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Technology at the Middle School is a integral part of the teacher's/student’s day. We have over 250+ ibooks in the building.
All 5th - 8th grade teachers and students have a portable ibook at his/her disposal. These are carried with them to all classes. These are ethernet or airport networked, with a WAN link between the other two schools in our district. Our connection to the world is thru a T3 line provided by the NYNEX/PUC order. We use FirstClass as our intranet and Internet e-mailer. Before students can use any electronic communications she/he must agree to and sign an Acceptable Use Policy, which is included in the student's handbook.
We use Microsoft Office, Pages, KeyNote and NeoOffice for our Word Processing, Spreadsheet projects, and PowerPoint presentations. NoteShare is used for designing web pages, project gathering, and presentations. Gimp and Seashore are used for our drawing programs. Masterkey is used as our keyboarding program. MicroWords and Logo are used as our programming languages. Safari and Firefox are used for our web browsers. We also support a student informational system that allows the students to check their own grades, creating an responsibility for ownership in their educational process.
All 5th-8th grade students meet for a full year with the technology teacher to learn basic computer applications to be used in their classrooms: word processing, keyboarding, databases, spreadsheets, web page design, e-mail use, presentation programs, multimedia programs, digital imaging, and utilities programs. (These classes if successfully completed will count toward his/her State of Maine computer literacy graduation requirements.)
Technology use at the Middle School is growing and expanding. As teachers are focusing on the guiding principals while aligning their curriculums to the Maine Learning results, technology expectations are becoming an integral part of daily lessons. Many teachers have created Power Point presentations and web pages for student lessons and research materials.This allows the teachers to create lessons that are current, challenging, and creative. Most daily teacher tasks are also handled by technology; these include the use of e-mail for lunch count, attendance, and communication with peers and parents, Power-school for grading, budget, inventory, and software updates.
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