The ETTC itself will offer technical assistance to local school districts at their sites on how to set up networks, wire their schools, and troubleshoot technology problems at an hourly rate. The success of the Camden County ETTC has provided the Technical School District with the basis for success in other competitive grants. It was awarded funding to provide e-mail service and training to all county schools in one grant that ended in the summer of 1999. In another starting about the same time, it received funding to purchase equipment, transmission capacity and software to serve as the electronic bridge connecting elementary and secondary world language classes throughout the southern New Jersey area. Technical schools have always played a part in providing customized training to local businesses.
School districts are among the most important big businesses that communities have.
We're happy to be a part of preparing schools and their personnel for the new century. Preparation for the Future In New Jersey, part of the preparation for the new century is the infusion of technology into all basic classroom content areas. Each county's Educational Technology Training Center helps classroom teachers, like those in the Texas Instrument-sponsored classes, learn to model technology at the same time that they teach their students to use it. Graphing calculators, for example, enable students to visualize complicated math and science concepts. Susan E. Smith is assistant superintendent at Camden County Technical Schools.