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and reading through. So yeah, that's all, all online.

SPEAKER 1: I'm collecting qualitative data. PARTICIPANT 1: Yes.

157 SPEAKER 1: As we do this, of course. PARTICIPANT 1: Yes.

SPEAKER 1: OK. All right. So what types of technology do you have access to at work?

PARTICIPANT 1: Pretty much the same. I guess laptop, and we have nice LCD projectors that I use a lot. I'm always putting stuff on the nice overhead. I guess that's the main thing that I use.

SPEAKER 1: OK. Do you use DVDs or...?

PARTICIPANT 1: Yeah. The DVD goes straight to the LCD projector, like there's no TV or anything so it's all hooked up. So yeah.

SPEAKER 1: So no need to use TV anymore really? PARTICIPANT 1: Nope. It all goes through the projector. SPEAKER 1: OK.

PARTICIPANT 1: It all hooks up right to my laptop. So yep. It all goes to the same place.

SPEAKER 1: Do you utilize the Internet? Like YouTube or any of those types of things?

PARTICIPANT 1: Yeah. I actually did on Friday. We had the School Reads thing where the kids picked a book, and for my book we actually Skyped with the author. So I set up the Skype and he met us online. At 8:30 he called us and so the kids got to come to the desk and ask him questions or whatever. So then we watched the YouTube for the trailer… we used YouTube for the trailer for the video that goes with the movie that was made. That was just one instance. Yeah. I use YouTube all the time. SPEAKER 1: OK.

PARTICIPANT 1: It's nice because we have access to it. Now I don't have to change it over.

SPEAKER 1: Right. Because that used to not be the case? PARTICIPANT 1: Mm-hm. Teachers now can use it.

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SPEAKER 1: OK. Describe the role technology has played in your life outside of education, and by that I mean like outside of teaching.

PARTICIPANT 1: Cell phones.

SPEAKER 1: So for purposes of like communication, you would think?

PARTICIPANT 1: Communication with friends. Cell phones using text messaging. When people are in different states. All my friends live in other states so I have free long distance so I can talk to them easier. SPEAKER 1: Do you Skype?

PARTICIPANT 1: That was the first time I had Skyped, on Friday. SPEAKER 1: OK.

PARTICIPANT 1: He actually offered and I said, OK, I'll figure it out. Sounds good. Let's Skype. But now that I know how and how simple it is, I absolutely want to use it because I have lots of friends in different places. I guess cell phones and laptops, you know, Facebook and your email.

SPEAKER 1: OK. Facebook, email. PARTICIPANT 1: Something we all use. SPEAKER 1: Mm-hm.

PARTICIPANT 1: And so I can do that outside school, obviously. SPEAKER 1: And then you're now… I mean, you're depending on...

PARTICIPANT 1: We don't have a landline. So like my cell phone is… we tried to get a landline here at the new house and we never used it and it was only telemarketers. So just cell phones, that's our communication. SPEAKER 1: Right. It's the same for us. And then now you're depending on the

Internet for your master's degree as well?

PARTICIPANT 1: Oh yeah. I'm on the computer all the time typing up stuff. Everything has to be posted to the website or to Google, the documents. Everything is...

159 PARTICIPANT 1: Mm-hm.

SPEAKER 1: OK.

PARTICIPANT 1: Our research class.

SPEAKER 1: For what purposes do you use technology on a regular basis outside of work, and it sounds like we kind of already answered that—the cell phones, the Facebook, master's degree. So all of those things. Would you add anything else to that?

PARTICIPANT 1: iPod. SPEAKER 1: OK.

PARTICIPANT 1: I don't use it as often as some people, but iPod to listen to music, download stuff.

SPEAKER 1: OK.

PARTICIPANT 1: In the car especially.

SPEAKER 1: All right. Do you… would you say that you enjoy using technology outside of work?

PARTICIPANT 1: Yes. For the most part, until I started my master's I didn't bring my computer home as often. I tried to leave all the work at school but now I need it, so yeah.

SPEAKER 1: So, when you say… OK, so let me ask you this question. Do you enjoy using technology outside of work for non-work related things? PARTICIPANT 1: Yeah. Yeah. Cell phone. iPod. Again Facebook. Yes.

SPEAKER 1: Right. OK. All right. So now we're going to move into some

questions that are very… are more specific to like the survey that you filled out. So you might hear some similarities to the survey. And my goal is to kind of understand where your… depending on, like based on your confidence level, what factors developed your confidence level with technology?

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SPEAKER 1: So how would you describe your attitude toward instructional

technology in regards to its role in education as an instructional tool? PARTICIPANT 1: Well, kind of like I was talking about. I've been able to be more

relevant to the kids by using YouTube and Skype. You know, most of them had never used it. They were blown away that we could actually talk to an author and do things like that, and so being able to make things more relevant because kids do use their cell phones and are on YouTube and Facebook all the time, so oh yeah. I think relevance is probably…

SPEAKER1: And so you would say you have like a positive attitude toward…? PARTICIPANT 1: Mm-hm.

SPEAKER 1: OK. And so you believe that instructional technology can be used as an instructional tool?

PARTICIPANT 1: Yes.

SPEAKER 1: OK. So, to be more relevant. Would you say there are any other, I guess, ways that it can be an instructional tool other than helping to make learning relevant?

PARTICIPANT 1: Well, like we have to take certain data for different classes. We're making tests online using different programs so it can be graded faster or, you know, statewide tests are online. So they're having to use the computer so we practice that, to typing essays. Yeah.

SPEAKER 1: OK. How or in what ways have you participated in training that targets the use of instructional technology?

PARTICIPANT 1: Well, Amy (unintelligible - 0:08:41.8) has led several different