| Technology | Why it is important and how it will be used |
| Promethean Interactive Board, with activotes | Allows for collaboration among students, acts as a form of ongoing assessment, motivates students, increases interest, allows for integration of video, pictures, and stuff. |
| Mac Laptop carts w/ Macbook pros | Allows for everyday use of computers, writing, research, typing, increase of general comfort of technology, easy access. |
| Ipads, one for each student and for the teacher | Easy access for Voicethread, research, interactive communication, draw and explain thinking, save work for assessment. Recording availability. A lot of academic apps available. |
| Elmo | Presents student work, good for whole group instruction |
| Mounted projector | For connecting to ipads and elmo, showing films etc. |
| Digital Microscopes (4) | Delving into detail with science, used for close up looks for life and physical science. |
| Headsets with microphone, one for each student | For listening stations, recording digital stories on Ipads or computers. |
| G4 teacher computer and mac book pro for teacher | For teacher use at school and at home. |
| Front Row Microphone | Useful for hearing impaired students, used for quiet students to present. Getting attention - all students can hear teacher. |
| Salinity Tester | For physical science and life science, studying the oceans. |
| Digital video cameras (5) | For digital story telling and documenting classroom life and presentations. |
| Digital cameras (Canon Elfs) (10) | Digital stories, documenting fieldtrips |
| Sound system and stereo | For playing music, video |
| Wireless internet | To be used with laptops |
| IPhone | For teacher use: instant communication with parents. |
| Tripods (5) | For video cameras |
| Color laser Printer and Xerox machine (with unlimited ink) | Use for teachers and printers – used all the time! |
| Software | Why? |
| Microsoft Office for Macs | Word processing (Word), graphing data (Excel), presentation (Powerpoint) |
| Kidspiration | Graphic organizers, create and inspirational brainstorming and outlining. |
| Study Island | Math practice, instantaneous summative assessment |
| Reading Eggs | Phonics work for students, can be used at home as well. Motivational. |
| Unlimited budget to amazon.com for audio books | Fluency, differentiation, and motivation. |
| Voicethread for the school | Voicethread account for the entire school, all students can have their own account to make comments, create digital stories. |
| Adobe Addition | Editing for podcasts |
| Unlimited academic app budget | For purchasing academic apps as they arise. |
| Lightroom | Editing and organizing photos |
| Membership to NCTM, NCSS, NCTS | Teacher professional development, lesson plans |
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