tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44964978927611591262024-02-06T20:28:25.333-08:00HolmdelTechAnthony Gattinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723238496187787240noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496497892761159126.post-57756918199095052282022-08-21T17:35:00.002-07:002022-08-21T17:36:56.592-07:00 What's New for 2022?<p>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.</p>Anthony Gattinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723238496187787240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496497892761159126.post-8123449796652584282022-01-30T07:42:00.000-08:002022-01-30T07:42:21.797-08:00What's New in 2020 & 2021?<div style="text-align: left;">The 2020 referendum construction added a new capabilities</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>High School Engineering Wing</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Engineering classroom with wireless notebook PCs running Autodesk applications </li><li>Fabrication and 3D Fabrication classrooms with CNC machine, laser cutter & 3D printers</li><li>Robotics classroom for designing, constructing and testing robots</li><li>Graphic design classroom with PC lab running Adobe applications</li><li>TV studio video editing lab with iMacs and Adobe Premier Pro</li><li>TV studio with 3 cameras, control room and podcasting room</li><li>1:1 Chromebook assignment in grades 6-12. Grades K-5 use classroom carts</li></ul><b>W.R. Satz School</b><br /><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>New science classrooms receive interactive projectors and whiteboards</li><li>New music classroom receives interactive projector and whiteboard</li><li>New dance classroom receives interactive projector whiteboard</li><li>New Technology Education classroom receives interactive projector whiteboard</li><li>Music Technology Lab receives interactive projector whiteboard</li></ul></div><div><b>Indian Hill School</b></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>New STEAM classrooms with interactive projectors and whiteboards</li></ul></div><div><b>Village School</b></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>New STEAM classroom receive Promethean interactive flat panel display</li></ul></div></div>Anthony Gattinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723238496187787240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496497892761159126.post-13780410872173244022016-06-27T05:23:00.003-07:002016-06-27T05:23:59.792-07:00What'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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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This summer's tasks also include major endpoint protection, security surveillance and remote access updates, as well as six server hardware updates.<br />
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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.Anthony Gattinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723238496187787240noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496497892761159126.post-88056484880407424692015-12-11T11:48:00.000-08:002015-12-11T11:51:11.499-08:00What'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.<br />
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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. <br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.Anthony Gattinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723238496187787240noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496497892761159126.post-11003651277101983332014-10-22T19:39:00.002-07:002014-10-22T20:02:09.229-07:00What'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.<br />
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The Chromebooks will serve double duty as they will also help provide a sufficient number of testing devices for this Spring's PARCC assessments.Anthony Gattinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723238496187787240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496497892761159126.post-34343210837086166462013-09-17T10:51:00.000-07:002013-09-17T10:52:44.874-07:00What'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. <br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.Anthony Gattinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723238496187787240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496497892761159126.post-13741182548086621052012-03-27T05:50:00.017-07:002012-03-30T15:04:18.386-07:00Annual Public Technology Presentation April 18th<span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal">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.</span><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">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.<br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">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.<br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">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.<br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">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.