Jack Hamel, Director of Technology

 

Welcome to the everchanging world of technology

New

We are expanding our Technology Department with exciting ventures.  We now have a low power radio station (88.3 FM, Home of the Panther) staffed by talented students from our high school. These students provide prayer, news, sports, weather, and music for your enjoyment each morning from 7:00am to 8:13am and from 2:45 pm to 3:30 pm each afternoon!  

We are also producing a weekly sports talk show over 1490 am every week during football season from 6 pm to 7 pm. 

Video production

We are developing a video production studio here at BCS.  It is a video streaming system over our school computer network.  We are also studying the feasability of delivering the saved broadcasts on our web page.  If you have some older small tv's we could use for monitors or maybe help us with the costs of a mixer, please let us know. 

We are now offering Media Production as an elective this year in the secondary school.

The Video Clubs  

There is a club for 3-6 graders on Thursday.  They develop a morning tv show and also create and edit videos about the school, the community and our sports teams.

There will be special events during the year including a film festival soon.

 

 

Microsoft Office Adult computer workshops will be offered soon.   Word, PowerPoint, Publisher and Excel will be taught at these workshops. 

 

Computer Labs

Elementary - Located in the Fine Arts, Media & Technology Center, this lab hosts 26 Pentium IV 3.0 ghz computers running Windows XP on an Ethernet network. Microsoft Office XP is installed on each computer. Printing is routed to a networked large capacity HP Deskjet 9800 Printer. Color scanning is also available. This lab is used by pre-K through 8th grade classes.

Secondary - Also located in the Fine Arts, Media and Technology Center, this lab hosts 17 Pentium IV 1.7 ghz computers running Windows Vista on an Ethernet network. Microsoft Office XP is installed on each computer. Also available is Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks, Adobe Pagemaker, Illustrator, GoLive and Photoshop, MS Publisher and FrontPage. Printing is routed to a networked HP Laserjet printer or a large capacity HP Deskjet 1220C. Color scanning is also available. This lab is used for classroom instruction and general student use.

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We have installed 6 Dell PowerEdge Servers. They are all running Windows Server 2003.
We host our own web site and have the capacity to offer web hosting services to the community. Click here to go to our hosting site - BCSHosting.org.
We have implemented Blackbaud's school management software suite, The Education Edge.
We offer 24 hour a day access for parents and students to their grades and assignments through NetClassroom.
We have new Pentium 4 computers running Windows XP and Vista in the labs.
Classrooms in both Elementary and Secondary buildings have been networked.
Elementary Weekly Newsletters can be found on the BCS website.
Jack Hamel, our new Director of Technology is now at BCS.

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