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This won't be a particularly fancy wiki, but hopefully it will be a helpful one.

As soon as you have been identified and hired, I will add you to the owners of the wiki so that you can edit any page and manage it. I think it should be a closed one, password required. I'll put some helpful notes here and you can email me from here (Manage Wiki, right click my username, send a message) with questions.

You may certainly also ignore everything I have done and create your own computer lab from scratch. I have promised myself to do the best I can to be as helpful as I can be in transitioning from my entrenched occupation of the lab to your fresh one; however I do owe a firm commitment to my new employer and I cannot promise immediate turnaround if you have questions.

When I accepted the position as Lower School Technology Coordinator in the summer of 1999, I inherited a philosophy and an agenda that I proceeded to change more to match my own developing ones. I hope that you do the same. There has been considerable discussion about the future of the lab and the direction it should take, and I encourage you to continue that.

I had intended to travel to "exemplary" K-4 technology programs in order to examine what others are doing and bring the best of that work to our own program, and I was awarded a 2,000 dollar Quaker Hill grant to do so. I have returned that money, but what may be helpful to you is the list of schools that my professional learning networks responded with when I announced I was seeking such programs. It resides at another wiki, http://merrickquakerhill2010.wikispaces.com/. Scrutiny of those schools' websites and contacting their administrations and tech teachers may be helpful in your own quest to create curriculum.

The Rosetta Stone for you will be the google site at []. It contains pages I created during my evaluation year 2009-10. Among them are the USN LS Technology Blog that I created in 2005. Time spent there will perhaps inform your work.

I have since 1996 maintained the USN Lower School Webliographer. If you wish to continue using it, I have already set it up for the coming school year. I can meet with you to help you learn the slightly quirky interface that my old friend Jay Pfaffman, now at UT Knoxville, created as a live database of Web links and which has been the start page of the computer lab browsers for years.