Barbara Barr, Technology Resource Teacher
Fayette County Public Schools
Instructional Technology
701 East Main Street, Lexington, KY  40502
Cell Phone/Pager:  859.983.3602   FAX: 859.381.4763 
E-mail:bbarr@fayette.k12.ky.us       Website:http://teach.fcps.net/trt4/
Archived newsletters are available at http://teach.fcps.net/trt4/enews.htm

Thursday, April 3, 2003

Congratulations to the STLPs at Harrison, Lansdowne, and Yates!  
They had   wonderful booths at the FCPS Tech Fair!

Great Things are Happening

Sherry Basore's Second Graders (Yates) recently completed Success With Keyboarding.  A number of her students have been clocked at 20 - 25 words per minute by Cathy Meccariello in the lab!

Second Graders in Beth Fritz's class (Harrison) learned about "production" and other aspects about Economics from: http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/
index.cfm?LessonTypeID=1

In Freda Asher's fifth grade class (Lansdowne), the students are reviewing what they have learned this year in preparation for testing.  Students are retelling important events in American History through projects such as plays, reports, PowerPoints, posters, or video.

TEACHER TAKE HOME PRIVILEGES INCLUDED IN VOLUME LICENSING FOR KIDSPIRATION & INSPIRATION

Have a 
safe and happy 
Spring Break!

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Web Sites of the Week

Open Response template

TEACHERS: These Open Response Templates will help to make it easier to design Open Response questions.  A special thanks to TRT Leanna Prater for designing the template, and to TRT Maggie Wilson for making it available on the web.

Scale Model of the Solar System

http://www.solarsystem.org.uk/index.php

K-12:  I saw this site demonstrated in Wanda Bishop's Third Grade (Lansdowne).  The site makes you feel like you are traveling through space!  A special thanks to Boyd Huffman & Susan Moore (Computer Lab at Lansdowne) for finding and sharing this site!

ON-LINE ACTIVITIES FOR SPRING

http://teach.fcps.net/trt4/Spring.Easter.htm

K-5:  Interactive activities for the season.  Most activities can be done independently by students at Centers or Stations!