Salem High School is located in Conyers, Georgia and is a part of the Rockdale County Public School System. The Georgia Virtual Technical College is a unit of the Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education, Georgia s statewide system of 33 technical colleges. All of the students are taking SCT 100, which is an introduction to the fundamental concepts and operations necessary to use microcomputers, including computer terminology, introduction to the Windows environment, networking, word processing, spreadsheets, and databases. A unique feature of this class is that half of the students are enrolled at Central Georgia Technical College located in Macon and half are enrolled at DeKalb Technical College in Clarkston.
Instruction is delivered totally over the Internet.
Students will receive elective credits as well as postsecondary credits for successful completion of the course. Lessons and assignment are given over the Internet, and students study and prepare their assignments using computers in the school s Media Center. Students may access the lessons from their home computers or at any time, if they wish to review sections of the instruction. According to Mr. Russ Simpson, Instruction Technology Specialist for Salem High, his role is that of the class facilitator. He encourages students to use critical thinking skills to find solutions to problems, to work independently, and to feel free to dialogue with their technical college instructors.