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Many classes this year, mainly in the English department, have Samsung Google Chromebooks. SJHS originally bought the Chromebooks last year for Ms. Miley’s Journalism class. “They worked so well that the school bought two classroom sets,” said Ms. Dunn, a seventh and ninth grade English and the current Journalism teacher. A Chromebook, according to Ms. Dunn, is a mini laptop that has no hard drive. This means that nothing can be saved to the computer itself. That is why everything typed on a Chromebook is saved through Google.
The reason SJHS got the Chromebooks was to help free space in the school computer labs. Originally classes like the Journalism and Creative Writing classes would have to schedule time in the labs and walk from class to the labs. The Chromebooks have allowed classes to stay in a classroom and have easy access to their writing from their desks. Chloe Wimmer, an eighth grade Journalism student, said: “I love them; they’re really fun.”
Ms. Dunn said that the Chromebooks are very beneficial to the [Journalism] classroom because “they’re convenient, they’re fast, and they’re user friendly.”
Stephen Gantt, another eighth grade Journalism writer, said that the Chromebooks “let us get writing done much quicker.”
So far the Journalism class has used the Chromebooks to write articles for the school newspaper, and in Creative Writing, students have used the Chromebooks to write their own stories.