About 75 teachers became involved in that first playshop. Brooks monitored teachers' concerns and found they changed dramatically over a relatively short time. The shift clearly indicates that once teachers moved past personal concerns, they liked what they found. Computer use in both school districts is climbing steadily as teachers grow more confident and discover new ways of using the technology. First comes Dialog.
Teachers have the opportunity to go online and talk with students and each other.
Next comes professional Development in which teachers will use two-way video teleconferencing to teach each other, share their experiences in the use of the technology, and work to advance the goals of curriculum development. The final step in the three Ds will be Development of curriculum. Moving on to higher-tech approaches, Brooks has engaged teachers into a proactive use of computer networking to enhance curriculum. Keeping the Snowball Moving Douglas Brooks is a professor in the departments of Teacher Education and Educational Leadership at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He came to Miami University in 1985 from the University of Texas at Arlington, where he received that school's Outstanding Teacher Award.