Computer+Lab

The computer lab operates on a flexible schedule. Any teacher may sign up for any one or more blocks of time during the week or even during the same day. If you plan not to attend after scheduling a block of time, please erase your name from the schedule so that others may have the opportunity to sign up to use that time. Small groups may also sign up to use the lab, however, they must be accompanied by a staff member.

There are 30 student stations in the computer lab. A data projector is connected to the teacher station in the back of the room that allows you to project what you are doing on your computer. Please remember to turn off the data projector as soon as you are done using it. Click here for

Students are to be assigned a station in the computer lab. Assigned seats will be recorded on the computer lab seating chart and turned in to the technology assistant and kept in a notebook in the front of the lab. Consider special needs of students, such as vision, when assigning them a seat in the lab. You may want to consider saving station #30 (located next to the teacher station) as a free seat to be used as needed for a student who may need your special attention during lab time. Monitors are to be left in the same position and not adjusted up or down. Frequent adjustment by students could lead to damage of the monitor. Headphones should be left plugged in at the back of the CPU. If there is no sound coming from the headphones, first check the volume control on the headphones, then check the volume control on the computer.

Consider the computer lab as an extension of your classroom. It is your instructional space for the time you are scheduled to use it. However, please return it as found ready for the next class before you leave.

Before leaving the lab:
The teacher should walk the lab from the back of the room to the front looking down each row making sure each computer station is ready for the next user. Please erase the white board if used. Check the printer and make sure no documents have been left unclaimed.
 * Turn off the data projector if used.
 * Make sure all computers are logged out. (Note: If you are the **last scheduled class for the day** - check schedule on white board - please SHUT DOWN all the (32) computers and turn off all the monitors.)
 * Keyboards and mouse pads are pulled to the edge of the desk
 * Head phones returned to the top of the CPUs
 * Chairs are pushed in.
 * Students have collect all personal belongings and thrown away all trash.

Please review Internet Safety with your students before they use the Internet for the first time.

=Printing Options= When printing, the stations in the lab will default to the HP LaserJet 4240. However, users have the //option// of selecting the HP Color LaserJet 3600. With the print window open, use the drop down menu to select the color printer. If printing from the Internet, show students how to minimize waste by only printing what they need from the webpage. There are three ways to do this: 1. Copy the text they want and pasting it into a word processing document and then print the document. 2. Printing just the Internet page(s) with the information needed. From print window use Pages from _ __to__ _ and fill in only the page numbers needed. 3. Select just the text you want to print. From the print window, select 'Selection'.
 * Please monitor what your students are printing.** Items printed should be relevant to the lesson and not printed 'just for fun'. Students sometimes get impatient and press the print button more than once eventually resulting in multiple prints of the same document. Advise your students to seek your help if a document does not print the first time they asked it to instead of repeatedly giving it the print command.