January 2001 Longfellow Elementary School Elementary school students receive 30 minutes of keyboarding training from one to two times a week beginning with 3rd grade. Beginning Keyboarding classes are taught by the certified librarian Schuyler McAllister and her aide Sherri Wyatt. A dramatic population increase in the fourth grade has forced us to squeeze 6 more computers into the small, classroom-sized computer lab next door to the library, for a total of 36 computers.
Teachers can check book availability from the classroom.
Most teachers do not have adequate room in the classroom for this second computer. Each classrom teacher has desktop computer with network and e-mail accout access. We would like to publicly thank the good people at Peterson for this fantastic donation. Each middle school classroom has at least 2 or 3 of these IBM 486 systems connected to the district network and the Internet. Students can conduct Internet research or they can browse the offerings available from the middle school media center with the Follett Public Access Catalog System.