TMHS Technology Anthropology

Thunder Mountain High School is set to be a wonderful, technological equipped school when everything is completed and properly set in. Currently there is lots of technology equipment that is still on order or not set up. Despite this small set back, the staff and administration continue the enthusiasm of expectancy of all the technological advances that TMHS will contain.

As teachers were choosing the school for where they wanted to teach this current school year, one of the "perks" for TMHS is the technology that would be there. Most teachers that I've met are excited about the technology and eager to learn and try more. This afternoon at the school there was training on our new Interwrite systems. It can be used as a portable mouse where anything can be accessed from you computer anywhere in the classroom and make the lecture more interactive. There is also small clickers that students can have, like on a game show, where a question can be put in and then students asked to respond with immediate feedback and graphs on the responses. The teachers are excited about this technology and are working through the parts of the system that feel clumsy.

To gather this information was a task as most people involved with technology are extremely busy as the technology is not all up and working. Different people in the school were interviewed to gather the information that is contained in the entire document. There could be additional items that we have not listed due to the timing of this project and the new opening of this school. However, seeing that an array of people loosely connected to the technology of school were eager to share with us, the information contained is most likely fairly close to complete and accurate.

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