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Freshman English & Humanities – Greek Newspaper

Repeating last year’s Freshman project, students once again had to work together in groups to produce a Greek newspaper – complete with professional design and a range of article content. As before each group was responsible for one section of the newspaper, from … Continue reading

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Grade 7 Math – Surveys & Data Analysis

Grade 7 Math students spent the past two weeks working on a survey project, with each student picking a topic of interest, creating a survey based around this topic, collecting data from the school community and then analyzing and reporting … Continue reading

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French II – Stop Motion Puss in Boots

French II students have been reading, and learning vocabulary from, the Puss in Boots story and this year were set the task to turn the story into a stop motion animation, using a combination of Stop Motion Studio and iMovie on their … Continue reading

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Grade 6 – Scribble Maps & Google My Maps Ski Trip

Grade 6 students have recently been working on a distance and mapping project – they planned out a ski trip around the lesser known ski hills of Maine, the first stage being researching locations, costs and distance. To help plan out … Continue reading

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Modern Storytelling – Super Hero Comic Books

The assignment was simple: tell an illustrated story in ten pages using the Comic Life app on the iPad. The difficulty lay in the mixture of specifics (length) and open-endedness (no further instruction on content). We wanted the students to be able … Continue reading

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How to Update Chrome

We have been seeing a few issues lately with older versions of the Chrome browser and we recommend that you keep Chrome updated on your MacBooks to the latest version. Here are the steps to follow to update Chrome: 1. Load … Continue reading

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Grade 6/7 Latin – Roman Villa & Bath House Design

Grade 6/7 Latin students have recently been learning about Roman building structures and were tasked with designing either a traditional roman villa or bath house. They started off by designing the floor plan of the building and used Google Drawing … Continue reading

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Socrative, Kahoot, Poll Everywhere, TodaysMeet

In this week’s faculty technology training we looked four different online tools for creating quizzes, polls and online conversations. Socrative Socrative is a simple online student response system that allows teachers to quickly create and share quizzes and polls with students. … Continue reading

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Creating Google Forms

Google Forms are a great (and fast) way to create tests, quizzes and surveys for your classes. And they can also be a good project for students – surveys for data collection or creating quizzes and tests for classmates. To … Continue reading

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Using the Chrome Web Store

With the Middle School students receiving Chromebooks, here is a quick overview of using Chrome and the Chrome Web Store on your MacBooks to match most of the functionality of their Chromebooks. A Chromebook is basically a simplified laptop that just … Continue reading

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