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So I am a technology teacher to teachers. The month of September flew by so fast as many would say but in my experience, it was much faster. The month of September was also a crucial month for me being the new technology coordinator of the school. Crucial because I did not want to be someone telling the teachers to use this or that technology and replacing the way they have been accustomed to. I wanted them to feel comfortable with using technology in their classrooms. Most of all, I wanted the teachers to feel comfortable in asking me for tech help.

Of course there were quite a few resistance and others insisting in the old ways. Luckily for me, the school's principal is pro-technology.

Integrating technology in the classroom takes a lot of research. Thanks to a few IT workshop presenters who I kept in contact with, I was able to find great resources to introduce to the teachers. One of whom is Judi Wolf.

I never worked with an Interactive White Board (from Numonics) but being a QA software engineer in my past life, it was a breeze to take the tutorial. I actually had so much fun playing with it and giving the middle-school teachers one-on-one tutorial to use in the 6th, 7th and 8th classrooms. Yes, each middle school classroom is equipped with an IWB. Those are great "bling-bling" (hardware) and make classroom discussions LIVELY.

The elementary teachers just finished 2 of 3 workshops yesterday. After that, they will have another workshop in a couple of weeks or so to refresh their knowledge of SmartBoards! It just keeps getting busier and exciting!