Karen Bordt
Name: Karen Bordt
Title: Elementary Technology Facilitator
Affiliation:
County: Allegheny
District: North Hills
School: Highcliff
Address:
156 Peony Ave
Pittsburgh 15229
Phone: 635-5601
FAX: 635-5604
E-mail: KSB5@nauticom.net
- ACTIVITIES:
- - 7 elementary buildings - all have networked labs
- all 6th grade classrooms have computer clusters
networked to lab
- BARRIERS:
- The inability to guarantee that students and staff will not
access sites on the Internet that are inappropriate.
- GOALS:
- Network 5th grade computer clusters to lab.
- INFORMATION NEEDED:
- Educational value of the Internet
- How students, teachers and administrators can
gain access to the network
- Strategies for effective leadership
- Professional development
- Technical architecture
- Funding sources
- COLLABORATIONS:
- Would like to be part of a consortium
- EXPERTISE:
- Staff development
- SUPPORT:
- We need a network administrator
Expertise - internal staff to conduct staff development
- SUSTAINABILITY:
- Set-aside in operating budget
- Grants and donations
- SCOPE:
- classrooms
- NETWORKING SUPPORTS REFORM:
- Yes
- How technology assists reform:
- Enhances community involvement
- Allows improvement in teaching strategies
- Brings additional resources into the classroom
- Increases the relevance of student learning
- Reduces isolation of the school and classroom
- COMMENTS:
- [No information provided.]
- EXPECT TO ATTEND:
- Yes