School Type: Public	School Setting: Rural
Level: K-12	School Design: Traditional
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NEIRTEC, Northeast & Islands Regional Technology in Education Consortium

Design and Implementation

In Macon Ridge, Louisiana, the America2000 grant supported online professional development for teachers through the EdTech Leaders™ Online (ETLO) program, which is implemented by the Education Development Center (EDC).

1. The EdTech Leaders Online (ETLO) program is a train-the-trainer, capacity-building program for teams of local participants from school districts, regional service providers, state departments of education, or teacher-training institutions.
2. The teams are trained in semester-long online courses to facilitate online workshops, developed by EDC, on integrating technology into the curriculum (Facilitating and Implementing OPD), or to develop their own online workshops for teachers or high school students (Online Course Design Program).
3. Teams can range in size from a minimum of three participants from a single school or small district, trained in a cohort with four to six teams from other educational organizations, to a full cohort of 24 participants from a single, large organization such as a big city, a consortium of school districts, a state department of education, or a university.
4. The EDC online workshops are project- and standards-based and include six sessions of one to two weeks. Some of the workshops are focused on specific grade levels and subject areas, such as Using Technology to Support Literacy Development in Primary-Level Classrooms, and others address the needs of teachers and administrators across grade levels and curricular areas, such as Approaches and Tools for Developing Web-Enhanced Lessons.
5. Participating teams facilitate the EDC workshops or the workshops they have designed for teachers, administrators, or students in their schools or educational organizations. These workshops begin in the year following the training program.
6. EDC works closely with each participating team to develop and manage their local online programs and provide ongoing support, in online specialist forums, to the trained facilitators and course developers.
7. These national forums foster ongoing, collaborative communities of trained online professional development (OPD) specialists. One important lesson learned from this work is that OPD works best when it is integrated carefully into ongoing local programs and combined with face-to-face opportunities.

The following equipment was provided to each teacher in Macon Ridge, Louisiana:

• A multimedia PC for the classroom
• Printer
• Updated software, including MS Office
• TV with computer capability
• VCR/Camcorder
• Digital camera
• High-intensity overhead projector
• Internet connections provided by A2K

The following equipment was provided to each school in Macon Ridge, Louisiana:

• Internet connections (provided by A2K)
• 5 multimedia PCs in a project room for content-area teachers? use with students
• TV with computer capability
• High-intensity overhead projector
• VCR
• Printer(s)
• Video-editing equipment

Parts of this text were reprinted or adapted with permission from Barbara Treacy, Glenn Kleiman, and Kirsten Peterson, "Successful Online Professional Development," in Learning & Leading with Technology, September 2002. Copyright (c) ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education), 1.800.336.5191 (U.S. & Canada) or 1.541.302.3777 (Int?l), iste@iste.org, www.iste.org. All rights reserved. Available at http://www.edtechleaders.org/Resources/articles/SuccessfulOPD.pdf.

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