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**Professional Development – Creating Teachers who live in the TPCK “sweet spot”**


 * Session Summary:**

What are the most effective ways to offer faculty Professional Development? What are we developing? Idealy we create teachers who understand Technology, Pedagogy,and Content as represented by the TPCK model. It isn’t one size fits all. This session will look at how we use ning networks to discuss, google sites/wikispaces to document growth and share, virtual classrooms to connect with experts, moodle to deliver tutorials, and blended face to face and webinars to investigate contemporary best practices. We will examine how to create pre and post session opportunities so PD is not an isolated one time experience. We will also explore how a network can be leveraged to generate face to face sessions.

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