"Students in the 21st century live in a technology and media environment. To be effective in the 21st century, students must be able to exhibit a range of functional and critical thinking skills related to information, media and technology."
The mission of IT deprtment at LIA is to support the 21st Century Learning, providing our students with a state of the art educational experiences of a global reach. We provide the tools and skills to obtain, and communicate the most current information effectively enabling students, administrators, teachers, and staff to creatively learn, adapt, solve problems, and contribute to an fast changing global community.
LIA is recognized as a leader in Educational Information Technology in Nicaragua. LIA Students will learn to use and transfer technological knowledge and skills for life roles. Use technologies to input, retrieve, organize, manipulate, evaluate, and communicate information. Will learn tol apply appropriate technologies to critical thinking, creative expression and decision-making will learn to apply ethical and legal standards in using and evaluating technology. to gain awareness, adapt quickly, solve real world problems, and creatively contribute to their local and global society.
The Information Technology Department strives to create an infrastructure that supports the curriculum and administrative objectives of the Lincoln International Academy, aiding all students and staff in research, communication and learning.
The IT Department consists of one full-time Technology Coordinator - Mr. Jorge Perez, two full-time Information Systems Specialist - Mr. Gerald Guerrero and Mr. Marcelo Guido and three Technology teachers: Ms. Ana Roman, Ms. Elia Estrada and Mr. Walter Canales
We encourage the LIA community to submit suggestions and requests for the type of information that would be most useful to our user community.
The Information Technology Committee (ITC) is the committe in charge for reviewing, evaluating, and recommending strategies, plans, and policies for campus information technology. Current ITC's members:
Adolfo Gonzalez, Gerald Guerrero, Marcelo Guido, Walter Canales, Ana Roman, David Baldwin, Sara Godjikian, Alvaro Cruz, Fabiola Paez, Jesus Castro, Anina Hewey, Roberto Lopez, Elia Estrada, Norma Vogel, Ramiro Vogel D and Jorge Pérez - Committe chair.
Parents and students... You are invited to join us and give us your suggestions an opinions. Please contact us: jorge_lincoln.edu.ni
A strong Pre-K to 12 Information Technology program integrated into all curricular areas and supported by a qualified IT department and based in ISTE standards (International Society for Technology in Education)
Curriculum is marked by various characteristics, including:
1) access to an abundance of information.
2) rapid changes in technology tools.
3) the ability to collaborate and make individual contributions on an unprecedented scale.
4) exhibit a range of functional and critical thinking skills related to information, media and technology.
Two Information Technology Labs, with access to the latest computer and AV technology, premium software, a variety of digital tools, and access to Broad Band Internet .
We have two labs on a flexible schedule equipped with fast networked computers that all have access to Broad Band Internet . Our emphasis is on the integration of technology into the curriculum. Teachers regularly use computers to enhance classroom projects.
One Computer in each preschool classroom with a complete set of educational software and high speed Internet access.
One multimedia room specially designed for Preschool students with a 42 inchs LCD screen, a PC with Internet access.
Multimedia Classroom: all classrooms at Elementary (New this year!), High School and Middle School are equipped with a Desktop PC with Broad Band Internet Access connected to a LCD 2500 lumen projector (designed for bright daylight) and a surround sound audio system. Also, students from 6th to 12th grade have a new desk specially designed to be used with their laptops.
Library media center equipped with eight networked computers with access to Broad Band Internet access.
Online Public Access Catalog (often abbreviated as OPAC or simply Library Catalog) is an online database of materials held by our library. Students, parents and staff search our library catalog principally to locate books and other material physically located at the library.
Ebsco is the online database of journal articles. Contains full text for more than 1,926 periodicals covering reference, business, health, education, science, multicultural issues, and more. This database also contains full text for more than 160 reference books, 96,600 biographies, and 76,000 primary source documents. Provides full text of more than 2,200 digests plus abstracts from over 1,000 educational journals.
Three mobile carts equipped with a laptop with wireless Broad Band internet , a 2500 lumens of brightness projector (designed to work in bright daylight), a surround sound audio system and INTERACTIVE Teaching Technologies mimio. With a mimio wireless bar, a laptop computer with wireless Broad Band Internet Access, and an LCD projector Teachers convert a standard whiteboard into an interactive whiteboard!
www.mimio.com
A full Google applications services with our own domain. Google Apps' advanced collaboration and communication tools make it easy to help students acquire the skills that will help them soar, in their education and out in the world. There's no hardware to maintain or software to install.
· 25+ GBs of email storage lets you stop worrying about a full inbox.
