The RIPPLES model helps you to consider the breadth of impact that a technology may have within an environment. As you think about your own context, take a moment to consider an area in which instructional technology may be especially useful or needed - for example, you may be facing a particular type of training challenge, seeking opportunities to improve student engagement, or hoping to collect more robust learning analytics.

Once you've considered your own needs, please take some time to find a technology tool that may help to address the opportunity or challenge you've identified. This does not need to be a tool you've used before.

Once you've chosen a technology tool, please answer the following:

1) Briefly describe the learning environment and the technology being integrated.

2) Complete the matrix below in your answer, illustrating each RIPPLES Model element according to your context. Where possible, pay attention to any RIPPLES components that might also be potentially informed by using an equity lens.

Describe in your own words Illustration from your example Resources The fiscal resources necessary to purchase, implement, service, and support a technology; answers: "How are we going to pay for it?" Infrastructure The hardware, software, facilities, and network capabilities of a learning environment; answers "Will it work in our current system?" People Cooperation among all stakeholders through shared decision-making and effective communication, cannot be overlooked; answers "Who will do it?"Policies Organizational policies and procedures that enable adaption to new technologies; answers "Are we allowed to do it? Are we expected to do it?" Learning The technology is a means for enhancing the specific learning goals of a learning environment; answers "How will it improve learning?" Evaluation Continual assessment of the learning technology about (a) its effectiveness for enhancing teaching, (b) whether a better alternative has emerged, (c) the efficacy of its integration into the learning environment, and (d) the return on investment achieved in relation to the technology's cost; answers "Is it actually working?" Support The training, technical support, pedagogical support, and administrative leadership that enables the technology to continue to be effective; answers "Will it continue to work for us?"