TechKnowledgy Idea

Using Immex in the Classroom

During this time of year, the computer lab is often busy and unavailable for student projects.  However, you can engage your students in the classroom in higher order thinking and problem solving using the Immex website.

Immex (Interactive Multi Media Exercises) is a web project created by UCLA.  The site provides a variety of problem sets across curriculum areas that can be used in a whole class approach or in a computer lab setting.  While you must register in order to use the site and schedule problem sets you want to use, it is completely free.  Using these sets is a great way to engage students and provide a new opportunity.  If you are interested in using this resource, please contact me and I will help you get started!  Below are just some of the available titles:

• Buffy's Millennium Party - intermediate and middle school levels, math, economics

• Commotion in the Ocean - K-1, determine correct sea animal

• Energy Crisis - 8th gr., find best alternative energy source for planet

• Eroding Earth - 4th gr., geology, rocks, landforms

• Mineral on 34th Street - 4th gr., mineral identification

• Monster Mash - 2nd - 4th, use process of elimination to determine who wins race; time, measurement

Web Resources

• Flashlight Readers - an interactive Scholastic website to promote reading in grades 3-5 with fun activities around popular books like Holes

• Create a Graph - students can use this website to experiment with different types of graphs, create their own and print them

• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - find fabulous interactive math manipulatives for K- 12 in areas of geometry, number & operations, algebra, measurement, and data analysis & probability

• Civil War - page of resources, many of which are topic specific for use my students doing re

• Middle Ages - page of resources for re, activities and more

Don't see what you're looking for?  Email me what you need and I'll be happy to find resources for you!

Tech Tips

End of Year Computer Clean Up

As the school year winds down and you prepare to leave for the summer, it's a good idea to do a little computer cleanup before you go.  Below are some tips that will help your computer function better in the fall.  If you need help with anything, please let me know!

• Take some time before you leave to sort through any documents you have saved in My Documents or on your school server.  Delete anything you no longer need.
• If you aren't already doing so, backup any files on your computer that you want to keep by also saving them to the server at your school.  Computers often move around in the summer or have problems in the fall, so it's a good idea to have back up copies.  If you need help with this, please let me know or contact your STC.
• Clean out your email.  Go through those messages your are saving and delete anything and everything you don't need.  Make sure you delete unneeded items in your Sent folder and make sure your deleted folder is empty.  Save email attachments you want to keep to your computer and/or server folder and delete them from email.  This will ensure your Inbox doesn't get too full over the summer if you aren't checking email on a regular basis.
• Take time now to clean out your Internet Temporary Files.  Open Internet Explorer.  Click on Tools, and then Options.  Click on the Delete Files.... button.  This may take a few minutes.

Schedule

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• Monday, May 2

• Tuesday, May 3

• Monday, May 9

• Tuesday, May 10

• Monday, May 16

• Tuesday, May 17

• Monday, May 23

• Tuesday, May 24

James Lane Allen

• Wednesday, May 4

• Thursday, May 5

• Friday, May 6

• Wednesday, May 18

• Thursday, May 19

• Wednesday, May 25

J. R. Ewan

• Wednesday, May 11

• Thursday, May 12

• Friday, May 20

Other Dates

• Staff Meeting - May 13

• Extended Employment - May 26, 31, June 1

• TEC Conference - June 2-3