Planning Meeting....

We're getting excited to get started with our new teachers in Laptop Initiative. Last night was our first time to really focus on the task at hand, our September 28th workshop. In the past, we have tried to push as much information as possible to our teachers during these monthly sessions creating overload and frustration. The discussion last night was about slowing down the amount of information and hovering longer over the applications in the iLife creative suite and our subscription based Web 2.0 apps. There is just so much to learn and explore, it's hard to know sometimes what to leave behind.

We reminisced about the 2004 & 2005 school years, when the district implemented "Focus Groups", and how it provided our Laptop teachers an extra day a month, most months, with time to work on creating new content for their classrooms as they were learning themselves. Focus Groups went away last year as NCLB reared it's ugly head and we've struggled with the time constraints ever since.

Nonetheless, our pioneering spirit propels us forward. Looking forward to leading and learning with technology!