(7th-12th Grades)

Middle and upper school students move into an Intel environment beginning at the 7th grade level. P4 PC with Windows 2000 systems are used in one large 22-station PC Lab, and one smaller 10-station "high-end" computer science and multimedia lab.

The large state-of-the-art PC Lab is used by all academic teachers for class projects and productions. It uses a Sharp data projection system, an interactive numonic board, and three Zenith presentation TV's all in sync for easy to see demonstrations.

Students in grades 7-12 work with the following software programs:

• Microsoft Office
• Word Excel
• PowerPoint
• Explore and Express
• Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing

All Saints library-media center houses 10 PC stations that access all online card catalogues, the Internet, and Internet resources from the Texas Library Connection such as over 500 periodicals, Britannica Encyclopedia and Encarta Online. Students also enjoy working with a variety of CD-ROM reference materials:

• Encarta
• Bookshelf
• Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus
• Library of the Future New Millennium Atlas

Students in middle and upper school can extend their technology studies and take Journalism, Yearbook, Computer Applications 7 or 8, Business Computer Information Systems, Visual Basic or C++ programming.

Students enrolled in computer science work with computer science teacher Ken Myers and use Visual Basic or C++.

DebraAnn Parham teaches Business Computer Information Systems for upper school students.

Journalism and yearbook students work in a digital environment to produce All Saints Trojan Times paper and our annual yearbook.

Both the journalism and yearbook students work with teacher Rhonda Hagan. These students work on P4 PC workstations loaded with Adobe PageMaker.