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Technology skills for teachers


In order to create Digital artifacts for teaching and learning teachers must have a variety of skills.

Skills include the ability to
 * Create Word processing documents (e.g. Office, or cloud document editors like Google docs)
 * Create Multimedia elements (images, audio, video)
 * Combine media (in a web page, using a presentation tool)

Video: Interactive Multimedia (Takes a lot of preparation and practice)

Further references
Please add additional references you find to the list below...
 * Andrade, D. (2012). 10 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have. Retrieved from http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/10-technology-skills-every-educator.html
 * Bell, L. (Ed.) (2001). Preparing tomorrow's teachers to use technology: Perspectives of the leaders of twelve national education associations. Retrieved from http://www.citejournal.org/vol1/iss4/currentissues/general/article1.htm
 * A bit of history,
 * Davis, S.L. (2012), Making The Shift, The How of 21st C Teaching, Voices, Web Tools that deepen Learning, Retrieved from http://plpnetwork.com/2012/09/18/skills-21st-century-teacher/ (User:Kiwitaz 22:15, 10 March 2013 (EDT))
 * Ford, M. D. (2010). 25 Tech Skills Every Teacher Should Possess. Instructional Technology @ WHS Retrieved from http://itwhs.blogspot.co.nz/p/25-tech-skills-every-teacher-should.html
 * Turner, L. (2005) Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have. Retrieved from http://thejournal.com/articles/2005/06/01/20-technology-skills-every-educator-should-have.aspx
 * Turner, L. (2010) Technology Skills that Every Educator Should Have. Digital Learning Environments, NewBay Media LLC. Retrieved from http://www.guide2digitallearning.com/tools_technologies/20_technology_skills_every_educator_should_have

Technology skills for learners
This does depend on the level of student. Obviously the skills needed by a pre-schooler will be significantly different from those of an IT Degree student. However, when developing course material it is important to consider the skill set of the students you expect to use the content. In the "old" days text books were often rated using a "reading" level scale.