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=Chavez H.S. College and Career Bound Technology Integration!=

Chavez High School, H.I.S.D, East Region 8501 Howard Drive Houston, Texas 77017

**Purpose of Wiki:**
The purpose of this wiki is to provide a place for educators to dicuss, plan, and share best practices as they relate to the integration of technology into the classroom, school, and district. My particular wiki will focus on integrating technology into the schools to prepare our 21st learners to meet the everchanging technological landscape of our nation's future and current workforce. By sharing ideas and best practices we can better prepare students to be college and career bound in our global market. This forum is also a place to assess what technolgy is being used at Chavez H.S and other schools in HISD to make learning more student centered. For example, what web 2.0 tools are being used in curriculum, classrooms, and the library that makes information aquistion student driven. I have also invited technology specialists outside HISD, in the global workforce to add thier knowledge about keeping thier employees up to date in today's workforce. I believe businesses are doing the most technolgy integration to keep up with the global market, so thier input should be quite useful in preparing our students for the future. This wiki is a part of my Master's Program in Technology Leadership at Lamar University, and I would appreciate any input or expertise you have.

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Benefits of using Wikis in Education:
As a flexible web 2.0 tool, available 24-7 it has many applications to the classroom, professional development, and administration. For the Classroom: it serves as a collaborative space to collect information, research, reflect, record, and store findings on a particular subject or problem. For Professional Development: It is a place to share ideas, plan, explore, research, record, and learn from each other within a community. It is the unlimited whiteboard so to speak, that never forgets, and never has to be erased. For Administrators: It is the place where ideas, policies, procedures, and events can be updated, discussed, and written with all the stakeholders of a particular community.

=Want to make a wiki for your classroom, watch the video below.= media type="youtube" key="bv1ZpZp2BYA" height="344" width="425"

Want to know more about incorporating technology into schools? Check out my Resources:
[|David Warlick: CoLearners]