Model

=**Goal 3 - Model digital-age work, research, collaboration and learning .** = = =

I believe this goal should comprise the fabric of who we are as educators, we are role models. If we live what we believe, we will model to our students in an effortless way our understanding, fluency and effective use of digital-age technology. I believe every educator is a role model and as students of this CUW program we are intentional in our effort to understand, research, and be innovative in our use of technology.

My confidence in being a great role model is very high, but my practical use in demonstrating this to parents of students, for example, is very low. I have not had an opportunity to communicate with parents since my teaching is at the college level. However, I am mindful of the importance of incorporating emerging technology with my students and have made some efforts in this arena. One example of this is that I required my students to each create their own student web site using Google docs to post their homework assignments. No paper, please, is what I told them J Some of them struggled at first to accomplish this task but they all eventually had a working website and separate pages for every week and posted all their homework for my review. = =