<br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">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.<br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">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.<br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">Something I will be focused on, and you will be hearing more about, is the <span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 16px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); COLOR: rgb(34,34,34)"></span>Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers <span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 16px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); COLOR: rgb(34,34,34)"></span>(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.</span>Anthony Gattinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723238496187787240noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496497892761159126.post-56740303201209603092011-04-16T12:03:00.000-07:002011-04-28T19:19:17.287-07:00Annual Public Technology Presentation April 28thHere is an advanced peek at the <a href="http://holmdeltech.wikispaces.com/file/view/Technology_Update_2011_Rev_1.pdf">presentation</a> outline.<br /> <br />District Technology Goal<br />2010-2013 Technology Plan completed<br />A success story from each school<br /> Village parent/student website, Google Docs, Guest Wireless Network,<br /> World Language Lab, student response systems, etc.<br />Advances in Assistive Technology (sound field systems to touch screens)<br />PowerSchool Parent Portal, eAlert, AlertNow and the district website<br />Position on Social Networking & Web 2.0<br />Student to computer ratio<br />2011 hardware/software deployment plans<br /> - 150 desktop and 26 notebook computers district wide<br /> - 114 thin client devices at Satz and Indian Hill<br />New Satz computer lab project driven by changing curriculum and access needs<br />Tech-related Professional Development model and activities<br />Cost savings and energy savings<br />Forward looking challenges and some possible solutions<br />Conclusion-Q&A<br />Every two years the district participates in a capital lease-purchase program in order to finance capital items such as computers.<br /><br />The tentative purchasing breakdown contingent upon budget approval for 2011/2012 is as follows:<br /><br />136 Desktop Computers, 114 thin client computers, 26 Notebook computers, 3 Tablet PCs, 22 LCD Projectors, 5 servers, WiFi controller and wireless access points, a new core data switch and several PoE edge switches, Internet, virus and mail filtering hardware, expanded security access control as well as camera surveillance and finally 11-26 classroom sound field systems.<br /><br />The 114 new thin client computers replace painfully slow computers that were purchased in 2003. The new thin client computers consume only 5 watts of power compared with 200+ watts and are 50% less expensive to purchase.<br /> <br />This summer we will create two new computer labs. The first lab will be a new 27 station graphic arts lab at the high school loaded with the latest Adobe Creative Design Suite software,<br /> <br />The TV production studio will also replace two aged video editing workstations and receive a software update as well.<br /> <br />The second computer lab is a new 30 station lab at William R. Satz School constructed to satisfy an increasing number computer access requests and the needs of a new technology education curriculum.<br /><br />Many new online resources have been made available over the last several years including subscriptions to BrainPop, First in Math, Study Island and Discovery Education's United Streaming. Some teachers have leveraged the power of web-based applications to take their classes virtually paperless and have their student collaborate electronically in real-time.<br /><br />Learnia is an online resource and a formative assessment tool that was implemented several years ago as part of a 50-district pilot program and is used in grades 3-8. Learnia results can provide early guidance to teachers and administration on areas that deserve added attention and holds the potential for improved NJ ASK results.Anthony Gattinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723238496187787240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496497892761159126.post-9591006169472578922009-11-23T14:22:00.000-08:002009-11-23T15:00:52.538-08:00Projectors, Sound Field Systems & Wireless!Not quite as catchy as "Lions, Tigers and Bears, Oh My!" but these are the sort of priority items and words that are most uttered in the form of technology requests here at <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Holmdel</span>. At this point, a good portion of Village, Indian Hill and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Satz</span> Schools have <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Wi-Fi</span> coverage and classroom sound field systems. The goal is to have complete coverage in the next 3-5 years, or as funding allows. While there is a great amount of momentum building for ceiling mounted LCD projectors, there is much fundraising and work to be done before the majority of the classrooms can have this sort of student-engaging presentation <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">capability</span>. <br /> Thanks to our own maintenance department adding this installation burden to their already busy schedules, we expect to be able to afford and deploy over twenty-five LCD projectors or 37" LCD TVs before we break for summer recess.