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=Let's Look at Some Data of Teachers In our Region... former participants in the Writer's Workshop Institute...=

===Pay attention to the colors RED and GREEN ! Those are our beginners and no experience groups! Teachers are professionals at navigating websites, using email, and social networking.... BUT those are not technologies that have a big impact with student learning in the classroom and surely not an impact on their writing!===

Join me- we're about to start the journey!
===This is an overwhelming percentage (81%) have not had training on how to integrate technology into the writing classroom! How could teachers possibly be using it without knowledge of how? I too would have been in that category with you. I am so blessed to be in this position at ESC Region 12 to be able to have the TIME to learn how and then an opportunity to provide YOU with the training about what I've learned.===

===If technology was being used in classrooms, it seemed to be that same technology teachers were comfortable with. Showing students information from websites, or useing a document camera during Writer's Workshop to model a minilesson, but when we talk about integrating technology into a Writer's Workshop classroom, we are talking about STUDENTS using technology for collaboration with others and as a vehicle to find a larger audience for their writing. 89% of those surveyed are not using Web 2.0 tools with a great impact on student collaboration such as Blogs!=== =What are we waiting for? Let's learn how!=