Today’s opening session with Will Richardson was jaw-dropper inspiring!  As he made each point, we found ourselves nodding in agreement, and it all made perfect sense.  However, I felt the tiniest inkling that he was preaching to the choir, so to speak.  Those of us in attendance, for the most part, already want to spread the joy of technology around.   We may not yet have the “passion” that Mr. Richardson mentioned, but we now have the motivation to take our smoldering embers of interest and fan them into flames.  It seems that our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to set the rest of the team, staff, school, community, etc., on fire with that passion and create lifelong learners using the ways of the future, not using the ways of the past.   

The sessions throughout the day had their ups and downs of technical difficulties, along with the slight let down of following an enthusiastic ”cheerleader” for the cause.   As our MCMS team compared notes, we found we had a good variety of experiences and a lot of good information.  After one more day of soaking up the offerings, we will be back on the road to reality at our home school.   Our challenge then will be organizing all this information and putting it to use to brain-wash (and I mean that in a good way!) the remaining staff.  We must do much teaching/leading by example for these little embers to turn to flames.