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Pittsburg schools emphasize new technology, training “We set it up so they could type in their poems and put them in PowerPoint slides, with credits and animation. Then they would play it and record an Audacity sound clip using microphones, then attach the sound clip to the PowerPoint slide,” Polen explained. “When they played the final product, it was the students reading the words of their poems as the slides scrolled through. There was a lot of learning on everyone’s part for that one.”
At Pittsburg High School, a 36-week Foundations for Technology course is on tap to allow students to use state-of-the-art computers, the Internet, Web design, desktop publishing, digital imaging and video editing, with a price tag of an estimated $300,000. Grotheer said that when someone says the word technology, people often think of computers, but the district has evolved past that. In the past year, Pittsburg has seen a great deal of expansion, with more than 200 digital projectors as well as numerous document cameras, digital whiteboards and classroom audio systems. The district also deployed more than 100 new laptops, replaced a computer lab at Pittsburg Community Middle School and, before the school year began, brought in roughly $600,000 worth of additional technology, according to Cory Gibson, interim assistant superintendent. As for Turnbull, who started out with mimeographs and filmstrip projectors, she teaches an after-school club at Lakeside Elementary School called “Techno-Whiz.” She said children clamor to sign up for it every four weeks throughout the school year. “They learn to use digital cameras to take pictures and download them using laptop computers, then we use programs such as iPhoto and Print Shop to create documents or photo collages which students print in color and take home,” she said. The students also have explored the use of animation and voice recording software. “E-mail, wikis and blogs connect us with the world instantly,” Turnbull said. “Teachers take attendance and lunch count, and keep their assignments and grades on the computer. Technology is emerging so fast that it is difficult to keep on top of all the ways it can be used in the classroom.” 
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