I think it's pretty cool being a grad student - which is good, because according to my plans I'll have at least five more years of it after I teach for a little bit! The first day was long, but I was able to get a lot more done in between classes (and that meeting!) than I had expected. And thankfully, the technological aspect of the program doesn't seem like it's going to be a big pain. I'm definitely not a technophobe - I love e-mail, web surfing, downloading music, you name it - but I HATE HATE HATE when technology for education turns into technology for... technology. On the practical side, I feel like it de-values the importance of what we're supposed to do as educators. And on the other side (I'm not sure what to call it, exactly) it sometimes seems to me that heralding technology as the savior of today's brand of education is a real insult to the great teaching that has been done throughout all human history. Yes, we have to go with the flow, get with the times, and keep up with the Joneses (the Joneses being other countries with higher test scores, I guess) - but expecting computers to do something dramatic for education simply by being put in classrooms is getting a little cliched.
And Allan, I can't stand it when we call computer programs "interactive", either.