As incoming students embrace the age of technology by bringing everything from cell phones to personal digital assistants to laptops into the classroom, instructors must become familiar with instructional technology or be left behind. In a study conducted during the 2002-2003 academic year, General Psychology instructors at the United States Military Academy at West Point discovered that students of teachers who used basic laptop technology in the classroom scored significantly higher on all graded assessments than those who did not (Efaw et al., 2004). This manuscript describes these