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February 2nd, 2012 2:42 PM

Daddy -Daughter Dance

February 4, 2012 5:00 to 6:30 pm Ages 4-8

7:00 to 8:30 Ages 9-12

Robertson Activity Center- Hwy 66 and Yukon Parkway

$5 dollars in advance $ 7 day of the dance.

Door open at 4:15 for pictures ages 4-8

Ticket locations Community Center, Jackie Cooper Gym and Robertson Activity Center

For more information call 354-8442

Trout Fish Out

Robertson Activity Center Pond

Saturday March 3, 2012 from 10:00 to 1:30

Free Admission

Prizes Awarded, Concessions Available,Fish Cleaning,Adults must be accompanied by child.

Yukon Chocolate Festival

Proceeds benefit special projects for friends of the park and Ladies Library Club.

Tickets: Library or Parks and Recreation

Saturday February 11, 2012

1:00 to 3:00 pm Robertson Activity Center

Admission $ 8.00 includes 6 tastes

Over 20 Booths and Silent Auction

Yukon Spirit League

Recreational Sports League for individuals with Disabilities. Sign up at the Parks and Recreation Office- 532 Main Street.

Bowling- Tuesday February 7-28

4:00 pm Cost $ 25.00

2 games and shoe rental weekly

AMF Yukon Lanes

Basketball- Saturday February 18- March 10, 2012

10:00 am Cost $ 10.00 Yukon Community Center

Boys Lock In

Friday, February 24, 2012

Yukon Community Center

Cost $ 20.00

Video Games,Food and more!

For more informaiton on these events and programs call the Yukon Parks and Recreation Department at (405) 350-8937

www.CityofYukonOk.gov

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January 23rd, 2012 11:12 AM
Staging can help you highlight selling features that may otherwise be overlooked by buyers.
January 2012 | By Melissa Dittmann Tracey

You may be covering up some of your home’s best features—literally. In your home, don’t let clutter or poor design choices lessen the appeal of subtle selling points such as upgraded kitchen countertops, fireplaces, and built-in shelving units. Staging can put these features in the spotlight during showings.

Roomy Kitchen Countertops

Stage a kitchen so that it shows off counter space. Stager Anthea Click of Fresh Perspectives in Nashville offers three tips for countertops.

- Put extras away. Have no more than three appliances on the countertops—even fewer if the counter space is small. Remove extra items such as knife blocks, phones, and baskets, which will make the countertops look smaller than they ­really are.

- Highlight. If the home has a center island, make it a focal point with greenery, such as an orchid, or a bowl of fresh fruit. If the island is big enough, have place settings on display with up to three bar stools. If the kitchen doesn’t have an island but there’s space for one, bring in a portable one to add counter space.

- Add color. Try placing kitchen canisters on the counter for color, interest, and balance.

Hot-Selling Fireplaces

Fireplaces are on many buyers’ wish lists. But dated and dingy fireplaces can be a turnoff. These tips for staging fireplaces are from real estate pro Tori Lynn Wallitsch of Alliance Real Estate and Ross Designs Home Staging in Omaha, Neb.

- Accessorize. Try colorful artwork or a mirror hanging over the fireplace. Use accessories sparingly on the mantel. For example, try greenery arrangements or a decorative plate on a stand in the center of the mantel. Or display three candlesticks of differing heights, a vase, or smaller accessories on one side and leave the other side clear. To attract buyers’ eyes to the fireplace, try placing a colorful plant on the floor along the fireplace’s corner edge.

- Modernize. Remove dated brass screens. By spending $200 or so to replace the old screen with a new black or bronze version, you can instantly bring a fireplace up-to-date. Do-it-yourselfers may opt to paint the brass screen themselves using black grill or auto paint with a heat-resistant primer.

- Paint. A painted accent wall helps highlight a fireplace, bringing out the wood color and any of its architectural details. Try earthy, creamy tones for the accent wall, or choose a paint color two or three shades darker than that of the other walls to create monochromatic harmony in the room.

- Position. Make the fireplace the focal point: Angle furniture to either side of it, or place sofas perpendicular to it. Don’t block the fireplace with furniture.

Don’t Cover up Unique Home Features!

A wood-burning stove tucked away in the corner of a 100-year-old home became a selling asset with the help of stagers Heather Cook and Alana Merritt, co-owners of Rooms in Bloom Home Staging & Design Inc. in Kitchener, Ontario. Cook and Merritt cleared away the clutter and changed the original distracting orange hue to a soft neutral with green undertones, which brought out the stove’s wood casings, the floors, and architectural elements of the space. The room was then staged around the stove to make it “a feature instead of an obscured object in the space,” Cook says.

