  ARP's.. changes... etc....... Well.. informal chatting with coworkers.-they seem to like my digit photography/Website building ideas..
I do have a pretty good tech savvy staff I work with. I swear everyone is ending up with the statement, hey, take a survey tho! Baldridge in Education seems to be establishing roots. (lol) With that thought in mind, for one of my 'adjunct' duties, I signed up to be one of the data/survey coordinators.. which is taking parent, student & teachers surveys 2-3 times a year and collaborting the data..
It seemed to be a good match for this year. COOL thing today was asking my 21 first graders-"Who has a computer" instead of the 4 to 6 I usually see, about 3/4ths of the students raised their hands.. (YES! ) and since I only have 2 out of 4 computers set up so far, two of my youngsters wandered over to the one computer I had turned on and was creating some paperwork for the class... and started clicking away to see what was there... (good thing I saved) There was no hesitation whatsoever in their movements either.. WAY too comfy..
I knew one of them was tech savvy when I went.. "ACK, I was working on a paper. " He got that look of 'GULP' his eyes went wide and he told me, "I'm so sorry teacher. " yep.. he's worked on a computer before.. I told him I saved, so should be okay.. but.. LET me log you onto the student account.. Hmm..
I definately think my 6 & 7 year old students will be changing the world... afterall.. born.. around 97... The Tech BOOM babies... One of the parents was asking another teacher about computer use.. (that other teacher has FOUR computers in her room.. you only have one.... and who is the computer for, you or the students? ) Signals of good things... That kinder/first grade combo class looks like it may be a real possibility, very.. very soon.. spent about an hour talking about logistics and possibibilties today.. look, another gray hair.. 
