Stacy jokes that her job title nowadays is "stay-at-home mom," but she's keeping quite busy. After teaching high school social studies for seven-and-a-half years, she became a technology trainer for Montgomery Public Schools. "It was really rejuvenating to have new challenges, to get out and learn about what other people were doing in their classrooms," she says. Stacy has since widened her training work to school districts throughout the DC area.  She also teaches a graduate-level class for Montgomery County teachers on creating Web-based lessons.

Her focus with technology in the classroom is "not so much how, but what can I do with this," she says. "The rut teachers get into is using the one computer in their classroom for grades and email." Stacy sees the Web-based lessons she teaches as a way to help students become more active learners. "Kids are investigating rather than just taking notes or just listening," she says.

A key part of a good online experience for students, Stacy feels, is to make sure they're presented with an authentic task - something where, she explains, "they could write a letter to a real person with the hope that this letter might actually impact that individual's thinking and perhaps bring about some change in the community."

On getting started in a one-computer classroom:
"What we try to get teachers into doing is using the computer as a learning station - as part of research, for example. Or even just letting kids take turns. Maybe each kid is only going on one time in the course of three weeks, but at least he got on the one time instead of none!"