Today is Day #1. I will be in the HS for the day.
ISB Web-based Forms Presentation: Bane is giving a short presentation on the new ISB web-based forms. This is an easier way to do service requests, cash advances, etc and will cut down on the amount of email. The presentation will take place Monday December 8th in the HS Computer Lab. Simultaneously, there will be the same presentation given by Neša in the LS MPR. All MS and HS teachers are asked to attend one of the two meetings. The presentation will begin at 3:30 PM and will take no longer than 30 minutes.
STUCO Community Drives: The HS students through the Red Cross are helping the children’s oncology ward in Tirsova Street. At the ward there are 57 children, ranging in ages from 1 to 19 years old. These holiday gifts are new toys and for older children, books in Serbian, magazines/newspapers, classroom material (notebooks, pens, pencils, etc.). These items are to be collected by Thursday, December 11, 2008. The group is aware of the busy schedules of the parents and students, and have decided to accept money for purchasing these gifts.
The final day to donate winter clothing — especially shoes, jeans and jackets (new and old) to the Drinka Pavlovic orphanage is today. Tomorrow the HS Choir will be visiting the Orphanage and putting on a mini-concert for them.
Blue & Gold: The latest edition of the student newspaper, Blue and Gold came out on Friday. Congratulations to the student journalists and Mrs. Jamie Van Drunen.
Final Exam Schedule: The latest version of the final exam schedules and proctoring schedule were placed in the student and teacher boxes Friday. Remember that exams begin next Tuesday, December 16th. The final exams need to be completed and sent to your department heads this week. They will be photocopied on Friday and Monday and stored securely in my office over the weekend.
ISB Time: Please send ideas for ISB time Wednesday. Liz is wrapping up the semester two schedule and would like to devote 20 minutes to selection of electives for the students.
Education News: (Online Textbooks):
Our own Web 2.0 guru Jenny McKenzie sends along this link to a Washington Post article about the State of Virginia on line textbooks and supplements. This is a timely article considering our purchase order this week. The article has links to several sites with on line modules to help teachers, especially in science.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/29/AR2008112901809.html
“Rather than waiting two years for the Virginia Board of Education to review its science standards, then another year for publishers to print new physics texts, the state secretaries of education and technology asked a dozen teachers to write their own chapters in biophysics, nanotechnology and other emerging fields and post them online.
By February, physics teachers from Vienna to Tappahanock should be able to rip, mash and burn new chapters in real-time physics, said Secretary of Technology Aneesh P. Chopra. The virtual pages, which cost the state and schools nothing except teacher time, will be an optional, free supplement to hardbound books. “
Lower School Winter Shows: These are taking place Wednesday through Friday evening this week in the MPR beginning at 6:30 PM.
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