The St. Mary's Classroom

Technology

Housed in the Father Edward Ritter Library and Media Center, the St. Mary’s School Technology Lab is a state-of-the-art facility that is maintained through a sustainable private funding source since its inception over ten years ago.  The school technology committee annually approves funds to upgrade this facility, primarily, by attending to a regularly-scheduled hardware refresh program (approximately five new computer systems per year).  Other software and peripheral upgrades are provided through this same fund.  It is the committee’s goal to keep our students learning on the cutting edge of the computer world from filter-protected internet access to a state-approved curriculum that includes keyboarding, publisher and data base-related skills, as well as exposure to the more entertaining facets of learning technology.  Our technology and media classes are taught by state-certified educators provided through a shared-time professional instruction agreement with the East China School District.

Our entire facility is networked to allow for ready communication between administration, staff and students.  This also adds to the overall security of our campus and all who attend its program of instruction.

Each classroom has supervised computer access, with regularly-updated equipment. Internet access is available in each classroom and is protected by filtering security software, so you can be sure your child is only exposed to school-approved sites.

Further enhancing access to and use of advanced learning strategies, St. Mary’s prioritizes subscriptions, annually, to several instructional and streaming programs that allows teachers to bring the outside world into their instruction.

 One of our classrooms is equipped with SMART technology.  This is an advancement in learning that we desire to, in the very near future, have in more St. Mary’s School classrooms.