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__**Riverside Technology Welcomes You **__ [|Riverside District Web Site] - Check out Riverside District Web Site. ** A 21st Century Resource Wiki ** Brought to you by: Technology Coaches Tony Cortez and Ron Saul

About This Website and the Role of the Coach
On this page, you will find a plethora of information and resources for you as you venture into 21st Century Teaching. Please remember, as Technology Coaches, it is our job to help you incorporate new technologies into your curriculum, so please let us know HOW we can help you! If you see anything on this page or any of its links that interests you, let us know! We can help you implement it into your classroom.  To put it simply...WE ARE HERE TO HELP YOU!!! Contact us at tcortez@riverside.k12.pa.us or rsaul@riverside.k12.pa.us or extension 2056 or 2023.

Some ways you might "use" us:
     
 * **Generate Ideas and Curriculum Connections **--Not sure where to start? Invite one of us into your classroom just to watch you teach. This will get "the wheels turning" and we can begin to identify technologies that will fit your teaching style and connect with your curriculum.
 * <span style="color: #f27118; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Co-Plan**-- <span style="color: #12078d; font-family: Georgia,serif;">let us help you plan lessons that incorporate technology. If you're not sure how technology might benefit your students or enhance a lesson, we can do the research and bring you some suggestions. We can help you identify what will work, help you learn how to use it, and then help set up a lesson or unit plan.
 * **<span style="color: #f5730a; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Research-- **<span style="color: #2d0a7f; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Curious about a new technology you've read about or how technology might enhance a concept in your curriculum? Wondering how you might spice up a lesson, but short on time to find new ideas? Let us do the research for you. We have access to technology facilitators all around the country and tons of ideas from teachers around the globe. We can compare different approaches, troubleshoot, work out the kinks, and bring you the best options for your classroom.
 * <span style="color: #eb5c0f; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Co-Teach-**- <span style="color: #2d0a7f; font-family: Georgia,serif;">After co-planning a lesson, We can help you in the classroom. It always helps to have an extra teacher in the room when using technology. We can teach part of the lesson, instruct students on the use of technologies, or just be there for support as needed.
 * <span style="color: #f75508; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Personal Training-**- <span style="color: #2d0a7f; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Want some help with designing a Wiki, making your flipcharts more interactive, using response devices, learning a software program? Lets schedule some time together. We know we are all at different levels, so no request is too simple or complex!

<span style="color: #a31919; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tools available for your classroom use (high school):
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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">3 Video Cameras
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">7 Still Cameras
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1 Class set of headphones with microphones (for quiet listening and recording)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Class sets of Active Votes and Active Expression (with text/numerical response) devices
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1 Active Slate (allows you to control your Active Board while walking around the room)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Laptop Carts with Student Laptops
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Training, consultation and, co-planning and co-teaching (see above!)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2 Lenova webcams
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<span style="color: #8e1915; font-family: Georgia,serif;">What is 21st Century Teaching?
<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">For those of you new to this 21st Centry Teaching idea, check out this video called "Pay Attention." It is worth the "read" and a good primer for where we are going with this project.

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