Outline for meeting first three ISTE standards...

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

This one is fairly self-explanatory; well, it is worth adding that this standard includes utilizing digital environments as places of collaboration between students. I would use PowerPoint for certain group projects in the classroom, where the students choose their topics and (ideally) self-delineate research, composition and presentation tasks. This format allows them to incorporate traditional text as cues / info summaries, as well as the more palpable graphs, charts, pictures, music, videos etc. I would also use a blog as a tool to have students comment on specific readings or other kinds of prompts; the comments that follow would be how they would be graded.

2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

To me, this means using computers and other electronic devices to provide enhanced and more interfaceable learning activities for students. It also entails using these tools to get more and better data on student progress, and in an ideal sense teaching them to use tools to monitor their own skill development. The blogging mentioned above falls into the 'assessment' part of this, but I also want to develop virtual labs and to also bring as many of my materials (worksheets, notes, etc.) as possible into a central webpage. The virtual labs will allow either observation or exploration of exciting, real-world things. The materials on the web will provide a starting point for working-level translations into Spanish (re: BabelFish).

3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning

This is probably the most straightforward of all the ISTE standards. Basically "know and use current technology as a cooperative teacher, and share what you know and learn with other adults that are stakeholders in your student's success. I think meeting this standard will basically come very organically out of a desire to provide students with multiple, interest-gathering in-roads to learning.