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= Professional Growth =

Web 2.0 tools have opened up a great new avenue for educators and administrators to participate in professional growth and development. Teachers no longer have to travel to long and pricy teachers connventions and seminars in order to stay in tune with trends related to teaching. Through the many collaberative applications available for free or of little cost teachers can share and learn from others world wide. What better place to learn how to immplement web 2.0 into the classroom than using it. Once teachers feel comfortable and have a strong support group behind them they will no doubt be more willing to experiment with using technology in their classrooms. The use may not neccesarily be to teach at first, maybe it is just a way to offer better communication to students and parents, or maybe between teachers and administrators. Web 2.0 can be seen as overwhelming at first but it offers enough options even for the techniologically timid. Creating a page with a group can help present ideas, encourage use of technology and provide teachers with just the right nudge to send them down the super information highway.

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