Before the Seton acquisition, St. Sabina teachers had to check out one of the school’s three laptops for Internet presentations. There was often a waiting list, and teachers had to work around each other’s lesson plans, Dumas says.

St. Sabina language arts teacher Deborah Hodo says her new laptop computer saves her about two hours of work a day.

While she had access to four desktop computers in her classroom, she rarely used them, since so many times the printers would temporarily break or lose their Internet connections.

So she kept grades in a book, instead of on a computer. And that meant calculating percentages for grades herself, which was a time consuming endeavor, she says.

She now keeps grades on the laptop, which runs automatic calculations for her.

If the printer doesn't work or she can't get Internet access, she just hooks up to another printer or moves to another part of the building where the Internet signal is stronger.

And she can show her students computerized presentations anytime she wants.

"My life is so much simpler," Hodo says. "I'm so happy about it, you'd think they'd given me a million dollars."

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NATASHA WASINSKI, 12-29-2008

Great community collaboration! Thanks for the story-

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