refelctions on discussions about motivating

I was at school early last week and ran into a teacher that will be working on the ANGEL project with me this summer. I asked her what she thought of it and how she thought it would be useful in the classroom. She was excited at the prospect and her previous experience is going to be very useful. She was involved in the pilot program this year. She voiced some areas where ANGEL will be very useful and also voiced some concerns. The possibility of connections with parents and students is mindboggling. I was reminded of my groups advocacy idea--how to get students, parents and teachers motivated--and thought that ANGEL will be a great tool to help with this. One of the concerns was of the teacher that did not participate with ANGEL and how parents might react negatively to their non-participation. This in turn might cause disharmony within the teaching staff. We also discussed how the implementation is going to happen and how it could be done so that teachers would get on board. Her fear, and mine, is that it will be introduced at the beginning of the year--such an overwhelming time anyway--and through a quick inservice the teachers are supposed to incorporate it into their planning. We both know that the teachers that are techno savvy will be engaged, but the others will do their best to ignore it. She had some interesting ideas coming from the business sector to implement this new technology so that all teachers will be engaged but I'm afraid that the ones in charge will not heed her ideas. I am very excited at this opportunity to be involved in this PD. More to come I am sure.