From the Chief Information Officer
"Another Year in the Books"
..... Pun intended. It's hard to believe another school year has flown by. It has been another year of great accomplishments for the ICTS department. Read what this year included >>

CPS Librarians Receive Statewide Awards
Recently, the recipients of the 2016 Massachusetts School Library Association statewide awards were announced. Congratulations to our four Cambridge Public Schools librarians/programs that were honored by the Massachusetts School Library Association with prestigious statewide awards this year. Read the full story >>

“I’ll take Ancient Mesopotamia for 500!”: The Interactive Classroom
A pair of students in a 6th grade Social Studies class engages classmates in an online Jeopardy review game.Why doesn’t the pair need to review? They already did while they were designing the game. Across the city, budding chemists manipulate variables in a simulated experiment too costly and potentially dangerous to conduct in “real life”. “I wonder what would happen if…” one students muses as she adds another compound. “Your team has 3 minutes to crack this code!” appears on the screen in a math classroom. Read more >>

PD in your PJs
This Spring, twenty-six teachers and staff from twelve schools (and central administration) engaged in a self-paced, online course designed to introduce the Google Apps for Education suite of tools. They all learned how to create a document, slideshow, form, and embed them each into a classroom. They all watched tutorial videos and submitted assignments to an instructor. However, they all did it at their own pace and at their own selected day and time (even in their PJs). Read more >>



Media Fair 2016!
Media Fair 2016 was held on May 26^th to showcase the work produced by CPS students. The 2016 reel highlights work from RSTA Media Tech and Media Arts Studio classes and CEATV afterschool programs. The 48 minutes of excerpts represent more than 40 hours of originally produced student-work! Clips showcase stories about CRLS and stories about our community, Youth View Cambridge and Falcon Sports Weekly series, documentaries and narrative pieces, special science journalism and experimental media pieces, and much more. Read more >>

5th Graders at the Media Art Studio
By Ingrid Stobbe and Ross Matthei, Media Production Instructors 

The Media Arts Studio hosts Ms. Levine’s 5th grade class
This past fall, the Media Arts studio was pleased to welcome Ms. Levine’s 5th grade class from Graham and Parks to come by and record their memoir projects, the final step in their cumulative writing unit. One by one, each student took a turn in front of the microphone, reading aloud the stories he or she had written. Read more >>

Watch our Channels! Access the Student Media Portal!
All completed student work is shown on our two Cambridge cable channels, streamed on our web site, and archived on the CPS MediaCAST student portal.