Checklist: 4 Quick Tips for Prepping a Home for Sale

Real estate pro and stager Barb Schwarz, founder of the International Association of Home Staging Professionals, recommends some of the following general staging tips in prepping homes for sale.

1. Super clean. Make the house shine from top to bottom. Don’t forget about cleaning the carpet, draperies, and windows, too.

2. Clear the clutter and unload some furniture. Remove unnecessary items from countertops, bathtubs, and shower stalls—areas that often attract the most clutter. Keep only the necessities. A decluttered home helps buyers mentally “move in” with their own things. You may need to rearrange or remove some furniture. Pieces that crowd a space can make it look smaller than it really is.

3. Prep your landscaping. Check gutters and roof for dry rot and moss, and ensure they are clean. Examine all plants: Prune bushes and trees, make sure no plants are blocking windows, remove any dead plants, and keep the lawn freshly mowed.

4. Add nice touches. Coordinate towels in the bathroom in one or two colors only. Keep accessories restricted to groups of one, three, or five items. Make sure all lights and lamps are on for showings, and set an inviting mood: Have soft background music turned on (such as light FM music).

Spacious Built-ins

Built-in bookshelves help feed another common buyercraving: the desire for extra storage. Don’t let sellers clutter shelves. Stagers Heather Cook and Alana Merritt of Rooms in Bloom offer tips for staging bookshelves and wall units.

- Accent key colors. When selecting knickknacks to display, look to the room’s color palette for inspiration. Select items that bring out colors in the pillows or wall art.

- Balance. To create a cohesive feel, all items should have similar visual weight, as either a group or a stand-alone piece. For example, hardcover books of similar sizes can provide the necessary structure and height needed to fill out the shelves and balance out small artwork or mirrors on the other shelves. While the bulkiness of the accessories should align, their height can vary to create an appealing, natural look within the shelves. Other good picks for staging shelves: Small-scale framed art, mirrors, candles, and small pots of greenery or flowers.

- Prioritize. Focus on the shelves at eye level first. The shelves above and ­below eye level shouldn’t be empty, but they don’t have to be filled to the same degree

Posted by Stacy Lyons on January 23rd, 2012 11:12 AMPost a Comment (0)

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Today’s home sellers have a hard row to hoe, as my Mom would say. Home values have dropped, the market is flooded with competition and even if a buyer does come along, a record high number of deals fall through. On top of that, they face the age-old conundrum of having two seemingly conflicting aims: they want to get their homes sold, fast, but also want - and need - to squeeze every single possible dollar out of it.

While it’s tempting to price your place on the high side and ‘test the market’ or ‘negotiate down,’ overpricing your home can actually deter buyers, cause your home to lag on the market and eventually even expose you to the risk of being perceived as desperate and receiving lowball offers.

Here are 5 ‘cures’ to the temptation to overprice your home, all of which can help you max out the chance that your home will sell.

1. Check the Comps! “Comps” is real estate lingo for comparable sales - the nearby, similar homes that have recently sold. You might think that your taste level, aesthetic style and home maintenance practices are vastly superior to those of your neighbors - and you might be right. But this will be the single largest purchase your home’s eventual buyer will ever make, and trust me - they will be doing the research. The small contingent of urgent and qualified buyers who are active on today’s market do not want to overpay for a home, and most will view your home as overpriced and not worth the hassle (or the haggle) if it is out of whack with the recent sales prices of similar homes.

Similarly, appraisers will use these numbers when figuring out your home’s value. Even if you do get an offer at a higher-than-justified price, if the buyer’s appraiser finds that your home is overvalued compared to other nearby recent sales, it can cause major delays in your buyer’s mortgage process - or derail it altogether.

Work with your agent to find and evaluate the recent sales in the area, and to ensure that your home’s list price makes sense vis-a-vis the comps.

2. Get inside the minds of the local home buyers. The vast majority of buyers - over 90 percent - start their house huntinhg online. And what most of them do is type in a price range, a range of bedrooms and bathrooms and a geographic area, then spend dozens of obsessive hours perusing hundreds of listings.

