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__Welcome to Integrating Technology in the Math Classroom! __
 I hope that you will enjoy exploring all the opporttunities that wikis have in collaborating, sharing lesson plans, introducing new ideas and hopfully driving professional development to help with technology in the classroom. I look forward to seeing and discussing everyone's ideas and input. The following are things I would like you to consider when responding to this wiki...


 * This wiki was started by a 5th grade math teacher at Fisher Elementary and will incorporate ideas and thoughts from other math teachers (primarily 5th grade) across the district.
 * Professional Development is an area of growth that not only Fisher, but Frisco is focusing a lot of attentention on. I am hoping that this wiki will allow us to direct that focus to what we need as professionals to help integrate technology into our math classrooms.
 * The State of Texas has a Long Range Plan for Technology for the years of 2006-2020 ([|Long Range Plan]). See page 100 for their goal on Teacher Preparation and Development. With this Long Range Plan, many of you are familiar with the STaR Chart survey that teachers take each fall about technology integration on their campus. On this chart (please see the link provoded below to look at Texas overall and your specifuc campus) campuses are rated on a scale from early, to developing, to advanced and finally to target. One of the areas of focus is Professional Development. [|Texas STaR Chart]
 * With a wikispace you are allowed to add questions to this home page, as well as respond to the questions posted by myself or others on the discussion page (please navigate to the discussion page when you are ready to post responses). With the information being listed above I would like to post the following questions that I would love to see your responses on.
 * What Technology Professional Development classes would you like to see added at the campus/district level?
 * If we had the capability of uploading visual files to Eduphoria to see lessons that showed integrating technology into the classroom, would you watch them?
 * If time was set aside for professionals (either contract hours or as an after school professional development) to discuss, collaborate or create plans ABOUT YOUR GRADE LEVEL that integrated technology into the classroom, would you attend?
 * What technology tools would you like to integrate into your classroom? i.e. blogs, class websites, wikis, podcasting, etc.
 * In what other direction would you like to see Professional Development go to help you integrate technology into your math instruction?

Thank you for your time and happy teaching!

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