Craig Long discusses the history of the Brook School

Ramapo Central School District Board President and Rockland County Historian Craig Long met with a group of students this afternoon to discuss the history of school segregation in Hillburn. With the assistance  of NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall, the residents of Hillburn successfully appealed to the New York State Supreme Court. The schools were eventually desegregated in 1946 and the Brook School was closed.

It is believed that this case laid the groundwork for Marshall's landmark case Brown v Board of Education which declared that state laws establishing separate public schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional.

This podcast is a 9:20 segment of Mr. Long's conversation.

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FWS Spring 2011

We will use the remaining time together to explore as many Web 2.0 technologies as possible.

EduCon

The journey starts tonight... check back here for updates about topics and ideas from the conference.

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Interactive Art Show 12/16

The Suffern High School Art Department will be holding it's annual Winter Art Show on December 16th at 7:00 pm.  This year selected pieces will feature QR Coded tags which will link to YouTube videos of students sharing their their vision, technique, and inspiration.  A QR reader app for your "Smart Phone" is needed.  We recommend ScanLife because it is free, easy to use, and available for iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Palm OS and Windows Mobile. 

The videos are also currently featured on our YouTube Channel

Using Storify

Fun times here at Suffern High.

My 4 sections of senior Social Studies courses have begun to utilize a website called Storify to complete their current events homework. The site runs off of login credentials from Twitter. The first run of this assignment is due tomorrow. So far results have been mixed. Many students have run into issues revolving around creating a twitter account and accessing the site through an appropriate web browser. In our classes, we accessed a compatibility site www.html5test.com to assess the usability of each browser. Results are as follows (out of a high score of 300)

Mozilla Firefox: 144

Microsoft Internet Explorer: 27

A Student's Black Berry: 1

A student's Motorola Droid: 176

A Student's iPhone 4: 188

Access and usability...