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Action Research Summary

This action research plan will be conducted in order to begin the process of analyzing the use of technology for more collaboration and communication among teachers. It sets to find out to what degree does the use, integration, and teaching of technology tend to cause teachers to re-examine their practices, their roles in the classroom, and their philosophies of education. Technology has the potential also to support a much greater degree of communication and collaboration between teachers and others outside the school walls.
 * Introduction**:

Knowing that effective professional learning communities have impact on pupils and on all other educational agents, teachers need to come together so they “can plan ways to integrate the curriculum, analyze assessment data,examine student work, discuss current research, and reflect on the effectiveness of instructional approaches being used” (Mertens & al). Creating in interdisciplinary team where teachers representing different core curricula area would meet for joint planning is too often challenging because of scheduling and the increasing risks of teachers using their common planning time(Mertens &al). Therefore, the aim will be to explore how Internet-based communications will influence their evolution into a virtual collaborative workgroup.
 * Description of the Problem**