Chamisa Mesa High School


Technology at Chamisa Mesa

Chamisa Mesa High School was awarded a Carl D. Perkins Grant from the New Mexico Department of Education. This is a great honor for Chamisa Mesa, being the first private high school to be awarded this grant in the state of New Mexico.
This grant has allowed us to purchase the newest in Macintosh computers as well as a networking hub and the software to connect the computers to the Internet and each other. With the printer and scanner students and staff are afforded the opportunity of learning photo manipulation as well as graphics design. We also have the equipment to edit our own film and the film class uses this to edit and create their own short films which they have written.

One of the more popular tools of the lab is the cd burner which enables the students to create their own cd's from programs they have created, including their own music, graphics and writings.
The computer is one of the tools we use in the curriculum. We are connected to the Internet with eleven computers (eight iMacs and three G3's) and each student is encouraged to have an email account, but whether or not they have one, all students have access to the WWW.
In the Computer Literacy class students are taught the basics of computer use, including typing, word processing, drawing, database, basic html and web page development. Students become competent in using the Internet and the World Wide Web for research.
We also have a class in computer programming which includes HTML web page design and basic programming.
This year we are publishing our year book and several students are publishing their own books. The students have also been working on the school web page developing sites of their own interests.


Tiffany Elston works at one of the new iMacs with Thos Myers, the mac guru, working in the back.


Thos Myers explores one of the new iMacs.

Chamisa Mesa is an all Macintosh house and with these tools our students are able to research, write, create and edit a wide range of different projects.


Diana and Tiffany consulting on Year Book Production.
These photos were taken by J.R. Ransom with a digital camera. Thank you , J.R.!


Elijah 'surfing' the web, looking for information on his research paper.

Photo curtesy of Gabe Herbertson.

For the first time, our students are able to create their own yearbook totally in-house, as well as develop and publish their own books, movies and exciting web pages.
A special thanks to Stewart Farley for making this possible.

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