Beginning Again

And so I begin another journey in the realm of education....
My last excursion with teaching was almost 10 years ago, with first graders at Acadian Elementary.

The family of Kennesaw Charter has graciously accepted me, and I have enjoyed getting to know many people this week through the trials and tribulations of technology problems.  In between all of the meetings of preplanning, I was engaged in assisting teachers with laptop screens, monitors, Internet connection, with the icing of the week to be driving to Cobb School's warehouse and picking up hundreds of computers, boxes of printers, and miscellaneous other furniture.

I truly saw the excitement as a team at the Cobb warehouse, even in the eyes of Mrs. Davis's husband who knows how valuable all of this equipment is to the teachers of KCSMA.  I felt like we had just rounded the corner at a thrift store to spot the most awesome find ever, and that feeling was amplified in the eyes of the teachers that were there.  The possibilities of utilizing this technology for student learning... hoping, hoping that all of it works, or at least some of it works.  Wondering if those desktop computers with no CD-Rom drive could be used for parts...picking through a pile of "to be dumped" furniture for useful items, including a drawer full of tangrams that I, as a former first grade teacher, could NOT leave there!

And so, the dawn of a new school year is almost here....
As I write this, ginormous boxes of wires and keyboards and monitors are being delivered to the school.
As I write this, I have search windows open, researching ways to clear out computers easily, hoping something will work to get these computers distributed as quickly as possible in the school.
Hoping that I can figure it out to do it quickly without having to wait for assistance..
knowing I will need assistance and wanting to drag Todd over there before the weekend is up.

And so on to the next chapter of this excitement..