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Randy Snow at Von Steuben Center started an after-school
technology club in 1998-99. His time with these students
has been well worth the effort. Club members come into
the center during lunch and at other times to act as student
mentors helping other students with their hardware and
software needs. |
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to help Snow keep the computers up and running. Snow recognizes
students' potential to develop the school's resources.
He has been teaching himself Web page design and plans
to teach these skills to the club members so that they
can create an external Web page for Von Steuben. (Snow
himself created the school's internal Web page.) |
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Mumford High School's technology coordinator, Claudia
Burton, depends on students to help her maintain the cleanliness
of the Tech Center and assist other students when they
encounter problems. |
The students who work
as Burton's assistants are either members of the school's
Technology Club or students who work in the Tech Center
as "application specialists." The students who work with
Burton not only gain technology skills, according to Principal
Linda Spight, they also get the experience of "being troubleshooters
and helping others." Burton's applications specialists
must all go through extensive training in basic care of
computers and in using many of the programs that classes
use regularly.
Burton trains these specialists to "walk the room," checking
to see if anyone needs help and making sure that students
are on task and that computers are all in working order.
She also trains them in using different search engines
to help other students conduct research on the Internet
and talks to them about what different search engines
can do. Teachers say they can rely on these students for
solving small, routine problems their students encounter
and to provide students with assistance as they work on
their individual projects. |
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