Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Teachers and Technology in Action!

It has been wonderful to work with our upper grades teachers in technology this year.  Here is a quick rundown of some of our current projects!

8th grade - Ultimate Gift research and presentations
7th grade - Marian Shrine project (in progress), online testing for Mr. Callus
6th grade - Europe in a Box (using Chromebooks!)
5th grade - online Moodle testing, Google Presentations training
4th grade - Saints project (just about to start!)
Electives - Fine Arts photography elements (in progress, using Chromebooks!), Astronomy elective plants project (using Chromebooks!)

We have many projects in the works including a 7th grade Language Arts project, several 7/8th grade math projects, and much more!

StMM Technology Training for Parents!

Dear Parents,
We are happy to be offering training in two initial sessions on our new Google Drive account. A flyer was sent out via RenWeb yesterday, but here it is for your reference!


You can use this Google Form to sign up or indicate interest in future sessions if these dates do not work for your schedule!

Thursday, September 4, 2014

9/4 Parent Newsletter - Re-Posting Google Document

Good morning, and happy Thursday!

We would like to repost the link to the Google document shared in the September 4 Parent Newsletter. You can find it here. Thank you, and have a blessed day!

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

8th Grade Religion Projects!

It was a pleasure to work with the 8th grade in the lab this past week, using our new on-demand schedule.  Our 8th graders were putting together proposals and presentations for their Ultimate Gift Service Project, and did a wonderful job utilizing our new Google Drive accounts!  The best part is that because they could share their work with Mrs. Blum, she was able to access and view it from her own Google account.

This project took almost 6 weeks last year, but with our new system, and the implementation of Google Drive, students were in the lab for about 4 class periods, over the span of one week, leaving a lot of open time for other grades to come to the lab when they were finished.  Next up, we'll be working with 6th grade on their Europe in a Box project!