Students and staff at the school division’s 11 Digital Learning Anchor Schools have been tinkering, troubleshooting, experimenting, exploring, creating and collaborating with technology for months now. That’s by design, explained Chief Academic Officer Amy Cashwell. “It’s not every day you’re given a project in which you can really tell schools, ‘We’re going to give you Read More…
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New ITS and TST positions to help leverage technology
Compass to 2020: Charting The Course calls for schools to “leverage technology to increase flexible learning opportunities and monitor student progress,” and the division’s new Instructional Technology Specialists (ITS) and Technology Support Technicians (TST) will play an important role in the process. “We really have to think about what it takes for us to change Read More…
Schools piloting electronic transcripts
Bayside, Princess Anne and Ocean Lakes high schools began the month of April serving as participants in a new pilot program, which makes electronic transcripts (eTranscripts) available to students via the academic records company, Parchment. The free, online service allows students or parents to request an official high school transcript and send it to a Read More…
Sanders in cahoots with PE assesssments
Chris Sanders is the physical education (PE) teacher at Holland Elementary School, and has shown students ways to integrate technology into their gym time. Sanders, an advocate for technology in PE, introduced one of the fifth grade classes to “Kahoot!,” an interactive assessment tool. Sanders used Kahoot! to gather data on the students knowledge of physical education content to help him Read More…
Weber honored at Great Computer Challenge
The WHRO/ODU Great Computer Challenge took place at Old Dominion University Saturday, March 7. At the event, Michael Weber, Advanced Technology Center software and game development instructor, was honored with the Great Computer Challenge’s Grace Little Award for bringing teams of students in Norfolk and Virginia Beach to the Great Computer Challenge for the last Read More…
