Atlanta Bound

As the school year ends an exciting new adventure awaits. A team of three from our school will travel to the NECC convention in Atlanta, Georgia to experience all the new ideas in using technology in education. We will be writing a new grant for our school upon return based on using laptop computers in the classroom on a 1 to 1 ratio. Two of us on the team are teachers and one is the technology coordinator. We two teachers, one a Junior/Senior English instructor, and myself, a social studies teacher, have been using laptop computers in our classroom for two years. We have done some very interesting and creative projects and felt very successful. However, we need to move up to the next rung of the ladder and learn the web 2.0 technologies. The diocesean office has even loaned us palm pilots which we have no clue how to use but will hopefully learn before we board the airplane. It is a brave new world and we are excited and determined to conquer it.