1. AF: Question 1: Does the school have a policy for the use of information technology across all subject areas?

2. SS: All 6th Graders take a 6 week introductory class where they learn how to use the computers at Roosevelt, how to navigate the network, they learn keyboarding skills. They do some multi-media authoring and they do some e-mail. Basic things like that. Beyond that there are electives that include web-design, a little bit of programming, more multi-media design - that's available for 6th, 7th and 8th Graders.

3. AF: Do they use those skills in all the other subject areas?

4. SS: Here and there, different teachers, each individual department or each teacher chooses to what extent and how they use the computers, and a number of teachers have a bank of computers in their room which they use regularly. We have 2 labs. One is mainly used for specific computer classes, the newspaper class meets in there, classes which are particularly computer intensive. The other lab is a drop in lab, it works like a library. There is an adult supervisor, kids sign up or teachers can book in a while class.

5. AF: Question 2: If so, how was it formed?

6. SS: We have a technology committee, which meets twice a month. And basically we set the technology policy and standards for the building.

7. AF: Question 3: What policies are there at school district, county, state and national levels that contribute to the way in which IT is used across the curriculum in the school?

8. SS: The school district provides a lot of support. They don't give a lot of structure to how we use the computers, but they provide a lot of tools and a lot of information to help us make decisions. Beyond that - county, state - there is very little. There is support at the county level also - there are ESD students enrolled in the classes.

9. [Dana Murfit: she won 8 computers by writing a lesson plan 'Astronomy Research Project for Mystery of Things Connection Class (on controlling an astronomical telescope at Pine Mountain observatory, Bend) and linking this to the state profiles. She quoted state technology profiles, which included the outcome: "use technology to perform real-time measurements and collect data". To get more information about these, e-mail barbara.slimak@state.or.us or look into these web-sites:

10. Dana made the comment that teachers are distancing themselves from standards development, since competency based outcomes had been used previously, and had been dropped, so there was little desire to repeat a similar fruitless exercise].

11. AF: Question 4: How many students are enrolled?

12. SS: About 770.

13. AF: Question 5: What are the highest and lowest grades taught?

14. SS: Grade 6 through 8.

15. AF: Question 6: What is the level of computer provision (in terms of the number of students to each multi-media computer), and what proportion of the computer equipment is internet-connected?

16. SS: All are connected to the internet. 2 labs of 33, one each classroom for teachers = 35, 6 in the library, another 43 soon to be 63 from a grant. Current total is 125 with 20 more coming. Some are older Mac Classics, which are net-connected, but can't really run web-browsers.

17. AF: Question 7: What proportion of the students would you estimate have access to a computer outside school?

18. SS: 90-95% but not all are internet-connected.

19. AF: Question 8: Do your policies cover the relationship between home and school computing?

20. SS: Teachers would not expect students to get information from the internet at home, but they know many students would provide it. Anything that requires students to use computers, they would provide time in the computer lab.