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ActivInspire and Promethean Board Use || **Day # 1 ** ||
 * =Technology Workshop Lesson Plan= ||
 * ===Instructor Name: Stephanie Miller=== || **Workshop Title: **
 * ====**Subject(s) of the day's workshop:**====

Intro to ActivInspire and Promethean Board Review
|||||| **Prerequisite Knowledge: ** Promethean Board Basics || In this workshop, the basics of ActivInspire software will be explained and modeled for the teachers attending. The second portion of the training will allow the educators to practice using ActivInspire to create their own lesson plans and activities. The final portion of this first day of training will require the teachers to share their preliminary lessons and activities. All teachers should bring a flash drive to all days of training in order to easily save and modify their work. || By the end of this training, teachers will be able to: media type="custom" key="11324658"
 * == Content: ==
 * **Objectives: **
 * Create lessons and activities using ActivInspire software.
 * Share lessons and activities they have created with colleagues.
 * Offer insight into improvements that can be made to the lessons and activities created by colleagues. ||
 * **Activities: **

Handouts for ActivInspire Basics that will act as a reference for the teachers in the training once the instructor demo is finished and they are working independently. media type="custom" key="11327288" || Plus/Delta chart about the day’s training. What worked, what needs improvement. Also exit cards being done through the discussion tab of the Day 1 wiki describing one way that an activity that was centered around a different curriculum area could be modified to be used in their own classroom (i.e. a math activity that was done being modified to be used in a science classroom, etc.). ||
 * 1) Welcome – Activator using ActivInspire, response systems, and Promethean Board that takes a survey of attendee’s comfort and capability with each.
 * 2) Teachers (seated in pairs at computers in a lab) will watch as instructor models each aspect of the software that they are expected to use. They will then practice each step in sequence. Handouts will be provided as a reference.
 * 3) Break-out groups will work at creating their own activities based on what they have learned and the MCPS curriculum.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Break-out groups will share the lessons and activities they have created with the large group.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Evaluation ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Additional materials: **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Evaluation: **