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**Week Four**

The theory of teaching with technology is becoming clearer. Student centered cooperative learning improved with technology is a key and needs to be communicated effectively. Through quality continuing and supportive professional development I can provide positive intervention to educators. Using multimedia and web resources to create a project will make students “prepared for the fast paced, virtual workplace that they will inherit, today’s students need to be able to learn and work collaboratively (Friedman, //The World is Flat// 2005). The web is more than an electronic reference book, and our educators need this insight.

As my campus technologist I have a bit of flexibility to choose the content of some professional development trainings. Two week s ago I decided to prepare a training simply entitled, Teaching with Technology. The content was based on the UDL model. The project was the completion of an electronic book from the CAST website ([]). The training design was based on principals from Web 2.0 (Solomon & Schrum 2007). I out emails with preservice information, presented goals, had a cooperative learning project, and provided a wiki for project presentations and follow up. The 45 minute training with additional credit for wiki participation was completed during Week 4 to mixed reviews. I will look forward for final project participation in Week 5.