District gets technology boost -
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Published on: 12/13/2005
Last Visited: 12/14/2005
A highlight of the plan is to convert all the district's schools to wireless computer connections and to provide every student in the district with a laptop computer, Superintendent Susan Myers said.
Across the nation, schools are moving to computers and Internet-based research, classes and other information, she said.
"Getting information from textbooks may disappear," she said.
The state is pressuring all school districts to adopt technology plans and decide on goals for adopting computers and Internet into their classes.
Besides adopting the plan, the board took one of the first steps for meeting the plan's goals by accepting a bid of a little more than $26,000 from Cybertron, a Wichita computer reseller, for 25 laptop computers, which will be used at Williamsburg schools.
The bid came in at $4,000 more than the district expected, Myers said.The board decided to proceed with the purchase and dip into other funds to make up the $4,000.
Computers at Williamsburg will be transferred to Appanoose School, she said.
Pomona Middle School also has a technology lab that has laptop computers, purchased through a state grant, she said.
The goal of buying a laptop for every student depends on money and that will take a few years, she said.
Going to wireless also depends on money, she said.
The district is working on a plan to put an antenna to serve the district's wireless system on the county's new communications tower at Appanoose, she said.That would go in effect when the district comes up with the money for equipment to run the system.
A plan to put a wireless antenna on the county's new communications tower at Williamsburg is still a few years away, she said.
The district has a multi-year contract with Southwestern Bell for a T-1 line, a telephone cable that carries high-speed computer data, for the Williamsburg schools, she said.
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