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January 2007
Vol. 3, No. 5
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Paula Whitmer
and
Leanna
Prater are District Wide Technology Resource Teachers who can
help out with your technology needs. We hope in this
newsletter you might find some interesting ideas, websites and
lessons to keep you up to date with technology
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WE STILL NEED STUDENT WRITING!
Do you have proficient student writing that needs to be
showcased? Why not submit it to Fayette County's Literary
E-Zine? We are also looking for student's digital
photography and art work. Send submissions to
Leanna Prater.
Past Issues:
Spring 2006
Winter
2006
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MARK
YOUR CALENDAR!!
Elementary Technology Academy
January 18th
3:30-5:00
Southern Elementary
What do you get?
Just in
time resources (lessons and activities) that incorporate technology into
your curriculum!
What
else do you get?
FABULOUS PRIZES! (everyone goes home with something!)
Need to
sign up?
Click
on the link below:
Fayette County PD Menu
SPACE IS LIMITED!
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Technology PD offerings at Ambrose
Click here to sign up
Excel 2003
Level 2
January 10th
4:30-6:00
Ambrose Lab
Instructor: Mark DiMascio
Topics covered in this training session include the following: Working
with Comments, Creating custom Fills, Using the Paste Special Feature,
Hiding Columns, Rows and Cells, Establishing Criteria in a database,
Filtering and sorting data. Many tips will be included in this class.
Publisher
January 16th
4:30-6:00
Ambrose Lab
Instructor: Mark DiMascio
Learn the art of desktop publishing! Create a newsletter in
Publisher 2003 using graphics from the clipart gallery
Elementary Technology
Academy
January 18th
3:30-5:00
Southern Elementary School
Instructors: Amy Johns, Leanna Prater and Paula Whitmer
Join us again, or for your first time, as we learn about the new
Technology Program of Studies required by the state Board of Education
and Fayette County's Technology Curriculum Framework. Get inspired with
new and different grade-specific technology integration ideas,
activities, and resources that directly relate to content area
Curriculum Framework that you can take back and use in your classroom
within the next two months (approximately instructional days 95-120). We
will provide you with access to materials you need to implement the
ideas in your classroom
Creating Class Web Pages
New Template for Elementary Teachers
January 24th
4:30-6:00
Instructor: Maggie Whittington
Designed for elementary teachers who have
little or no experience with the class web page, this
beginning session will take you through the
process of designing and creating a classroom web page, using a NEW
TEMPLATE which allows you to edit your homework and announcements via
the internet. A great way to communicate with students and parents, the
classroom web page brings the school and home together in a learning
environment
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IMMEX
IMMEX is a free web-based critical thinking site for students
from UCLA. Fayette County technology resource teachers and
classroom teachers have authored several problem sets.
This month's feature set:
Students will examine
different court cases that deal with the Bill of Rights and
constitutional rights. They will decide whether the decisions
are constitutional or not and what amendment would back up their
decision.
Case 1
View all of the cases here
Sign up to use IMMEX
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Martin Luther
King Day
Activities from the
Lesson Tutor
Civil Rights Movement
Interactive Game from Scholastic
The Seattle Times Photo Gallery
I
Have A Dream Banner (K-2)
A Teeny
Tiny Book to print about Martin Luther King
Print and
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DID YOU KNOW...
You can take PD for free online through KVHS?
Spring Session
’07
(Seven week courses)
Registration is currently open
and ends on Thursday, January 11,
at 5 p.m.
Classes Begin: January 15
Classes End: March 4
Approaches and Tools for Developing Web Enhanced Lessons
Classroom
Assessment Enhanced by Technology
Community and Family
Engagement
Data Based School Reform
Designing a Virtual Field Trip
Differentiating
Instruction to Accommodate Learning Styles
Finding the Best Educational Resources on the
Web
Getting Reading for Algebra Using Virtual
Manipulatives
Improving
Reading and Writing in the Content Areas
Inquiry in the Science Classroom Using Internet-Based Data Sources
Instructional Approaches for Teachers of
ELL
Integrating Primary Sources into the Social
Studies Classroom
Making the Most of Adolescent Literature
Mentoring Virtual Students
Reading First 1 - Building Blocks: Introduction to Effective Reading
Instruction
Reading First 2 - Reading Fluency: What, Why and How?
Reading First 3 - The Explicit Teaching of Comprehension Strategies
Reading First 4 - Providing Effective Phonics Instruction
Reading First 5 - The Explicit Teaching of Phonemic Awareness
Reading
First 6 - Enhancing Vocabulary Instruction
Reading First 7 - Integrating Reading and Writing Instruction
SBDM New and Existing Member Training
SBDM Keys to Proficiency
Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence & Child Abuse: Awareness and
Intervention
Special Students in the Regular Classrooms:
Technology, Teaching & Universal Design
Transforming the Classroom with Project-Based Learning
Using Technology in the Elementary Math Classroom
Using Real Data in the Math Classroom
Using KET EncycloMedia
Using Patterns to Develop Algebraic Thinking
Using Technology to Support Research and Presentation
Any teacher can take any of the Reading First courses. You DO NOT
have to be from a Reading First school.
If you have questions, please e-mail
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Favorites from Riverdeep
Flyer
Painting Trees in Winter
Connect this art lesson to
the seasons and how trees look
during the different times of the year. From an art perspective,
students will be learning about tree structure and form,
and how snow sits on trees.
The Busy Teacher Gradebook
(PDF file)
Download and print of this ready to use gradebook
Examining the Weather
Why aren't those weather
predictions always accurate?
Can you count on it snowing this weekend so you can go
skiing? The weatherman said it would last week, and it
never did. So is meteorology a science, or just guess
work? By examining newspaper weather reports and con-
ducting a variety of activities, students will debate
the accuracy of weather predictions
INTERACTIVE MATH WITH EXTREME WINTER WEATHER
Start with tsunamis and use time
zone math to answer the
first question. If students do not know the correct
answer to a question, an online internet search guides them
to appropriate background research and reading. (As always,
check all current links before allowing student access.)
Wind chill factors, snow density, hurricanes, and
tornadoes all figure into this extreme weather interactive
challenge.
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Techie Tips from Kim
Overstreet |
Old Favorite
AutoSummarize in
Word
Did you know that Word will
automatically summarize a document? Here's how it
works:
- Open a document
- Select Tools
- Then AutoSummarize
- You'll see options to
show the summary within the document ("highlight
key points"), put the summary at the head of the
document, create a separate document with the
summary, or hide the document except for the
summary.
Teachers need to know about
this options, since your students probably already
know.
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New Favorite
Evaluating Internet Resources
Thanks to Lucinda Sanders for this tip.
While putting together a presentation on
critically evaluating internet
resources, she came across this piece of
information.
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Link-checking is one of the
techniques students can use to find
out how well thought of a site is.
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Most search engines allow you to
type link: URL (e.g., link:
www.ihr.org) to find out what other
sites link to the one you're
examining.
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When major scholarly organizations
do not link to it, but white
nationalist groups and sites about
hate groups do, that's a good sign
this site is not to be trusted.
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