Tech Team:

• What aspects of Tech Team are successful? Explain why.

I feel that an aspect of the Tech Team that I believe is the most successful is that we are an innovative group of individuals who are always willing to help the community of Riverside. I feel that this year, our team has been able to successfully lend assistance to our school members, teach and demonstrate information surrounding technology and produce creative project which contribute to the future of our school. I feel that as a group, we all excellently work together. Being apart of tech team has not only allowed me to learn technology based information but has also allowed to gain new friends and work with amazing people.

• What aspects of Tech Team are challenging? Explain why.

I feel that an aspect of Tech Team that I personally found a bit challenging is that all though it was fun working and collaborating with my fellow team members, it sometimes was a challenge to be able to find a time for the creation team to meet that would work with all our schedules. Though in the end, it all came together.

• What support does our school need from the Tech Team moving forward?

I feel that our school would benefit from being able to access help from the tech team more easily. I think that having a certain spot where students can come and receive help is a very good thing to have. I think that we should have more days where we go into classes and show students different aspects of technology that would help them through their journey at Riverside. Just last Thursday, I was asked by a teacher to teach two of her grade nine socials classes how to Tech Team Outside of Riverside:

Tech Team Outside of Riverside:

• There is a Technology Leadership school in Albuquerque that uses technology-based learning to teach their students. Just like us, they take pride in helping and giving support to the community. They challenge themselves with inquisitive, hands-on projects.
• Gleneagle Secondary School also holds a Tech Team just like Riverside. They teach students to best use their personal devices. Just like us, they are able to guide their students covering all device areas. They help their students device setup, Office 365 apps and other popular web apps.
• Newtown High School also has a thriving Tech Team as well. I find this school’s tech team very interesting as they have many different experiences to offer.  They have many projects such as managing the local student community access television station, where the team contribute to creating the channel’s content, keeping up maintenance and assuring that the broadcast runs properly. This team also works on producing projects that can be anything with technological value. Whether they be a video, game, website, app, graphic, computer build, etc. These projects are completed individually and in groups.

It is amazing to see so many different schools who are involved in creating a team that takes pride in helping their school community just like Riverside.