STARs become a Mouse Squad

We're winding down the days of summer now and beginning to look forward to what exciting endeavors we can work towards in the upcoming year. One of our exciting new projects is developing our STARs crew. They are a group of middle school student technology advisors that work on supporting the smooth and relevant integration of technology into the classroom. We've been kind of wondering aimlessly over the last year not sure how to structure this particular program but now through purchasing the rights and information to develop a MOUSE squad, I'm very excited by the prospects! I hope with this program we will better be able to meet our goals, assist teachers, motivate and challenge students and facilitate the integration of technology into our classrooms.

Besides working through the Mouse squad modules, I also hope to: make use of their tech ticket system (maybe), work at manning a HELPdesk, and maybe - maybe - have a TechTips blog of quick little tips for teachers. That would be kind of cool - I think.

In any case, I'm excited.

Just another blog...

So this has been an unbelievable year this year. It's our first year in a pilot 1:1 program and while I'm way to busy to be considering blogging, I also thought what a waste it would be to not remember or take note of what is going on - from a teacher's point of view.

The blog title is completely stolen from our technology director. It's been an interesting couple of years for our entire community as we prepare for and implemented this initiative and during that time there has been a number of ups and downs but in so many conversations I've had with our director, he's ended it with a smile and an: "It's all good." Sometimes all I could do was laugh. What a great outlook ...... so I'm stealing it. (grin) Hope he doesn't mind.