Congratulations participants!

   Congratulations to those of you who have completed the 5TTT program! And to those who haven’t, thanks for trying. I hope you all got a lot out of it, and may be interested in trying it again next year. Here is the final survey for the program. Although I’m not calling it a requirement for the completion of the program, I really value your input. It’s the only way we will know how to improve our systems for bringing technology staff development to you. Thanks so much for your participation in the program and for taking the survey. I hope all of you get a chance to take a breath this summer and poke around on some of these great, free web 2.0 tools that are available to us.

   As an added incentive to participate next year, I’m checking out the iPads from our iPad cart to staff over the summer. The first people that sign up as intending to participate in next year’s technology professional development program get priority for checking out iPads. Here’s the form for that.

   Congratulations to the following 21 people who have completed the program!  Each received either a $20 gift card for Best Buy Company or a 4GB video MP3 player. If you got the gift card, you might want to check out Best Buy's Memorial Day Sale this weekend. Program graduates are: Natasha Abu-Saba, Diane Ahlberg, Jennifer Ajsenberg, Carli Andersen, Rob Anderson, Anne Beckman, Jessica Gillespie, Stacey Haas, Dhaivyd Hilgendorf, Justin Jacobs, Colin Kemmis, Jason Olson, Lauren Peralta, Bev Rath, Megan Rohwer, Scott Schugg, Manon Tam, Lori Taylor, Sue Toohey, Laura Williams, and Sally Wojahn. Your 5 technology CEUs have been posted on Keep Certified. Congratulations, also to those who tried, but couldn't find the time to make it work this year. I know that this stuff doesn't come easily to many of you, and I commend you for giving it a go. Please enroll again next year, and get even more out of it, regardless of whether you complete the program. Everyone's a winner with this program!
   Finally, the winner of our Grand Prize drawing, an Amazon Kindle Keyboard 3G, was Laura Williams. I hope that you enjoy some great reading on it this summer, Laura!