Technology

Throughout the school, our students use technology as a tool to assist and facilitate their learning. While there is a vertical progression of computer and technological skills taught throughout the grades, the technologies are used in myriad ways to support learning. For example, technology supports research, is a tool for expression, is a way to organize thinking, or is a way to connect to other communities and ideas.

Examples of student use of technology are visible throughout the school and our website. Presented here are two different styles of videos created by middle school students. One group of videos were created in a study of art history while the other were created through a creative process within a technology class.

Please click on the links below to enjoy our students' work.

Media Technology
Instructor: Jason Raznick
Photography, video and sound are primary focus of this course. Students use Adobe Photoshop to enhance and manipulate images captured on a digital camera. Recording, editing and engineering of sounds is accomplished using Apple’s GarageBand program. Students also record video footage that will then be combined with their image and sound manipulation skills together using Apple’s iMovie to create video presentations.

Snap Pants (In Slow Motion)

Action Movie Trailer

Discovering Art Through History
Instructor: Mary Jo Wilmes
Always wondered what that painting meant? Why that is considered art? Who made that sculpture and why? This class explores ideas and images from throughout the history of art. The class starts at the beginning and moves into the world of visual art by learning about different periods, important movements, and interesting artists. Students learn the story behind the paintings in order to better understand the history, art, and themselves. Work is done in coordination with the St. Louis Art Museum collection.

Stop Action Video: Art History in Two Minutes