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Intel® Engage Community. For educators dedicated to transforming K-12 classrooms http://engage.intel.com. Engage.intel.com. Audience: Educators around the world dedicated to transforming K-12 classrooms Online Community Platform that supports: Teacher professional development
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Intel® Engage Community For educators dedicated to transforming K-12 classroomshttp://engage.intel.com
Engage.intel.com Audience: Educators around the world dedicated to transforming K-12 classrooms Online Community Platform that supports: • Teacher professional development • Effective use of technology in the classroom • Opportunities for grants and recognition • Support of Intel’s education programs and other programs • Individual groups for trainings or special topics
Why Educators say they join Engage • Learn about Web 2.0 tools and how to effectively use them in the classroom • Network with educators worldwide (Intel Teach participants represent 60 countries) • Be informed on tech policies and share your point of view • Win cool technology gadgets for your classroom (Like us on FB for special FB only promotions) • Create a group to support your next training, event, region or theme (blogs, collaborative work space, wikis…all in one space) • Share your stories of results with other inspiring educators
Free Technology • There are at least two drawings every month that give away free technology (the Intel Bunny Person represents these threads) • Like us on Facebook (Teachers Engage) for FB only promotions • Classmates, doc cameras, iPod Touch, net books, digital pens…
Engage Group Feature • Blogs, wikis, discussions, documents, project spaces • Can be administered by a team or individual • Completely customizable • Easy lift—light moderation
Example group page • Blogs, wikis, discussions, documents, project spaces • Can create and customize each block
Example groups: Pre-service ● Elements ● country/region ● special topics ● event-based
Engage Webinars • The Teachers Engage calendar includes all global webinar offerings that support educational technology practices and instructional design • Best of all, Intel Sponsored Webinars are FREE • And…an incentivized activity that follows to help you implement your new learning • Engage members can be trained to host their own Webinar
Engage Webinars are followed with an Incentivized thread in Engage
Let’s Visit Engage • If you have not signed up, please do so now • If you have, please go through the features of the entire community and in our group start a discussion thread about which feature you would find most valuable and why – include how you would use that feature • http://engage.intel.com/groups/inteleducationworksops-mobilelearning