Given the flooded market and buyers’ busy lives, many will screen your home off their interest list in a New York minute if it seems overpriced from its online listing. If that one-inch picture and the number of beds, baths and square feet either (a) doesn’t make it into their search results because the price is so much higher than what most local buyers want to spend on a home with those criteria, or (b) seems underwhelming, for the price, compared to the other online listings of similar homes, prospective buyers will never even make it into your home, and all your stunning staging and crave-able curb appeal will never have the opportunity to work their magic.

Local agents have an inside track on what local buyers care about and what they will and will not spend. Talk to your agent about it, but don’t forget to actually listen to and consider what your agent has to say! If you don’t trust what an agent is telling you about where you should list your home, talk to several agents - if the consensus is a recommended list price range lower than what you had in mind, that’s a sign you should reconsider.

Also, search for similar homes to yours on Trulia, to see how it would stack up against similar listings online at the price range you have in mind. That’s where local prospective buyers will see it (and screen it in or out) first.

3. Visit competing Open Houses. Buyers do not shop for homes in a vacuum. They’re out there looking at dozens of homes - or more - to make sure they’re (a) getting the best deal possible, and (b) not missing ‘the one.’ So, while viewing a thumbnail image of your competition and seeing the list prices of other homes online is informative, it is even more useful to walk through the actual properties with which your home is competing, in living color.

Before you put your home on the market, take a few hours and visit nearby Open Houses. This exercise is the most vivid way to get a reality check about what you’re up against and what your home’s strengths and weaknesses are compared with the other homes buyers will see, which will go a long way in getting you to the right asking price. Even if you are unpleasantly surprised at how nice the neighboring homes are at low prices, taking this information in before you list your home is much less painful than waiting months for the market to give you this education (in the form of no or uber-low offers).

4. Get an inspection - in advance. Home buyers have long used the home inspection as a negotiating tool to get the seller to come down on the sale price mid-stream. Get ahead of the game by getting your own inspection(s) - talk with your agent about which ones are appropriate - and getting the skinny on your home’s condition before you list it. Keep in mind that you will likely need to provide any written professional inspections you obtain before listing your home to the buyer under your state’s real estate disclosure laws.

You might be able to repair some things at relatively low cost and include the recent improvements in your marketing. Alternatively, you can set and negotiate pricing based on any condition issues or needed repairs you want to pass down to the buyer. This empowers you to get to a final price that aligns with market conditions and the condition of your home without taking massive mid-escrow hits on pricing. It also empowers you to offer a discount for needed fixes up front, when the price break has the most power to help attract bargain-seeking buyers.

5. When in doubt, go low. An overpriced home, in most cases, will cause a lot more problems in your real estate journey than an underpriced one. Think about it: an overpriced home just sits on the market with little or no buyer interest until the seller cuts the price. And many interested buyers just sit, waiting for that price cut, seeing it as a cue to make an even lower offer.

Now, consider the opposite end of the pricing spectrum: you start with a lower price than you want, but one that is supported by the comps in your market - or even goes a tad bit lower than recent homes have sold for. Lots of buyers are attracted to your house, in part because it looks like a great value for the price. You end up with multiple offers, which gives you the upper hand in negotiating a higher price.

The moral: if you aren’t sure about what price to place on your home, go a little bit lower than the recent comps sold for. Insiders know from experience that you’ll sell your home faster this way - and at a better price than if you overprice it out of the gate.


These steps can help you get out of your own way, get a bird’s eye view on the market and see your home as buyers will see it. And that’s a reality check that can make the difference between selling your home and not.

Posted by Stacy Lyons on December 2nd, 2011 9:42 AMPost a Comment (0)

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November 10th, 2011 11:35 AM

By: John Riha

Published: November 6, 2010

Turn your kitchen remodel bright green with these six resource-conserving tips.

1. Salvage nontraditional items for new kitchen storage.

Reuse is the gold standard for green remodeling, and a little creativity goes a long way. Banks of old school lockers or lab cabinets, for example, are a hot salvage item for retro-flavored kitchen storage.

2. Reuse stuff from your old kitchen.

Take a hard look to see if there are things you can keep—appliances, cabinets, hardware, faucets, and sinks are all candidates for reuse or refurb rather than replacement. A caveat: Don't keep any faucet purchased before 1997, because it's likely to contain some lead. And dispense with any appliances more than 10 years old. Energy Star appliances are leaps and bounds ahead of their ancestors in terms of energy-efficiency.

