Award Winner - Orange Township Public School District

Congratulations to the Orange Township Public School District from Orange, New Jersey, for being selected to receive the eBoards of Excellence Award for their creative and innovative use of eBoard!

"eBoards offer the staff, parents and children of Orange a variety of tools and resources for teaching and learning. A well developed eBoard creates a 21st Century learning environment, and a student centered resource that enhances Digital Literacy skills to meet the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards. Students can access eBoards for projects, assignments, strategies and resources to analyze synthesize and evaluate information."

"Orange parents and community members are informed and aware of the educational power of eBoards through access to this educational portal available through the Orange website. The Orange educational community has benefited greatly from the use of eBoards by enhancing teaching and learning."
Mr. G. Farley, Supervisor of Technology

District Technology Department
www.technology-department.orange.site.eboard.com
The district technology eBoard is a comprehensive site that provides technology resources for all stakeholders in our educational community.

• Teacher resources provide resources for integrating technology into the curriculum and classroom
• Training resources provide information on district training for educators, community training, technology happenings and online training opportunities.
• Parent resources provide resource on homework and parent involvement.
• Student resources provide homework help, expert resources, reference tools and cool sites for kids
• Administrator resources provide information on current trends in educational technology and best practices.

Ms. Linda Epps, 7^th and 8^th Grade Technology Coordinator
www.lepps.orange.site.eboard.com
My eBoard is used to share professional development videos with staff and educational videos with parents.  I use my eBoard to sponsor building wide online scavenger hunts based on monthly themes.

Ms. T. Phipps, 7^th Grade Writing
www.oms-tphipps.orange.site.eboard.com
Everyday, students ask me, “Ms. Phipps, is this on your eBoard?” My answer is yes, absolutely! I am presently using my eBoard to launch a collaborative online project.

Ms Stewart, 8^th Grade Social Studies
www.oms-mstewart.orange.site.eboard.com
My students use my eBoard to post responses to historical fiction novels. Once they read the novels, they answer open ended questions posted by the teacher and created questions for other students to respond to.

Ms. D. Wynn, 7^th and 9^th Grade Language Arts Literacy
www.oms-dwynn.orange.site.eboard.com
I use my eBoard to present teacher-created slide shows, which affords me the opportunity to present visually attractive and content-specific lessons to my students. From an educator with thirty-two years experience, I can’t imagine ever being without such an immensely worthwhile tool!

Ms. S. Sica, 7^th Grade Science
www.ssica.orange.site.eboard.com
eBoard has provided me the opportunity to seamlessly infuse technology based projects into my curriculum.

Mrs. T. Russo, OMS Facilitator
www.oms-trusso.orange.site.eboard.com
My eBoard is the vehicle by which major stakeholders (community, parents, and school staff) are informed about the events and happenings at Orange Middle School.