Technology

Fenway High School is often on the cutting edge of technology. Whether it be the use of online narrative reports or student websites, digital video editing or digital presentations, we do our best with limited resources to provide our students with a solid technological foundation.

Within each subject area, students develop an intermediate to advanced comprehension of various computer software, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, Internet Explorer and Frontpage. Other software, such as bridge building programs and SAT and MCAS preparation programs are also used to enhance a student's education.

All students at Fenway have user accounts and all students are expected to save all work from all four years. Fenway also provides a personal website for each student. Students are required to post their senior science portfolio to the web, which is then viewed and graded by a panel of teachers. This digital portfolio represents their best work from their high school career. It includes graphs, charts, images, lab reports, and much more. The Humanities and Math teams have also begun to use student websites as part of their curriculum.

Fenway and BPS provide every student with an email account. Students may use this account as often as they like, both from within and outside the school. We often encourage students to email work to teachers, but also to use email as an alternative to floppy disks, sending work to and from school and home for editing.

Beyond computer technology, students at Fenway have access to digital video and still cameras, along with the technology to edit video that they have captured.

BECAUSE OF THE HIGH EXPECTATIONS FENWAY SETS FOR EACH STUDENT, THESE SKILLS OFTEN MATCH THOSE TAUGHT AT THE COLLEGE AND PROFESSIONAL LEVELS. WITH THESE SKILLS, COMES GREATER RESPONSIBILITY. STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO USE THESE TECHNOLOGIES WITH CARE AND RESPECT.