Walthamstow Academy have under gone some major surgery to their Media Studies classroom, with over £30,000 worth of new apple macs were installed during September. These Powerful yet simple-to-use computers seemed to be the obvious choice for the Media Department to invest in.

Apple Macs are used within the Music, Graphic and video industry for the quality of the image quality they have. The powerfulness of the computer and the fact that there is no Computer ‘Tower’ means that they are less space consuming and they will fit in the state-of-art table they currently sit in.

The table raises up and down depending if the macs are going to be in use, a major advantage says a student of Walthamstow Academy, Imran Mohammed, he says that ‘At least this way I don’t have that temptation to touch and play with the keyboard when My teacher is Talking’.

Miss Yiannopolous, the head of Media also agrees that they are a major advantage and they ‘boost the level of creativity within the student with the industry standard software’.

However, even if the Apple Macs are amazing news to the school there is one problem. The fact that students may not have had much or any

 

experience with the apple software. The software on a mac is very different to that of a Windows PC and since PC’s are much more common as they are the cheaper choice, students may not be accustomed to the different software installed on a mac.

Along with the hardware upgrade, Walthamstow have gone to extreme lengths to also upgrade the editing software to the latest versions. For example, Photoshop, illustrator and Premiere Pro have all been upgraded to CS6, which came out in May. The upgraded Microsoft office also came along allowing students to create reports easily and with a high level of professionalism.

Along with the upgrade of the Media Department’s media computers for the students, the teacher’s computer has also gotten a touchscreen Activboard so there is no longer the hassle of search for the pen to operate the board.