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November/December 2005
Volume 2 No. 3
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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
integration. |
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KY Encyclomedia
(United Streaming)
Some movies you might use for this month:
Christmas
Tales from Foreign Lands: An Untold Miracle
Holiday Facts and Fun:
Hanukkah
Holiday Facts and Fun: Kwanzaa
Holiday Facts and Fun: A Multicultural Christmas
Christmas Tales from Foreign Lands: Busy Befana
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Magical
Mother Nature: The Four Seasons
Sound: A First Look
Stage One Science: Sounds O.K.
Ssssh! We're Writing the Constitution
Our Constitution: The Document that Gave Birth to a Nation |
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Techie
Tip from Kim Overstreet
 
Old Favorite
Cleaning out your email
box
Today's tip deals with keeping
your email inbox cleaned out.
(You can find
other helpful email hints on our intranet page
at
http://intranet.fcps.net/EdTechnology/email.asp)
Have you received a message
from the System Administrator telling
you that
your inbox has exceeded it's size limit? If so
there are a
couple of quick easy ways to make
more room.
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First make sure that you
don't have any messages with really
large
attachments.
(Hint: you can sort messages by
size just by clicking on the
size heading in
your inbox.)
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Check the Sent Items
folder. Highlight and delete any items
n
there that you don't need.
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You may highlight
several things at once, by clicking
on
the first item, holding the shift key
down and then
clicking on the last item.
That will highlight everything in
between.
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You may highlight
several things (but not everything)
by
holding the Ctrl key down while you
click.
This allows you to leave a few
items unselected.
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Now that you've deleted
the Sent Items, you will need to empty
your
Deleted Items folder before things are freed
up.
You can do this by Right-Clicking on the
Deleted Items folder
and choosing Empty
Deleted Items.
If you have lots of messages
that you want to keep, but they are
taking up
too much room, you can create personal folders
for
yourself that will allow you to save
messages on your
hard drive so that they won't
take up room on the server.
New Favorite
Setting up Personal Folders
Here are the directions for
setting up personal folders in
Outlook 2003.
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Open Outlook
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Click on Tools on the
menu bar
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Choose Options
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Select the Mail Setup
tab
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Click the Data Files
button.
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Click the Add button
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Highlight Office Outlook
Personal Folders File (.pst)
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Click OK
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Find a location to save
the file (i.e., My
Documents, or your server
location)
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Give the file a name
that you will recognize so
you will be
able to find it
if needed (and so you won't
accidentally delete it).
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Click OK
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Then OK again.
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Then Close
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Then OK
Now you should see Personal
Folders at the bottom of your
Folder list in Outlook. You can
drag folders that you've put in
your Inbox down to this new
location. Since these folders
are not in your Inbox anymore,
they won't count toward your
email space allotment.
Literature Links
The Giver by Lois Lowery
Giggle, Giggle, Quack, Quack by Doreen Cronin
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
The Mitten
by Jan Brett
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SCIENCE
FAIR LINKS
Project Guide
This site walks you through the scientific process
Science Fair Handbook
by Janice Van Cleave
Everything you need to know about putting a project
together.
Project
Ideas
Stumped on an idea? Here are lots of them in every area of science!!
More
Project Ideas
This site has an idea exchange for projects.
And still more
ideas
Another list of ideas like "Can lost pet ads predict earthquakes?"
Project
Links
Now that you have your idea, here are some research links broken down by
area of study.
Bunson
Bob's Science Hunt
This site has ideas about displays, projects and lots of other tips.
Science Fair Center
Start hypothesizing!! One of the best K-12 resources on line.
Science Fair Projects-Blueprints and Ideas
Offering Science Fair Projects and Ideas for students pre-school thru 9th
grade.
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Favorites from Riverdeep Flyer
Elementary
Writing Checklist
http://teachers.net/gazette/MAY03/
images/WritingChecklist.pdf
Have your students correctly spaced their words?
Have they
used capitals and periods where necessary?
How is their
spelling? And does the writing make sense? Students will
have their own writing checklist in order to self-edit
their writing from the early elementary grades,
taking
responsibility for acquiring good writing habits.
THE
GINGERBREAD MAN
READERS' THEATER SCRIPT:
http://www.readinglady.com/Readers_Theater/
Scripts/The_Gingerbread_Boy_Play.pdf
To be more accurate, this Readers' Theater script is about a
Gingerbread Boy,
though of course it could also be the Gingerbread Girl.
Consider adding this play, short enough for early elementary
students,
to your holiday lineup of performances. |
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Barbara
Barr's December Holiday Page! Lots of Great Stuff!!
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Great Online
activities and lesson plans
Mad Minute
Visual Fractions
Building Big
From PBS's
series:
Explore large structures and what it
takes to build them with BUILDING BIG
Incredible Elementary Art Lesson Plans
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Looking
for some Great Math Manipulatives to print? Check these out!
Hand
Made Manipulatives
Really
Big Clock Face
Fractions
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Freebies from Teacher
Created Materials
Brainteaser
Example Map Pages
Reading Activities
And
more Reading (and a letter writing activity)
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