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Course 1079

Technology Integration in the Classroom: Excite Students and Enhance Learning

Apply this towards your professional development requirements

Tuition: $249 complete

Contact us for our quantity discount policy at questions@americancenterforeducators.org

What You'll Learn


Integrate technology into your classroom using a proven process of success. Excite your students by incorporating technology into your lessons, activities, and classrooms. Utilize online quizzes, educational video games, digital cameras, interactive white boards, and a variety of other classroom technologies at little or no cost.


In this course, you will learn how to integrate technology into your classroom, lesson plans, and even parent communications. You will discover:


  • The steps of technology integration
  • Various technologies that can enhance classroom activities
  • Different methods of increasing parent involvement
  • How to increase your classroom library without tapping into your budget
  • Strategies for reaching students when you aren’t in the classroom

Highlights

Technology Integration

  • Understand the steps of technology integration
  • Identify your current stage of technology integration and what you should do to increase integration in your classroom
  • Learn what types of technology other teachers are using in their classrooms

Strategies to Enhance Teacher Resources and Presentations

  • Apply search engine techniques that will increase the availability of effective resources
  • Explore multiple technologies to expand presentation abilities and styles
  • Incorporate new technologies to cater to unique student needs

Strategies to Improve Student and Parent Communication

  • Utilize new techniques to analyze and track student performance
  • Incorporate blogs, email, and websites to easily reach students
  • Increase parent communication with social networking and surveys

Your Instructor


Robin Sellers is a certified teacher with a Master of Arts degree with a concentration in Technical and Professional Communication. She has over eleven years experience in the traditional classroom and has been an online instructor since 2000 where she has trained thousands of students. She has the ability to take difficult or technical concepts and make them easy to understand for her students. Her students claim that she has a gift for communicating online in a clear, concise, and personal way and that she is a 'born' teacher who makes her courses interesting and enjoyable.

The Virtual Teachers Lounge™

Check in with your peers and get answers to your questions – any time, 24/7. Taking this course will give you exclusive access to the thoughts, insights and experience of other educators and K-12 experts discussing your topics and giving you solutions and ideas for whatever is on your mind. In the Teachers' lounge, you can:

  • Learn new, working strategies and solutions from other educators – live!
  • Get answers to your toughest questions from top K-12 experts
  • Discuss course topics with your peers and benefit from their experiences
  • Share your success stories and best practices to benefit other teachers and administrators
  • Get new perspectives, fresh ideas and guidance – whenever you need it.
  • You can log whenever is most convenient for you, 24/7

All you have to do is sign up for this course, and you're in!

Connect with, hear from and get help from you peers.


Materials & Assessment

Lectures Your lectures, delivered by one of the nation's leading, recognized experts on this topic, are presented in multiple parts to make listening and tracking your progress easier. You can listen to each as often as you like by playing it on your computer, downloading it to your iPod or other MP3 player, even burning it to CD. Listen wherever it is most convenient for you: at home, in your car; at the park; and whenever you like: before or after work, at night or on weekends. Many educators can complete a module in only a week.
Text Resources Virtual text resources are downloadable and expand on the material covered in your lectures. They may include articles, web links to related materials and web sites, definitions of important terms and concepts, and a bibliography. All materials can be viewed on your computer or downloaded and printed.
Assessment To receive your Certificate of Completion or Certificate of Attendance and earn Professional Development/Continuing Education units/credits/hours, you will need to complete all assessments and submit all final projects.
Virtual Teachers Lounge To gain Professional Development credits or hours for any of these three modules, you must participate in the Virtual teachers Lounge discussion for that module. If you are not seeking credits or hours, participation in the Lounge is not mandatory, but you are still welcome to connect with and share your thoughts, questions, insights and experience with your peers at any time.
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Technology Integration in the Classroom: Excite Students and Enhance Learning

Tuition: $249
Contact us for our quantity discount policy at questions@americancenterforeducators.org