Hintonblogger

Well this is my first post Gilbert Public Schools blog post. I left GPS last week after 6.5 years and took a new job as an Education Program Specialist in the Arizona Department of Education educational technology section. I am sad to leave the great people I worked with at GPS, but am looking forward to the new challenges and opportunities I will have. Some of my duties will include coordinating E-Rate efforts for schools statewide, assisting with the EETT state grants for ED Tech, and helping work with the collaborative learning communities and other projects within IDEAL. There are already some neat things brewing and I'm looking forward to the launch of the new IDEAL portal in the middle of January.

I've been riding the bus to my office downtown, and, while the commute isn't terrific, it's nice to let someone else do the driving. I've enjoyed making use of the time to read, play with my new Internet-enabled Alltel 6800, and using it to write this blog article for example!

Just a quick update on my going ons. Happy Holidays!