Technology

Media Center/Technological Innovation

Media Center

ITA’s Media Center serves as the hub of our mission of technological learning. Students are required to attend technology education classes two to five times per week, with elementary students attending technology education courses Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Middle School Students attending courses everyday in the lab. Computers housed in the media center may be used outside of instructional time as well.

Students utilize the following technological resources while in the Media Center:

1. Personal Computers
2. Mimio Interactive Whiteboard
   ITA utilizes Mimio technology in our curriculum. By using this interactive teaching technology, ITA is able to captivate and energize students growing and learning in the digital age. Mimio technology is housed in a compact bar that attaches easily to any whiteboard, making it usable in any area of the school. The mimio Interactive Stylus acts like a mouse, so students can manipulate anything on their computer screens right from the whiteboard. mimio technology turns learning into a vivid sensory experience with music, sounds, images, and animation. ITA students are motivated to participate and retain the materials presented in class.
3. Two projection areas are currently installed within the media center and library area. Another projection area is housed on the ground floor.
4. DIRECTV GOES TO SCHOOL Program
   ITA currently uses the DIRECTV GOES TO SCHOOL program in which our students benefit from educational programming to enhance their classroom experience. This program is an innovative classroom tool, designed to reinforce learning, spark imagination and encourage interactivity.

The school will host their first Annual Science and Technology Fair, a project-based learning experience for students in grades 5-8. Students are required to complete a technology-based oral exit review based on one or more content areas mastered during the academic school year.

Technological Innovation

ITA has just installed brand new networks and servers. ITA’s network has within it only the newest technology at its source. A Cisco^© network uses the latest in wiring technology (CAT6) to team with the newest Sonic Wall^© firewall to ensure student safety.

ITA fully complies with all student privacy and safety measures regulated by local, state, and federal authorities. To this end, ITA uses the new Sonic Wall^© firewall to investigate and filter all incoming and outgoing traffic.

Two Dell^© dualcore servers ensure that all technologies run undeterred through CITRIX^© servers and 5.5 virtualization technology. Each of ITA’s servers run two additional virtual servers which have the newest Windows Server 2008 R2^©, most advanced Windows^© Server operating system yet. The new Microsoft Exchange 2010^© serves as ITA’s email server as well. Wireless capabilities run off AEROHIVE WAP^© (Wireless Application Protocol) placed throughout the building ensures unhindered wireless function.