Technology

St. John Vianney School is committed to preparing students to be good citizens online as well as in the community. Digital citizenship is a part of everything that we do in the media lab. Beginning in first grade, students attend dedicated classes in the computer lab where they are provided with opportunities to learn about coding, green screen, animation, video game design, digital art, website design, Google applications, and more–all while engaging in conversations about respect and professionalism.

Students in 3rd grade receive keyboarding instruction two days a week in addition to their regularly scheduled computer time. Students in 3rd through 8th grades are given Google Apps for Education accounts which allow them to use Google Classroom and all of the other Google applications in the classroom and at home. We closely monitor students' Internet activity on all of our school computers and on one-to-one devices that are able to be taken home. 
 
Students in 5th through 8th grade are assigned Chromebooks at the start of the school year which they take to all classes and are allowed to bring home.

Other school technology includes:

• Classroom iPads in kindergarten through 3rd grade
• Classroom Chromebooks in 4th grade
• Lego robots for intermediate grades
• Clevertouch Boards used in every classroom
• Internet safety training for all students; acceptable use policy read and signed by all students
• Several teachers have attended Ed Camps (learn about iPads, Chromebooks, Google apps)
  • Students learn beginning programming such as html.
• Training in using the Internet for academic research
• Skype with experts from around the world: scientist that created Hubble telescope, park ranger from Yellowstone, children’s book authors, etc.
• iPad app training.
• Students created their own avatars.
• Web 2.0 tools: Prezi, Padlet, ThingLink, Animoto, SoundCloud, PowToon, and more.
• Students practice screencasting using online resources like Screencast-O-Matic