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Welcome Bagdad Elementary 3rd Grade Teachers!
 This is an online learning environment set up to help 3rd Grade Teachers at Bagdad Elementary in Leander, TX collaborate with one another to help us with the following: 
 * Integrate technology into our daily lessons.
 * Share ideas for lesson plans in an online forum in real time.
 * Share knowledge and insight into what works in the classroom.
 * Ask questions and research how we can make our classrooms better.

  **Here is a great, quick video that helps explain what this site can do for us as a group to collaborate together online. Enjoy! (since this video is on you tube, you may have to view it from home, but it is worth the 4 minutes!)  ** ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> The Texas STaR Chart shows our growth, both as teachers and as a campus, how we are progressing towards the goals of The Texas Long-Range Plan for Technology Integration. As a campus, Bagdad Elementary has advanced quite a bit in the last three years, especially in Key Area IV - Infrastructure for Technology. This school year is bound to grow in this area again with the introduction of LCD Projectors in every classroom and more readily available document cameras (Elmos).

With all this growth in our technology infrastructure on campus, **do you feel that we, as educators, are using this technology in ways that truly enhance the classroom experiences for our students?** STaR Chart data shows that we have advanced access to professional development, yet our professional development experiences and capabilities as educators to implement technology in our classrooms has remained stagnant as developing for the last three years. Why do you think this is the case, and **what can we do to help ourselves plan and implement better technology use in our classrooms?** Inquiring minds want to know!

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(197, 0, 255);"> __**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Members: **__ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Erin Johnston - 3rd Grade, self-contained classroom <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Claudia Ruiz - 3rd Grade, self-contained classroom <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Teresa Duran - 3rd Grade, self-contained Bilingual classroom Sherrin Abernethy - 3rd Grade, self-contained classroom John Sandobal - Technology Facilitator Belinda Anthens - Instructional Coach

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(238, 27, 47);">This is a learning environment that will be constantly changing and growing to fit our needs as a team. All feedback is welcome and necessary for this space to be useful to us! I look forward to seeing how "our Wiki" will help us integrate technology and help us work together to make the rest of this year and beyond better and more efficient! ======