Two weeks ago I received some great news. There was an announcement that teachers had the opportunity to write educational grants for pretty much anything they though would be beneficial to the learning of out students. After thinking long and hard, my partner teacher and I realized how beneficial it would be to have a SmartBoard in our classroom. We figured it was a shot in the dark but we tried anyway. We wrote the grant and re-read it over and over, and in my opinion, if I would have been in charge of giving the "thumbs-up" or "thumbs-down" it woudl definitely have been the latter.

The idea of having the Smart Board made so much sense to me and I knew how I would use it, but the grant proposal was missing something. Then I remembered Grapplings Learning Spectrum. I sat my partner down and reminded him that technology is not only supposed to aid in learning but it is supposed to transform learning. When I took our time to think uip all the possible ways that the smart board would allow us to further our contructivist approach to learning the proposal was phenomenal. Reading all of our plans to use it in teh classroom made me so extremely excited and I knew that though receiving a Samrtbora was unfathomable in teh beginning, we had a great chance with this student centered poposal.

We received the news early this past Monday saying that we had been approved for teh Smartboard and after all the training sessions are attended, it will be given to us within the following month. It's ironic how a guy growing up in a district (KCMSD) with limited resources is able to start a chool year technologically illiterate, design a plan to incorporate technology into his teaching, and also be blessed beyond need with instruction changing technological resources ll within a two month time frame. God is doing some great things for me and I'm glad I am favored in his eyes. Because of this blessings he has placed on me, my students will reap benefits even greater as I put my blessings to use.