The Education Connection Project

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Classroom Presentation Facilities

Approach: As part of the WHYY Education Connection Project, the school will receive a small amount of equipment and materials to ensure that the classroom has enough presentation equipment to provide an appropriate presentation environment for the technology. At a minimum, there needs to be Internet access in the classroom along with a large-screen computer monitor.

Partners: Math and Science Educational Resource Center, The Electric Schoolhouse, The Delaware Law Related Education Center, The University of Delaware Internship Program.

Classroom Technology: The Education Connection approach is to use a low-cost technique of ensuring that technology exists in the home while judiciously spending limited resources in the school. Specifically, every school is designed to have Internet access in a computer lab in addition to at least one computer with Internet access in every classroom. The classroom computer, in addition to a digital camera, scanner and printer is to be used mainly for web page design, classroom presentations, printing out of homework assignments, and in-school and after-school projects.

Presently, each classroom involved in the Education Connection has received a variety of equipment. A 31" monitor is used for display. A color printer is used for projects and papers that students have created at home and saved on disk, and images generated using the scanner and digital camera will be used in creating the classroom web site. This year, the classrooms have requested a second printer to be used in each classroom.

Suggestions & Questions: The teachers need access to presentation equipment such as a big screen monitor and computers that are similar to what everyone has at home. In addition, the classes should all have printers and phone lines (or permanent Internet Access). Are your classrooms equipped for this? A big screen monitor costs about $650 and printers cost about $400 each. If your classrooms have no equipment, hardware could cost as much as $2500 per classroom plus the cost of Internet access. Would you need to purchase equipment?

Timeline Classroom Presentation Facilities
June-August	Deliver appropriate equipment and supplies to classroom as necessary
August	Coordinate with school and staff to set up appropriate technology environment in the classroom. Site visit to classroom to ensure readiness

Page last updated on 08/13/00

Send comments to the Education Connection Project Director, Jay Cohen

Table of Contents

Title Page

About the project

Low-Cost Home Technology

Workforce Dev. Technology Support

Standards-Based Content
   Content Dev. & Activities
   Teacher Collaboration
   Classroom Presentation Facilities
   Family Outreach Activities

Administration & Partnership

Project Links
   Calendar (in development)
   Tech-Support (in development)
   National Project
   Project Materials (in development)
   Student Pages (in development)