Category: Digital
Students Learn Spanish from Relocated Teacher Via Technology
By Christy Perry Tuohey How does a teacher move hundreds of miles away from her school yet continue to teach there? That would be a long commute by car or an expensive investment in airplane tickets at best. But Norwich, New York’s Holy Family School found a way to keep its well-liked Spanish teacher on its […]
PLTW Launch Program Offers ND Elementary Students a Jump on STEM
By Dyann Nashton Notre Dame Schools have taken Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education to a new level. An offshoot of the popular high school pre-engineering Project Lead The Way, the PLTW Launch program is tailored for students in Kindergarten through 5th grade and made its debut at Notre Dame Elementary School last year. Notre […]
Bishop Grimes Offers Rare AP Computer Science Option
Bishop Grimes Jr./Sr. High School is one of only a very few schools nationwide to offer the new AP Computer Science Principles course, and the only Catholic high school in the Syracuse Diocese to do so, according to Patrick Kinne, assistant principal. A year ago, Bishop Grimes administration and faculty were looking at ways to […]
New School Apps Inform Parents, Follow Pope’s Social Media Lead
BY CHRISTY PERRY St. Margaret’s School Principal Amanda Hopkins was sitting on the bleachers at a basketball game when she decided the school’s families needed a mobile app. “You see all of the parents with their phones, taking pictures, and I immediately realized that this is a population that needs that information at their fingertips,” […]
Digital Natives
Students at Rome Catholic School use their new e-tablets as part of a one-to-one technology initiative for fifth and sixth graders. Like so many of the schools in the diocese, Rome continues to find ways to incorporate technology into the day-to-day curriculum.
Newhouse Students Collaborate with Schools on Social Media, Marketing
Over the past year and a half, four diocesan schools have collaborated with public relations students at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications to develop strategic PR campaigns aimed at increasing enrollment and retention efforts. The initiative is part of an upper level Newhouse course, Special Projects: Public Relations Campaigns, taught by Adjunct […]
Teachers Use iPad Technology to Enhance Student Education
By Claudia Mathis Maria Lerch, a 2nd grade teacher at Most Holy Rosary School in Syracuse, NY, loves using her iPad to educate her students. “It’s great having it in the classroom, especially for accessing information quickly” Lerch said. “It makes everything much more convenient.” Lerch, along with teachers from Most Holy Rosary, Blessed Sacrament […]
Schools Go Wireless, Offer Faculty and Students Latest Technology
By Caroline K. Reff St. James Principal George Clancy will never forget the look on the face of one of his kindergartners who won the use of an iPad for the weekend. “He was so excited,” said Clancy. “I can’t tell you how cool he thought he was. I could read his face that he […]
2010-2011 Program Enhancement Grants for Technology
Each year, the schools of the Syracuse Roman Catholic Diocese are encouraged to apply for Program Enhancement Grants made available through the Heritage Fund. To qualify, schools must show that projects truly enhance the curriculum and are required to provide measurable data to show that similar ideas have resulted in success at other sites. The […]
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