Expanding Your Child's Education

The Highlands School network spans among five buildings on campus.  Each classroom and office is hard-wired to access the network.  Access to the network allows the staff, faculty and students to interact with server-based resources, to communicate and share files with each other, and to access the Internet.  Since the school's network is connected to the Internet it is protected by a Firewall.  Additionally Internet content filtering software has been implemented.  Server and client computers run Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system.

The student computer lab is equipped with twenty-four computers.  A scanner, digital camera, ceiling mounted projector, laser and inkjet printer, and surround sound speaker system completes this facility.  A sample of applications available on these computers includes:  Microsoft Office 2000 Professional Suite, Microsoft FrontPage 2002, HyperStudio 4.0, plus curriculum specific software for grades 1st - 6th.

The library is equipped with four computers that may be used by the faculty and students.  Faculty and students have the ability to do research, look-up periodicals, or complete assignments.

Each student, beginning in the 4th grade receives a username. This username along with a password allows access to the school's network.  Also each student is assigned his or her own folder.  Each student saves his or her work in this folder which is on a secure server that is backed-up weekly.  As a student enters high school he or she receives his or her own email account.  The email account enables the students to communicate with the faculty, peers and parents.

Questions, Ideas, Suggestions about our technology program, contact the webmaster:  webmaster@thehighlandsschool.org