4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility: d: develop and model cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with colleagues and students of other cultures using digital-age communication and collaboration tools.

5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership: a: participate in local and global communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning.

Goals: attend additional professional learning courses to improve modeling digital citizenship and responsibility; collaborate with colleagues in house and through the web for communication resources with other communities and cultures; set time aside for practice and application before presenting this to my students. Internet safety for students is crucial; therefore, a major goal is to be sure students have the necessary tools to navigate safely on the web. Along with this, students must understand that the information on the web isn't their's and they will know how to give credit to sources on the Internet.

Action: The information I will need to meet these goals are cultural awareness for other teachers and students of differing geographies around the globe. Further, effective instruction and guidance provided by a digital communication specialist in the above areas is essential for my learning in this field. Also, I plan to search the Internet for valid resources of specific content related to my state's curriculum standards.

Monitor: I would like to monitor these goals through the use of blogging with colleagues and taking personal notes along the way. Also, I would like to begin this process with a small activity to determine its outcome-perhaps engage in communicating with an online source such as epals.com.

Evaluate and extend: to determine if I have met these goals, if the initial activity of communicating with epals is effective, I will transfer to a specific technological strategy focusing on content area. For this to be successful, small steps must be taken before I can plan a larger, more involved project.

Many of the other standards I observed from NETS-S offered technological instruction indicators that I would like to begin now, such as designing and developing digital age learning experiences and assessments. However, I chose the two above because I believe they offer background specifics for utilizing the Internet and the reasons for its application. So often, students have selfish motives for gathering information from the web, and they need to understand how to give credit for this information, understand how other students learn through technology, and how we can learn so much from each other through our combined efforts.

Cennamo, Ross, & Ertmer. (2009). Technology Integration for Meaningful Classroom Use. Mason, OH. Cengage Learning.

http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/2008Standards/NETS_T_Standards_Final.pdf