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= = =**Welcome to AIMS Teache ****r Technology Training Workshop. **= ====Over the next 8-10 days you will be given training on how to use technology in your classrooms effectively, efficiently, and see just how easy it can be! ====

The goal of this training is to help you, the classroom teacher, achieve the following:
 * 1) Understand the role technology plays in our students lives and how we can help make them better "digital citizens."
 * 2) Learn how to troubleshoot some of the basic technology issues you may run into in class, without too much interruption.
 * 3) Understand Web 2.0 and use some of the web 2.0 tools that are available (maybe discover some on the way.)
 * 4) Understand what types of hardware, software, and other technology tools are available for you to use in your school/classroom.
 * 5) Learn how to develop lesson plans and curriculum so that it integrates technology in a meaningful and pedagogical way.
 * 6) Discuss Project-based Learning and learn how to create PBL lessons using some of the resources available.

 I want you to feel comfortable while taking this workshop, and in order to do that, It's nice to know a little about the trainer. (That's me in the sweatshirt.) I taught art and technology courses for 11 years at St. Vincent Pallotti HS. During that time I, along with our vice-principal and IT directors developed a 1:1 laptop program at the school. We began the program in the fall of 2009 and are currently in our 3rd year. Once we realized the actual time consumption of this program, I no longer taught and became the technology integration specialist at Pallotti. So I am not just an IT person, but I have also been a classroom teacher and understand the day-to-day classroom procedures. I want to make it so that technology is a seamless part of your classroom and your teaching. I hope that with my 11 years of teaching high school students and over 20 years of technology experience, combined with your teaching experience, that this is exactly what will happen.

If you need to contact me, you can do so by email - jjacobs@pallottihs.org, or phone - 301-725-3228 x245.