Bill
Freitas, Director of Information Technology
at The Lawrenceville School
Presentations
NJAIS '06 Using a Tablet PC in the Classroom
Bill Freitas is the Director of Information Technology for The Lawrenceville School. He is specially charged with helping faculty use various technological tools for research, for communication with and between students, in classroom instruction and management, and for course preparation. He is particularly interested in the use of computers and related technologies supporting curriculum development, especially Internet-related technologies, and in evolving and expanding styles of teaching, learning, and assessment. Here's what they wrote about him in The Lawrence.
Mr. Freitas is a 1984 graduate from Rutgers University in Computer Science / Management Information Systems. He has done graduate work in Computer Science at the University of Delaware and the New Jersey Institute of Technology and in Education at Azusa Pacific University. During his Junior and Senior years at college he developed and taught a computer literacy / computer programming course for gifted and talented students at the Bret Harte school in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, due in part to a generous gift from the Franklin Ace computer company, at that time a manufacturer of Apple II clones. Since graduation, he has been employed in almost all areas of the computer industry including systems operator, help desk aide, programmer, and trainer.
For
nine years Mr. Freitas was employed by Lawrenceville
Press, an international educational publisher, where he was senior technical
editor and director of textbook development. During this time he co-authored
more than 15 computer textbooks and numerous Teacher's Resource Packages. His
17th textbook was A Guide to Computing Using Microsoft Works for Apple Macintosh
version 4. He also spent seven years teaching
at Saint Andrew's School in
Boca Raton, Florida, where he developed an introductory computer applications
course for Microsoft Works. This course was taught in over 6,000 schools
around the world. In 1990, Mr. Freitas helped design Saint Andrew's new computer
center and technology classrooms, and was responsible for the operation of the
school's academic computer network for several years. He also oversaw an
expansion of the computer center to include a special lab for humanities use
that included multimedia systems and was linked to both the school's library and
the library system of the state of Florida. Mr. Freitas has taught BASIC
programming, Pascal programming, C++ programming, Visual Basic programming,
Advanced Placement Computer Science, Introductory Computer Applications,
Computer Applications for Business, Computer Aided Drafting and Design, Biology
& Technology, and Desktop Publishing.
Before
coming to Lawrenceville, Mr. Freitas spent three years at The Webb
Schools in Claremont, CA as their Technology Coordinator. He was in charge of all
campus technology, including the development and management of WEBBIE,
the Webb Electronic Broad Band Information Expressway, their campus-wide
information system linking all classrooms, dorm rooms, and faculty residences to
each other and to the Internet using fiber optics and Fast Ethernet (100 MBps)
and Windows NT server technologies. While at Webb, he was the faculty advisor to
KWEB, the student FM radio station, Blue & Gold, the student
newspaper, the Chinese club, and the Computer club.
In addition, Mr. Freitas has spoken and consulted extensively on the pedagogical and practical implications related to the integration of technology into the curriculum, having made presentations for the National Association of Independent Schools, the California Association of Independent Schools, New Jersey Association of Independent Schools, National Educational Computing Conference, American Library Association, Computer Using Educators, Association for Classroom Technologies, and for the Departments of Education in Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, Buffalo (NY), Columbus (OH), and others.
Bill during the construction of WEBBIE
For several years Mr. Freitas taught an institute for Advanced Placement Computer Science teachers at St. Johnsbury Academy in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, as well as sessions in educational technology at the Peddie Summer Institute (PSI) at The Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey and the Technology in Education Seminar (TIES) at The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. During the summer of 1997, he was one of 30 high school Computer Science teachers selected to attend an AP Computer Science Professional Development workshop at UC Berkeley. In 1998, he was selected as a Tandy Technology Scholar "Outstanding Teacher / Champion of the Classroom" and inducted in the International Who’s Who of Information Technology. In the summers of 2000 and 2001 he was selected to work with the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation's CORE (COntent-driven Reform in Education) Institute in Biology and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Summer Science Institute. He also received the Ritter Award for excellence in teaching from Lawrenceville. In 2005 he was inducted into the Who’s Who Among America's Teachers and in 2006 into Who's Who Among Executives and Professionals in Education.
Bill is a long time member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the International Society for Technology in Education, the Consortium for School Networking, Computer Using Educators, Administrative and Campus Computing Environments at Small Schools, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education , Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Association for Classroom Technologies (now part of CUE: ACT/CUE), and the Society for Technical Communication.
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