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Action Items - FY13 

Waltham Public Schools Wireless Project

Action Items - FY12 

District Instructional Technology equipment budget $50,000:  Epson Brightlink 475WI projectors for middle school math classrooms.  Click here for the details.

Title 1 ARRA funded the following projects for Title 1 elementary schools:

Plympton Elementary School - ENO boards with ShortThrow LCD projectors with new computers in 15 classrooms.  ELMO document cameras in 3 classrooms.

Stanley Elementary School - ENO boards with ShortThrow LCD projectors and ELMO document cameras with new computers in 17 classrooms.

Whittemore Elementary School - ENO boards and ELMO document cameras in 21 classrooms.

Click here for teacher support for ENO Boards.

iPad Pilot - ELL Grade 2

iPad Administrators - initial training

ARRA IDEA Funds, submitted to and approved by the school committee, funded the following projects.  Purchases were made in June, 2010 and projects are being implemented in Fall 2011:

Stanley Elementary School

• Replace a lab of 25 computers
• Add netbook to support students using technology within the curriculum
  • Asus eee PC with Windows 7 Professional, Sophos, Deepfreeze and CALS - quantity 48
  • Earthwalk Min-Max 24 base model cart with high efficiency charging - quantity 2
• Install wireless access throughout the school
  • Asus eee PC with Windows 7 Professional, Sophos, Deepfreeze and CALS - quantity 2
• Install wireless access throughout the school

Kennedy Middle School

• Replace a lab of 25 computers
• Add netbook carts to support students using Kurzweil
  • Asus eee PC with Windows 7 Professional, Sophos, Deepfreeze and CALS - quantity 40
  • Earthwalk Min-Max 24 base model cart with high efficiency charging - quantity 2
• Install wireless access throughout the school (Aruba access points and licenses and HP Switches)

McDevitt Middle School

• Replace a lab of 25 computers
• Add netbook carts to support students using Kurzweil
  • Asus eee PC with Windows 7 Professional, Sophos, Deepfreeze and CALS - quantity 40
  • Earthwalk Min-Max 24 base model cart with high efficiency charging - quantity 2
• Install wireless access throughout the school (Aruba access points and licenses and HP Switches)

Waltham High School

• Add netbook carts to support students using Kurzweil
  • Asus eee PC with Windows 7 Professional, Sophos, Deepfreeze and CALS - quantity 60
  • Asus eee PC with Windows 7 Home for home use - quantity 3
  • Earthwalk Min-Max 24 base model cart with high efficiency charging - quantity 3
• Add netbook carts to support students in ELL and World Language classes
  • Asus eee PC with Windows 7 Professional, Sophos, Deepfreeze and CALS - quantity 50
  • Earthwalk Min-Max 24 base model cart with high efficiency charging - quantity 2
• Replace an English computer lab with a netbook cart.
  • Asus eee PC with Windows 7 Professional, Sophos, Deepfreeze and CALS - quantity 25
  • Earthwalk Min-Max 24 base model cart with high efficiency charging - quantity 1
  • Complete the installation of wireless access throughout the school.
• Add a History Social Sciences "computer lab" with a netbook cart.
  • Asus eee PC with Windows 7 Professional, Sophos, Deepfreeze and CALS - quantity 25
  • Earthwalk Min-Max 24 base model cart with high efficiency charging - quantity 1
  • Complete the installation of wireless access throughout the school.

The district Instructional Technology equipment budget for 2010-2011 was partially funded ($22,656).  The following purchases were made (Fall 2010):

• 12 LCD projectors  (with carts and extension cables) for high school (to complete all classrooms)
• 5 LCD projectors (with carts and extension cables)  for Kennedy (to be shared by classroom teachers)
• 5 LCD projectors (with carts and extension cables) for McDevitt (to be shared by classroom teachers)

note: the lack of funding necessary to support LCD projectors installed in classrooms in the middle schools has altered the district objective.  Instead we will provide 5 LCD projectors to middle schools to share throughout the building.

Technology in Massachusetts Schools

An annual report based on data submitted by districts in 2011