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= Welcome to the Early Childhood Technology Connections Wiki! =

Embedding technology in early childhood classrooms can be challenging. There are four main objectives that are intregal to achieving seamless technology usage. It is also important to provide connections to the elements of the ELLCO (Early Language and Literacy Classroom Observation) Toolkit and best practices in the use of technology for children, educators and families.

First, a word about wikis. While wikis can serve a plethera of purposes, we will show how we used ours...
 * to jointly plan and store our ideas, creations, and documents
 * to organize our sessions
 * to share resources
 * to communicate
 * to provide participants a chance to practice
 * to document our own learning

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Session Objectives:

 * Understanding and building comfort with personal use of technology
 * Designing instruction that utilizes technology to support all children
 * Engineering the classroom environment with technology in mind
 * Use of technology to support individual learners

**Agenda:**
Overview article Personal Technologies Technology for All Children Engineering the Environment Technology for Individual Learners What's in your personal plan?
 * Digital Natives Activity
 * Technology Sampler
 * Explore
 * Wordle Activity
 * UDL Guidelines HO
 * Explore (use Guiding Questions)
 * Article Review
 * Access HO
 * Explore
 * SETT and WATI
 * Explore and Report Out