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media type="custom" key="5779159" =A Little About Me= > =Introduction to my ePortfolio= Welcome to my ePortfolio. Inside you will find a compilation of artifacts that I have created through an "Enhancing Core Teaching Skills Through Technology" course. I hope you find something useful inside and if you do feel free to use it within the parameters of its license. =**My goal(s)**= **__Beginning__** **__End__**
 * __Enhancing Core Teaching Skills with Technology__
 * ** I am Todd Wheaton a high school Science/Biology teacher at Port Allegany. **
 * ** I have a wife and 4 children. **
 * ** I live in Eldred. **
 * ** I attended high school at Oswayo Valley and earned a BS in Biology at Gannon University. I later went to Edinboro University for graduate courses and a teaching certificate. **
 * I worked in an environmental lab that tested drinking water for 8 years, before becoming a teacher.
 * My goal for this course is to find real world, useable technology applications to integrate into my CP Biolgy classes. I want to find/create projects that my students can complete on-line to solve real world Environmental or Biological issues that are current and relevant to all of us.
 * According to my LOTI survey I place the most priority on "student learning and creativity" and "digital citizenship and responsibility". These results do not suprise me, as looking through the list of results I still consider these 2 areas to be the most important. I want to find ways to improve "digital age learning experiences and assessments".
 * According to "Authentic Learning for the 21st Century" new technological tools are available to bring more experimentation and action into the classroom. I hope to find some of these tools that I can use.
 * I did find ideas for a few projects that I can create to engage my students on-line, with real world Biology applications. I did not find the databases and materials I was hoping for.
 * I did discover several ideas on ways to evaluate students performance and I created a set of guidelines for Good Digital Citizenship, that I will use in the future.
 * I did not find the tools I was looking for, to use in my Biology Classroom. I did find a few other "tools" that I will incorporate.

=My Integration Plan=

