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December 2004
Volume 1 No. 5
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Only
3 More Weeks!!!
I've been working on some curriculum connections aligned
with Fayette County's Curriculum Map. Check
them out here! You may also check my schedule
page to see when I'll be visiting.
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UNITED
STREAMING
Some movies you might use for this month:
(Hint:
When you go to the site, copy the title from here and past the
title into the search box.)
Thanks
to Diane Hendrix for the list!
Christmas
Tales from Foreign Lands: AnUntold 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 |
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
 
Tech Tip #30--Easier Ways to Highlight
Do you have
problems highlighting a long passage sometimes where
the mouse seems to either get a small part of the passage or
goes too
quickly all the way down the page? Here are a few
solutions to
make highlighting easier:
- Hold the
shift key down and use the arrow keys to highlight.
Or even put your cursor at the beginning, hold shift
down and
click at the end of the passage and it will be
highlighted.
Reduce the size
of the page you're looking at to 50%
so you see the whole page. (There's a percentage
drop
down on the toolbar at the top.) Then highlight.
Put your cursor
at the beginning of where you want to highlight
and then hit the F8 function key at the top of your keyboard.
Then use the arrow keys on the keyboard to highlight the
part you want.
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Barbara
Barr's December Holiday Page! Lots of Great Stuff!!
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Research Indicates......
(thanks Barbara Barr for the
info)
In
Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow, when technology was integrated into
the curriculum
"...students’
behavior and attendance improved, along with their attitude toward
themselves and toward learning."
Apple
Classrooms of Tomorrow. (n.d.). Changing the Conversation About
Teaching, Learning, & Technology ~A Report on 10 Years of ACOT
Research ~ Retrieved on November 21, 2004 from:
http://images.apple.com/education/k12/
leadership/acot/pdf/10yr.pdf
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Looking
for some Great Math Manipulatives to print? Check these out!
Hand
Made Manipulatives
Really
Big Clock Face
Money
10
X 10 Graph
100
Day Activities
All
kinds of stuff: rulers, dice, fraction bars, spinners,
thermometers...
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It's
that time of year again, College Basketball Season. Please ask
me for suggestions on integrating basketball with any content area,
I have many ideas. First idea, Choose a favorite player, check
the newspaper after every game (or the internet) and keep a journal
of his/her stats. Later begin graphing in microsoft excel.
Great activity for centers.
PDF
file with basketball-math lessons
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