Volume 4 Issue 2

Teachers from Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons School have already attended three days of workshops in October at Schenectady High School to prepare themselves to integrate wireless laptops into their curriculum.  Seventh grade teachers Kendra Smith, Joe Fingerhut, and Ralph Provenza,  learned to create a web site using Blackboard software and to create interactive learning activities using Soft Chalk software.  NERIC will provide additional on-site staff development as the teachers implement their technology-integrated lessons.

This Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) grant is a three-year grant (March 2004-March 2007) received by Schenectady City Schools. The first year, Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons will use grant funds to purchase a cart of 10 laptops with wireless access to the Internet for the 2nd floor that will be used by Kendra, Joe, and Ralph's 7th grade classes. In subsequent years, additional laptops will be purchased and a second cart for

St. Stanislaus and St. Mary's Institute were in a partnership in a  Learning Village Grant last year  through HFM Boces, in conjunction with Perth Broadalbin, Canajoharie, Edinburg, and Lake Pleasant Schools. This past summer Nancy Bikowicz from St Stans and Vicki Stoodley from SMI trained

several teachers to create standards-based lessons and a web page which are posted in the Learning Village pages at  lvillage.fehb.org .  St Stans and SMI also partnered with GASD,GESD in "The Wheels of Learning" grant. A three-year program implementing four programs into the classrooms: Learning Village, Success Maker, The Geometers Sketchpad and Microsoft Office Suite.