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SWAT Newsetter-June 2008

Read all about SWAT in T.H.E. Journal, February 2008, Volume 35, Number 2

"Triumph of the Nerds, How Geeks Became Chic" by John K.Walters www.thejournal.com

I welcome an opportunity to expand the SWAT program. If you are interested in hiring me as a Curriculum Developer, or Training facilitator for SWAT or other Technology in Education Integration services please contact me at lmganfield@gmail.com

See my Linked In Profile

View Lucy Miller-Ganfield's profile  

To Order ALL SWAT resources click here http://www.swatweb.net/materials.html

Ready now! The SWAT Assessment Tool Kit-Several Disposition and SWAT Integrated Standards Assessments, Rubrics, and much more, to use with your SWAT program. Order by email at lmganfield@gmail.com, purchase orders are welcome or pay now via Paypal

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SWAT does it all! Anna Pollard, Technology Coordinator at East Garner Magnet School in Garner NC is Directing her SWAT Team to perform Podcasts, Blogs, and Wikis. To see more of this model SWAT program click here http://computerskills.inspiring teachers.com/swatclub_site.html

 

 

2008-Now Available! Technology TIP's For Children by TIP the computer character-EBook, 21 Published Colorful TIP articles for young children to enjoy, using Flip Album, reader included. to order click here http://www.swatweb.net/materials.html

TIP, (Technology Information Provider) (Singapore copyright 2007)a gender-neutral character who gives computer advice to children in Singapore, was featured in each issue of Reading Plus Magazine and is now in e-book learning format..

TIP's mission is to empower others with technology information and to promote Learning Values, Reading Literacy and Cooperative Learning through the use of Technology.

TIP ( Technology Information Provider) Copyright 2007 Singapore Technology Tips published by Lucy for Reading Plus and Snap Trap Magazine
TIP Intro Issue 7	TIP Homework Help Issues 11
TIP Viruses 8	TIP Cyberbully Issue12
Future Snap Trap # 4	TIP Issue 13-Brain Busters
Snap Trap #5 Gaming	TIP Issue 13 with cover
Blogging Snap Trap #3	TIP Issue 14-Save and Back Up
	TIP Issue 15-Chat

 

** Order the SWAT Kit which includes the SWAT Camp Manual.

Now available! The SWAT Quick Guide and SWAT Overview PP Presentation.

Information Request! Joyce Lofstrom from Park Ridge, Ill would like to know if there is a SWAT program in the northwest suburbs of Chicago? She would like to work with other parents and administrators in District 207 to begin a SWAT program.

If you are interested in helping Joyce please contact her by email at joycelofstrom@hotmail.com

General News and Information

Posted December 2006 Read about Tomorrow's Leaders in the Infinite Thinking Machine Blog

U.S. Department Of Education Releases National Education Technology Plan

"There is a new fervor in American education and a new creativity that's being driven in part by this generation of tech-savvy students," said U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige. "We are already seeing some remarkable results, and I believe this trend bodes well for the future of our country. As the report noted, America's students are our ultimate constituents, and we need to listen to them."

Welcome New SWAT Registrants!

**Welcome EL Paso and San Antonio, Texas School Districts, and Sigourney and Cardinal Iowa School Districts, for your interest in developing district-wide SWAT programs.

• El Paso adds on more SWAT Programs in their schools! Thank you!
• Welcome Albert Bricker, St. James School, San Francisco, California
• Welcome Anthony Johnson, Overton Elementary School, Salisbury, NC
• Welcome Rebecca Woodley, North Drive Elementary, Goldsboro, NC
• Welcome Kirk Magill, Kirk's Computer Works, Sigourney Iowa
• Welcome Joyce Klepacki, St. Lucy Elementary, Campbell California

