Should We Be Integrating Technology?

I've recently read Chris Lehmann's and David Warlick's blogs about integrating technology. I'm a technology resource teacher, so I am constantly preaching to teachers to integrate technology into their curriculum in a variety of ways for a variety of purposes. But after reading this particular article from TechLearning (http://www.techlearning.com/article/28304) I am beginning to change the way I think. Over the summer, I will be devising ways to make technology in education more, "like oxygen - ubiquitous, necessary, and invisible." (Chris Lehmann, http://twitter.com/sukanti/status/10092625603)

Technology Funding

Recently, my school district has been struggling with our budget. How do you manage to keep technology afloat or even increase when there is no money for instructional support, clerks, paraprofessionals, and classroom teachers are using their jobs?

I'm beginning to explore "free" options, encouraging more use of web 2.0 tools and such. Also, I've been looking for, but not finding many educational technology grants.