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Along with a brand new nursery school program, Blessed Sacrament has taken the next step in 21st century technology, adding Whiteboards to their classrooms. Kindergarten teacher Michelle DiPiazza uses hers regularly, and finds it to be an incredible convenience.

"It broke last year and it was as if I couldn't teach," she said.

The Whiteboard is a type of Smart Board - a computer generated projector screen that allows teachers to visually enhance the students' learning ability. During one of her classes, Mrs. DiPiazza used hers to make a graph of the students' favorite lunches, which they participated in making.

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Using a computerized pen, which also serves as a mouse, Mrs. DiPiazza chose a color from the screen used it to represent the three food choices the students were given (hamburger, hot dog, or pasta). 

The students colored along on their pieces of paper with crayons, but when Mrs. DiPiazza volunteered to let them use the Whiteboard for the lesson, a number of hands went up.

They seemed to understand the lesson they were taught also. As a student named Anthony pointed out, "We like pasta best!"

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The graph showed 10 of the children preferred pasta, while six preferred hot dogs, and two hamburgers.

Another student also noticed something the graph told.

"People like hot dogs more than hamburgers," she said. "Because there's only two hamburgers."

Despite the new and advanced technology however, the basic principles of school work remain the same. When asked by Mrs. DiPiazza how to do the best work, the students collectively answered, "Be quiet!"[[In-content Ad]]

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