Redesigned the curriculum to stay current with ever changing technology and mantain theworkplace readiness of our students. While we recognize that technology is not the panacea for improving education, the English Department continues to effectively utilize technology and travel with students into the new millennium. In addition to the continued use of research books, students use electronic library resources to research essays, speeches, and articles. Students in all writing electives utilize the computer lab to word process papers. Since all students receive a personal network account upon completion of training, most individual draft papers in the lab.
Teachers create assignments using the Internet as a research tool.
The Perspectives on the American Experience class has a website where students from school or from home may follow hyperlink sites to primary documents and background articles. Utilizing a mobile computer cart, teachers and students use CD ROM's, PowerPoint presentations and other media tools to teach a class. Teachers use the Internet extensively when researching novels, authors, critical essays, and lesson plans. The Journalism class builds the school newspaper The Hornet's Buzz on in house computers and software. This has proved not only a learning opportunity but also an additional method of saving time and money.