Technology Inventory

It was really interesting to be able to find out how much access to technology teacher's have in the district and school that I am doing my practicum in. Our school has a great computer lab and computers is one of their specialties. For a third of the year students get to spend about 40-50 minutes working in the computer lab. I was amazed to find out that the school has only one smartboard in it and it is in the sixth grade classrooms. I learned that it is possible to get some technologies through the district but it looks like it takes a bit of effort. In the lab there is a scanner, a printer, and a dvd burner. The computers are macs and have have microsoft office, google earth, firefox/safari, and timez attack on them.
As for the classroom there is one TV, a CD player, and an overhead projector. There are no computers for the children to use. The teacher does have a laptop and is capable of getting internet. It is weird not being able to have a projector that you can connect to a computer. I really wish there was because there is so much you can do with that. I also think that it would be very beneficial to have a camera or video camera. Overall there isn't a ton of technology provided inside the classrooms. It will be good to learn how we can get access to it and then apply it into our lessons.