Teachers to get high-tech boost

"It could have been just a research paper, leaving at least some students sighing and dragging their feet to the library. But Sonoma Valley High School librarian Nancy McEnery transformed a U.S. history assignment into a multi-dimensional adventure - a journey that could impact them long after class is over and the last textbook page is turned."

"Students who previously had shown little or no interest in history - and who had completed few, if any - previous assignments were riveted to the computer screen, looking for historic images, raising their hands to ask questions about the software, searching for film clips from the Library of Congress and writing text for their slides. It was an awesome sight," McEnery wrote in a review of the project."

"The Sonoma Index-Tribune of Sonoma, Calif., reports on a local professional development course called "Earn While You Learn." The course helps K-12 teachers learn about technology so they can pass that knowledge on to students."