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Office of
Computing Services Middle
School and High School Technology Project January 31, 2006 Staff from
the Office of Computing Services met with the principals and the onsite
technology support staff at NSD, GHS, and EHS to discuss the implementation
of the technology lab project for each of the schools. The intent of the project is to place a
30-station multipurpose computer lab at each site. The labs will be available to all classes
in all subject areas for reference, research, and writing. Quotes
were received from computer vendors and a vendor was chosen during the day,
January 31, 2006. A purchase order was
prepared and faxed to the vendor by the end of that day. Delivery of the 90 computers is expected on
or before February XX, 2006. Upon
delivery to the district’s warehouse, the computers will be inventoried by
OCS staff and delivery to schools will be arranged. Schools should have their computers within
three days of delivery to the district. The
following summarizes each school’s plan for installing and using its
multipurpose lab: At this
time, the NSD administration is considering two options: (1) Move
the computers in the current multipurpose lab to the BCA lab with the oldest
computers and place the new computers in the current multipurpose lab, which
is located in the back of the media center; the existing computers are
relatively new and were purchased by the PTO; or (2) find an existing space in the building in which to place a
second multipurpose lab; this option would require additional costs for
cabling and (possibly) an additional switch in the network wiring closet;
this cost would be a school responsibility. GHS wants
to place the multipurpose lab in the room currently used for drivers education.
This will make Room 207 (currently a little-used computer lab)
available as a regular classroom. The
drivers education room will need significant work to prepare it for use as a
computer lab: (1) A rear
wall will be required to separate the classroom area from a storage area used
by the attendance office. That storage
area can also be used as an office space for the onsite technical support
staff person; (2) The
glass wall facing the student loading area will have to be replaced, with one
section being replaced by a door and the other section(s) being replaced with
concrete block wall; (3) The
glass wall facing the lobby and the auditorium hall will remain in place;
however, a 4-foot wall should be added inside the classroom to that computers
can be lined along that wall (but will not be visible from the lobby); this
glass wall will be cleaned and used to help bring natural light into the
computer lab; (4)
Twenty-eight computers currently in Room 207 will be distributed to special ed classrooms (11 computers), to the three NovaNet labs (11 computers), and to the English
Department (6 computers); the network printer in Room 207 will be moved to
the new multipurpose lab; and (5) The
existing NovaNet computers will be distributed to
BIC and the media center; those computers will not be placed on the Internet
– instead, the machines placed in BIC and the media center will be setup for
word processing only. The
process of creating this change will begin immediately with the
re-configuration of the machines currently in Room 207. Maintenance will be asked to expedite the
changes to the drivers education room after Monday,
February 5 (when the driving machines are no longer needed in that classroom;
those driving machines are to be moved to SSD). The
computer lab currently in Room 504 will be replaced with the new multipurpose
lab. Computers currently in Room 504
will be distributed to science classrooms (6), special education classrooms
(15) for NoveNet access, and to other classrooms
(10) as writing stations. One
additional computer will be purchased by the school to add to the
multipurpose lab as a teacher station.
No additional work is required in Room 504. Small network switches will be bought by
the school for the special education classrooms and the science classrooms. |
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