What We're Barking About:

<>Doak has three computer labs: a K-2 lab, a Title lab, and a 3-5 lab.There are two title teachers that plan and oversee instruction in two of these three labs.  All students at Doak School attend computer lab twice weekly during the school year. Odyssey and a variety of Essential Skills programs are used for individualized instruction in reading, language arts, and math skills.  A collection of online resources is also used to enhance learning.  The Type To Learn 3 program is used to teach proficiency in typing for grades 3-5.  With the addition of new computers this year, all labs have Windows XP operating system.  The k-2 lab has 25 computers, the Title lab has 26 computers, and the 3-5 lab has 30 computers for student use.o classroom teachers during unlab times.
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<>Scholastic Reading Counts is used to encourage friendly reading competition between the homerooms.  A mini-lab consisting of 12 computers is set up to facilitate this program's testing component in the school library.  Two card catalog computers make it easy for student's to locate books to read.  A bulletin board in the upstairs hall shows the progress of each classroom.

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<>Doak teachers are again creating the yearbook this year using an online program provided by Lifetouch.
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<>One of the new technologies put in place this year were document cameras.  With these cameras the teacher can project anything (including textbooks and worksheets) onto the television in their room.  A camera is in use in all classrooms for grades 1-5.  One kindergarten classroom has a document camera, and there is one available for checkout through the library.  
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•      All teachers and instructional assistants have a computer.  Email is the major source of communication between the administration and the school faculty and staff.  Doak replaced the computers in our Title lab this year taking it form a 24 station lab to a 26 station lab. All teacher workstations have been replaced with the old computers out of the Title lab. 
  
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•       Office 2007 has been loaded on all teacher workstations,  Microsoft Outlook is now used as the email client for all employees beginning in the 2007-2008 school year.  Teachers had the opportunity to be trained on the Outlook program over the summer and at the beginning of the new school year.  Carole Vest, our technology coach, trained the teachers who did not attend a summer session on how to use this software.  Picasa2, a freeware program, has been loaded on all teacher workstations to manage picture files, and all units were presented with memory cards for picture storage at the beginning of the year.

     

     Doak second graders participated in the Reading Coach program during the first semester of this year.  First grade studnets are using this program during the second semester this year. Students are scheduled to be in this program for 45 minutes a day working on skill development.  First and second grade teachers bring their classes to the K-2 lab for this instruction.  Jolin Babcock and Patty DuBois are the teachers in charge of this program.  They also offer afterschool sessions on this software to our students in grades 3-5.  To help facilitate this learning, 5 more workstations were added to this lab bringing it to a 25 station lab.

     Funds will be used to purchase more LCD projectors for use in classrooms.