Business Careers High School - Wireless Laptop Initiative

Wireless Laptop Initiative

In the 2006-07 school year, BCHS, with the goal of further educating the student's of its school, began a new initiative in issuing laptops to each student attending the school. BCHS was the first high school in the greater San Antonio area that had wireless communication. The one-to-one laptop initiative offers all students and teachers at BCHS continuous access to a wide range of software, electronic documents, the Internet, and other digital resources for teaching and learning. Every student was issued a Gateway laptop to carry as his/her own for the school year which would be implemented into the curriculum at BCHS. Each student was required to carry the laptop to and from class everyday to complete daily assignments. Also new, was the creation of what was known as "Netstorage" which was an internet database in which students could communicate assignments with teachers and vice versa. Netstorage is accessible from any computer as long as the student has there password and username. Each consecutive year new courses at BCHS will be created and the curriculum will become more and more dependent on the laptops to achieve success and ultimately greater knowledge of technology. The slogan for the school with its new initiative is "Taking the lead with laptops."

In the recent school year (2007–2008) Netstorage was replaced with sfiles. Sfiles serves the same purpose of 'netstorage', it is just easier for the students to learn and use.