This year two height adjustable 75" Promethean interactive flat panel displays were added at Village School in the second and third grade science rooms. Indian Hill sixth grade students are assigned new touch screen Chromebooks that they will keep until they are replaced in ninth grade. As part of the W.R. Satz renovation of room 208, a new interactive projector has been installed. A similar projector was also installed in room 206. Ninth grade students receive new touch screen Chromebooks. Also in the high school, four 75" flat panel displays have been installed in the commons and media center areas. This digital signage will improve communications. Finally, the high school received a major auditorium sound system update to improve sound quality and reliability.
Sunday, August 21, 2022
Sunday, January 30, 2022
What's New in 2020 & 2021?
The 2020 referendum construction added a new capabilities
High School Engineering Wing
- Engineering classroom with wireless notebook PCs running Autodesk applications
- Fabrication and 3D Fabrication classrooms with CNC machine, laser cutter & 3D printers
- Robotics classroom for designing, constructing and testing robots
- Graphic design classroom with PC lab running Adobe applications
- TV studio video editing lab with iMacs and Adobe Premier Pro
- TV studio with 3 cameras, control room and podcasting room
- 1:1 Chromebook assignment in grades 6-12. Grades K-5 use classroom carts
- New science classrooms receive interactive projectors and whiteboards
- New music classroom receives interactive projector and whiteboard
- New dance classroom receives interactive projector whiteboard
- New Technology Education classroom receives interactive projector whiteboard
- Music Technology Lab receives interactive projector whiteboard
Indian Hill School
- New STEAM classrooms with interactive projectors and whiteboards
Village School
- New STEAM classroom receive Promethean interactive flat panel display
Monday, June 27, 2016
What's New for 2016/2017?
This year continues the expansion of our 1:1 Chromebook initiative. Indian Hill School will receive 405 Chromebooks, with 324 Chromebooks in 12 classroom carts coming from the generosity of the HFEE. This 1:1 availability could potentially greatly reduce the number of days spent on PARCC testing next April.
The Village School PSA will be adding 50 touchscreen Chromebooks in two first grade mobile lab carts. The W.R. Satz School and Holmdel High School will add 180 and 150 Chromebooks in six and five carts respectively. Each student in grades 2-6 will have access to a Chromebook in their classroom. Grades 7-12 have Chromebooks carts in every English classroom, in addition to a large number sign-out carts and PC labs.
InfoSnap online student registration and annual student record updates enters it's second year of service after a successful roll-out this year. InfoSnap is integrated with PowerSchool.
This August will bring a major update to our PowerSchool SMS (Student Management System) with the release of PowerSchool Server 10. This update will finally allow teachers to maintain their PowerTeacher grade book on variety of devices such as Chromebooks.
The district is reviewing new website technologies that will optimize viewing on smaller mobile devices and is also considering a district mobile app for smartphones by summer's end in 2017.
This summer's tasks also include major endpoint protection, security surveillance and remote access updates, as well as six server hardware updates.
Our technology coaches will continue to develop ways to enhance our classroom instruction with technology enhanced lessons as new capabilities or improved access comes online.
The Village School PSA will be adding 50 touchscreen Chromebooks in two first grade mobile lab carts. The W.R. Satz School and Holmdel High School will add 180 and 150 Chromebooks in six and five carts respectively. Each student in grades 2-6 will have access to a Chromebook in their classroom. Grades 7-12 have Chromebooks carts in every English classroom, in addition to a large number sign-out carts and PC labs.
InfoSnap online student registration and annual student record updates enters it's second year of service after a successful roll-out this year. InfoSnap is integrated with PowerSchool.
This August will bring a major update to our PowerSchool SMS (Student Management System) with the release of PowerSchool Server 10. This update will finally allow teachers to maintain their PowerTeacher grade book on variety of devices such as Chromebooks.
The district is reviewing new website technologies that will optimize viewing on smaller mobile devices and is also considering a district mobile app for smartphones by summer's end in 2017.
This summer's tasks also include major endpoint protection, security surveillance and remote access updates, as well as six server hardware updates.
Our technology coaches will continue to develop ways to enhance our classroom instruction with technology enhanced lessons as new capabilities or improved access comes online.
Friday, December 11, 2015
What's New for the 2015/2016 School Year?
This year brought a significant infusion of technology equipment and more importantly, the addition of a second technology coach. Erin Damji took over as technology coach in grades K-6, while Caren MacConnell shifted her focus to grades 7-12.
