4.30.2015

Summer Reading Make-Up

The summer reading make-up session will be held at Kolbe Cathedral High School on Monday June 15 through Thursday June 18 from 12:30pm until 2:30pm.  

Transportation home from school must be provided by the student.  You must come in uniform and bring your own books.  No books will be provided by the school.

If you have not passed the summer reading tests, then attendance is mandatory.  You should be receiving a letter within the next few days via the U.S. Mail.

Keyboard Shortcuts in Google Drive

by Alice Keeler

4.28.2015

How to Integrate Live Tweets Into Your Presentation

From Edudemic.com - 

"Outside of the classroom, Twitter is huge, with 284 million users logging in each month from around the globe. Each one of those users follows and tweets 140-character messages on a regular basis. But can—and should—this real-time social media be used during a classroom presentation? More teachers are beginning to incorporate Twitter into their lesson plans. Educators who use Twitter say it increases classroom interaction and keeps students tuned in."

Image courtesy of Pixaby and Irfanahmad1989

4.27.2015

Ways to Use QR Codes for Education


"QR codes are easy to produce and fun to make, and they'll keep every kid's attention. These pixelated bar codes are digital magic for busy teachers! Use them for everything from running scavenger hunts to polling students. Read on for more ways to use the codes in your classroom, or see my post 'QR Codes in the Classroom' to start making and scanning your own codes now."


4.23.2015

How to create a Kahoot!


(from Mrs. E Teaches Math at http://mrseteachesmath.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-to-create-kahoot.html)

A GAME-BASED CLASSROOM RESPONSE SYSTEM

4.09.2015

3 Tips To Perk Your Presentations

An award-winning teacher and author shares her secrets for transforming slide shows into interactive learning experiences. Read here

By Lynell Burmark04/08/15

5 Lecture Capture Hacks for More Engaging Videos

The best flipped courses provide students with compelling, interactive learning content to hold their attention outside of class. Here are five ways to take lecture videos to the next level.

4.08.2015

Boomerang for Gmail


Send an email later

With Boomerang, you can write an email now and schedule it to be sent automatically at the perfect time. Just write the messages as you normally would, then click the Send Later button. Use our handy calendar picker or our text box that understands language like "next Monday" to tell Boomerang when to send your message. We'll take it from there.

Remind you if you don’t hear back

There are times you need to make sure you follow up within a specific time frame after sending a message. You can select to only be reminded if nobody replies, or regardless. This way you won't let messages slip through the crack and will never forget to follow up with people.

The best follow up reminders

Want a cleaner inbox, but don't want to lose track of important messages? Use Boomerang to take messages out of your inbox until you actually need them. Just click the Boomerang button when you have an email open, and choose when you need it again. Boomerang will archive your message. At the time you choose, we'll bring it back to your inbox, marked unread, starred or even at the top of your message list.

For mobile and Android!

Have you ever been out at dinner and remembered that you need to do something when you get to the office tomorrow morning? Now you can write an email while you're on the go, and have it arrive exactly when you need to be reminded - like 8AM the next morning.

4.07.2015

Help KCHS win $ for new technology!

PLEASE VIEW, 'LIKE', and SHARE this video to help Kolbe Cathedral High School and several other Diocese of Bridgeport Schools win a technology integration contest by Collaboration Nation!


"Thanks to Diocese of Bridgeport Catholic Schools in Bridgeport, Conn., for sharing the Diocese of Bridgeport Schools’ Student Collaborations! From designing a programming challenge to using virtual instruments to recreate their favorite songs, this district’s students are using technology in every aspect of their school day. Check it out!"




Kolbe Cathedral student Edy Salcedo from Mr. Elbertson's music class demonstrating technology integration!