Introduction
Virginia Beach City Public Schools implemented the
Computer Resource
Program in the fall of 1998. This program assigned a Computer Resource
Teacher to each elementary, middle, and high school to be available for instructional,
administrative, and technical support within the school. The C.R.S.’s
primary responsibility is to promote and assist the teachers and students with
the integration
of computer technology into teaching
and learning. Computer Resource
Lab
At Windsor
Oaks, our Computer Resource Lab offers our students 25-networked
Compaq computers, 1 Umax
color scanner, and 4 Hewlet-Packard Professional
color printers. Our
school network affords every students Internet access
in both the Computer Resource Lab and each individual
classroom. Also housed in the Lab are a Hitachi
digital white board, Zenith presentation television,
and MegaTechnologies presentation projector which allow
for the viewing of a computer screen by the entire class. Computer
Resource time is available bimonthly for every class. Additional
time is available at the teacher’s discretion. Fifth
grade classes are blocked a fifty-minute visit, while
the remaining grade levels receive a forty-minute block. Time
in the Lab is imperative to meet the Virginia Computer/Technology
Standards of Learning, implemented by the state
of Virginia to increase the technology knowledge
of
our students.
Mrs. Knapp
Computer Resource Teacher
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