SCENARIO THREE

You are a first grade teacher at Two Trees Elementary School. It is a large school with three to four classes for each grade. You have been teaching there for quite a while and feel comfortable with your job.

Lately something has revived your interest in teaching, and that is technology. You and another teacher received the first computers bought for the school.

Later that year, the principal, Mrs. Duckworth, won a digital camera in a drawing at an administrator's meeting. You were allowed to take it home and try it out. When you learned how to use it, you came back and started using it in class.

So, when Mrs. Duckworth said that she was looking for participants on a committee to write a technology grant, you volunteered. It was enjoyable to work with the committee and dream about using scanners, having software that can do so many things, and being on the Internet. It was hard to believe, but exciting, when you received the call in the summer that the grant came through.

When fall came and the school year started, other teachers expected you to be the one who could solve problems and fix their computers. There was so much to do with getting things set up and training teachers. Now, you are working longer and longer days and feel like you are abandoning your class. There are also too many decisions to make.

What will you do?