In the classes, the students learn how to set up a network of computers and get it up and running on the Internet. Cisco is the largest producer of routers and switches in the world. Anne Urevick has been teaching computer-hardware courses in Philadelphia for 16 years, and is now a Cisco regional academy administrator. She has trained all the Philadelphia School District teachers, and she is impressed with the Cisco curriculum. These are Internet kids, and they are very open to an e-learning format.
Web site is interactive.
It includes movies, graphics, sound. . . . I think it reaches kids a teacher can't reach. . . . This is the first time that inner-city kids have had access to this technology. And unlike many other things they learn from books, students can get hands-on experience and apply it in the real world. She even took a team of computer students to help program routers and switches at the summer Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.