March 20, 2013 - St Joan of Arc Catholic High School
March 20, 2013 - St Joan of Arc Catholic High School
March 20, 2013 - St Joan of Arc Catholic High School
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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT’S PRESENTATION:<br />
ALESSANDRA CASCHERA<br />
‣ Alessandra Caschera touched on the subject <strong>of</strong> how social media and technology can prove to have a<br />
positive use in our classrooms:<br />
Twitter<br />
We are the first school to <strong>of</strong>fer this service which is very informative keeping the students<br />
connected with the school<br />
675 followers and 2,500 tweets with works out to 7 per day<br />
It is also a feed for all the announcements happening at our school this can be goggled<br />
Edmodo<br />
Program like Facebook which can be accessed by everyone<br />
Teachers can post notes regarding their class and if anything is expected by the students e.g.<br />
homework, assignments<br />
Reading Ahead Program<br />
Use the best <strong>of</strong> the web to improve reading and writing for students<br />
This was implemented in September <strong>20</strong>11 to the Grade 10 Applied students and great for<br />
OSSLT program has increased success rate<br />
No After-school programs for the learning strategies<br />
Room 210<br />
Has implemented 1 computer per student – fully equipped with printer, headphones and<br />
SmartBoard<br />
Math has 5 SmartBoards and English has 3 SmartBoards<br />
Cafeteria<br />
Has LCD projector which runs CP24 and it runs the twitter messages from the school on the<br />
board as well – also another Monitor that does the same located in the entrance way in front <strong>of</strong><br />
the Library – not all the teachers are fully using this too – slowly in more use<br />
5 Year Plan<br />
This years focus LCD with laptops, Guidance, Religion, Canada & World <strong>St</strong>udies laptops to<br />
be purchased with the allocated Council funding<br />
Next school year attendance computer to be put into each classroom so the kids can sign in<br />
COMMITTEE’S REPORT:<br />
DANNY SCENNA<br />
‣ Newsletter<br />
Currently on the school’s Website<br />
Michele Bray is working on the April newsletter<br />
Please send any pictures or information that you would like posted in the newsletter to Michele<br />
Bray<br />
June will be the final newsletter<br />
‣ Glamour Night<br />
Regrets - no reporting<br />
‣ <strong>Catholic</strong>ity Meeting<br />
Next meeting - April 4 th<br />
So far the speaker has been selected<br />
Antonella Rubino to set up choir and guitarist to perform<br />
Finalization to be done in April’s meeting<br />
‣ Faith Committee<br />
Regrets – no reporting<br />
SPEAKER FOR NEXT MEETING – CAMH REPRESENTATIVE
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