Word: ithaca
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...Quakers did not miss a beat when their starting goalkeeper, junior Alison Friedman, went down with a sprained ankle the day before the trip to Ithaca. Sophomore Gerianne Kauffman stepped into the net and stopped eight Cornell shots, good enough for a spot on last week's Ivy League Honor Roll...
Over the summer, parents of high school German students in Ithaca, N.Y., got to be part of a class trip to Europe, through their home computers. The class brought a digital camera and laptop with them to Germany and documented their visit on their web page. Harry Ash, father of 16-year-old traveler Brian, found it reassuring to see his son's smiling face from half a world away. "It gives me great comfort," Ash says, three days into the monthlong trip. "Brian's staying with a family that doesn't speak much English. This...
When it's designed well, a district, school or classroom website can significantly change the relationship between the parent and the school, says Cynthia LaPier, Ithaca's director of information and instructional technology. "All the research says that the more you can involve parents in school, the better," LaPier says. "The technology gives us another way to reach them, especially parents of secondary school students, who tend to be less involved...
...Ithaca high school physics teacher Steve Wirt gets e-mail from parents regularly, some from moms and dads he believes might otherwise not pick up the phone with a concern. Using software called Blackboard CourseInfo, designed to make website building intuitive for teachers, Wirt conducts online chats with his students, often reviewing for a quiz or discussing homework problems...
...Ithaca may not be the average place to take high school physics, or to parent: physicist Carl Sagan sent his children through the district that shares its small city with enormous Cornell University. That doesn't mean every family in town has a computer in the home. Ithaca has discussed opening its computer labs to parents and the community after hours. "We need to make sure we're not just reaching a fraction of the population," LaPier says. And parents do express concerns about their child's privacy, as well as access to inappropriate material online. But they're coming...