Techie items for GALA

Dear Teachers,
I've been invited to a brainstorming session regarding GALA - Wendi is looking for our input for auction items that would impact your classrooms. She would like for the item(s) to be something that could work for any grade level.

At the lunch table today - a few ideas were tossed around:
1. TIME - aka professional development for you. Maybe parents would be willing to purchase substitute teachers so that classroom teachers could attend more learning sessions on the products we already have????
2. Laptop lab on a cart with wireless Internet (one for each lower school building???) I'm pretty sure we could find something appropriate for young learners
3. SMART Senteo classroom responders: http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/Senteo/default.htm
4. SMART Document Camera http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SMART+Document+Camera/default.htm
5. SMART Table (for young students) http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SMART+Table/default.htm

FYI:Last year, a number of SMART Boards were purchased as auction items. People liked to bid on cool techie stuff. They were amazed at the SMART Board's capabiities and eagerly held their paddles high to be the first to purchase. The bidding was wild! Lower School received 4 of the 9 (?) boards that attendees "purchased" at the Gala.

Think about it - look at the links - add a comment to the blog.