Friday, November 30, 2007

Are your students good listeners?


Some students are visual... others are good listeners. If you have students who would benefit from listening to an audiobook while reading the book, please see our media specialist/librarian. Mrs. Edelstein has ordered and received a very large collection of audiobooks, which she has started to install on iPods. Yes, Egbert now has iPods! "Holes" and "Harry Potter" collections were among the first audiobooks to be imported onto iTunes. Please visit the library and checkout the "audiobook" section... you will be very impressed!

DOE Outlook E-Mail Account


Many teachers have updated their DOE Outlook E-Mail accounts. When the helpdesk resets the passwords, I will forwarded them to you. The website to check DOE mail is http://mail.nycboe.net

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Checkout "ACUITY"

ACUITY is a website purchased by the DOE. It allows teachers and staff to find out how the student through data that was generated by the ELA & Mathematics assessments. The only way to log onto this website is to use your OUTLOOK username and password. If you don't have an OUTLOOK account, please see Mr. Friedman. ACUITY identifies the students strengths, short term weaknesses and long term weaknesses. Please attend the lunchtime PD's. PD dates TBA soon.