General Technology Used in All Math Courses / Rooms

Note: all items starting with a star (*) are free and open-source programs.

• Network and/or Internet Access
  • Email
  • Gradebook (for 2009-10)
  • TigerView
  • Teacher Websites (currently located at \\webserve\homepages\EHSstaff\)
  • Networked FileServers :
    • all Teacher Read/Write, no student access (commonly called teacher E: drive)
    • single Teacher Read/Write, no student access (commonly called teacher H: drive)
    • all Teachers Read/Write, all Students Read-only (commonly called student G: drive)
    • all Teachers Read/Write, single Student Read/Write (commonly called student H: drive)
• *Web Browser (Internet Explorer & Firefox)
• *Virtual TI Calculator (TI's version has more features but needs to be purchased)
• MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook)
• Voicemail & Telephone
• Projectors, TV's & teacher computer workstations in all classrooms

Specialized Rooms/Equipment

• Two computer labs supporting 8 courses:
  • AP Computer Science (year course)
  • AP Statistics (year course)
  • Introduction to Statistics (year course)
  • Introduction to Robotics (semester course)
  • Java Programming (semester course)
  • Honors Java Programming (semester course taught concurrently with Java Programming)
  • Special Topics in Computing (semester course)
  • Programming Fundamentals (semester course)
• Printers in rooms A310, A317
• Photocopier in room A310
• Smartboard in Room 309 (may be changed)
• Classroom sets of TI-83/84 (graphing calculator)
• Classroom sets of basic 4-function calculators

Robotics

• Interactive C and KISS-C (latest version of Interactive C)

Geometry, Honors Geometry

• Geometer's Sketchpad

Fundamentals of Programming

• *Alice 2.0 (need upgrade to 3.0)

Introduction to Statistics

• Fathom
• MS Excel

AP Statistics

• Fathom
• MS Excel

Programming & Honors Programming in Java

• *Java SDK 1.6 (remove auto updates)
• TextPad (after Java SDK1.6 installed)
• *BlueJ (set to use Java SDK1.6
• *Eclipse (set to use Java SDK1.6)

AP Computer Science

• *Eclipse (configured to use Java SDK 1.6)

Special Topics in Computers

• *Robocode
• *Python (download syn files for Python & configure for TextPad) with IDLE
• *The Gimp
• *Pov-Ray
• *Corewars
• *Google Sketchup
• *Blender
• Bridge Construction Set
• *West Point Bridge Constructor
• Dreamweaver Web Page Designer
• Optional (can be removed if slow bootup or other conflicts)
  • *OpenOffice
  • *Winplot & other math utility programs from Peanut Software Company
  • *Google Earth
  • *NASA WorldWind
  • *Linux Operating System
  • *Other Computer Languages such as PHP, C++ QBasic, Pascal