Sumner Students Use Technology to Raise Funds for Haiti

Schools from all over Boston have come together to help the Haiti Relief Efforts. Many schools have been devising ways to raise money for the earthquake ravaged nation. Some schools have raised money by having bake sales, while other schools have raised money by having special non uniform days, such as "crazy hat day" and "pajama day". You can view a list of what schools have done on the Boston Public Schools Support For Haiti web page.

The Charles Sumner Elementary School in Roslindale is using technology to help raise money for those in need. They used a Flip video camera to film their students and started a web page on the Partners in Health website with the goal of raising $1,000. Kate Klein, the technology teacher at the Sumner, sent me an email about the project. In it she wrote, "The earthquake in Haiti has affected our school deeply. Our students have family members who perished there. Our school is trying to empower our students. We are currently making a video of them to raise funds for Partners in Health (one of our teacher's fathers, a doctor, is currently in Haiti through this organization)." The video they created is below. If you would like to contribute to their efforts, please click on this link: http://act.pih.org/page/outreach/view/haitiearthquake/sumnerkids

How an 8 Year Old Can Help Haiti from Sumner Elementary, Boston on Vimeo.

L4L Annual Registration Clinic

L4L registration clinics are taking place at the Campbell Resource Center this week from Tuesday, February 2nd through Thursday, February 4th. OIIT is hosting these clinics for users who need assistance registering their L4L laptops.

On December 3rd, OIIT launched an updated registration application to all L4L laptops as part of the annual L4L registration process. All L4L users are required to update their laptop registration information by Friday, February 5th. Registering laptops enhances security, runs routine laptop maintenance, ensures accurate user information, and provides updated laptop inventories to schools. For instructions on how to register your laptop, please click here.

Please note that after the February 5th deadline, OIIT will need to collect laptops that have not been registered to run routine maintenance and software updates. As part of the process, data will unfortunately be lost. OIIT will redistribute laptops to teachers at a later time.

The registration clinics will take place:

Dates: February 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
Time: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: Campbell Resource Center
1216 Dorchester Ave.
Dorchester, MA 02127

Please bring your laptop and allot 10-15 minutes to run the updated registration application
Contact: OIIT Service Desk, 635-9200.

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