3. Install an under-the-counter water purifier.

These have about 10 times the filtering capacity of a faucet-mounted purifier. A model with a top-quality activated carbon filter will remove heavy metals, bacteria, and pesticides—not to mention odors and bad tastes. Expect to pay $150 to $200 for an activated charcoal purifier with a replaceable cartridge, which is peanuts compared with the total remodel and easy to do while the project is under way.

4. Don't forget energy-efficient lighting.

Fluorescent and compact fluorescent lamps use up to 75% less energy than comparable incandescent lamps. In fact, according to EnergyStar.gov, a single CFL bulb will save $30 to $40 during its expected lifespan of 10,000 hours. But make sure you keep task areas well-lit: Consider efficient halogen and LED lighting sources anywhere you're planning to chop veggies or measure ingredients. Or plan a skylight overhead--the sun's still free.

5. Make recycling easy.

Most cabinet manufacturers offer options for lower cabinets that include pull-out recycling bins to keep contents organized and out of sight. You can even get surface-mounted bins to go underneath holes in countertops. Just sweep food scraps right in.

6. Buy counter-depth Energy Star refrigerator instead of a standard-depth model.

Counter-depth fridges fit flush with cabinet fronts instead of jutting out five or six inches into the kitchen. It's a way to carve out extra floor space, get a sleek built-in look, and save energy, since you’re cooling less space. And an Energy Star option adds efficiency over older models. You likely won't even notice the slight difference in capacity, although you'll pay a few hundred dollars more.

Make your decision up front, though, because counter-depth appliances often aren't standard width. You'll need to plan your cabinets accordingly.

And by the way—models featuring the freezer on top use 10% to 25% less energy than a same-sized model with a side-by-side configuration.

Karin Beuerlein contributed to this article.

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By Melissa Dittmann Tracey, REALTOR® Magazine

Green or energy-efficient features in a home often don’t get factored into appraisals. But they can be an important selling point in a home, and many home owners say “green” should count when valuing homes.

A new form by the Appraisal Institute aims to make sure these key selling features–from those energy-efficient appliances to solar panels–are no longer overlooked and are factored into the equation. The form is also viewed as a big step in helping the appraisal industry standardize the way residential energy-efficient features are reported and analyzed.

The form is an optional addendum to Fannie Mae Form 1004, which is the appraisal industry’s most widely used form for mortgage purposes. It is used by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Housing Administration.

“We hope lenders, home builders, real estate agents, and home owners will take advantage of this new tool,” says Joseph C. Magdziarz, president of the Appraisal Institute. “Mortgage lenders who want to see energy features analyzed should request the green addendum to be included with Form 1004. We also encourage lenders to provide the green addendum to home owners so they can fill it out and provide it to their appraiser. If a new home is being appraised, home builders can use the addendum to provide data to appraisers. Real estate agents also can use the data to help populate the MLS.”

Posted by Stacy Lyons on November 3rd, 2011 1:10 PMPost a Comment (0)

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There are lots of fangtastic treats on the scroller above. Pick some of those fun ideas and make treat bags for your party. Or bring them to a party you're headed to. Decorating party treat bags (and making the creepy treats) can be just as big a Halloween hit as the trick-or-treating!



3 Spooky Ideas for Party Treat Bags

You can design way-cool bags from things you've got around the house! Check out these ideas:

Brown Bag It. All you need are ordinary brown lunch bags to let your creativity run wild. Try this frighteningly easy idea:

  • Use a hole puncher and some twine as a bow; fold over the top of the bag.
  • Punch a few holes in it.
  • Weave the twine through the holes to seal the bag after you've added the treats.
  • Add extras like candy corn or other Halloween candy with a glue gun.

Give Yourself a Hand. Transform a simple clear plastic glove into a "handy" (and creepy) treat bag filled with your favorite goodies. Get ideas from our recipe scroller above. Make sure to leave enough room at the top so you can seal the bag with a twist tie.

Go Green. Orange, black...and green? Skip goodie bags altogether and instead use (recyclable) paper. Just twist the paper into a cone shape and staple or tape it. Then fill with cookies, pumpkin seeds or Halloween snack mix.



Super-easy idea for filling a party treat bag: Pillsbury Ready To Bake!® Halloween Shape® cookies!

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October 21st, 2011 10:44 AM
With so many homes on the market, many buyers house hunt for months, even years before hitting property pay-dirt. Even for the savvy buyers who have narrowed their house hunt to an affordable price range, the condition issues so common in distressed homes can make choosing a home difficult.

