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She figured it out, then waited and waited.

"It's almost happening! Come on!" she said. A window on the screen said "NovellZENworks 7 Desktop Management." Minelly said she didn't know what Zen meant. "I know what 'seven' means," she said.

When Armstrong turned to the interactive whiteboard, flipping between computer windows with a touch of the screen, Minelly was awestruck.

"Look! She just touched it!" she said.

Knowing that some teachers at Gunston were not quite ready to jump into the technology's interactive features, Ba encouraged them to at least use the board as a projector the first day. As a result, the word "welcome" hovered on screens throughout the school.

Lee tried to venture further.

"Now, who can help me close out of this?" she asked the class before uttering what would become a mantra of the day. "I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid."

Staff writers Michael Alison Chandler and Ian Shapira contributed to this report.

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