Great Video on Virtual Worlds in Education – Our WoWinSchool Project Gets A Mention!
Great video from our friends in Australia on the potential for virtual worlds anf games in education.  Our WoWinSchool project is recognized in this video too! -Lucas

iPod Touch Gaming For Learning
Character Creation in SIMS 3 on the iPod Touch Recently, one of the middle schools in the district, Cape Fear Middle, purchase a classroom set of Apple’s iPod Touch.  The results of their use, so far, have been incredible.  Part of the reason is that we’re using them in ways that allow us to do things that we couldn’t normally do in the classroom.  For example, students in Craig Lawson’s 7th Grade Language Arts class are playing the po

Topsail High School Electric Vehicle Program Featured on EVCast Podcast
Kudos to the Topsail High School EV Team!  Steve Garrett, the instructor, along with students Marissa and Arik were interviewed my the folks at EVCast Podcast.  You can listen to the podcast online at EVCast.com.  Also, check out the THS EV blog. -Lucas

Introducing the Digital Generation
Great intro video from the folks at Edutopia.org: -Lucas

Medieval Tech Support
Well, as many of you have noticed, we’ve kicked off the year with a number of major technology changes in the district: new network, new web pages, and new email, just to name a few. Change is something that we all have to deal with but often we don’t like, and, of course, it takes time to adjust. The dust will settle, and in the long run we’ll be better off for it! In the mean time, here’s a video to remind us that technology change has been an issue throughout history. Perhaps, you may even have a laugh while watch