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Tech Note

To help prevent carpal tunnel in your hand use shortcut keys on your keyboard. For example if you want to copy something use your arrow key to put the cursor in front of the word you want to highlight then hold the shift button and press the arrow key until you have highlighted your word.

Highlight sentence: shift+end

Highlight document: ctrl+end

Copy: ctrl+C

Paste ctrl+P

Integration

Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches. That was the topic for lessons in Naomi Carroll, Teresa Gardiner and Janece Craig's second grade classroom at Mary Todd Elementary. The Mimio was posted on the board and students help write "How To Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich." The Mimio allowed the piece written on the chart paper to be printed via the computer so that students can keep a copy for reference. The teacher can also continue the lesson by having students make revisions on their personal copies as revisions are made on the chart paper.

Students in Lisa Baradarian's class at Arlington created a Clay Animation movie illustrating migration across the Bering Strait. Using Quick Time you can view the movie. To view the movie slower, you can click and drag the button on the bar at the bottom. Check out my new Clay Animation Information Page.

Sites Recommended by Others (Thank-You!)

Leanna Prater....."looks like it would be great to use with classes for readers theatre or tips for good story writing." http://www.aaronshep.com/

Also from Leanna ....."This page has some great "mini movies" on Colonial America that you can download and play. I viewed Paul Revere and it took a couple of minutes to download, but it was well worth it." http://earlyamerica.com/series.html

Dick Forston- The Secret Life of Numbers and Flong....."input a number, and the importance of the number related to various historical events, people, or other situations pops up."

Greg and Beth Drake- "Some good sites on technology ethics." http://www.doug-johnson.com/ethics/ and Kim Overstreet - "Here's one that's not on the list. " http://www.cybercitizenship.org/

Dayna Lykins- "This looks like a great site for elementary kids to explore for Thanksgiving." http://teacher.scholastic.com/thanksgiving/

Jan Ross- ".....Here's a great new site I just discovered. It has wonderful, interactive, educational games and projects as well as lesson plans and activities for teachers that can be printed out. There is math, science and language arts links. Click on "cartoons" to see the scientific expeditions Maggie goes on or "games" to see some great educational games." http://www.missmaggie.org/

Literacy First Idea

*** Check out Fayette County's TALK site for a Literacy First Lesson. Look for "Literacy First" in the column on the left of the screen. You can also search by objective/skills.

There is a link to the TALK site on the home page of this site.

New Additions to

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Teacher's Request | Kindergarten or Preschool: A to Z Kids Stuff for Preschool - first grade - hard copy material and free shareware downloads for alphabet recognition. AND Under Fives is a resource of ideas for early childhood teachers.
Teacher's Request | Kindergarten or Worksheets: Printable Shape Books and other things on www.shapesbook.com
Teacher Helper: Some free downloads
Teacher Helper |Solar System: Dust Bunny Planets ; Astronomy for Kids ; Astro for Kids;
Money Jeopardy for early primary-

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Writing

The Digital Story Telling Site is UP!

Poetry

Here is an "I Poem" format that works with most any grade level. Thanks to my Barren County friends for passing this on.

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New Site

J Photoshop is a great piece of software for Digital Art. You can download a free 7 day trial at the Computer Arts site. Also here you can find various Photoshop "How-To" tips.