How Can you Use the Equipment?

The computers and Information and Communications Technology equipment should be used by schools and associated centres for student learning, support teaching, distance learning, isolated children’s learning, professional development, library, or administrative purposes.

There are lots of different and innovative ways to use the equipment. Some examples of the ways Information and Communications Technology equipment donated to schools by the Computer Technologies for Schools project is already being used are:

• In the classroom to support learning;

• In the staffroom to support teachers;
• As printer servers;
• As email terminals to avoid kids tying up more powerful computers with email;
• Use them with Citrix Winframe (thin client software);
• As a class project as an exercise in upgrading (good technical training);
• As a play network to let students set up and run a network;
• As text entry devices (again to free up more powerful devices) in areas such as publishing, journalism etc;
• As dedicated hardware (eg data logging, process control);
• In the staff room for internet access, email, and other uses such as timetabling;
• As common room computer kiosks;
• As airport-style scrolling announcement devices (eg daily news sheets, canteen price list, thought for the day, etc);
• To terminal emulators on them for library use;
• To teach programming;
• To loan to students who don’t have home access;
• As games boxes in a library, day care centres, or wet day activity room