· Integrated calendar manages your schedule, and reserves resources like lab rooms or laptop carts.
· Web-based applications are accessible from any computer.
· Work on documents together, at the same time, from multiple locations. Everybody can participate.
· Sharing and privacy controls include domain-level security, to protect student information.
· Build class or project websites without using HTML, so everyone can contribute and learn.
Microsoft School Agreement License program: Following the standards of academic excellence we have a licensing agreement (School Agreement) with Microsoft, which allows install Microsoft product in our computers and also to offer to all our staff for free the latest versions of operating system and Office, including Windows 7 and Office 2010.
Administrator's Plus® is a remarkable student information software system that lets schools collect, manage and analyze whatever student information they choose to track. Due to seamless integration with both the GradeQuick teacher gradebook and the Edline school web portal, Administrator's Plus offers a complete, secure online solution.
GradeQuick helps thousands of schools manage every critical classroom activity: grades, assessment, attendance, lesson plans, standards, reporting and online parent communication.
Edline provides a simple, single point of access to all of the key information students and parents need: homework, grades, attendance, progress reports, activity schedules, athletic scores, lunch menus, school news, resources, and more.
Lincoln is proud to offer to our 9th - 12th students interactive ebooks version of Hartcourt textbooks.
An eBook is an electronic version of a traditional print book that can be read by using a personal computer or by using an eBook reader.
Although it is not necessary to use a reader application or device in order to read an Ebook (most books can be read as PDF files), they are popular because they enable options similar to those of a paper book - readers can bookmark pages, make notes, highlight passages, and save selected text.
School video surveillance systems consist of 48 cameras placed in areas where they can monitor activity as it takes place. These cameras may include features like pan, tilt, and zoom; may be placed in outdoor or indoor locations. The system transmits images from cameras to a digital hard drive storage system. Output can be seen on a monitor that displays16 frames of video.
Our camera system help to improve the school environment, allow security personnel to watch for intruders, and assist in emergency preparedness.
A Public Address or PA system is a combination of a set of audio equipment that allows broadcasts over a designated area.
The PA system is often used to broadcast daily announcements about school activities. It may be handed over to students to give reports or announce special events. The device can also be used as an emergency warning system. In case of fires, earthquakes or other natural disasters, the PA system may be the best way to instruct students and teachers on how to proceed.
LIA Wi-Fi technology deliver full campus coverage and reliable connection to Broad Band 8 MB high speed Internet access and LIA technological resources to teachers and students.
LIA has a variety of peripherals such as high-volume multifunctional printers (including newest technology: solid ink color printer), scanners, digital cameras, digital video cameras, high perfomance servers, firewall appliances, digital telephone plant, multimedia conference room, mobile media carts (TV-DVD), access points, routers, category 6 and optical fiber network, VoIP.
All the technological resources at LIA are focused to improve the teaching and learning process of our students.
Making college application processing faster, easier & more efficient -- ConnectEdu provides students, counselors, and colleges with online tools to help simplify, manage, and track the college application process. (New this year!)
LIA Laptop Program for teachers and students. This is an innovative program designed to improve student learning. For academic year 2009/2010 the program had been voluntary and only available for High School Students. In the near future we plan to implement a school wide 1 to 1 laptop program starting with High School, Middle School and then elementary . For this new 2010-2011 academic year we invite and encourage to all High School students to bring their laptops and integrate technology in your classrooms. Students can be conected to LIA WIFI and have access to our Broad Band 8 MB high speed Internet access.
Before a student can use a laptop at the school, parents must download, read and sign the Personal Laptop usage agreement slip. Please read the Laptop and netbook hardware/software minimum requirements (Laptop agreement page #2).
Edline makes it easy to manage the classroom, team, and activity web pages that contain the daily, mission-critical information parents need to guide their children, enrich their education and become effective school partners in raising student achievement.
From the classroom to the sports field to the cafeteria to the library, Edline provides a simple, single point of access to all of the key information students and parents need: homework, grades, attendance, progress reports, activity schedules, athletic scores, lunch menus, school news, resources, and more.
If you still do not have your LIA edline access code, please contact us:
Jimena Rodriguez - Register Office (505) 22763000 x 114
jimena_lincoln.edu.ni
Jorge Perez - IT Coordinator (505) 22763000 x 117
jorge_lincoln.edu.ni
Contact us:
email: jorge_lincoln.edu.ni
country: Nicaragua
address: Las Colinas Sur, Base Militar, 600 mts al Sur. Managua, Nicaragua.
telephone: (505) 22763000 x 117
fax: (505) 22761700