<br /> I am really encouraged that teachers and administrators are asking for Tablet PCs and LCD projectors and I hear great things are happening with <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">podcasting</span> technology in the World Languages Department. Well, I guess this blog posting will serve as my holiday season technology wish list.Anthony Gattinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723238496187787240noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496497892761159126.post-70652150850962164392009-08-06T06:55:00.000-07:002009-09-07T18:38:25.914-07:00Summer 2009 Tech ExpansionEvery two years the district participates in the Monmouth County Improvement Authority capital pooled lease-purchase program in order to finance capital items at the lowest possible rates.<br /><br />The district purchasing breakdown from this year's <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">MCIA</span> and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">ARRA</span> funding is as follows:<br /><br />232 Desktop Computers, 43 Notebook computers, 20 Tablet PCs, 20 or more LCD Projectors, 5 servers, 10 or more <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">WiFi</span> hot-spots, a new core switch and several <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">PoE</span> edge switches, expanded security access control as well as camera surveillance and finally 21 classroom sound field systems.<br /><br />With increasing access requirements and the expansion of the 4-5 computer classroom to improve differentiated learning and the delivery of technology infused curriculum, our inventory this year approaches 1,300 workstations. This poses a challenge moving forward as we continue to try to reach a goal of replacing computers as they complete their 6<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">th</span> year of service or roughly 430 computers every other year.<br /><br />This summer we renovated the High School's room 142 computer lab and created an additional computer lab at William R. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Satz School</span> in room 207. Both labs have 30 student stations and ceiling mounted LCD projectors.<br /><br />Many new online resources have been made available over the last couple of years including subscriptions to <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">BrainPop</span>, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">SkillsTutor</span>, Study Island and Discovery Education's United Streaming. Some teachers have leveraged the power of web-based applications to take their classes virtually paperless and have their student collaborate electronically in real-time.<br /><br /><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Learnia</span> is another online resource and a formative assessment tool that was implemented last year as part of a 50-district pilot program. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">Learnia</span> results can provide early guidance to teachers and administration on areas that deserve added attention and holds the potential for improved NJ ASK results.Anthony Gattinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723238496187787240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496497892761159126.post-10948761734134903412009-02-23T14:13:00.000-08:002009-02-23T14:17:46.779-08:00Google SitesGoogle Sites becomes recommended classroom website development platform for teachers looking to create their first site at Holmdel. See mine at <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/holmdeltech">http://sites.google.com/site/holmdeltech</a>Anthony Gattinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723238496187787240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496497892761159126.post-65135278287273239272008-03-11T12:30:00.000-07:002008-03-11T12:36:42.304-07:00More NJTAP-IN InformationHere is a video the State shared with me on what the 21st Century Learner. <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8</a>Anthony Gattinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723238496187787240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496497892761159126.post-41484900762690396732008-03-07T10:51:00.000-08:002008-03-07T11:20:18.816-08:00NJ Tech Literacy (NJTAP-IN)I recently attended a State sponsored seminar on the New Jersey Technological Assessment for Proficiency and Integration (NJTAP-IN) and it is evident that there are increasing requirements and expectations for levels of teacher and student tech literacy. <br />For more detail see <a