Electronic resources
E-Communications
In an effort to “go green” and to communicate more efficiently with our parents and alumni, LWA uses five electronic forms of communication.
- Email: Each member of the faculty and staff has an email address. You can click here to use our faculty directory
- E-Notifications: Community emails with announcements and invitations are sent to parents weekly and to alumni monthly. Please make sure you register info@lawrencewoodmere.org into your address book to avoid having these communications read as spam.
- Facebook: LWA has an official group whose purpose is to connect alumni who are active within this social networking site. Click here to visit or join our Facebook group.
- Twitter: LWA has an official Twitter page, LWAcademy, which can be followed by anyone active within this microblog. Its purpose is to give up-to-the-minute updates about campus activities.
Academic Resources for Faculty, Students, and Parents
Tigernet is the Lawrence Woodmere Academy intranet. It is designed to be the primary online resource for students and teachers, helping them to communicate effectively about their courses and to build a sense of community through self-expression. It is hosted on a web server located on school grounds and uses free, open-source software to provide a variety of useful applications. All content is password protected, creating a “walled garden” where students can learn to communicate electronically with peers and adults in a moderated space that is safer than the public Internet. The academic components include:
- The central component of Tigernet is a content portal, built on the Drupal software platform. Teachers and students can use this system to share ideas and projects with each other and to discover common interests. Unlike a static website, where information is created and maintained by select individuals, on a content portal like Tigernet, any community member can post content for others to experience in the form of blog entries, news stories, podcasts, videos and photographs. Content from different posts can be tied together through the free application of special labels, called tags, creating an interconnected web of ideas. Students are encouraged to post their thoughts, share their finished projects, and comment on the posts of others across academic disciplines and divisions. Over time, students build a digital portfolio of work and a body of conversation with peers and adults on a variety of topics. To access the content portal component of Tigernet, students log-in using their LWA network username and password in the fields to the left.
- The second component of Tigernet is a Course Management System (CMS) based on the Moodle software platform. A CMS is a tool for creating and participating in effective online learning environments based on academic courses. Teachers can use this system to develop a web page for each course that they teach. They can post homework assignments, upload or link to resources, and develop interactive activities for students to engage in, including online discussions, workshops, and quizzes. Students can then access the web pages for their classes to keep up to date with their assignments, participate in activities, even upload their projects or check their grades. Each course page is maintained by the teacher for that course and the range of features available in the software means that the look and experience of a particular course page may vary from teacher to teacher or division to division. To access the course management component of Tigernet, click on the Courses link at the top of the page and log in using your LWA network username and password.
- Family Connection from Naviance links LWA College Guidance
with students and parents to optimize course and college planning. It
provides a link between home and school with a customized, secure
website that includes:
• College search and comparison tools
• Scheduled visits by college representatives (Grades 11 & 12)
• SAT and ACT Method: Online preparation for the tests (Grades 10-12)
• Online registration for LWA classes
• Links to college application process websites
• College Guidance updates
• Student Activity List to update as needed
With their course registration username and password, LWA students have
access to Family Connection at http://connection.naviance.com/lwa
Each of the three components must be accessed separately using a valid LWA network username and password. Parents wishing to view student content or access resources available on Moodle course pages must ask their student to log-in to the appropriate component with the student’s username and password and browse the site together.
The LWA Technology department maintains and supports Tigernet. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact us via email at help@lawrencewoodmere.org .
