Collaboration between teachers, students, parents, and colleagues can be done efficiently with technology, fostering a safe environment for all groups to learn, share, and troubleshoot together.

You have been tasked with organizing a PLC (Professional Learning Community) with three other teachers who teach the same subject or grade level as you. Research collaborative tools such as Evernote, Trello, Google Docs, and select your favorite. Using the selected tool, set up the first PLC meeting. The goal of this PLC is to dedicate planning time for collaboration on how to appropriately and effectively leverage technology to create authentic learning experiences for students in alignment with your personal technology integration philosophy.

Address the following goals:

• Discuss technology integration and how it can create authentic learning experiences for students.
• Strategies to foster collaboration using technology, including teacher-student, student-student, global connections, and parents as co-collaborators in student learning. 
• Minimum of 3-5 tech tools you suggest exploring within your meetings. Each tool should accomplish the following:
  • Expand students’ authentic, real-world learning experiences by engaging virtually with experts
  • Connect students on a local/global scale
  • Facilitate parent/teacher communication
• Methods for participants in the PLC to demonstrate cultural competency when communicating with students, parents, and colleagues and interacting with them as co-collaborators in student learning.
• How the team will co-learn with students to discover and use new digital resources and diagnose and troubleshoot technology issues should they arise.

Share the link to your collaborative space with your instructor.

Support your findings with at least three supporting resources.

While APA style format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.