MICCA

The conference has come and gone! Overall I thought the experience was a good one. The technology the presenters were sharing was very informative and made me want to better my classroom with those tools. The only problem I ran into was the fact that we do not have the money to buy all the expensive equipment that was being talked about. Our STEP team walked around the vendors, and we talked to a few people about what they were trying to sell. I especially liked the Ellison Machine that was all computerized so the letters could be made bigger/smaller depending on the size you needed! As a team we really enjoyed the ID maker, and to go with it, the tardy checker. Then we would run into the road block again, and that is the means of getting this awesome technology to our school.

Being at a Charter School, us teachers want the best for our students. We want to give them a good opportunity to learn and succeed. We also want to give them the access to the best tools out there (technology being one of them). It's just hard when we hear how much money the "neat technology" is costing.

I know I used the term "we" a lot in this blog, but I feel as a group we pretty much felt the same way and agreed that having the technology would be awesome, but how can we afford it!?

To top the conference off.. I won a free student laptop. I sent away for it in the mail, and I'm anxiously awaiting !