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Maine Ingredients - Article in T.H.E. Journal - Sep 9, 2009
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Judy McGeorge
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Maine Ingredients article in T.H.E Journal
The State of Maine Learning Technology Initiative is highlighted in this September 9, 2009 issue of T.H.E. Journal
"Maine Ingredients
* By John K. Waters
* 09/09/09
The nation's first-ever statewide 1-to-1 laptop program marks its seventh birthday by expanding into high schools, providing an occasion to celebrate-- and to examine the components of its success.
Maine Ingredients WHATEVER YOU DO, don't call Lisa Hogan a technology integrator, even though that's her official post with the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI), the state of Maine's 1-to-1 laptop program.
"I really hate that title," says Hogan, a former science teacher at Mount Ararat Middle School in Topsham, ME, and, all told, a 30-year classroom veteran. "I'm hoping to get it changed to 'instructional technology mentor.' If there's one thing we've learned in this program, it's that it should always be about the teaching, not the technology." Full article
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Maine Ingredients - T.H.E. Journal Sep 9, 2009
http://thejournal.com/Articles/2009/09/09/1-to-1-Computing.aspx
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Elementary, Middle, High/Secondary
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Innovation and Creativity, Leadership, Other
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September 10, 2009 18:40 UTC
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1:1 Computing, Learning with Technology, maine, MLTI