What is new in Tech @ Holmdel

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.

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.

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.

NECC 2007 Atlanta, GA

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.

Buzzwords we should all become familiar with are Web 2.0, Blogs, Wikis, ePortfolios, Moodle, NETS, Second Life, TeacherTube and podcasts.

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 http://holmdeltech.wikispaces.com/

I may even try my hand at writing a grant this year after having attended a workshop on Saturday.