TIPS Volume 3, No.9
May, 2003

     Grade Level Key 
     Suitable for elementary school= Elem, Suitable for middle school= Middle
     Suitable for high school= High, General interest= Teachers

 
The EditorThe Editor's Page
 Technology Applied
Into the Classroom
Connections
Through a Student's Eyes
Assistive Technology
 On Line 
Internet Resources
Literacy on the Web
 Help Resources
Tips from the Pros
Technology Training
Staff Profiles
 Miscellaneous
STLP News
The network is down...
TIPS Archives
Editor: Jeffrey L. Jones,
District Tech Resource Teacher
jjones@fayette.k12.ky.us
This website is intended for the instructional use of students and staff of Fayette County Public Schools.


Highlights from this issue:

Read and Write Gold training continues in August. See Assistive Technology for dates. See Technology Training for some other summer offerings

There's a bonanza of classroom technology integration ideas in this month's Into the Classroom. See farm animals with Meadowthorpe, Civil War with Linlee, "Inspired" geography at The Academy, and TCMS travel to the planet of Knabb!

Meet Dick Simpson and Joy Buckingham, this month's Staff Profiles

Announcements
  • HCHSHenry Clay's STLP takes over computer history shorts! 
    Be sure to run your mouse over the banner above. These historical shorts have been a part of TIPS almost since it's inception, and are now produced by Henry Clay junior Tony Ho, with the help of the the HCHS STLP chapter (Denise Lail, adviser). See the companion story in this month's From the Editor.
  • TextHelpTextHELP announces: Read and Write Gold may be installed on home teacher computers!
    For teachers who need practice at home...See Assistive Technology for the licensing notice from the software designers.
  • Science Contest! Prize: IBM Laptops!TryScience
    TryScience, a website of science and math resources, is sponsoring a contest. Take a look at http://tryscience.org/contest.html for details. Deadline is October. You could win up to 100 IBM ThinkPads!
 

The discipline we call Language Arts is loaded with people... whose names are familiar to almost everyone - Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Stephen King. Social studies, by virtue of its historical focus, includes the names of our presidents and other well-known political figures, but also include such familiar names as Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx.  (...more...)