waste of time because I would still use PowerPoint in the future. I like using custom animation and the sounds on my PPts. Students stay alert and engaged with all the motion and the sounds going on. Google doesn't have those fancy stuff. But I realized that Google has fancy stuff too that are not in PPt. Like the //insert drawing// tool. I could create something and then all I need to do is click //save// and it goes right to the slide. There were times that I had wished I could just draw and paste my drawing on PPT. That would've been possible but would have taken several steps. With Google it was just a matter of drawing, saving, resizing, and voila, there it was on the slide.