Learning Commons Creation Lab

Laboratories are not just for science anymore!

The “Creation Lab” at Gloucester’s High School offers students an environment where they can apply their artistic sides to their coursework through video design and production, video and print editing, fabrication, music composition, fashion design and many other creative endeavors.

The Lab is part of an evolving Learning Commons, a technology-rich space that is the former GHS library and that is quickly becoming a gathering place for collaboration by students and teachers.

The room is equipped with iPads for recording videos, a bank of new iMac computers and 3-D printers, and an Apple TV for projecting presentations.  A focal point is the “green screen” – a solid green wall that is allows students to shoot videos and drop in various backgrounds to illustrate ideas and create dramatic effects.   Students are using the Creation  Lab to flex their creative muscles—and at the same time, are learning valuable skills for the 21st century workplace.