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- ■■ - >t: grades using WinSchooL The school prepared to up the telephone lines to a V.OJLP. line, a highly sopl cated phone line that allows for the crossover of \ and data, allowing for fester and smoother commuil tions.. ‘It reallyhas to do with the students. Ifstudent: expected to leave the school knowing about tBchna than it is our job to teach them about it Students a long captured by a blackboard or even a white bo As the “Nintendo Generation,’ students need sometf more to be captured, which is why we tried to in more projectors and white boards,” said Mr. Bailey. The prevalence of new technology in the school crossed over to the students who enjoyed the floi
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new wave deluged Prep: a technology wave. New and advanced technology oould be found at every comer of campus with the intention of assisting everyone in the school’s
community. Mr. David Bailey, Director of Information and Technology, with the help of Mr. Jan Butrym, in
began using tablet PCs, a cross between a SMART board and a laptop with a touch-sensitive screen Mr. Bailqr also added new computers in the forma location of the College Placement Office and in the Li brary, the new Collie Placement Office, and the science
ing technological advances diluting all the time 1 ing lunch and fiee periods, students fiequendy liste to MP3 players or played handheld video games! as Sony Playstation’s Portable (PSP), The Dell Jukel Nintendo DS, Creative Lab’s Zen products, and Ap(
labs; the school purchased Dell flat-panel computers for
iPods. More students began to bring laptops to scho
stalled projectors in the ceilings of most classrooms to allow faculty members to better illustrate their lessons.
their purposes. The new computer lab, The Muliy Lab,
complete work, save data files, watch videos and lists
allowed teachers to bring their classes to work on papers,
music, and play games anywhere on campus thank
Mr. Dennis Hu set a new standard by beooming the first tEacher to have a SMART board mounted in his room,
complete Internet research and create PowerPoint pres
the school’s wireless technology. Teachers updated t own thinking about laptops by allowing students to
which allowed him to manipulate images for his Calcu lus and Precalculus students, save the lessons taught each day, and post them to his website. Several teachers also (CV
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entations, all the while leaving the Library computers available for general student use. The school’s administration also worked on more In ternet distribution of newsletters, monthly updates, and
them in class to take notes and organize their note Senior Jonathan Matamoros concluded, “All the ti nology we have shows that we are all uptodate.’ S to ry by H ector F lfj