At the elementary school level, this inter-connectivity enables teachers and students at Seth Boyden Elementary School to access the library s catalogues from within the classroom. The same accessibility will be available at Clinton, Marshall, South Mountain and Tuscan Elementary Schools in early 1998. At the middle school and high school level, the library holdings can be accessed from the various computer labs. When the wide area network is completed, every networked computer in the district will be able to access the district s library holdings in each building. The final stage in the district library system s technological evolution will be community access to the district library holdings.
Some children learn best by reading, some by listening, and some through hands-on experiences.
Using these resources, teachers can more readily provide individualized instruction. With the materials available in the Technology Resource Center, the educational opportunities are endless. Here, students can read a book in print or on CD-ROM, write and publish a story that includes their original artwork, use a computerized math or language program that easily adjusts to accommodate their needs, send letters to electronic penpals in other states or countries, request information from scientists around the world, write plays and videotape their classmates performing them, or add their own voices and music to multimedia presentations. In addition to the large computer centers, each middle school library also has a mini-computer lab, increasing student computing capability. In the elementary schools, each classroom will have a teacher work station connected to the building network for administrative tasks as well as to the library and technology resource room.