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New York State Department of Education annually awards Learning Technology
Grants, worth around $50,000, to public schools that collaborate with non-public
schools in designing a technology-integrated project. This year again
the schools in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany have applied for many
of these grants.
The Broadalbin-Perth Intermediate School paired up with St. Mary's Institute and St. Stanislaus in Amsterdam in order to obtain handheld computers for grade 5 students that will be used in Science class. Gott Middle School in East Greenbush applied for a grant for itself and St. Joseph-St. John's and St Mary's in Rensselaer that targets grades 7 & 8 ELA skills. These students hope to create an online literary magazine. St. Clement's and Spa Catholic collaborated with WSWHE Boces with the goal of improving grades 5-8 Math skills. Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons School partnered with Schenectady High School to fund a technology-related |
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St. Patrick's Academy in Catskill also wrote a Learning Technology
Grant with the Coxsackie-Athens School district, as well as, Our Lady
of Victory and Sacred Heart Schools who partnered
with School 18 in Troy, St. Mary's in Oneonta with ONC
Boces, and St. Francis de Sales with West Canada Valley and Ilion
Central Schools.
Each winning school will receive hardware, software and funds for staff development that will enable them to complete their proposed projects. The winners of this year's grants will be announced in January. Previous winners have been St. Madeleine-Sophie, Christ the King, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Anthony, St. Patrick's Academy, Our Lady of Victory, St. Clement's, Spa Catholic, St. Luke's, St. Thomas, Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons, former Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Immaculate Conception Schools. |
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months of delay, St. Mary's School in Ballston Spa has opened a new wing.
Its new computer room has 30 Pentium IV computers with flat screen monitors. All the new classrooms have high speed Internet access as well as the library with its 8 carrelled computer stations. The most |
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| impressive part of the construction is the multimedia theater. It contains movie theater-style chairs to seat 92 persons, a stage, spotlights, and quadraphonic sound. The presenter can switch via remote from showing the audience a web site, to playing a DVD, to showing a VHS movie, to sharing a science experiment using the Elmo visual projector. | ||
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