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These districts have joined the 2009-2010 Regional Title IID Collaborative and thereby have provided FREE services to their teachers. Benefits include:
Texas TTCC
Free registration fee ($100 value) for qualified teachers through the Texas Teacher Technology Competency Certification program.
TexasTTCC has recently been revised and professionally reprogrammed to make it more "user friendly." It still addresses all the SBEC Technology Applications standards and performance indicators. Teachers still demonstrate their proficiency through an electronic portfolio system, but uploading artifacts has been made much easier.
A good way to find out if teachers are ready for this assessment is to use the Teachers Checklist available on the TexasTTCC Web site.
Teachers from Title IID Cooperative districts, who are ready to be assessed, may register at any time by going directly to the Texas TTCC System site and click the link to set up an account. When asked for payment, choose “My district will pay” and enter 2DSSA for the PO number.
Teaching with Technology
For teachers from Title IID Cooperative districts interested in the certification, but who are not quite ready for the assessment, free professional development, aligned with the assessment, is available through the online professional development catalog.
Face-to-face workshops:
- Teaching with Technology: Spreadsheets and Charting for the Classroom
- Teaching with Technology: Desktop Publishing for the Classroom
- Teaching with Technology: Multimedia Presentations for the Classroom
- Teaching with Technology: Web Pages and Classroom Internet Research
- Teaching with Technology: Using a Database in the Classroom
Online workshops:
- TWT Online: Spreadsheets and Charting for the Classroom
- TWT Online: Desktop Publishing for the Classroom
- TWT Online: Multimedia Presentations for the Classroom
- TWT Online: Web Pages and Classroom Internet Research
- TWT Online: Using a Database in the Classroom
Electronic Field Trips/Content Enhancements
2) Free participation in designated electronic field trips/content enhancement events as funds are available. Districts will have the flexibility of scheduling one (or more) of the hundreds of programs that are available.
Examples include:
- Eggs Everywhere from the Fort WorthMuseumof Science and History
- Skullduggery from Fort WorthNature Centerand Refuge
- Art of the American West from AmonCarter Museum
- Peter and the Wolf from Bass Hall
- Meteorite Mysteries from NASA
- Plus many, many more .....
For more information on how to schedule a program, visit RETN Title IID
Workshops
3) Free registration for high-quality professional development offered by the Educational Technology Department in the ESC XI catalog.
The Educational Technology Workshops are listed in the printed Opportunities for Professional Development Catalogs and also listed at http://www.esc11.net. These workshops include face-to-face and online training. Register for these sessions by clicking on the desired session and following the instructions. When an educational technology workshop is selected by an employee of your district, the fee should say “none”.
Current list of available staff development opportunities. | 
