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What's
New...?
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Beginning September 2006 and
September 2007 - The schools in the Albany diocese will be using Power
School, an Internet-based
Student Information System. With this program, Administrators and the
School Office will have access to accurate information in order to make
more effective decisions. Teachers will gain timesaving administrative
tools, parents will have immediate access to their children’s grades,
and students will be able to track their own progress.
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October is Cyber
Security Awareness Month. The
First Annual Cyber Security Awareness Conference was held at the Empire
State Plaza on October 20, 2005. Materials available for your home and
classroom:
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Digital
Video on Demand - over 15,000
full-length videos and 20,000 digital video clips (and NOW writing
prompts, photo library, clip art gallery, assignment builder, quiz maker,
and lesson plans) for your classroom curriculum available to you on the
Internet NOW! go to: www.
unitedstreaming.com and put in your schools passcode and create your
own user name and password. (Click here for Albany
diocese's school passcodes) Give your teacher passcode out to
parents and students so they can sign up for usernames and passwords and
access your playlists as well as creating their own.
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Coming August 2006
- Teachers will be able part in a 40-hour training on Interactive Thinking
Tools sponsored by Intel
Teach to the Future Program.
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Teachers can easily create
their own webpages by purchasing a subscription to MyTeacher
Pages.com. The diocese has
obtained the discounted price of $20/year. Click
here for a trial.
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2005-2006 - Teachers will
participate in 8 online interactive chats as a professional program
organized through 21st
Century Learning.
The focus of this program is to improve student writing.
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2005-2006 - Student will be
able to participate in 5 Online
Collaborative Projects
sponsored by the diocese in addition to those offered through Technospud.com
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NYSCATE
Conference this
November will be in Albany. There will be a Regional conference in
Wappingers Falls and in Binghamton again in March 2006.
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BestBuy
Grant applications are available.
Awards are $2500. Deadline was September 30,
2005. Winners will be announced January 15, 2005. A new
round will begin in the spring.
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School administrators took
part in the Intel's
Leadership Forum on August 12,
2005 at St. Pius.
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The first Albany Diocesan Tech
Camp took place at St. Pius on August
15, 16, and 17, 2005. More details are available at www.rcdaschools.org/techcamp05/
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The Albany diocese has
purchased a 90 day pilot of EasyTech
by Learning.com. The training
was held on August 18, 2005 at St. Pius X. Click
here for details and registration.
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The First
Albany Diocesan Technology Fair took
at Saint Rose on March 9, 2005 from 4-7 pm. For more info, click here.
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We have 11 Master Teachers who
are trained to deliver the Intel
Teach to the Future Program. Click on Intel
to left for more info.
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Great
Online Projects: Technospud.com
There are the Lewis
& Clark, Oreos, Lucky Charms, and Egg Roll
interactive, collaborative projects to join.
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Videoconferencing
- Sixteen
schools are doing it thanks to ProjectVIEW.
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NYS Virtual
Learning Space - check
out these sites!
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Online
Courses - 10 week courses for
MSWord, PowerPoint and Excel again as requested.
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Capital
Region Model
Schools Schedule is
out There are online courses also. Registration is online at http://instruct.neric.org/coursereg/
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Winter/Spring
Workshop
Schedule is out!!
Sign up!!
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Beth
Cash's Site - great
curriculum links - www.neric.org/~bcash
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Marco
Polo Training is happening at
ALL school in the diocese by our new field trainers. Please continue
to use this site to access outstanding lesson plans and student resources.
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Computer
Competencies for ALL students -
completed beginning June 2004 and every year annually..
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