Module 1b-3: Activity 1: Audit of my school's ICT use

At the Pares Secondary School where the student population in over five hundred (500), there are two labs and the use of one access center that is on site.  The labs are used for the Information Technology, EDPM and Computer Studies programs which are offered as subject areas within the school's timetable. 
Computer Studies is an introductory program which is offered to all second formers, while the EDPM and Information Technology subjects are mandatory to all students in third form, but optional to fourth and fifth form students.  The labs contain a combined 55 computers and there have been a thrust to equip our two staff rooms with a internet ready computers.  To date there are three computers in each and one presently has a laserjet printer.  As a result of the availability of computers we are able to slowly make an impact on the awareness of technology to a small percentage of our students. 
It is my hope that we can increase the number of computers available at the school so that a larger number of students can become more technologically advanced.
Gayle Greene-Phillip


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