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Article: Be our guest: this Cincinnati program stations an educational technologist, with mobile computer lab in tow, in a new school each week to help teachers learn their tech A-B-C's. (district profile).(Gini Browsh)
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- District Administration
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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Much of what makes Dara O'Loughlin successful in teaching teachers to use technology lies in her former career as an art teacher. Thanks to a Cincinnati Public Schools program, O'Loughlin sets up shop in a new elementary school each week. The teachers can sign up for one-on-one learning sessions, group workshops or classroom visit demonstrations where she models how technology can be taught to students.
Where does finger painting fit into this picture? "I was an art-on-the-cart person," O'Loughlin explains, "so I'm used to going from one classroom to the next, working around other people and [whatever materials are] there." She also knows well the abilities of ...