This Link Hillside Elementary Hillside Elementary is a pioneer in using the Internet to create a connected learning community using the Microsoft Windows NT operating system. Students, teachers, and administrative staff now have access to information from around the world through the Internet. Collaboration between Hillside and the community has generated new ideas, opened new doors of communication, and created more interaction between students and teachers than ever before. Microsoft FrontPage Microsoft Internet Explorer Architecture Networked PCs and Macintoshes Benefit Internet connection gives students and teachers access to online course materials and facilitates open communication.
Infrastructure supports easy migration plan for upgrading technology.
Hassle-free network administration. In March of 1994, Hillside Elementary in Cottage Grove, Minnesota became one of the first primary schools in the world to present web sites designed by elementary students on the Internet. Hillside's pioneering efforts were guided by Stephen Collins, Webmaster at the University of Minnesota's Web66 site. Among the servers' main functions are to support, make available, and control access to shared resources, such as disk drives or printers among workstation computers. It can also connect a network of computers to the Internet.