You can write your lesson plans to include technology and at the same time meet several of the technology objectives for your technology portfolio.  You need to think about this each time you are assigned to write a lesson plan.  If you do a lesson plan in one course and incorporate TV, then the next time you write a lesson plan you should use a different instructional strategy and different use of technology.

If you think through your lesson planning carefully, you can get credit for more than one technology objective for a single lesson plan.  For some lesson plan ideas for including more than one technology objective, see Lesson Plan Ideas.

Here are the technology objectives that you could fulfill in your lesson plans.

10.2    Write your lesson plan to include the use of TV.  You can go to the Internet and get ideas on how to use TV to help you teach your subject.  There are also several lesson plans on the Internet that incorporate TV from which you can get ideas for your own lesson plan.

10.4    To get credit for this objective you must correlate computer skills with subject objectives in your lesson plan.  In other words, look up the computer skills that students in your grade level and subject area are required to learn.  These skills can be found at the DPI web page.  Then in your lesson plan, state the computer skills that your students will learn or reinforce when they complete the activities included in your lesson plan.

12.1    This objective requires that your lesson plan involves students finding and analyzing information and then communicating their results.  In other words, you could have students looking up information from a CD ROM, electronic encyclopedia, or web page, and then to communicate results the students could use word processing, spreadsheets, databases, PowerPoint, or HyperStudio.

12.4    To meet this objective, you must draw the physical setting of a classroom that would support active learning.  This objective fits well with objective 12.5.  You could write your lesson plan to satisfy objective 12.5 and then include a drawing of the classroom, showing placement of desks, computers, printer, scanner, etc so that the room's layout would support active, collaborative learning.

12.5    For this lesson plan, you must have students actively involved in learning, inquiry, and/or collaborative learning (and of course, using technology).  For instance, in your plan you would need to explain the student centered learning strategy that you wish to use and explain why you chose this strategy.  You could have students working in cooperative groups using the Internet or other electronic sources to gather data in order to solve a problem.

12.6    To receive credit for this objective, you need to include the use of video or audioconferencing.  You could have students working with another group of students and they would use videoconferencing to communicate or you coudl have students participating in a videoconference in which they get direct contact with experts in a particular field.

12.7    This objective requires that you use several technologies within your lesson plan and show how you would integrate these technologies in your plan.  For instance, students might use the Internet for finding information and/or communicate with other students or experts in the field, then use digital cameras and/or scanners to collect pictures for a project.  They could use PowerPoint or HyperStudio to put together a presentation for their project.  They could incorporate charts, graphs, or a spreadsheet into their presentation.  They could also use an appropriate computer software program to learn more about the topic.  The idea for this objective is that you use several technologies within one lesson plan.