Skyline High School - Wingspread Yearbook (Longmont, CO)

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Elect uric llTIII Some services nut uct practical Although several computers were located in the library during first semester, the library itself was allotted only one. Elaine Morse, media specialist, would have liked to have programmed a list for the overdue books, but all the available programs she previewed didn't have the memory for her needs. She considered placing the card catalog on a disk, but she would have needed extra secretarial help to type in all the information. Therefore, the only program she had was the PFS Write, which was for word processing. Students also had access to the use of the computers in the library. During study halls, lunch, before and after school, many of Skyllnes own computer hackers could be found in the library doing homework or other computer activities. The rules stated that the computers were to be used by students to complete class assign- ments, not to play games. Teachers were also seen in the library putting their grades on the computer, doing word processing, and running print outs of progress reports for their students. While the computers were quite useful to the IMC, the physical education department didn't use them at all. According to Mrs. Joanne Aschenbrenner, the computer was widely used in the 1984 Summer Olympics for gymnastics scoring and for basic communication between judges and the different teams, but she didn't have any computer programs for her own use at Skyline. The addition of computers to the curriculum was welcomed by the majority of teachers in the language arts, social studies, math, science, and business departments. However, not every department saw an immediate need, partially due to the lack of existing, applicable software to their field. A friendly face awaits a friendly user. I it X-N iff' l 45' , 3 sf' i .5 3 l 5 3 , 5 er gs t o it s ,sf 6' fi ' 5: at ST l 5' s 8 S 5 5' 8 Q' I i I ' . I PFS: Write and PFS: File are two of several data processing programs available in the IMC. Lucia Ward completes clerical work in the IMC. Several typewriters are available for student use. 160 IMCfP.E.

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Tech Tqpe Hqp A newly purchased deluxe typeset- ter at the Career Development Center, a CompuGraphics machine, has the capability to interface with our Apple Ile's. This enabled the newspaper and journalism classes to write all their copy with a word processing program, and then to submit a disk to CDC. This decreased the time it took to produce the newspaper while it enhanced the finished product. The yearbook class used the computer and several word processing programs to build the index, to have all copy fit to size, and to speed up the turn-around time it took to receive copy proofs. Some of this was done with the typesetter at CDC, and some was done through the publishing company. Mrs. Michelle Small, yearbook advisor, said she was excited about the future possibilities of using the computer and a modem directly to the publisher to do Mrs. Michelle Small helps yearbook students, Tracey Greenwalt, Alicia Gaul, and Dianna Baur meet a deadline. all the copy plus even the layouts and graphics one day. Mr. Steve Payne's forensics and debate classes had the access to word processing programs which made their papers more legible and took less time to produce a final draft. Mr. Steve Owens, Mr. Payne, and Mrs. Small also recorded their grades for all of their students on the computer. This made it easier to average grades for progress reports, and to check for missing assignments so that their students could make up work they had missed. They also used disks to store material to be used later, and to make printed handouts and tests. The computer programming courses Mr. Payne completed called Beginning Programming and lntro. to Computers in Education helped him to understand the computer, and its uses. Both Mr. Owens and Mrs. Small completed ecourses offered by the district in using word processing in the language arts and journalism classes , l 33?-T-Pass new Word Juggler is an example of a word processing program with a built in spelling mecker. Theeverpopularzxwchisfullyoccupiedby forensks students, Dave Dalpra, Dawn King, and Jennifer Mraz. F1beA.rts1-59

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,, t...sQs KEN KMEXQQAM, 'fb Michelle McCormick searches for some escapist literature in the IMC. 24 H K : MZ! A 'H Wwe, ' .-Q Paul Babich shares an idea with a classmate in social studies. Steve Kachur is permanenthf stuck to the IMC Apple Ile. IMCfP.E. 161