Improving Your Tech Skills in Bed!

[Connie Masson]

Have a laptop and wireless in your home? If so you are probably so tech savy already (or someone in your house is) that you don't need to improve your tech skills, but you can if you want to - even in bed! If you have a desktop at home, you can still improve your tech skills as well and you can do it in your slippers and pj's. So says a recent article from eSchool News: " Teachers gain tech skills while in their PJs ". Check it out. Sounds like this Louisiana district started out with a concept for homeschool professional development for teachers that has expanded to students as well and they are having record successes.

"As the teachers have done, students took tests to see how IT proficient they really were, and the same test will be given next May to measure their progress. Students also have been offered incentives such as meal passes and theater tickets for completed courses." They like it so much "one group of students has logged in over 128 hours during their summer vacation".

Susan Dupre, technology facilitator for the St. Mary Parish School Board said: "We're seeing an amazing jump in numbers in tech literacy, in teachers, admin, and students."

If you have investigated this resource, I'd love to hear your feedback on the pros' and con's of InfoSource Learning's Learn It! for use with teaching teachers as well as students.

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"Teachers gain tech skills while in their PJs. Home-based professional development is big success for La. district" By Meris Stansbury, Assistant Editor, eSchool News. http://www.eschoolnews.com August 24, 2007. Contents Copyright 2007 eSchool News. All rights reserved.