The greatest technology resources in the district are within the staff who have taken the initiative to push technology forward in their respective buildings and the district plan. UMS and UHS hire full time technology integrationists. The board approved a stipend for each of the elementaries and Washington Early Childhood for a Technology Cadre.

School	Principal	Technology Cadre Representative (s)
King	David Adcock	Eunice Weech, Yvonne Vitosky
Leal	Becky McCabe	Janie Schomberg
Prairie	Gail Jeffries	Frank Modica, Judy Haydel
Thomas Paine	Janice Bradley	Carol Godoy
Wiley	Joan Foertschneider	Richard Clift
Yankee Ridge	Laura Cresap	Georgette Moore
Washington E.C.	Connie Brown	Cheryl Blackwell
UMS	Marion Krier	Pam VanWalleghen
UHS	Ron Gerriets	Melissa Creech
District Level	Jim Peterson, Technology Coordinator Denise Pelafas, Technician

Wide Area Network Resources

The Urbana School District has built a wide area network in collaboration with the Champaign School District and the University of Illinois. This includes Internet connectivity to 6 elementaries, UMS, UHS, Adult Education and the central office via ISDN connection. Washington Early Childhood and Cunningham Children's Home are connected via several dialup connections. The districts share web and email servers that are maintained by CCSO of UIUC.

Local Area Network Resources

Local area networks exist in each of the 6 elementaries, UMS, UHS, Adult Education and the central office. These include at least one ethernet drop in each of the classrooms and offices. Libraries and computer labs have multiple drops depending upon the number of workstations.

All of the buildings except Thomas Paine elementary have a network file and (limited) application server that manage student and staff accounts. The library automation software from Follett's is on each of these servers. Several of the servers are also used for student data management.

Computer Resources

A recent inventory of networked computer equipment included the following machines. We do not track any computers below Mac LCII's and 486 clients.

School	Total Computers	Student/Computer Ratio
King	45	7.6
Leal	44	8.55
Prairie	48	9.02
Thomas Paine	39	9.26
Wiley	38	9.03
Yankee Ridge	46	9.04
Washington E.C.	13	10.77
UMS	103	10.11
UHS	116	9.42

Buildings may elect to purchase their own software for specific curricular needs. The Urbana School District Technology Committee has purchased a number of district licences for software including the following:

Claris Works 5.0 - an integrated word processing, database, drawing and spreadsheet package.

Claris Homepage - creating web pages

Foolproof version 3.0 - securing hard drives and desktops

Through the Microsoft Partnership, we have been able to provide training on a number of software titles including:

Microsoft Office 97 Pro - including Word for word processing, Excel for spreadsheets, Access for databases and Powerpoint for presentations.

Microsoft Office 98 - including Word for word processing, Excel for spreadsheets and Powerpoint for presentations.

Microsoft Publisher - package that assists in the development of flyers, newsletters, etc.

Encarta - Multimedia encyclopedia software

We have also amassed a large number of individual titles which are available through checkout from the central office teacher's center. Most of these are currently floating throughout the district:

The Rosetta Stone

Click Art 2000

Hyperstudio

Maps 'n' Facts

Microsoft Dinosaurs

Microsoft Musical Instruments

San Diego Zoo Presents - The Animals

The Way Things Work

With Open Eyes: Chicago Art Institute

Zoo Guides: Reptiles, Whales, Dolphins

Claris Works for Teachers CD

Classroom Clips

CSL Curriculum Orchestrator SP

The Digital Chisel

Time Magazine Multimedia Almanac

3D Atlas CD

Artrageous!

Cartopedia

Sourcebook of American History

Our Times

RedShift

Zoo Guides: The Rainforest

Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Science

Frank Lloyd Wright CD

Cinemania 96

Explorapedia - World of Nature

Bookshelf 96-97

Creative Writer 2.0

Encarta 97 Encyclopedia

Encarta 97 World Atlas

Greetings Workshop

The Magic School Bus - Dinosaurs

Office 97 - Professional Edition

Picture It!

P.J.'s Reading Adventures

Works 4.0