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 * As a school community, we use technology to communicate with parents. Our parent coordinator sends out a weekly email newsletter to parents.
 * We also communicate student progress to students and their parents via our Engrade grading system and conduct parent workshops about how to use this system.
 * In Social Studies classes, students often access primary sources on line and work in groups to analyze primary and educational resources online.
 * World History students participated in "The Richness Within"; an online learning exchange with students in the Netherlands, Chicago and Westchester.
 * Students create innovative video projects that are available for view on YouTube and other digital learning communities; such as music videos,podcasts about global issues and problems, and Chinese soap operas.
 * Teachers have used technology to help enhance students' second language study by videotaping them and then having them critique one another's performances using a rubric.
 * In addition to the two points above (video taping student performances, etc.), Chinese and Japanese language students learn to type Chinese characters and the Japanese syllabaries on the computer during their first year of study; they also make use of online flashcards and games for practice; more advanced students use online video clips from YouTube to improve their listening skills and learn about Chinese/Japanese culture and contemporary society; students in East Asian history use online libraries of East Asian art, advertising, and post cards as historical evidence
 * Students used Internet resources to create Power Point presentations documenting propaganda form different nations in World War I and II. As an extension, students created propaganda campaigns on contemporary global issues in response to the question "what's worth fighting for? Projects included websites, videos, Power Points, pamphlets, posters and Public Service Announcements.
 * Online segments from PBS' celebrated documentary series' POV and Wide Angle assisted students with in-depth investigations of contemporary human rights abuses in CSIHS's after school Social Studies credit retrivial program, Global Issues.
 * Students blogged with our exchange students from Bahrain prior to their visit to help break down initial stereotypes, get to know one another, and learn about each other's cultures prior to the actual exchange. CSIHSIS students in Germany blogged with our school community about their experiences while in Germnay.
 * Students in Freshman Bio-Chem took virtual tours of salt marsh environments around the world to learn about human-environment interaction and then created models of these environments prior to their visit to a salt marsh.
 * As a school community we have a blog, (insidecsi.blogspot.com) [|Inside CSI] so that students, parents, teachers and staff can converse and provide feedback on issues of interest to our school community. This also helps to further communications between the school and the parents, especially with parents who may not be able to come to school meetings and functions.
 * Teachers and students use technology to create Global seminars about the learnings from international travel and exchange experiences. These presentations help to educate and inform our school and local community about international travel, world cultures and geography.
 * In American Literature we use a blog to discuss and debate our independent reading books.
 * In US History and AP US History students are engaging in a blog discussion on weekly essential questions and are blogging with students in France who are also learning United States History and who will participating in an exchange with our school.
 * In Global Technology students are working in pairs to create podcasts to provide information (based on research) about international issues. This is to help students learn about and share their knowledge about global issues with a real audience as they prepare to interview recent immigrants to Staten Island and create podcasts of those interviews, as they learn how to do oral histories, through a **Save Our History** grant from the History Channel. Podcasts will then be used by Ellis Island so that people can compare and contrast the plight of recent immigrants to those who came through Ellis Island. TAs a part of this grant we are collaborating with Ellis Island, College of Staten Island and the Parks Department to preserve the history of Staten Island.
 * In mathematics classes students and teacher use Geometer Sketchpad to help enhance students understanding of geometry.
 * Student reporters for the International Insider regularly blog with our international reporters in other countries, including Switzerland, Syria, Belarus, and Saudi Arabia.
 * Through our affiliation with iEARN many of our students are certified **Daniel Pearl Youth News** reporters and regularly contribute to an online international teen youth newspaper.
 * Our reporters are creating a multimedia section for our newspaper, **//The International Insider//**.
 * Seniors in **Comparative Goverment Through Film** used **iMovie** to direct and create short moives about governmental issues around the world; some of these films were screened at our Annual Talen Showcase.
 * Students collaborated to create our yearbook using an online program.
 * As part of their senior capstone project, many seniors created blogs and websites to educate others and open lines of communication about the issue/problem they researched and took action on.