In the fall each campus will have a computer lab available for teachers to bring their whole class into for instruction. It is very important that teachers be able to bring the total class into the lab to teach them keyboarding, paragraphing, hyphenation, footnoting, table of contents, research skill, and how to use data bases, spread sheets, graphics, and spelling assistance. Labs have been our best technology learning environment for the students. The Enterprise plan includes both. Once students have their time in the lab, they can access the computers back in the classroom.
Documents saved in the lab are available to the student on any computer in the school.
Studios Parsons Junior High offers a complete course in video production and has broadcast the announcements to each classroom in the morning for the past seven years. With the advent of the internet, students are able to research topics such as frostbite currently being researched by Stephen Davis and Harley Kay. The pictures are downloaded from the internet and incorporated into a full video production. In addition to Internet usage, students at Parsons are able to use video switcher and chracter generator, Videonics Titlemaker, Videonics Video Switcher, sound mixers, VHS and SVHS video cameras, teleprompters, sound equipment, and studio lights. They are also able to edit both still pictures and movies, plus use animation software.