KSU Capstone Project: Parents and Technology
by Jenny Leclair
Purpose:
My capstone proposal project is to create a video blog of tutorials created by teachers, technology leaders, and specialists at FES. I would begin with making instructional videos of how to set up your child’s Office 365 account, instructional features of RAZ-Kids, provide examples of reading levels and share digital tools that can help any elementary child. These digital resources can increase student achievement and can be especially useful for students who are struggling in reading and math. I plan to involve any teacher willing to make a video tutorial in the capstone project proposal and will include their video in the video blog. I would post announcements for technology and parent sessions and communicate with our school’s technology specialist about new digital resources that are upcoming in the school system. My goal would be to increase parent technology education by increasing communication among teachers and parents which will then result in student achievement.
The video blog of resources will have participants such as parents, teachers, principal assistant principals, and students at FES. I believe that the teachers who will participate will have the knowledge to share. The parents will have immediate access by scanning a QR code of the video to give them direct access to the instructional video. The video blog can be available any time during the school year and can have the flexibility of being on the FES website. There is a great need for connecting parents especially early on to introduce resources and parents can utilize them at home. Since technology tools are integrated into every day instruction and immersed in science, math, and social studies the website will serve as a collection of short technology training videos.
My capstone proposal project is to create a video blog of tutorials created by teachers, technology leaders, and specialists at FES. I would begin with making instructional videos of how to set up your child’s Office 365 account, instructional features of RAZ-Kids, provide examples of reading levels and share digital tools that can help any elementary child. These digital resources can increase student achievement and can be especially useful for students who are struggling in reading and math. I plan to involve any teacher willing to make a video tutorial in the capstone project proposal and will include their video in the video blog. I would post announcements for technology and parent sessions and communicate with our school’s technology specialist about new digital resources that are upcoming in the school system. My goal would be to increase parent technology education by increasing communication among teachers and parents which will then result in student achievement.
The video blog of resources will have participants such as parents, teachers, principal assistant principals, and students at FES. I believe that the teachers who will participate will have the knowledge to share. The parents will have immediate access by scanning a QR code of the video to give them direct access to the instructional video. The video blog can be available any time during the school year and can have the flexibility of being on the FES website. There is a great need for connecting parents especially early on to introduce resources and parents can utilize them at home. Since technology tools are integrated into every day instruction and immersed in science, math, and social studies the website will serve as a collection of short technology training videos.