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And now, we give a special tribute to the
many partners who support Mueller Elementary and our special programs!
We have worked hard to become a quality school and support has come from many
people and partners. Thank you to everyone who has chosen to be a part of
our program!
 The
Smarter Kids’ Foundation has supplied funding for a computer projector in
the technology lab. This will display whatever is on a computer screen
onto a wall or screen which can be viewed by the entire class. It would
also allow students and teachers to create technology projects, encourage
community parents to get involved and learn how to use computer technology in
the lab to help with special projects.
Mueller
has also received a Smart Board from the Smarter Kid Foundation through the
Project Get Smarter Grant. The Smart Board allows students to visually see
what is being taught along with actively interacting through touching and
manipulating information on the whiteboard. An interactive whiteboard
combined with the computer projector and the computer itself allows teachers and
students to write and erase notes, control computer applications and save
information to the computer.
Check
out Traci Moore, first grade teacher, using the computer projector to
project an image onto the Smart Board to do a lesson with her students by
clicking on the picture at right.
Mueller
has received a Southwestern Bell Telephone Grant for the 2000-2001 school year
of $7000. The grant will help fund using technology in the classroom
and school by adding shareware, new computers, and software to create a Computer
Lab for all students to use on a weekly basis. Students will be working
with a computer teacher and their classroom teachers to create Kid Pix projects,
web pages, and Word documents. They will learn to program Lego Robotics,
develop interactive stories, and make slide shows from their original graphics
and stories. As students and teachers share their projects on our web site
(check them out under our Kid's Stuff menu bar link), we can share what we are
doing with other educators across the nation.
Mueller has been developing a partnership with the Wichita
State University's (WSU) Professional Development School (PDS)
program to further
our ability to meet Mueller's student needs. WSU PDS students
from John Marshall Middle School have the opportunity to be placed
at Mueller for their elementary student teaching experiences necessary
for state K-9 teaching certification. The PDS students are still
under the supervision of Dr. Michael James and Kathy Harkness
from Marshall Middle School but work directly under our classroom
teachers for their teaching experiences. PDS students are encouraged to
get closely involved with a classroom teacher for the entire school year to
better understand the beginning, middle, and ending of the school year
process. We are pleased to have hired several PDS students into our
Mueller building!
Streaming
Voices has generously agreed to produce streaming
media for Mueller Elementary school so that we may share our
Student TV News Broadcasts,
music programs, and
other multimedia files on our website. We are working on several
projects with our students. Please check back frequently as our
streaming media site grows.
Streaming Voices
is a company specializing in producing streaming media to
make web sites more effective and enjoyable. They accomplish this
by transforming existing text web sites into an on-demand audio
and visual experience.
Streaming media is a way to
push large files to the viewer on demand which means you can begin to view them as they
come to your computer instead of waiting for the entire file to
download. Streaming media is more of a continuous connection.
Much like TV or listening to the radio, you receive the images
or audio just before you see or hear them. Streaming Voices
is encoding our large media files to be viewed using RealPlayer.
This is an additional program that works with your web browser
that you can download for free.
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RealPlayer needs to be downloaded in order to see and hear our
multimedia files. |
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 After you have downloaded RealPlayer
check the Real.com
Guide for other streaming media sites. |
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