Flippin Teachers Tackle Technology
September 1999

     Flippin teachers are shown learning how to operate new digital equipment the school received when it was awarded a $95,000 Arkansas Department of Education grant. At a recent in-service, teachers learned how to use digital cameras, both still and video camcorders; how to work with new software manipulating sound and pictures; and how to put together a multimedia project. Allen C. Benson of Arkansas State University Mountain Home, seated at the computer, and Petra Pershall, also seated, project director and library media specialist at Flippin High School, were leaders of the workshop, along with a team of teachers including Dianne Wade, Cassie Gilley, Jennifer Metts, and Lisa Thompson. Also shown, from left, are teachers Tracie Floyd, Cheryl Blasdel, and Joe Morris. The new computers will allow all middle school and high school students and faculty to participate in the South Shore Memory Project, a digital history project started last school year with $25,000 initial funding by the South Shore Foundation, the charitable foundation of Northern Arkansas Telephone Company.