Video Conferencing connects students and nations Talk with students in Taiwan and Japan or watch the wolves in Ely, Minnesota. Students from grade 3 to 12 make connections using the Internet and video conferencing equipment. From our first experience watching a heart valve transplant in Rhode Island in 2000, students now routinely learn with other students thousands of miles away or 12 miles in Braham. Once an occasional opportunity is now a daily occurrence such as the CCNA course taught at CIHS and
attended by students in Pine City. Students in grade 3 have started to make friends with students in Dahli School in Taiwan. Technology brings us closer. |
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Projectors in classrooms Continuing a three year project, with the help of Microsoft settlement dollars and technology funds from the State of Minnesota, Cambridge-Isanti classrooms are nearing completion of the goal of multimedia projects in all regularly used classrooms. It has been a big project to get the projectors mounted and cabled properly, but the results are worth the effort. Projectors have become part of the essential
infrastructure along with a computer for integrating technology into the classrooms. |
E-Rate offsets telecommunications costs The schools and libraries program known as E-rate provides a 54% reimbursement for costs such as telephone lines, cell phones, long distance calls and internet connections. Cambridge-Isanti applies for these discounts each year which amounts to thousands of dollars in cost avoidance. |
On line safety Cambridge-Isanti uses a content filter for all Internet traffic on the computers in the district. In an effort to provide the best possible safe experience for our students and employees, the content filter is being updated to the most current technology available. The upgrade to the new filter has been a bumpy ride, but will smooth out as it is tuned to our specifications. Cambridge-Isanti is compliant with the Child
Internet Protection Act.
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