And on the flip side, some subdivisions have scads of similar homes, all of which are in good shape, all listed at a similar price, making it nearly impossible to choose just one.

Here are five indicators that a particular home you’re viewing might be “The One” – the property on which you’ll want to place an offer:

1. You feel possessive about it, instantly. I once showed a less-than-fabulous home to a buyer who stepped in the front door, opened her eyes wide, and uttered in a much-quieter-than-normal voice, “I would cry.” We got a good laugh out of this later, after she found and bought a home that made her feel virtually the opposite.

Not only did the winning home bring a smile to her face, it also made her instantly possessive. She didn’t just want it - she wanted it immediately. She could barely even wait to write the offer paperwork! When another agent showed up to bring a buyer through the place while we were still there, she lingered leisurely (in hopes they would just leave) and secretly looked at them with daggers in her eyes (out of competitiveness, because in her heart, the home had already become hers).

If you walk through a place and leave wondering how quickly you can get your offer in, how much you’d offer to beat someone else out, or what you can do to lock it down quickly, it might be “The One.”

2. You start rationalizing its flaws away. Train tracks 10 feet from the bedroom window? Next door neighbor that runs a pigeon-sitting service? Okay – I exaggerate. But if you find yourself viewing a home with traits that you would normally deem undesirable or as deal-killers, yet you like the place so much that you instinctively compile a mental list of reasons those traits just don’t matter, you might have found “The One.”

Now, smart buyers should be aware of a syndrome I like to call “Pottery Barn Psychosis,” whereby the aesthetics of a wonderfully staged home with amazing curb appeal can hypnotize a buyer, rendering them blind to the negative property features, which would be glaring or grave concerns if the place weren’t so stinking cute. It’s fine to make a conscious decision that the pros of a place outweigh its cons, and even to consciously re-rank your priorities in light of a particular property’s advantages. But buyers should take steps to avoid falling victim to Pottery Barn Psychosis (and the Buyer’s Remorse that often follows suit) by writing down your absolute musts and deal-breakers before you ever step foot in a single property – and by revisiting this document before you write an offer and again before you remove your contingencies.

3. The bathroom and kitchen don’t disgust you. We humans are born with only two fears in life: the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. By about eight months old, we start to acquire new fears, and most of us never stop. Among the first fear most people learn: the fear of other people’s kitchens and bathrooms.

I exaggerate (again!), but it is true that generally speaking, other people’s kitchens and bathrooms hold definite gross-out potential. There’s just something about what goes on in those rooms that seems exceptionally intimate and even unsanitary. So, if you happen to find yourself falling in love with a home’s river rock shower floor or drooling over the pot-filler over the stove and the built-in cookbook stand on the countertop, that’s a sign that you’re falling head over heels with a home that might just be “The One.”

4. You involuntarily envision your own family, furniture, decor, daily activities or remodeling choices in/to the home. They say that the best staging helps prospective buyers envision their own idealized lives taking place in the staged home. But whether or not a property is staged, if you find your mind’s eye Photoshopping a given property to insert your own kids and sofa into the living room, your dining table and favorite wall hangings into place in the dining room, and your daily meditation in the breakfast nook – or even start mentally removing walls entirely – it’s entirely possible that the home you’re in could be “The One” for you.

5. You lose interest in seeing other homes. I once took some buyers out for their first house hunt in my territory after they’d spent two years looking for homes in a neighboring area, without ever making a single offer. I’d planned to show them seven homes, but when they got to the fourth property, they declared that they’d found their home, and they neither wanted nor needed to see any more. I insisted that they finish the list, if for no other reason than to confirm their choice and to avoid feeling later that they hadn’t seen enough nearby homes to compare theirs to. They humored me and saw the last three places on the list, then promptly bought house #4 and still live there, blissfully happy, to this day.

When you find “The One,” continuing the house hunt you may have obsessed over for months, even years, starts to seem silly, like a waste of the energy you could be using to move into your new home.

Homeowners: How did you know when you’d found the right home for you and your family?

Buyers: What signs have you exhibit when you found “The One?”

