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=Welcome to Tech Integration Made Easy=
 * Integrating Technology Across the Content Areas**

**Course Description****:**
This course expands the focus of technology use in the classroom by exploring instructional strategies and digital tools that facilitate content area literacy and learning. Teachers learn how to design technology-infused projects that will motivate students and help them meet specific curricular standards. Teachers explore developmentally appropriate ways of using multimedia and Internet technologies to bring discipline-specific concepts to life and foster interdisciplinary connections that enhance learning across the curriculum.

This class is designed to lead and support educators in the development and evaluation of an integrated technology instructional unit. The focus for this course is to produce teacher-created materials that integrate technology into classroom instructional plans.

**Goals/Objectives:**
By the end of this course each participant will have created a unit that integrates multiple technological components and effectively disseminate the unit in his/her instruction. Upon completion of their unit in their classroom, educators will reconvene to discuss the positive and negative aspects of their experience, focusing on construction models that increase student motivation and learning, while utilizing resources effectively and efficiently.

Upon Completion of the course the professional educator should have acquired:
 * Knowledge of various types of educational software.
 * The ability to identify and select instructional resources available through the Internet.
 * The ability to integrate software, Internet, and other peripherals into a unit of instruction.
 * Techniques of applying computer-based instruction in the classroom.