With 827 student Chromebooks added district-wide this summer, we have cut our student to computer ratio in half. All four schools now have ratios from 1:1 to 1.32:1. That is a dramatic improvement from where we were in 2013, when our ratios were as low as 3.6:1 and as high as 6:1.
The wireless networks at Village, W.R. Satz and Holmdel High School each received upgrades. Indian Hill did not require any such upgrades, since classrooms were already outfitted with a wireless access point in each classroom.
The district also replaced 300 computers that were six years old as part of our retirement/replacement plan. Most of those replacements (180) were at Village School.
Holmdel High School's TV production studio made the jump to native HD recording and editing with (3) new cameras and 27" iMac workstations. A new HD video switcher and control surface along with a new 16 terabyte shared storage/workflow system round-out the list of modernization upgrades.
A special "Thank You!" must be extended for the generosity and technology donations provided by the HFEE, PLG and PSA. Donations made to Village School now provide a 1:1 student to Chromebook ratio in second and third grades. Two Samsung Galaxy 10.1 carts bolsters Village School's lower grades with a total of 50 tablets. The donation of eighty-one Chromebooks by the HFEE and PLG drops Indian Hill's student to computer ratio to 1.19:1.
With 827 student Chromebooks added district-wide this summer, we have cut our student to computer ratio in half. All four schools now have ratios from 1:1 to 1.32:1. That is a dramatic improvement from where we were in 2013, when our ratios were as low as 3.6:1 and as high as 6:1.
The wireless networks at Village, W.R. Satz and Holmdel High School each received upgrades. Indian Hill did not require any such upgrades, since classrooms were already outfitted with a wireless access point in each classroom.
The district also replaced 300 computers that were six years old as part of our retirement/replacement plan. Most of those replacements (180) were at Village School.
Holmdel High School's TV production studio made the jump to native HD recording and editing with (3) new cameras and 27" iMac workstations. A new HD video switcher and control surface along with a new 16 terabyte shared storage/workflow system round-out the list of modernization upgrades.
A special "Thank You!" must be extended for the generosity and technology donations provided by the HFEE, PLG and PSA. Donations made to Village School now provide a 1:1 student to Chromebook ratio in second and third grades. Two Samsung Galaxy 10.1 carts bolsters Village School's lower grades with a total of 50 tablets. The donation of eighty-one Chromebooks by the HFEE and PLG drops Indian Hill's student to computer ratio to 1.19:1.
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
What's New for the 2014/15 School Year?
This year brings the addition of 150-180 new Chromebooks to each school. Not only do these additions greatly improve our student to computer ratio, but more importantly they allow our teachers to create a more student-centered 21st century classroom environment where they can develop students higher order thinking skills, communication skills and collaboration skills utilizing technology they will find in the 21st century workplace. In order to ensure our students, faculty and technology perform to their potential, we made several other improvements. We offered professional development on a number of Google apps throughout the Fall with more planned for the remainder of the school year. We doubled the bandwidth to the Internet at each school, elevating each school's broadband speed to 150 Mb/s. We installed a new application aware 802.11ac wireless network and began upgrading the supporting wired infrastructure. We added two part-time technology coaches at our Jr./Sr. high complex to assist our staff with technology integration and further develop their skills. They will continue to build upon the skills already learned from our outstanding K-6 Google Certified Teacher, Caren MacConnell, who attended the exclusive Google Teacher Academy at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California this summer.
The Chromebooks will serve double duty as they will also help provide a sufficient number of testing devices for this Spring's PARCC assessments.
The Chromebooks will serve double duty as they will also help provide a sufficient number of testing devices for this Spring's PARCC assessments.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
What's New and What's Next?
Welcome Back! It was a busy summer while we removed and recycled over 330 obsolete computers, transferred another 153 and added 420 new desktop PCs.
After surveying both students and staff, we have responded to their requests for additional access to technology. On September 16th we opened our new 31-station high school computer lab in the T-stem portion of the downstairs library.
In July we moved our e-mail system to the cloud and kicked our Google Apps campaign into high-gear by internally developing solutions and announcing an extensive array of professional development resources with a combination of on-demand online video training and live instructor-led workshops.
In the coming months two mobile notebook lab carts will be deployed at Indian Hill and W.R. Satz schools and Village School will receive one mobile notebook lab cart and one Apple iPad cart.
