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** Teachers know how to teach. **
The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies, including the use of technology, to encourage children's development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.

Project introduction: Storybird [] Project completion: Glogster http://www.glogster.com/ Project Lesson Plan:
 * Evidence 1:**

This lesson was created in Edt 658 Multimedia for my high school sculpture class. In the computer lab students accessed my web site and found the links to Storybird and Glogster. Through a book I created using Storybird, I introduce the Glogster project and its basic requirements. The Glogster poster project includes; a favorite quote, self-descriptive word, photo(s) of self, logos from products students use, images that represent interests and hobbies, and/or music lyrics or sounds. The purpose of this project was to improve student computer graphic skills while designing a well-balanced layout. Through problem solving students had to decide what to include in their ‘glog’ that visually identifies their unique characteristics and incorporated strong design elements such as contrast, balance, focal point, color, and unity.
 * Rationale 1:**

This was the first time I have used Storybird and Glogster. It improved my graphic design skills as well as increasing my list of multimedia resources. Glogster provides many examples of projects on their web site. Students were impressed with the variety of posters people have created. Students learned or improved import images skills from various sources; jump drives, Facebook and the Internet. They learned how to use a photo cropping and capture tools available with a program installed on the district computers from Smart Technologies.

KSD Glogster and Story bird both provided new impressive resources for students. Both web resources created a great segue into the 3-Dimensions ‘About Me’ Shadow box sculpture project. The glog posters students created became the idea gathering, problem solving, and innovative planning for the shadow box project.
 * 4.K.3 The teacher knows how to enhance learning through the use of a wide variety of materials and technological resources (e.g. computers, audio-visual technologies, videotapes and discs, local experts, primary documents and artifacts, texts, reference books, literature, and other print resources). **

Lab time working on student glog posters became a sharing of ideas and techniques between student and teacher. I was constantly learning and adjusting to tips and tricks as we worked on problem solving technical issues.
 * 4.S.3 The teacher constantly monitoring and adjusting strategies in response to learner feedback. **

The implementation of ideas and techniques gained from student input, demonstrates how I value student knowledge.
 * 4.D.1 The teacher values the development of students’ critical thinking, independent problem solving, and performance capabilities. **