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**What was I supposed to accomplish and how?**
I was assigned to analyze an online, technology-integrated lesson and adapt it to the GPS, as well as provide a formative assessment. This was a good way of showing how a lesson can be extended and enriched through technology while still aligning with Georgia performance standards.

I enjoyed finding new and exciting ways of incorporating technology into a lesson, but I also found exploring the assessments something that will benefit me immensely in the future as an educator. While I have done several lesson plans in my second block of field experience, this was my first opportunity to identify and expound on a formal assessment for the classroom.
 * What did I learn (growth/progress)?**

I would like to have found more examples of technology to use for my lesson. While the plan I found was a good one, it would have been better to have allowed the students more independent inquiry, such that rather than telling them about tornadoes and where they occur, this fact might better have been "uncovered" by the children themselves through the experiment.
 * What should I have done differently?**

As a teacher, I will continually be devising formal assessments and working through the frameworks of the GPS, and this assignment is a great jumping off point in learning how to put all the pieces of the puzzle together. The artifact is a terrific way of preparing educators in the formation of wikis, assessment, technology-inclusion and combing through the complex workings of a successful lesson plan.
 * Why is this artifact important to my targeted career?**