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Today I recieved an e-mail from our elementary school's technology coach. We are lucky that this position is one that has escaped all of the unfortunate cuts that our district has been forced to make. The e-mail was sent out to our entire staff and offered a professional developement opportunity for this fall. She had a short survey in her e-mail that asked what kinds of technology teaching we were interested in learning about and what dates we would be available for doing so. It was wonderful to first of all have this opportunity but even more so because she was working at making it relevent to our teaching and convenient. The response was great! When I filled out the survey I was able to view who had already shown interest and at the time 13 out of our 15 classroom teachers had shown interest! It made me feel good that in my building there are teachers who see the value of incorporating technology in the classroom, are willing to take time out of their busy days to do so, and who are excited to learn new things. It also made me see how this type of important learning can take place if it is presented in the right way! Kudos to our tech coach and the fabulous teachers that I work with. I hope that these types of opportunities are made available again in this same manner. The winning formula seems to be relevance + convenience = interest!