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List five ways to think about and address changes in technology in your classroom and school. With each way briefly describe how you plan to #|applyyour thinking with your colleagues.
 * INSTRUCTIONS:**

Before developing your five ways to address change suggestions consider the following:
 * Considering the list of fears you brainstormed in the previous assignment, what are the common objections and fears your peers or administration may have to changes in technology?
 * How can you assess if the the objections/fears are valid? How can you #|educateyour peers in determining if these fears and objections are valid?
 * How can you inspire peers who share similar beliefs and interests to apply changes in technology to their classroom or students' learning ?
 * How can you get peers out of the "Resistance" phase into the "Exploration" phase?

Post your "five ways to address change" in the table below. Review your peers' postings and post at least one comment in the Discussion Tab above.

2. Challenge-I personally love a challenge and try to challenge myself by implementing something new every marking period. Encourage others to do so too. 3. Collaborate-Have teachers work within their departments together to discuss their technology use and how to increase their use. 4. Mentor- Offer to help other teachers 5. Free resources - With budget cuts, teachers are becoming discouraged and figure why bother. Find free technological resources to use such as wikis and Web 2.0. || Corinne R || 2. Share - I will share my lessons and hope they will try them as well. 3. Praise - Everyone likes to hear that they are doing a great job! When I see one of my colleagues using technology, I will offer them my praise. 4. Collaborate - We meet every Thursday for collaboration. I will collaborate with my colleagues and let them share their ideas about using technology. 5. Educate - I will offer my time to my colleagues to help them feel comfortable integrating technology into their curriculum. || Christina Herring || 2. Educate - Show colleagues what can be done with the technology. Once they see the power and use of it they should want to try it out. If it can simplify their life and make educating more meaningful they will be in. 3. Train - Colleagues who learn something are empowered to try it. They need to know what they are doing most of the time before they feel comfortable with it. 4. Example - Be the example. Talk about your own experiences and how it worked for you. People can relate to you, that is why they are friends. 5. Experience - Help them gain experience with the new technology. Whether it be shared experience or individual it will be beneficial. || Jeremiah N ||
 * ==**5 Ways to Address Change**== || ==**Submitted by:**== ||
 * # Lead – use the technology with your own students first; this will help you present it to your colleagues as you’ve worked out “some of the bugs”.
 * 1) Examples – teachers need to see how they can use this to benefit them the next day; it needs to be practical
 * 2) Play – give staff members time to play with the new technology
 * 3) Feedback – give staff time to give feedback – this can help you find your allies and address other problems.
 * 4) Food & #|Prizes– teachers love free things…make it so they’re not thinking about the time their “giving up” to learn something new || Denise D ||
 * 1. Share-Share ways you or others use technology within your classrooms
 * # Practice what you preach – If you are trying toget others to use technology, you have to use it first.
 * 1) Invite – Invite your colleagues into yourclassroom to see how you use technology with your students. Have them talk to the kids.
 * 2) Encourage – once your colleagues seeminterested, help them plan an activity. If you can, go in their classroom and help implement the activity.
 * 3) Communication – have constant communication withyour colleagues – before, during (if you can) and after a lesson.
 * 4) Share ideas – share your ideas with yourcolleagues. Ask for their input on activities. || Shari Rohr ||
 * 1. Model - I plan to use technological tools in my classroom and will offer my colleagues the chance to come watch!
 * # Collaborate - find colleagues who share in the same vision of your tech friendly classroom and get together regularly to brainstorm ideas, talk about what works, and get ideas of how to improve what didn't go too well. This helps relieve the stress or anxiety so you don't feel like you're flailing by yourself!
 * 1) Play - New technology is always difficult to master, especially since we're not from the net generation. Take time to play with it and troubleshoot, not so that you'll be the expert in class, but so that you can be the supplier of the "cheat code" and also set boundaries for the students to stay within.
 * 2) Be goal oriented - figure out exactly what you want your classroom to be like, and then take the steps to get there. It might mean involving the computer tech department, the administrators, colleagues, and even parents and students, but make sure you have the right tools in place to get everything up and running.
 * 3) Start small - for teachers who are reluctant to change, this could be huge in getting them on board. Once you've done #3, prioritize. Figure out what you can incorporate now with the least effort and build. This way, you can also make sure the students are with you rather than shoving tons of changes at them at once.
 * 4) Seek training and offer it - in my current district, our administration loves it when teachers offer to train other teachers after school. We have work sessions at least once a month on a variety of different topics. (I offered to teach Wikis, but the tech people said that was a little more than our faculty could handle right now....not a good sign!) But it's also important to know there are tools out there for us to train ourselves. Whether it's taking online courses or just simply "googling it" to figure out how to use it, we need to seek the training rather than just give up on it if we don't get it the first time. We need the trial and error concept too! || Susan Glunt ||
 * 1. Fear - Realize that it is a fear they are facing and like any fear it is gone when you do that which you fear. So communicating that if they used the new technology it would not be a problem.