With standardized testing transitioning from pencils and bubble sheets to Internet connected computers outfitted with headphones and boom-microphones, you will see more emphasis and investment in technology moving forward.
After surveying both students and staff, we have responded to their requests for additional access to technology. On September 16th we opened our new 31-station high school computer lab in the T-stem portion of the downstairs library.
In July we moved our e-mail system to the cloud and kicked our Google Apps campaign into high-gear by internally developing solutions and announcing an extensive array of professional development resources with a combination of on-demand online video training and live instructor-led workshops.
In the coming months two mobile notebook lab carts will be deployed at Indian Hill and W.R. Satz schools and Village School will receive one mobile notebook lab cart and one Apple iPad cart.
With standardized testing transitioning from pencils and bubble sheets to Internet connected computers outfitted with headphones and boom-microphones, you will see more emphasis and investment in technology moving forward.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Annual Public Technology Presentation April 18th
It has been a year since my last posting and I can report that the items my department planned to implement have been, or will be, implemented according to plan.
One of the more visible indications of technology and public relations progress has to be the introduction of a totally revamped district website. Borrowing design elements from some of the most heavily visited technology websites on the Internet, we achieved our goal of a less cluttered appearance, and that translates into making the information you are looking for easier to find.
Since 2007, our vision has been to improve access to technology, integrate technology across the curriculum, and to assist teachers and engage students with classroom projection and sound field systems.
This year will deliver mobility and high speed 802.11n wireless Internet access to Holmdel faculty and students at all three campuses. Anyone with a Holmdel network account will be able to bring in their personally owned devices and gain filtered access to Internet. W.R. Satz and the High School are currently up and running and Indian Hill and Village will be completed later this summer in time for the 2012-2013 school year.
In partnership with my department, the administration and the staff will evaluate future touch interface aware operating systems and applications and the use of tablet devices in order to lower technology costs, and to improve access, as well as outcomes.
The creation of a catalog of internally developed technology related courses for our staff was developed over the last year and the offerings continue to grow. These courses are delivered throughout the year with advanced workshops occurring before and after school or during the summer.
For the students, we a have added a part-time technology coach, who is shared between Village and Indian Hill Schools and we also added three weeks of PC-related technology curriculum and assessment in 7th and 8th grades as part of a cycle course. We are also using Study Island as a formative assessment tool in grades 3-8 as a replacement for Learnia.
Something I will be focused on, and you will be hearing more about, is the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), which is the next-generation of assessment in Math and Language Arts/Literacy. It is scheduled to take effect during the 2014-2015 school year. One unique aspect to this assessment is that at least part of it will be conducted online. This could greatly impact technology planning and funding requirements.
One of the more visible indications of technology and public relations progress has to be the introduction of a totally revamped district website. Borrowing design elements from some of the most heavily visited technology websites on the Internet, we achieved our goal of a less cluttered appearance, and that translates into making the information you are looking for easier to find.
Since 2007, our vision has been to improve access to technology, integrate technology across the curriculum, and to assist teachers and engage students with classroom projection and sound field systems.
This year will deliver mobility and high speed 802.11n wireless Internet access to Holmdel faculty and students at all three campuses. Anyone with a Holmdel network account will be able to bring in their personally owned devices and gain filtered access to Internet. W.R. Satz and the High School are currently up and running and Indian Hill and Village will be completed later this summer in time for the 2012-2013 school year.
In partnership with my department, the administration and the staff will evaluate future touch interface aware operating systems and applications and the use of tablet devices in order to lower technology costs, and to improve access, as well as outcomes.
The creation of a catalog of internally developed technology related courses for our staff was developed over the last year and the offerings continue to grow. These courses are delivered throughout the year with advanced workshops occurring before and after school or during the summer.
For the students, we a have added a part-time technology coach, who is shared between Village and Indian Hill Schools and we also added three weeks of PC-related technology curriculum and assessment in 7th and 8th grades as part of a cycle course. We are also using Study Island as a formative assessment tool in grades 3-8 as a replacement for Learnia.
Something I will be focused on, and you will be hearing more about, is the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), which is the next-generation of assessment in Math and Language Arts/Literacy. It is scheduled to take effect during the 2014-2015 school year. One unique aspect to this assessment is that at least part of it will be conducted online. This could greatly impact technology planning and funding requirements.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)