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Portage Schools is at the forefront in providing students and faculty with access to computers and other technologies for classroom work, research, and teaching. Students have access to computers in classrooms, computer labs, library media centers, and other mobile computer workstations.
Each workstation in the district has networked access to the Internet, as well as to other district-wide software applications and information warehouses.
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All elementary schools have one wired computer lab of 30 workstations and 2 mobile carts of 24 and 30 laptops each. Teachers schedule the mobile carts for use in their classrooms as needed. Every classroom has two (2) student workstations as well as one teacher workstation.
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Our two middle schools have both wired and mobile carts as well. Every classroom follows the same standard of two (2) student workstations as well as one teacher workstation. The number of wired and mobile labs vary according to the population of the school.
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Portage High School has many wired computer labs available to students. There are labs set up for the different types of classes; electronics, art, reading, business, math, piano and music, as well as general access labs. PHS has eight (8) mobile carts available for scheduling by teachers. The English Department at PHS also is utilizing six (6) classrooms of computers in a "One-one"computing environment where students coursework is using the content management software, Moodle.
Each school building is staffed with at least one full-time computer technology coordinator, who works under the direction of the district-level staff. These para-professional staff members are responsible for the general maintenance and inventory of all computers in the building. They provide the link to the district technicians who support hardware, software and network functionality.
Coordinators often collaborate with teachers on lab and classroom computer projects and assist students during open and scheduled computer lab time. The coordinators work with the building administration in gathering data for student achievement and they work with faculty for the online testing of students. They help to organize basic staff development sessions and, as a member of the building-level technology teams, act as a resource and contact person for all instructional technology issues.
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