"We have an opening," John proclaimed. It appeared that one of the scheduled technology victims had fallen to the wayside, and I was to be the one to step in. "Money is available," he said. I signed up.

As a fourth year teacher fresh from the machine of post-secondary education, technology is as familiar to me as chalk is to the teacher of my parents' generation. I am confident in my ability to use what exists, as well as my ability to learn more. I am the perfect sucker, er, student for this type of workshop.

My personal story is dull. This is my second year teaching chemistry in Piper. My prior two years were spent teaching chemistry, physics, and physical science in a large, ethnically diverse school in Central California. The pay was better, but the classes were much more difficult. When my fiance was accepted to KU's pharmaceutical chemistry PhD program, we loaded up the truck and moved to Kansas. Yes. From California to Kansas. Yes. I am crazy.