href="http://www.state.nj.us/education/techno/techlit/tapin/">http://www.state.nj.us/education/techno/techlit/tapin/</a><br />What I came away with is that we need to report in October based upon the NJTAP-In General Rubric and for QSAC we have to have documentation to support our claims of assessing student tech literacy. E-portfolios would be one good example of supporting documentation and would be another resource to aid teachers in signing off on student tech proficiency rubrics.Anthony Gattinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723238496187787240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496497892761159126.post-33808376195655994112008-02-08T12:10:00.000-08:002008-02-28T09:43:33.424-08:00Winter Professional Development Day at HolmdelOur second professional development day of the year once again included a good amount of technology related sessions. Sessions were well attended on the use of the Tablet PC and OneNote application, developing a website with FrontPage, Internet Scavenger Hunt, Microsft Outlook and School Dude.Anthony Gattinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723238496187787240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496497892761159126.post-6187727688242199562007-09-18T04:48:00.000-07:002007-09-19T04:41:34.468-07:00What is new in Tech @ Holmdel<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgA5wr80lfjMfhPOurA0UoH4UH9q0zwU14p2vulVXohLKxucVkQ4Cdsli4jGv2NZ-I7RpD0C2X_qDUsQpWtanVri7uLPttHQ6AL9dxl7jjtFBTlPIa4_ka-sGCcVgGdhRdAgpfpMSXzdw/s1600-h/HHS_Lbr_Lo.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111513538871984658" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 310px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 237px" height="238" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgA5wr80lfjMfhPOurA0UoH4UH9q0zwU14p2vulVXohLKxucVkQ4Cdsli4jGv2NZ-I7RpD0C2X_qDUsQpWtanVri7uLPttHQ6AL9dxl7jjtFBTlPIa4_ka-sGCcVgGdhRdAgpfpMSXzdw/s320/HHS_Lbr_Lo.jpg" width="313" border="0" /></a> Busy summer in 2007 with 270+ new desktop PCs, 27 Tablets PCs and 28 notebooks being deployed. With Staff Development Day coming up October 8th, the tech department is pushing to get the 20 Tablet PCs received 9/17 out to their new users.<br /><br /><div>We added 8 PCs to the HS InfoCenter (see above)and 4 PCs to the Satz CyberCenter. The HS 142 computer lab has 25 new PCs as does the Village K/1 lab.</div><br /><div></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuVd6fSMTKxYKnxspEDcd9Be7PUi7MUuE-_wcDNo0ekIzd5xDAhvnz936-nx5-N0V31Qk-J0zcs2lv8xxoURthD2HFS5CnZws1w_vAZtKWjhgwHcg4LB5ZAEsMtLGssRGXF4afrbZyCA8/s1600-h/Vil_LCDs.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111515858154324514" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuVd6fSMTKxYKnxspEDcd9Be7PUi7MUuE-_wcDNo0ekIzd5xDAhvnz936-nx5-N0V31Qk-J0zcs2lv8xxoURthD2HFS5CnZws1w_vAZtKWjhgwHcg4LB5ZAEsMtLGssRGXF4afrbZyCA8/s320/Vil_LCDs.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><div>Huge year for tech donations from the HFEE, Village PSA, Indian Hill PLG and HCAA. All the Tablet PCs, LCD Projection carts and almost all of the notebooks came from over $ 130, 000 in donations. You know you are in a 21st century learning environment when you walk into a Village classroom and see a 37" LCD display or LCD projector being used by a teacher.</div>Anthony Gattinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723238496187787240noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496497892761159126.post-53019000359640865282007-06-26T19:12:00.001-07:002007-06-29T06:30:01.314-07:00NECC 2007 Atlanta, GA<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtGxGl0_y8OR73urmag20soPrbZWIKi4_AR7m2t17kiE8lyR2AIJ8GUJ4z3jl_X1xgubLvQDxiYeQmBZZHA5Axgciyvp_tO_6Yviq2dy20ZGJCLPFEKgeGsTm2BDa25hzAWqCve3nRNro/s1600-h/gattini.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5081114112544958322" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtGxGl0_y8OR73urmag20soPrbZWIKi4_AR7m2t17kiE8lyR2AIJ8GUJ4z3jl_X1xgubLvQDxiYeQmBZZHA5Axgciyvp_tO_6Yviq2dy20ZGJCLPFEKgeGsTm2BDa25hzAWqCve3nRNro/s320/gattini.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />The National Education Conference on Computing (NECC) is ending for me tomorrow and there is much to share with my district's staff, administration and teachers upon my return.<br /><br />Buzzwords we should all become familiar with are Web 2.0, Blogs, Wikis, ePortfolios, <a href="http://www.moodle.org">Moodle</a>, <a href="http://cnets.iste.org/">NETS</a>, <a href="http://www.secondlife.com/">Second Life</a>, <a href="http://www.teachertube.com/">TeacherTube</a> and podcasts.<br /><br />I am creating a wiki at the moment just to organize my thoughts and notes from the conference. My wiki is set to private at the moment, but for more on my take of the NECC and for more detail on trends in educational technology you can request access to it at <a href="http://holmdeltech.wikispaces.com/">http://holmdeltech.wikispaces.com/</a><br /><br />I may even try my hand at writing a grant this year after having attended a workshop on Saturday.Anthony Gattinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723238496187787240noreply@blogger.com1