Bruce Hill, Bailey Cook and Jarred Cotta spoke at our Student Tech Support and Help Desk presentation in a CTAP6 organized conference at James C. Enoch High School in Modesto, CA last February 24th. Bruce Hill is the Faculty Advisor at Island Middle School in Lemoore, CA, our first site in the San Joaquin Valley area, east of the SF Bay Area. Jarred and Bailey are the captain and lieutenant of Mouse Squad.
Jarred and Bailey were awesome presenters. They got excellent and good evaluations and a sample of some of the feedback responses were:
“Yes, very professional at such a young age.”
“yes, very i loved it.”
MOUSE Squad in the Central Valley is off to a great start!
James Enoch High School is a brand new state of the art technology infused 29M dollar facility that they built on 73 acres of property in the farmlands of Modesto, CA. They installed 48 miles of CAT 6 cable, 31 miles of fiber, 141 IDFs, 1700 network drops in their school. Each classroom is equipped with a $7000 media cart which contained a projector, a laptop, a document camera and a DVD/VCR. Their phone system is connected to their computers via voice over ip.
I could not help but be jealous of their 6 state of the art computer labs, their state of the art forensics and biotech lab, and the most modern band room and drama room I have ever seen.
One of the more noteworthy presentations that I attended was the work of Stan Trevena on Virtual Worlds and Education. It was a mammoth overview of online gaming from the 1974 Maze War by Steve Colley up to the newest Massive Multiplayer Online Games and Virtual Worlds (i.e. World of Warcraft and Second Life). He spoke about their project on the “Pacific Rim Exchange” where Modesto City Schools and students from Kyoto, Japan are playing Second Life before they actually meet up in person. Second Life is an online gaming activity where students set up virtual islands and socialize, exchange pictures, powerpoint presentations, and practice their English and Japanese speaking and writing skills. They use chat and possibly voice communication (next year) to do this.
Stan’s presentation was really an “introducation” to Web 3.0!!!
This excited me a lot because I had met Jarred, Bailey and Bruce only through Skype and the beauty of webcam before this conference. It seemed like I knew them for a few months now and that we were already good friends before this event. Oh well, that is technology for you!
June 25, 2007 at 10:35 am
Awesome show by yours trulely jarred!!!!!!