Our Lady of Mercy School

Due to reliability problems with our web host, we have moved our website to a new host. Most content items are as they were. Others still need to be tweeked. Please bear with us in the transition period.

Thank you for your patience.  We had an issue with our website host provider that took down the site for a time.  Obviously, this has been resolved.  The Fundraising page will be updated shortly to refect changes in the Cash For Class Program and other fundraisers that were up to date before the outage but were not able to be recovered.  My appologies for any inconvenience.

All of our teachers have blogs. They are listed in the sidebar and are available for you and your children to see news and assignments pertaining to their class. They will be updated regularly. We encourage you to read them from time to time. If you use an RSS reader, like Google Reader or Bloglines, you can even subscribe to them and be updated as soon as new posts are published.

Here’s how one video producer describes the process.

The Tech Savvy Marketer explains how to subscribe to a blog

For more information, here’s a good series of short videos explaining what RSS is and how to use Bloglines.

Here’s the first is a series. Click on the video when it’s done to see more.

How to Use Bloglines

The August Calendar and the Lunch Menu are now updated and available by clicking the links in the sidebar. Please check them out.

The online school calendar of events has been updated with preliminary dates for the 2008-2009 school year. While these dates are subject to change, they provide a valuable blueprint for planning purposes. Please take a look at the dates as posted and enter them into your family calendar.

To access our online school calendar, please click the CALENDAR link in the right navigation menu. If you have a GMAIL account, you can even add this calendar to your Google calendar. OLM items will be color coded and automatically updated as they are changed on the website.

We have now added an interactive Google map allowing users to see where we are located and the ability to get directions from anywhere.  Check it out on our “Where Are We?” page.

Check out our new Student Gallery page to see how OLM Students are using technology as a tool to produce content, instead of consume it.  More will be added as time goes on.

We have received many requests for a school calendar and a lunch menu over last couple of years. Finally, there’s an easy way to do it thanks to Google Calendar. Check out our new Calendar and Lunch Menu items in the right column. Feedback welcome. If if works for the parents and community, then we will keep it.