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=Welcome to HallettTechPlan.wikispaces.com= This space is to be a collection point for pieces of the plan to develop a coherent technology program to support and extend the integration of technology into the teaching and learning at Hallett Fundamental Academy. embedded below is[| What is a mammal?]

media type="custom" key="6331883" Upcoming (2010-2011 school year)**
 * Near Past (2008-2009 school year) Knight Fundamental Academy**
 * 30 station lab, no teacher or para; little use
 * Lab dismantled for transport to new building
 * Immediate Past (2009-2010 school year) Knight Fundamental Academy at Hallett**
 * Lab reassembled, no teacher or para; little use
 * Lab dismantled and dispersed
 * Two student stations configured in each classroom, grades 1-5 (total of ten classes, twenty desktop PCs, ranging from GX280 to SX270 to OX 610
 * six student desktop PC stations setup in library
 * additional desktop PCs set up in Special Ed, ESL, Assistant Principal
 * District Technology Bond funds, Round 1, use to fund acquisition of Ten notebook computers, matched with ten data projectors and ten document cameras; one Mimio interactive whiteboard system purchased to pilot use.
 * one allocated for each classroom teacher in grades 1-5
 * (separate funding for Kindergarten and ECE classrooms)
 * one teacher declined/forestalled installation-all three new components
 * equiment now in use in Art classroom
 * one teacher preferred MacBook, using camera and projector solely as replacement for overhead transparency projector
 * Dell Notebook now in use by GT Teacher without camera and projector
 * one teacher not issued new equipment due to mid-year resignation and long string of short-term substitutes.
 * equipment now in use in Special Ed. classroom, including Mimio wireless
 * Present (April 2010)**
 * District Technology Bond funds, Round 2 and 3 combined, used to fund acquisition of new equipment. Requesition submitted 4/28, minor revisions required downtown, order will be placed NOT BEFORE July 19, 2010, in order to prevent summer delivery to empty building.
 * Immediate Future (May 2010)**
 * Tech Bond Fund, Round 2/3 requisition includes:
 * 4 additional Teaching Stations (notebook, data projector, document camera to supplement ten Teaching Stations purchased in Round 1
 * 10 addition Mimio wireless systems
 * 37 student netbook computers (10 inch without optical drive)
 * netbook security/recharging cart for mobility within a single floor (second floor is grades 3-5)
 * Mill Levy funds plan requested effective 4/28
 * Lobby information display
 * Flat Panel TV, 30" minimum (up to 42"?), looping/streaming announcements, recognition/awards/honors, pictures(?) --Wall or ceiling mount
 * older desktop computer to feed content from
 * powerpoint slideshow or
 * online presentation using web 2.0 tool
 * hardware installation by approved vendor
 * expansion of library minilab from current six desktop PCs, hardwired (Ethernet) to 12 to 15 desktop PCs -added stations must include
 * PCI wireless cards.
 * table/computer desk to complement present six-station lab
 * USB Headset microphone/earphone units to enable podcasting
 * repair/replacement of Anchor portable Amplifier/speaker unit
 * added Anchor portable Amplifier/speaker unit
 * Wireless / throat microphone(s)
 * repairs of current equipment (printers/computers/networking equipment
 * install by approved vendor of ceiling mount for in library projector
 * 1-2 Whiteboard(s) (portable 4' x 6') for library presentations
 * security cables for new teaching station equipment
 * LCD displays to replace x CRT displays
 * Desktop PC to replace y oldest desktop computers
 * Near Future (Summer 2010)