Enter the Teacher Skills Ladder from this page. The Teacher Skill Ladder consists of 11 separate digital skills (or categories) that are part of our Digital Tools Place Study Project. As a participant you are expected to master as many of these skills as you possibly can. For each of those skills that you master you will be rewarded with Digital Tools $$$--equipment & software-- to spend on your project. For each skill or task that you accomplish you must verify that you completed it. Directions are provided within the description of each task as how to verify a task.
To start the Teacher Skill Ladder process you can either click on the picture of the category or click in the box at the right labeled 'Skill Ladder Category'. [You may have to use this second process since sometimes the images do not connect to their respective Teacher Skill Ladder categories. You will also notice that some of the 11 categories have Skill Ladder Task Sheets to accomplish also and some do not. You can tell which ones do and which ones do not simply by reading in the box at the right of the category.
So, start by clicking on the title of a Skills Ladder category (e.g. File Management) to open the ladder. These task sheets have been written generically so that, with minor modification, you might be able to use them with students. Also, you will notice that some of these were accomplished during the summer workshop. Enjoy.
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Teacher Skill Ladder #1: File Management Click here to access the two File Management Task Sheets within this category: Part #1: Introductory File Management Skills Part #2: Developing a file management system for your Place Study |
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Teacher Skill Ladder #2: PalmPilots or Portable Data Gathering & Sharing Click here to access the two PalmPilot tasks sheets for this category. Part A: Introductory PalmPilot Use Skills Part B. Using the PalmPilot and ImagiWorks Interface for collecting data with probes. Part C. Creating your own calibration files with ImagiWorks is coming later. |
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Teacher Skill Ladder #3: Computer Operations Click here to access the Computer Operations Task Sheet directly. |
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Teacher Skill Ladder #4: Digital Documents & Tools. There are no task sheets to complete for this category. |
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Teacher Skill Ladder #5: Internet Research Click here to access the Internet Research task sheets directly. |
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Teacher Skill Ladder #6: Place Study Collaboration. Click here to access the skill ladder. There are no extra task sheets to accomplish for this category. |
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Teacher Skill Ladder #7: Electronic Mail Click here to access the skills ladder. There are no extra task sheets to accomplish for this category. |
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Teacher Skill Ladder #8: Dissemination. Click here to access the skills ladder. There are no extra task sheets to accomplish for this category. |
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Teacher Skill Ladder #9: Digital Products Click here to access the skills ladder. You can click here to access the Digital Tools Web Product Assessment Rubric also. |
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Teacher Skill Ladder #10: Image Processing. Click here to access the Imaging Task Sheet directly. This task sheet is part of the Imaging category. |
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Teacher Skill Ladder #11: Project-based Instruction Click here to access the Project-based Task Sheet directly. This task sheet is part of the Project-based category. |
