Technology Teacher Recognition

Congratulations to Marlene Aguilar - our Spring Technology Teacher award winner. Marlene teaches Foreign Language at Leavitt Area High School. She spent last summer developing her first webpage and hasn't looked back since. Her desire to find some students outside of Maine for collaboration led to the formation of "Taking Learning Global" a social network dedicated to sharing learning and cultural experiences across the world. This network now has over 100 students registered from as far away as China, Portugal and Brazil.

Marlene recently organized a blogging training session where the participants launched their classroom blogs in preparation for using this new tool next year. Great job! As a small reward for her contagious enthusiasm, she will receive a digital recorder.

Señora Aguilar, enhorabuena!

Technology Grant

Cross posted from District Blogs.
Penny Nutting - computer teacher at GCS - awarded BestBuy Grant.
Way to go, Penny!

Quarter 2 Technology Teacher

Announcing the Technology Teacher of the Quarter
Quarter 2 2007-2008

Congratulations go to Jolene Randall, Wildcats/Literacy Interventionist teacher at Tripp Middle School.
Jolene has been working with her students to improve not only their learning but to also give Turner Primary Kindergarten students resources for their classroom through her "Request a Reader" program. Using laptops and her web-page, the students have recorded books selected by the younger children. They are presently working on the second set of books while the Kindergarten students wait impatiently. Jolene's website is a useful resource to parents and students wishing to increase their literacy skills. The goal of the next project is to add images and to solicit voice feedback from the
primary students.

Jolene's leadership and willingness to assist other teachers in using voice tools in their classrooms is exemplary. In recognition of her exciting work, Jolene will receive a digital recorder to support more communication experiences with her students.
Congratulations, Jolene!

Technology Update given to the Board

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