• Welcome Debbie Novalski, Winding Creek Elementaty, Fredricksburg, Virginia
• Welcome Candy McDonald, Southside Elementary, Lebanon, TN
• Welcome Barbara Langley, Bear Lake Elementary, Apopka, Florida
• Welcome Jeff Thungc, Student Technology Programs, Kent School District, Kent, Washington
• Welcome David Pearson, Director of Technology, St. Thomas More Catholic High School, Louisiana
• Welcome Frank Mosco, Director of Technology, Cardinal Hayes High School, NY
• Welcome Noah Spranklin, Director of Technology, The Unquowa School, Fairfield, CT
• Welcome Londa Posvistak, San Juan Capistrano, CA
• Welcome Phil Zaubi, Porter-Gaud School, Charleston, SC
• Welcome Chris Fondaw, Christian Unified High School, El Cajon, CA
• Welcome Tom Radcliff, Logansport High School, Logansport, LA
• Welcome Monroe County School District
• Welcome Mrytle Grove Christian School
• Welcome Luling Elementary School, Luling, Louisiana, Mr. Howat
• Welcome Blessed Sacrament Regional School, Morgate, NJ., John Garrity
• Welcome Star of the Sea School, San Francisco, CA., Brian P. Fordyce
• Welcome North Callaway High School in Kingdom City, MO.
• Welcome West Memphis Christian School. Ryan Sumner would like to know if there are any "active or want to be active" Arkansas SWAT programs in his state. Please contact him at rsummer@wmcs.com
• Welcome Dana Greenburg at Celebration High School in Celebration, Florida!

March 2004

Read all about it!

Role reversal; Young tech wizards teach their teachers a thing or two

By Amanda Long, Special to the Chicago Tribune.
2 March 2004

Summer 2003

Digital Media Center “A+” Youth Learn the ’Ins and Outs’ of Computer Repair

While thousands of Chicago youth played softball, went to the beach, or played in parks, 16 students found an alternative way to spend their summer. They learned to build, repair, diagnose, and analyze computer hardware.

The SWAT (Students Working for the Advancement of Technology) program helps students learn valuable computer skills through the use of numerous problem sets, hands-on lab exercises, and field training. The SWAT program was conducted by the Digital Media Center (DMC) on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Each student gained both technical knowledge and troubleshooting skills. The DMC’s SWAT was modeled on the nationally recognized SWAT program founded by Ms. Lucy Miller. The mission of the nation program is to promote student leadership training, address technology competencies, provide outreach to the community program was modeled.

Chicago area middle and high school students who participate in SWAT were trained to become technology assistants and are identified as resources to assist their schools and communities by using their newly gained technical expertise.

The SWAT students received hands-on training in a rigorous environment for 6 weeks, with sessions running 5 days a week, 6 hours a day. They learned how to diagnose and repair defective parts, to load software, and to connect networks. They gained knowledge necessary to disarm viruses, and they even built web pages.

In addition, SWAT students learned the value of community service by repairing computers through our partnership with Chicago’s very own Time Dollar Tutoring Program, an organization that provides computers to disadvantaged Chicago residents.

In order to continue the students’ education, The DMC has strongly encouraged their respective schools to consider them for positions as Technology Assistants. With the vast knowledge they gained in the SWAT program, they are sure to be a valuable resource.

Some student comments about the program were: “It was fun and interactive,” “SWAT taught me parts of the computer that I didn’t know about,” and “I liked the experience of working in the Time Dollar program and learning to work with computers.”

The students showed marked improvement in their computer knowledge and skills. They have improved their test scores an average of 230% over the course of the program.

The SWAT program is proof that it is possible, with the right curriculum and instructors, to teach 10-16 year old students significant computer hardware knowledge in just one summer session.

“The Illinois Institute of Technology is proud to be a partner by offering the SWAT Program to Chicago youth and play a vital role of career exposure in the Chicago educational system. We want to help develop the next generation of computer engineers and scientists, I.T. professionals, and technicians,” says Kevin G. Smith, Associate Director of Community Outreach of IIT’s Digital Media Center.

