The PDA online professional development program was developed through collaboration between the Florida Department of Education's Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services and Bureau of Educator Certification. It is coordinated statewide through the FDLRS Administrative Project and 19 FDLRS Centers. Modules are offered at no cost to Florida educators. Local implementation involves FDLRS Associate Center Managers and facilitators who provide technical support. Modules are accessed through the Desire 2 Learn learning management system and include units, objectives, sections and assessment tasks. Participants complete tasks and submit them through a Dropbox folder.

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2. The PDA online professional development program was
developed through the collaborative efforts of the
Florida Department of Education
•Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services
•Bureau of Educator Certification
The program is coordinated by the
FDLRS Administrative Project and
the nineteen FDLRS Centers and
modules are offered statewide at no
cost to Florida educators.
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3. Module
Implementation
Statewide Coordination of PDA
DOE FDLRS Liaison, Cathy Bishop
FDLRS Administration/HRD Project
•Administrator, Mary Ann Ahearn
•PDA Coordination, Susan O’Rear
•Technical Support, FCIM
Local Implementation of PDA
FDLRS Associate Center Managers
•Local FDLRS PDA Coordinators,
•Module Facilitators and FDLRS Technical Support

4. Module
Implementation
Local Implementation of PDA
Your FDLRS Coordinators: Jane Derringer
Your Module Facilitators:Mary Leigh Arnold
Your FDLRS Technical Support:
Joanne Brustad
State Technical Support: support@FCIM.org
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5. Module Access
Module content is accessed
by participants using the
Desire 2 Learn (D2L)
Learning Management System
PDA modules use a consistent format and color
scheme.
Modules are divided into units with unit objectives.
Units have sections and subsections.
Modules may be taken in any order but within a
module it should be completed in the order in which
it is organized.
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6. Module Organization
Learning Activity
Anything a participant does to learn
content
Assessment Task
Anything a participant is required to
submit to a facilitator
*The first assessment task is often in the
Introduction section before Unit 1
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7. How to Access your
PDA module and use
the Desire2Learn (D2L)
Learning Management
System
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11. Username:
C-county number-firstinitiallast name
Password: newaccount
(you will be prompted to
change password)
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12. Old password = newaccount
New password = change password to something you like
Click: Change Password
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21. Dropbox Assessment Tasks
Computer Desktop Folder
• Create a folder to store your assessment tasks.
• Right-click on a blank area of your desktop.
• Click New.
• Click Folder.
• Rename Folder.
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22. Dropbox Assessment Tasks
• Complete your assessment tasks using a word processing program.
• Always put your name and task number on the document.
• Save the task to the PDA folder you created on your desktop.
• Click “Save As” under the File menu.
• Click “Desktop”
• Click the PDA folder
• Click “Save”
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