 Hi, my name is Tracy Tucajones-Pinosa and I want to welcome you to our new course, Effective Online Teaching Planning for Differentiation. In this course we have four modules and the first we're looking at the concept of bundles or many libraries or ways to create a stock of resources for a classroom as opposed to just a single textbook. We'll be looking at some of the traditional types of resources you might already use, worksheets, readings, videos, but we're also going to talk about some new digital resources that you might not be as familiar with, including different types of platforms, apps, and gamification. In module two we'll be looking at this variety of tools and talking about their pros and cons, you know, what are the benefits of using some of these in the drawbacks that might also exist and how you can go about choosing the right balance of these different tools for your particular class. In module three we'll be considering this wide range of students that you all have in your classrooms and to talk about differentiation and how we actually meet those needs either through differentiated instruction or through differentiated evaluation. So we're going to talk a lot about how you can differentiate homework, which is a less known concept, by leveraging the information that you put into your bundles. And in the fourth module we'll be looking at the different resources and how to find them online yourselves. We'll be giving you a list of more than 600 different apps and games and resources and platforms that are possible, but we'd like to, you know, sort of teach a man to fish. The idea here is that you learn those basic skills yourself, so in the future if you need to modify or tweak your bundles you can certainly do that on your own. I am really looking forward to working with you in this course. If you have any questions before we begin please go ahead and send me an email looking forward to seeing you soon.