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What is technology integration? Why should teachers integrate technology in the classroom? What effective strategies exist to encourage higher levels of teacher technology integration? What are the skills and tools that teachers need to effectively integrate technology into their instructional practices? These are the questions that we hope will be answered throughout this exciting new series of workshops that has been designed to complement the work that has already started in school districts across the region. Based on the highly successful Beginner’s Technology Proficiency Series developed by the New Jersey Network of ETTCs in 1997, this series will provide K-12 teachers with a thorough overview of topics that will build and strengthen their abilities to more fully integrate technology across all content areas and all instructional modalities.

TIPS Workshops are organized into 6 categories:

Managing the Technology-Rich Classroom
Interactive Whiteboards
Multimedia Across the Content Areas
Implementing Global Learning in Your Classroom
Web Literacy
Teacher’s Toolkit

Teachers do not need to register for workshops in any particular order. Workshops may be taken out of sequence.

Completion of 12 designated workshops within the series will earn participants a special certificate from the SRI&ETTC noting this accomplishment and designation.

In order to earn a TIPS Certificate from the SRI&ETTC, teachers must attend workshops listed in each of the following categories:

Managing the Technology-Rich Classroom (Must take 3 Workshops)

21st Century Classrooms
Web 2.0 Tools for Teaching, Learning and Sharing Content
Integrating Technology through Project- based learning
Using Safe Social Networks to Manage the Classroom
Growing Reflective Digital Portfolios
Blooming with Digital Formative Assessments
Building the Webquest

Interactive Whiteboards (Must take 2 Workshops)

Smartboard and Smart Notebook - Basic Operations and Applications
RM Easiteach Next Generation
Developing Lessons for Interactive Whiteboards

Multimedia Across the Content Areas (Must take 2 Workshops)

Video Production
Using Digital Media in the Classroom
Expand Your Digital Imagination with Adobe Photoshop
Sharing Narratives through Digital Storytelling
Using Multimedia for Project-based Assessments
Podcasting and Mobile Media

Implementing Global Learning in Your Classroom (Must take 1 Workshop)

Social Learning
Successful Collaboration with Shared Editing Tools
Virtual Field Trips

Web Literacy (Must take 2 Workshops)

Cybersafety and Digital Citizenship
Smart Searches
Research and Accountability
Evaluating Websites

Teacher’s Toolkit (Must take 2 Workshops)

Web 2.0 Tools for Educators
Take Me to the Cloud
MS Office 2010 Applications for Personal and Professional Productivity
Online Professional Learning Communities (PLC) and Personal Learning Networks. (PLN)
Using Screencasting for Self- Directed Learning and Flipped Classrooms

All workshops will include discussions regarding the use of technology within the Common Core Standards as well as the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards.

NOTE:
Teachers may be able to receive the TIPS designation by substituting other workshops that they have attended at the SRI & ETTC on a case-by-case basis.