Diane Seagle

Name: Diane Seagle

E-mail: stfrancis@ntr.net

Organization: St. Francis School

City and State: Goshen, KY

Area of Employment: education

How I heard about Network Democracy:

Email from ISACS.

My experience in this area:

Although I come from a family of educators, I spent the first 20 years of my working career in business (marketing and management). I came back to education as a volunteer at my daughter's school. After volunteer hours, followed by substitute teaching (in all areas K-8). I felt compelled to address the school's achaic computer system (one lab with 10 Apple IIe's networked). After considerable evaluation and investigation, I developed a proposal for the school board of trustees that allowed us to bring tomorrows technology to the school today -- on a self-funding basis. The computer lab is now equipped with 12 Pentuim computers, all with 4X CD ROM's, one flat bed color scanner, one hand held color scanner, two color printers, a wide screen tv (attached to one computer for demo purposes) all connected to a large Novell server (that also serves the administration office) with tape back up and uninterruptible power supply. The entire lab in connected to the internect via one ISDN

What I hope to learn:

I hope that I can learn from others: - additional ways to use our resources - funding sources for even better equipping our students for the future - help others to accomplish their technological goals

Additional comments:

Please let me know if there is anything that I maight to to help with this process.