OC+Technology

Welcome to the Opportunity Center wiki to help us integrate technology into our lessons. Our campus is really concentrating on engaging students who have a history of not being motivated. Technology integration has been shown to increase student achievement through student engagement. Let's begin with some questions to get the discussion goining.
 * OC Technology**

//How do you use technology in your classroom?

Does technology help with student engagement?

Does technology integration increase student acheivement?

What type of professional development do we need to further technology integration on our campus?//

The OC is the Alternate Learning Center for the Pflugerville Independent School District. It is a small campus that serves the students in 6th through 12th grade who have gotten in trouble on their home campus (or broken the law). We have about 150 students right now in a beautiful building that opened last fall. The campus has wireless internet, a computer lab, a laptop cart, and each teacher has a computer, projector, and printer. Four teachers have Promethean interactive white boards with a slate and 32 active response units. The members of this site are Donna Wahl (high school and middle school mathematics), Lori DeCamp (high school electives), Erin McDonald (high school behavior coach and instructional specialist), Markii Brown (middle and high school English Language Arts), Sue Bryant (high school Credit Recovery and individualized learning specialist), and Jeff Black (Assistant Principal). Our campus also houses our PACE program for students who are at least 17 and have not been successful at their regular high school. Online credit recovery is offered during the morning and every evening from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Evening classes are also offered in all subjects that students need for graduate. All the people in this wiki are also involved in this program.