At the Akranes College use of ICT is increasing rapidly.  Today the local area network has some 90 personal computers available for teachers and students.  They are connected to a file and print server (running Netware) and then to the Internet via an Intranet server (running Linux).  A small pilot group of 6 teachers has started using laptops with a wireless connection to the local area network.  (The picture shows one of these teachers.) Students have access to computers all day at one of the computer labs and two other labs are used as classrooms.  There are also one or more computers in many of the other classrooms, in the library and, of course, in  the teachers' working area.

The school has got four projectors, one of which  is mainly used in connection with distance learning via video conferences.

Several teachers use ICT a lot with some modules in Mathematics, Foreign Languages, Icelandic and  Electroncis relying  heavily on a good access to computers and the Internet.  And intergration of  ICT is growing in a number of subjects.

The next schoolyear (2001 - 2002) the pilot group of teachers will start making use of laptops in their teaching.  At least 15  nodes for wireless network communication will be set up on the school's premises.  The picture shows our network administrator who'll be responsible for the wireless network.
 

We expect  the majority of students in some pilot modules will bring their own laptops  to school,  every day.  This means of course that the education has to be radically changed.  More and more educational material will be put on the WWW or the intranet and the students' assignments will be handed out via the Internet.  The teacher will become more of a supervisor and guide than nowadays. Modules will be organized for "distributed-" learning, i.e. partial distance-learning.