This past week I had the opportunity to visit with some amazing people and educators in the state of West Virginia. A few months ago I was hired to teach at a new charter school here in Austin. This new charter school is part of an incredible pilot program implementing Globaloria, a curriculum designed to teach kids to develop their own educational, socially oriented, web-based computer games using Flash. The curriculum incorporates many web 2.0 tools and has a truly innovative approach to education. My school is the only school in Texas to be using the program and the only other place where it is being implemented is in another pilot program that has been in place for three years in the state of West Virginia.
While I was in West Virginia going through training to learn just exactly what Globaloria is and what I am supposed to be teaching, I had the opportunity to meet some incredible people who are passionate about what they are doing and why they are doing. It was truly refreshing to see the amount of support the Globaloria program has in West Virginia and how willing they are to implement new technology and new methods. Even though I was so far away, I felt completely at home with the people I met. They embraced me (they gave me an "A") and I realized that what made this program truly special was not the technology, but the people behind it.
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