Device Rollout Day 2014 at Discovery Middle School

Today we distributed 680 devices to students at Discovery Middle School - 6th and 7th graders received Chromebooks and 8th graders received MacBook Air laptops.  There were a couple of network issues but overall it went very smoothly due to the hard work of many in the technology department over the past several months.  In addition to handing out the devices, students received a day of training on the new devices and lessons in digital citizenship.

Here are some pictures from an exciting day at Discovery Middle School:

One word that comes to mind when you think "History"

I wanted to gauge my students' feelings about history today on our first day so I asked each of them to write the first word which came to their mind when they heard the word "History".  Here was the white board at the end of the day.

I thought it was interesting we had some "timelines" and "dates" up on the board.  A couple students wrote "boring".  Had several "past" and "long".  One did say "awesome" and "interesting" made it as well.