During the winter, I shared with you the vision for using technology for learning at TPCA! It's time for another update so I am excited to tell you that our WiFi infrastructure will be substantially upgraded during the summer in time for the new school year. Thanks to the federal e-Rate program, we will receive a substantial subsidy for our Internet-related services which will enable this substantial upgrade. The new system will improve WiFi coverage in the modular for our upcoming Chromebook "1-to-1" program in grades 7-8 to enable our students to learn "21st-century skills" for communication and collaboration via Google Apps for Education. This will be a state-of-the-art system that will also improve coverage in our newly renovated J. K. Stevens Commons as well as the Bostick Athletic Center gymnasium.
Stand by to hear more about other upgrades to our technology infrastructure including our Internet access and our phone system. We want you to know that we heard your feedback about our technology infrastructure and that we are responding by taking action!
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About Me
- DrThomasHo
- Educator with more than 40 years of experience at all levels. At the post-secondary level, he created an academic program in the Purdue Polytechnic Institute which is one of the top undergraduate information technology programs in the country! While he was Director of Technology Integration and Support at Traders Point Christian Schools in Whitestown, Indiana in suburban Indianapolis, he transformed the instructional technology infrastructure of a K-12 private school in Indiana by migrating it from an antiquated Microsoft Windows environment to Google Workspace for Education. Wanting to contribute to K-12 public charter schools, he has come out of “retirement” AGAIN to Purdue Polytechnic High School Schweitzer Center at Englewood. Until he "retired" from higher education, he was Professor of Computer and Information Technology at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Previously, he was a Senior Fellow inInformation Systems and Computer Science at the National University of Singapore from 1993-1994. He received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Purdue University.