For Students:
Search the district s Libraries for books/research
Learn about Weather Conditions from the Weather pages
on the WWW
Research the Web for topics
Work with other students in other parts of the world on
collaborative projects.
Publish their own pages on the Web -- gain pride and
self esteem in being published
Tour great musems such as the Smithsonian and the Louvre
Allow at-risk students to gain a cultural exposure impossible
to achieve in any other manner
There's collaboration with students (and faculty, and
industry, sometimes) at other schools, videoconferencing
(just be sure the bandwidth's wide enough), potential
for communication with parents who are suitably equipped,
access to repositories of curriculum material and sharing
of same among schools in the district and in other districts
Access to college level material for
upper grade students in high school to increase likelihood
of advanced placement or obtaining real credit hours
You can hold live conferences between students from different
schools connected to the WAN
For Teachers:
Send Email
Send paper mail
Leave files or retrieve files.
Student records online and accessible (via password)
Attendance records can be entered via computer and
then sent to District Office
Download lesson plans, ideas in their subject/area of interest
Discover grant availablity in their interest area
Potential for paperwork reduction within the
(think of all the many forms, notes, memos, etc. you've seen
floating around), distance continuing education
for faculty and staff,
For Administrators:
Send Email
Send paper mail via remote printer access
Leave files or retrieve files.
Download needed files off password protected Disks
Forms standarized and machine generated
Administrators seem to appreciate one-time capital costs
versus on-going personnel costs. A wide area network,
with management software, allows one person to oversee
all local area networks as an adminstrator. Some software
allows the admistrator to remotely take over workstations for
trouble shooting or even teaching/supporting an individual
user.This can be a huge savings in personnel.
Thanks to Neal Holifield, Lynn Tenney, Reg Beck, Brad Michels,
Danny Diefenderfer,Marsha Filipia, Lorna J. McCloud, John Hemmerly
and others for their contributions.
William Evans
Bevans@clark.k12.ky.us