eMints brings technology to South classrooms

By RAYCEE THOMPSON
Room 210 Staff Writer
Can you imagine that 15 years ago we could not even grasp the concept of the Internet? Now we have smart boards and laptops in classrooms! These classrooms are called eMINTS classrooms.
eMints classrooms use technology to enhance the way teachers teach and students learn to search for answers. eMINTS stands for enhancing Missouri's Instructional (teaching) Network. eMINTS classrooms are helpful in providing teachers with more tools.
Teachers who have eMINTS classes have to go through training for two years, 100 hours each. After the first year, they get their equipment over Christmas break. Every year an eMINTS coach comes in 10 times a year and answers questions the teacher has or makes suggestions to help the teacher. In our school Mr. Jason Weaver and Mrs. Angela Mense have eMINTS classrooms. Mr. Rocky Biggers will have an eMINTS class after Christmas break. Throughout the Joplin R-8 School District, district there are 24 eMINTS classes. For more information on eMINTS, go to www.emints.org .