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Newark Schools Host Tech Fair on Campus
Niki Shah
Issue date: 12/19/05 Section: News
The Newark Public Schools' Office of Instructional Technology organized a "Computer Fair 2005 Accessing the Global Community" at the campus center on Dec. 14. to present the "opportunity to experience examples of the many exceptional activities that are a vital part of our students' academic instruction."
Students from more than 76 different schools in Newark, from K-12 were represented, according to Stan Salagaj, director of instructional technology for the Newark school district.
Salgaj said that students use the Internet as a resource to access the E-board system to be connected with the global community. The E-board system, created by Newark Public Schools, has features such as video conferencing and can translate English into Spanish, Polish, and Japanese.
Children from the Peshine Avenue, Camden Middle and Lincoln schools created a project called "Katrina Christmas." In this project, students used the online E-board system to ask victims of Hurricane Katrina about the problems they were facing.
Ellen Cowan, a representative of Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus made sure that each student got to learn five new words before they left the fair. Thinkmap is a software that displays words and meanings in the English language. Cowan said that students learn new words as they play games.
Cowan said that if parents are interested in using the software, they can download it from the Web site or from the trial offered by Thinkmap and than pay a $25 fee.
Students from more than 76 different schools in Newark, from K-12 were represented, according to Stan Salagaj, director of instructional technology for the Newark school district.
Salgaj said that students use the Internet as a resource to access the E-board system to be connected with the global community. The E-board system, created by Newark Public Schools, has features such as video conferencing and can translate English into Spanish, Polish, and Japanese.
Children from the Peshine Avenue, Camden Middle and Lincoln schools created a project called "Katrina Christmas." In this project, students used the online E-board system to ask victims of Hurricane Katrina about the problems they were facing.
Ellen Cowan, a representative of Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus made sure that each student got to learn five new words before they left the fair. Thinkmap is a software that displays words and meanings in the English language. Cowan said that students learn new words as they play games.
Cowan said that if parents are interested in using the software, they can download it from the Web site or from the trial offered by Thinkmap and than pay a $25 fee.