Posted by Stacy Lyons on October 21st, 2011 10:44 AMPost a Comment (0)

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  • Introduce hints of a new color to your existing palette. Combine autumn red or orange splashes with a neutral or contrasting base such as taupe, olive, or blue. Muted greens are fresh alternatives to bold warm colors. Throw pillows, table accessories, and accent rugs are high-impact, low-investment places to start.
  • Find woodsy elements at your local farmers' market or your own backyard. Look for moss, grasses, and small branches. Fill interesting pots with any combination of them, or turn a bundle of twigs into a natural photo holder.
  • Small but unexpected details go a long way at the dinner table. Tie a name card to leafy twigs to make great place holders for your guests. Dress up acorns by exchanging one for a large crafts-store pearl and tying them up with a velvet ribbon for a rustic, yet elegant, napkin holder.
  • Celebrate the harvest season with casual country touches. Find natural artwork, twine, and rustic wooden accent pieces. Cozy blankets add autumn comfort to any space.
  • Choose pieces that will stay timely through the holidays, or that can be updated in a snap, to save space and money. Pinecones, dried berries, and twigs stay up-to-date through the winter. After Thanksgiving, swap your moss and acorns for faux-snow and ornaments to give the same decor a new presence.
  • Wreaths are classic and versatile, and can be made from almost any material. Experiment with wheat or leaves for fall, holly for Christmas, or pinecones and twigs for the whole holiday season. Try laying them flat to frame pumpkins, candles, or other centerpieces.
  • Candles add warmth and light in any season. They work anywhere. Don't forget about mantels and windowsills. If you stick with neutral colors, embellishments and containers can be changed for the season.
  • Make space for conversation. Adding -- or relocating -- seating around a fireplace creates a cozy new space for fall fellowship. No fireplace? Pull a couple of sitting chairs in a corner, add candles for ambiance, and keep a stack of books close at hand.
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By G. M. Filisko, contributing writer, HouseLogicy

Curb appeal goes beyond making a good first impression and that the way your home looks from the street can impact its value and shorten the time it takes to sell. Here are some concrete curb appeal tips that you can implement today !

 

1. Paint the house. Hands down, the most commonly offered curb appeal advice from real estate pros and appraisers is to give the exterior of your home a good paint job. Buyers will instantly notice it and appraisers will note it on the valuation. Just make sure you stay within the range of accepted colors for your market. A house that’s painted a wildly different color from its competition will be marked down in value by appraisers.

2. Have the house washed. Before you make the investment in a paint job, take a good look at the house. If it’s got mildew or general grunge, just washing the house could make a world of difference, says Valerie Torelli, a California real estate agent. Before she puts a house on the market, Torelli often does exterior makeovers, a service she pays for herself. Overall, she says her goal is to spend less than $5,000 and generate an extra $10,000 to $15,000 on the sale price.

 

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Posted: Feb 15, 2010 2:05 PM CSTUpdated: Feb 23, 2010 3:11 PM CST
A Yukon High School student shows teachers how to use a laptop.A Yukon High School student shows teachers how to use a laptop.
A teacher uses an iPod Touch to incorporate technology into the classroom.A teacher uses an iPod Touch to incorporate technology into the classroom.
It cost the district $96 million to build the new, high-tech High School.It cost the district $96 million to build the new, high-tech High School.

By Jennifer Pierce, NEWS 9

YUKON, Oklahoma – Yukon High School teachers got a crash course in technology Monday. It was a full day of learning, but the roles were reversed and the students were the teachers.

Even though students had the day off some came in to teach the teachers. This is the first step in Yukon High School going high-tech.

Jacob Miller takes teachers through the process of finding and downloading educational applications.

It is a professional day for teachers to get up to speed on the technology students use on a daily basis.

"It's a better way for them to connect with the students," Miller said.

Miller showed them how to use it more effectively in the classroom.

"We have a group of teachers that are learning how to search iTunes for things like interactive components for iPods and things they will use in the classroom, we also have a group of teachers learning how to create podcasts," Director of Technology with Yukon Schools Dawn Danker said.

This is all in an effort for the day staff and students will move into the new high school.

Technology will be just a touch away. Classrooms will be equipped with laptops and iPod Touches.

School officials want everyone tech savvy.

"Like every four months they update iTunes and they'll have a new version," Belinda Bedell said.

Teachers look forward to the day learning in their classroom goes beyond a book.

"It kind of adds a new dimension into the classroom," Bedell said.

And so are the students.

"If you ask a lot of kids, high school students, 'Hey, you ready to read a book?' they're like, 'No, I don't want to read a book.' But, if you put technology in their hand they would want to grasp that information; they would want to explore that iPod," student Jacob Miller said.

Students say they have already reaped the benefits of technology. Those preparing for the ACT can download test apps to their phone or iPod. One student says the apps helped him raise his test score four points.

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