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Do you integrate the technology standards into your curriculum? List specific ways that you have integrated technology into your content area. Integrate keyboarding into content area research; classroom assessment; interactive games at RainforestMaths.com; collaborate with social studies teacher on Webquests; use for library skills instruction; Web design, digital photography, and graphic design classes at Mortimer Jordan HS; virtual field trips; United Streaming media into content area; Power Point presentations; English classes use Accelerated Reader; student response system are used for classroom assessment and teaching purposes.

Do your administrators model daily use of technology? If so, how? E-mail; principal-created grade information; use of web clips, Power Point presentations during faculty meetings; discipline on STI; Blackberry;

Do you share with your colleagues the knowledge gained at the technology professional development activities? How? Do you conduct a follow up session or conversation? Yes, in large and small group meetings; face-to-face conversations; follow-up conversations

How would you be able to benefit from having a full-time tech coordinator to assist in technology integration in your classroom? All five participants in our group said that having a full-time tech coordinator would help engage students in learning through technology, help the teachers learn how to to fully integrate and use the available to them on a full-time basis.