Module Eight Notes

The theme for module Eight is "Bringing it All Together"

The session began by looking at other one-to-one laptop programs as models. Presenters shared videos from the Irving ISD focused on classroom management. It was useful to hear teachers talk about how they managed the use of laptops in their classroom addressing how they started class periods, enabled students to help each other, and used proximity monitoring to work with individual students.

Teachers also viewed a video from the state of Maine's one-to-one program, with former governor Angus King talking to educators about how they implemented the program in the classroom.

Teachers spent time writing "Future Stories" looking back from December 2010 on their experience teaching in a School2Home school. They shared wonderfully creative stories with the presenters and one-another.

As a final learning activity, participants visited Classroom Learning 2.0, a self-paced website for educators to use to learn about the Web 2.0 world.

The group celebrated the success of their four days together.