...potential of the program far outweighed the stresses we encountered. Initially, our staff met as a technology committee to prepare for the arrival of the laptops. We tried to predict all of the changes that would take place in our building as a result of the increased technologies, and attempted to prepare ourselves for them. As our excitement mounted, we began to talk with the students about their entrance to our school. Not having a tangible machine to show the students, they were skeptical as to whether they would arrive at all.

October turned into November, November into December, and so forth until January arrived and we were ready to roll out the machines to our students. Mother Nature had her own ideas though, with a major snow storm forcing us to cancel our parent and student orientation meetings twice before we finally just had to have the meeting regardless of the weather. Fortunately, we had 100% of our parent and student population in attendance at our orientations, and laptops in the hands of our students within the first week. We now had 45 sixth-graders with laptops, which had wireless Internet access, in their possession 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Little...

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