moving in the right direction
yesterday we had our district technology meeting. usually these meetings are a little frustrating for me because we are often TOLD what the district is doing with the monies that have been earmarked for technology. at my last teaching gig, the individual technology committees at the schools made those decisions. i still think that it makes sense for the schools themselves to have a pot of money and to make their own decisions about the technology purchases that they make. but that’s a different story and a different post. yesterday, after listening to how those monies would be spent this year, something different happened. yesterday the principal of the school in which i teach was able to present to the group an idea that we have been working on here at the school for a while. yesterday we brought up the idea of opening up the school wi-fi to the personal computers of students and teachers. the committee as a whole had a good conversation about the pros and cons o