Technology
The West Bonner County School District recognizes that technology is a catalyst for teaching and learning. Technology is integral to teaching, learning, and ensuring student success in the 21st century. Our district technology plan drives our current initiatives. The district continually strives to improve access to technology for staff and students.
Technical support is ongoing and includes hardware and software installation, troubleshooting, maintenance, and repair for devices owned by the school district. The district also maintains both local-area and wide-area networks. Serving the staff and students of West Bonner Schools well is a high priority.
To prepare their students, educators must be proficient with technology. Consequently, staff development for technology remains a high priority in our district. The district has also undertaken an ongoing process to adapt the district curriculum to incorporate technology.
Technology Director:
Ron Kruse
Joe Bailey
208-448-1287
ISEE Coordinator * Network Administrator * Data Systems Analyst
Wyatt Smith
208-290-5051
CHILD INTERNET SAFETY
Personal Identifiable Information and Email
What is FERPA
FERPA & Online Services
Technology Tools:
Google Apps for Education is a free suite of hosted email and collaboration
applications exclusively for schools and universities.
Edmentum is online coursework
Evernote is a tool for organizing notes that can contain text, images,
and audio. Notes and notebooks can be shared with teachers and classmates
for collaboration and feedback.
Dropbox is a free service that allows users to bring all their photos, docs,
and videos anywhere. This means that any file saved to users' Dropbox
will automatically be saved to all their computers, phones, and even
the Dropbox website.
iTunes is used to manage content on Apple iOS devices such as the iPad.
iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store to download application software
from the App Store for the iPad. An iTunes account is required to install iPad apps.
YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share,
and view videos. Google owns YouTube, and students' Google Apps
accounts function as their YouTube accounts.
Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by
educator Salman Khan to create a set of online tools that
help educate students. The organization produces short lectures in the form
of YouTube videos. Its website also includes supplementary practice
exercises and materials for educators. All resources are available to users
of the website.