The second Technology Assessment from the State Educational Technology Directors Association was not as useful in defining the technology knowledge and skills. Many of the questions were about collecting data to see if technology is impacting student achievement in my content area. Because I teach elementary music, there isn't really much data being collected or analyzed. Certainly, to some extent, we could work on this, but I will need to research some options.
My students will get to create a podcast this year by creating a piece of music in Garage Band that reflects a piece of abstract art. They will post their podcast on Posterous so that students and their parents can view the artwork and hear the composition at home.
Our Technology Committee has created a set of expectations for students at each grade level, but with little to no teacher training, I don't really see the students accomplishing these goals schoolwide. The teachers that are comfortable with technology are doing more with their students of course, but little staff development time has been given to helping the others.
We do have electronic gradebooks in our district to help manage student assessment data. Through this graduate school work, I have learned about discussion boards and blogs. I had never participated in these forums for communication.
Our school has just gone wireless, so access to the Internet has improved greatly. We do have a school server to use as a shared storage area as well.
As far as I know, our district/school has not collected data on different groups of students' access to tech equipment, software and technology uses. It would be interesting to see some informal data on students from low socio-economic backgrounds, girls, students from historically disadvantaged racial or ethnic backgrounds and students with special learning needs.