As new technologies emerge for teaching and learning, educators are
becoming more knowledgeable about selecting and using the various technologies that will
best fit their needs and their budgets. Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) in Wisconsin is a
case in point. In this month's FOCUS article, Linda Albertson and Ann Alvarez discuss the
process used by MPS to assess the various technologies as their school system moved
through 10 years and three videoconferencing transmission systems. For a variety of
reasons, the new Internet Protocol (IP) video is their school system's technology of choice,
offering the flexibility, accessibility and reasonable cost that is so critical to the MPS plan
for the future. Rosemary Lehman