Tech Tips

Another Keyboard Shortcut

   Ever signed up for anything online and you had to choose the state where you are located?  So you click the drop down button and scroll through the A through K states to get to Kentucky.  A faster way is to tab to the state box, hit the K key which will bring up Kansas.  Hit the K key again and Kentucky appears!  Then just tab onto the next cell to be answered.

Useful Things for Teachers

• Did you know that Turbo Tax offers free Tax Preparation and Online filing?  Check out all the others on the IRS page.

• Kentucky Revenue Service also has a page listing tax preparation software.

• Prompt Generator 

• Word Wall lists and cards 

• Colorful Printable Cards and board games for phonics

• Freeware- Memory Lifter - Use this software to creator question and answer sessions.  You can add voice to read the questions and even video clips.  

• Time Left is a count down alarm clock for your computer.  Also uses the atomic clock server to adjust the time on your computer.

• Be an Icon! Create your own ICONS (A trial software)

New Page & New Sites

Thanks Cammy Baxter for passing on this ESL site which can be a great resource for anyone.

Aaron Sheperd's Reader's Theatre

	If studying regions of the United States or any other concept that would require grouping of states, you might want to try the "Map Maker" Utility site that TRT Diana Hendrix found.  Teachers can use the site to create maps needed for lessons, or assign students to create the maps.
	The news of FCPS Digital Storytelling reached Mrs. Lewis at Madison Height Elementary  in Virginia last year.  She has worked on a DST project this year and has developed a website to share the work.

March's Desktop Wallpaper

To put this month's wallpaper onto your desktop, just go to the top of this web page and right click somewhere on the sky background.  Then choose "Set as Background". 

Go Cats!

Research

Mars Hill College provided a Digital Storytelling workshop for teachers last summer.  Find out what they are doing with their new skills and what they think about using the technique in their classroom.

News

Students Put Down Your Pencils

      Connecticut Governor will purpose to his General Assembly to buy a Laptop for each High School English Student.  "If we want our students to be on the leading edge of learning, we've got to provide cutting-edge technology and teaching innovation," Rell said. 

       This article notes, "Students write more when they use computers, Sternberg said, and when they write more they learn to become more clear and concise writers."

Curriculum Map

Change over Time

Sqirlz Morph Download - morph two pictures together to show change over time.  This is a trial version.  If you have a Hyperstudio license, you can find the same utility on the disc. Look for the file named MORPH. 

You can also find a copy of this Newsletter @ http://teach.fcps.net/trt18 

Remember to look for the following sites from one of the links on the homepage.

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Schedule

Johnson- March 9, 10, 22, 23       Dixie - March  14, 15, 24, 25

Mary Todd - March 1, 2, 16, 17, 28, 29    Northern - March 7, 8, 18, 21, 30, 31