Sometime in the Fall of 2007, Kevin McGuire, our district's Technology Director and Mary Gish, the Information Technology Coordinator, approached me about the One-to-One technology project at Michigan City High. Many of our high school's English classrooms now had thirty computers, a large screen monitor, and a lot of useful software, all running on linux. This was all part of a larger state program.
Would I be interested in piloting the next step into Social Studies? Oh yeah. Since this would combine interests in social studies and instructional technology, and might possibly make me a more effective teacher, what's a little sleep loss?
By Late November, 2007, the computer desks were in, complete with power and network cabling. Over Christmas, HP computers running linux (OpenSuse/Novell) were installed. I did not yet have a "teacher computer." so the ability to observe and supervise (and change!) student desktops from my desktop was not yet there, but by mid to late January, 2008, I was ready to go with that software, "iTalc."
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