East Penn Superintendent Dr. Thomas Seidenberger discussed make-up days for Hurricane Sandy at the Nov. 12 board of school directors meeting.

The district had two extra days built into its schedule to account for inclement weather, but will have to make up the two other days missed because of the storm. Seidenberger said those make up days will tentatively be Feb. 15, 2013 and March 28, 2013.

Feb. 15. 2013 is the Friday before Presidents Day weekend and the students will still have off the Monday of the following week. March 28, 2013 is the Thursday before spring break.

Seidenbeger said June 11, 12 and 13, 2013 could be used to make up any future days missed for inclement weather. Seidenberger said he wanted to get feedback from teachers, administrators and a parent action group before making a final decision. He added he will likely take formal action at the Dec. 10 board meeting.

"I can tell you the prevailing choice among superintendents locally is going to be these days," Seidenberger said. He also added the state is "highly unlikely" to relieve the district (and districts around Pennsylvania) from making up the missed days unless they have a very severe winter.

"For those hoping the state is going to forgive us those days, I'm thinking that's not going to happen," Seidenberger said.

Information Technology Director Michael Mohn said the Emmaus High School newspaper, "The Stinger" is now available on iTunesU and gave a presentation on how to download the paper from the site. On the top right hand corner of the iTunes Store homepage, there is a tab for iTunesU with an arrow next to it. Clicking on the arrow brings up a scroll down menu. Under this menu is a "K-12" option, which brings up a page listing all the grade schools around the world utilizing the iTunesU program. The East Penn School District page can be accessed under the "E" section. On this page, the option to download and subscribe to a digital copy of "The Stinger" is available.

Parents can also use this site to review the district's Internet safety policies.

"iTunes being global means grandparents, friends, anyone overseas in Afghanistan can download "The Stinger" whenever it comes out so we're pretty excited," Mohn said. "The best comment I got from a student today was 'this is going to make me a better writer because I'm realizing now that someone in Egypt, someone in the United Kingdom could be reading my work.'"

In the spirit of embracing technology, Seidenberger said the district plans on posting a series of videos on its website that would feature students interviewing key members of the staff.

"We just want to communicate better with the public," Seidenberger said. "People hear about these programs and they can connect more with who is running them and get more information out of it."