A Brave New Experiment

Podcast #1 - August 8, 2005



This year at Dalton Middle School is a very important year. Along with Dr. Porter (Superintendent) and Mr. Suits (Principal), the Computer Technology staff has expanded our classes to 4 sections. We are working very hard to make the Computer Applications classes connect with the content of the core classes of Math, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts, and Reading. One of the major goals of our school is that students will become proficient writers. Our L.A. teachers have done a fantastic job in improving our student scores on the state (GA) writing exams.

The Computer Applications teachers (Mr. Murry, Mrs. Keith, Mrs. Marsh, and Mr. Smith) are working together to plan projects that are based upon the standards of the core classes, with a focus of making all students of Dalton Middle School proficient users of today's technology. We hope to have students using not only Microsoft Office products (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) but also become "digital citizens" that will appropriately create blogs (such as this one), web sites, and wikis, as well as to learn to use the WWW to better their research skills.

In addition to this blog (Web Blog) which contains written expressions, you will be able to come to this page and listen to a weekly podcast. Podcasts are a fairly new medium that allows people to create a broadcast (like radio) that can be downloaded from here (and in the near future on iTunes).