IIT’s Digital Media Center, is working to create new trends in community technology equity and integration; co-locating access, programs, services, and content within the community where citizens gather. Its focus is to providing learning experiences for IIT undergraduate and graduate students via community service through programming and services to help improve lives in Bronzeville and all residents of the city of Chicago.

For more information on IIT - DMC programs, services, and partnership opportunities call (312) 567-8839 or visit us on the web at http://dmc.iit.edu.

IIT Summer Article

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SWAT in Chicago

Lucy visits Sister Mary Therese Freyman at St. James School in Chicago on October 21st, 2002.

Candice (SWAT student) and Lucy speak at parents night about how SWAT members become strong student leaders in their school and community.

Pictured are Candice and Iman (SWAT student leaders with Lucy and Sister Mary Therese) and Candice with Sister Mary
Therese. Sister Mary Therese is opening up SWAT membership from grades 1-8 and has engaged her parent community to support
the outreach efforts at her school.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look what happened in Summer 2002 with SWAT!

Cindy Newton and John Davis take SWAT to new dimensions!
They have demonstrated how SWAT can be a summer camp at the elementary and high school levels.

Hence, the "How To Start a SWAT Summer Camp Manual" will be developed this fall for other SWAT Leaders to replicate.
Also in development this fall is the "SWAT Kit".


Please see the following links to their SWAT Summer Camp Websites:

http://fayette.k12.in.us/eastview/swatcamp.htm

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2002 Activities

Cindy Newton speaks on behalf of SWAT at the Indiana Computer Education on January 24th. (ICE) for more information about her SWAT efforts click on "SWAT Teams in Action" or click here:

Eastview SWAT

( North Carolina School of Math and Science)

NCSSM SWAT Program

SWAT Programs Update 1/2002
by Jon Davis
Coordinator, State Student Technology Initiative
The summer of 2001 was a busy time for my colleagues and me. We hosted the second annual Cyber Campus SWAT Camp and the first NCSSM Student Technology Symposium, providing training to more than 100 student technology leaders.. I am happy to report that these programs, along with the new TechLeader Digital Media Workshop, will be funded in 2002 by a new grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

The TechLeader workshop will be targeted at technology coordinators and Cyber Campus managers who will be trained in the areas of web design, animation, video production, streaming media management and server administration. In addition, the workshop attendees will discuss supporting student programs like SWAT teams, student multimedia projects, and the projects of teachers who would like to develop multimedia web content.

For More SWAT information please visit:
http://www.dlt.ncssm.edu/now/newsletters/november01pagetwo.htm

2001 Activities

NCSSM ( North Carolina School of Math and Science)
SWAT Camp 2001 is the second annual summer technology camp for North Carolina high school students. Students attend the camp at one of seven CyberCampuses distributed throughout the state where they participate in live video conferences with technology professionals at the NC School of Science and Mathematics. The primary purpose of the camp is to provide training to existing SWAT teams that have been established at each of the CyberCampuses. However, the events is open to other students of the CyberCampus school and, depending upon the discretion of the CyberCampus manager, open to students from neighboring high schools. The camp, part of NCSSM's Education Future NOW project, is funded by a US Department of Education Technology Innovation Challenge Grant.

SWAT Student is Published!
Elliot Peele, president of the NCSSM Student SWAT Team will be published in the April issue of Leading and Learning with Technology. In the article, he shares his experiences of learning technology by teaching others and working on multimedia projects for the school.

Forest Park High School IT conference on May 2

Forest Park High School and SWAT sign partnership agreement.

Chuck Drake, IT Coordinator, Leads the way with his SWAT Program. The goal of the Students Working to Advance Technology (SWAT) program is to provide citizens and students of Prince William County with the opportunity to expand their technological skills and knowledge. SWAT is a collaborative effort of the IT technology program at Forest Park High School. SWAT is made up of students in the technology classes of A+ (Hardware), Cisco (Networking) and Learn and Serve (Volunteer)

For More information about their SWAT Team please visit:students.http://www.pwcs.edu/forestpark/SWAT%20page/index.htm
Forest Park High School

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