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=Putting it all Together: What will these Technologies Look like in Your Classroom?=

Overview:

 * Evaluate which tech activities would be most appropriate for your course
 * Create a semester long plan to incorporate technologies in class
 * Create materials necessary for integration plan
 * Create assessment strategies for tech products
 * Presentation and evaluation of integration plan

Objectives:

 * 1) create a comprehensive tech plan for individual classroom
 * 2) create rubrics to evaluate student work with Web 2.0 technologies
 * 3) synthesize technology skills and content knowledge to create learning opportunities using what has been presented during professional develompent

Content:
As teachers, we all know the ups and downs of professional development. Often times the pd itself is informative and offers many new ways of improving your teaching; however, because we are so bumrushed with material we have no time to process it in order to implement it in the classroom. To make sure that this all too common problem of PD does not happen with this course, the entire last day will be spent working on strategies to incorporate what you have learned in your classrooms. Along with developing a plan for tech use, you will also learn ways of assessing what students produce and how to use these products as alternate assessments in order to differentiate instruction. You will be working with educators that teach the same content so that you can develop lesson plans, projects, tests, etc. together in a way that will create your own tech support system if you should need it throughout the semester. Try to use as much of what you have learned as possible in the unit plans you are creating so that you have a chance to explore what these technologies can mean for your classroom. Please remember to complete the Course Evaluation when done with today's learning activities to let the Professional Development team know what we have done well and what we still need to improve. Thank you.

Learning Activities:

 * 1) Teachers will have a briefing lead by the AP coordinator for the county at the beginning of the day to lay out the objectives for the final day of professional development.
 * 2) Teachers will be divided into groups based on the AP course that they teach
 * 3) In these groups, teachers will brainstorm and then listen to a presentation on ways of assessing student created products: from presentations, to podcasts, blogs, wikis, etc.
 * 4) Facilitators will then split the teachers they have into smaller groups to begin working on their unit plans
 * 5) The final hour of the PD day will be set aside for presentations of the units. Each group of educators will have 10-15 minutes to present their unit plans to the class. Teachers will create all the documents on Google Docs to be shared with the rest of the educators in the classroom. Educator's presentations will also be expected to conform to the principles of multimedia presentations.
 * 6) At the culmination of the PD teachers will be asked to complete the Course Evaluation document

Resources:
Unit Plan Directions Ways of Assessing student Tech Products:
 * Assessing Students’ Wiki Contributions by Edward Gehringer
 * The Use of Wikis and Blogs in Assessments
 * Grading 2.0