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The Scarsdale School District has purchased a blogging platform to create a common base of knowledge and writing experiences for students, in line with the Teachers College Reading & Writing Project curriculum. Students will begin to develop digital literacy skills as well as learn to curate their own portfolio as they grow. Here at Heathcote we have introduced blogging to…
Here is the Padlet for today’s introduction: https://padlet.com/ccasal/26am1yvis2dv Fill in what you “Know” about Padlet and what you “Want” to know. When adding a sticky use the “Title” line to put K or W and your initials. For example, If I were to add a sticky about what I know my “Title” would be “K…
How do we keep students safe while still allowing them access to the amazing tools available in 2016 and beyond? Today I am leading a Parent Coffee about Internet (and Technology) Safety geared toward the parents of 3-5 students. Attending in person is not always possible, so to ensure the entire community has access to the…
Here is the Padlet for today’s introduction: https://padlet.com/ccasal/imnm00efwahx Fill in what you “Know” about Padlet and what you “Want” to know. When adding a sticky use the “Title” line to put K or W and your initials. For example, If I were to add a sticky about what I know my “Title” would be “K…
How do we keep students safe while still allowing them access to the amazing tools available in 2016 and beyond? Today I am leading a Parent Coffee about Internet (and Technology) Safety geared toward the parents of K-2 students. Attending in person is not always possible, so to ensure the entire community has access to…
Here is the Padlet for today’s introduction: https://padlet.com/ccasal/dgmiuaz3v208 Fill in what you “Know” about Padlet and what you “Want” to know. When adding a sticky use the “Title” line to put K or W and your initials. For example, If I were to add a sticky about what I know my “Title” would be “K…
Here is the Padlet for today’s introduction: http://padlet.com/ccasal/mtme3xji5q0r Fill in what you “Know” about Padlet and what you “Want” to know. When adding a sticky use the “Title” line to put K or W and your initials. For example, If I were to add a sticky about what I know my “Title” would be “K…
We’ve been tweeting! The following message went out to parents from Ms. Stile on 10/20/16: We are a very active community on Twitter, we have even paved the way for a district-wide Twitter initiative! It is an amazing tool for our school community, to celebrate all the great things happening at Heathcote School. To see…
Heathcote students have access to a few online platforms in addition to Google Apps. While Google Apps and all the feature of Drive are awesome tools and resources, one can’t learn by Google alone. Students have access to 4 main online services; Kodable, Tynker, Typing Club, and Wixie. Kodable and Tynker are coding programs,…
Welcome parents! For the 2016 Open House all of the Specials teachers presented in the Auditorium. We borrowed a page from the Ignite style of presentations. Ignite presentations are 5 minutes long with slide that move every 15 seconds. We adjusted the format a bit to 3 minutes per teacher to ensure all our presentations were…