e-news

 

 

from your
District Technology Resource Teacher

  Monday, January 21, 2002   

 

Celebrations

 Yates and Harrison have STLP student authors in the latest issue of TIPS.  You can see these GREAT articles at:

http://www.fayette.k12.ky.us/instructtech/TIPS/January/StudentsEyes.htm

http://www.fayette.k12.ky.us/instructtech/TIPS/January/STLP.htm

 

Lansdowne teachers are celebrating the acquisition of Kidspiration programs for every workstation in the lab.  We’re having a lot of fun exploring all the possibilities with this program.

 

Rosa Parks’s students can’t wait to get the results of their latest UltraKey test. Lori Rutherford tracks student progress on a bulletin board outside the lab.

 

E-mail Confusion

Having three Barbara Barr s in the Global Address book has never been easy!  And now there are four!  Since 2 of the Barbara Barr s are me, you now have at least a 50-50 chance of reaching the right one.  Mike Burke, our district e-mail guru, has been kind enough to add (Fayette) after my FCPS account.  The KDE e-mail address is also mine, but is really for the KDE Professional Development I am teaching.

 

Web Sites of the Week:

 

Know Play? Reference Lookup

http://www.kplay.cc/reference.html

Some pages hit at just the right time. Where else can you access (links to) an online dictionaries, thesauruses, rhyming dictionary, acronym, and artist lookup? The goal of this site is to simplify your life. It works for me.

 Grade Level: Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle School, High School, College, Adult/Professional

Content Area: English (Reading/Writing) [Dewey #808], Arts (Visual Arts), Technology (General)

Application Type: Reference

 

SNOW MATH:

http://riverdeep.net/current/2002/01/011402_snow.jhtml

 How hard did it snow in Buffalo ? Almost seven feet in December, enough to call in the National Guard to help with snow removal. Find out what "Lake Effect Snow" is,

and compute the averages for snowfalls per hour, convert measurements, and interpret weather maps in this winter special from the Riverdeep Current.

 

BINGO LEARNING:

http://www.teachnet.com/powertools/neattools/blankbingo.html

 These printable Bingo card templates can be used in a wide variety of ways in your classroom--try vocabulary words, spelling, power math questions--the uses are

up to you.

 

 

Ground Hog Day:

Official Site for Punxsutawney , PA

http://users.penn.com/~mweimer/

 

Includes history, poetry, and a web cast.

 

OFFICIAL GROUNDHOG SITE:

http://www.groundhogs.com/index.htm

 

Games, history, weather links, and other information.

 

GROUND HOG DAY FOR KIDS AND BY KIDS

http://www.groundhogsday.com/links.forkids.html

 

Links to an abundance of sites with games, activities, lesson plans, etc.

 

 

Schedule:

 

Monday, January 21                  Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday.  No  school

Tuesday, January 22                 Harrison

                                                (Completely booked)

Wednesday, January 23             Float Day (Yates, Central Office and Harrison)

                                                (Completely booked)

Thursday, January 24                Rosa Parks

Thursday, January 24         Make N Take P.D. at Rosa Parks 2:30 to 3:30

Super Door Prize

Friday, January 25                             Rosa Parks

Monday, January 28                  Float  (Yates, Lansdowne and Central Office)

                                                (Completely booked)

Tuesday, January 29                 Yates

Wednesday, January 30             Yates

Thursday, January 31                Float

Friday, February 1                    Lansdowne

Monday, February 4                  Lansdowne

Tuesday, February 5                 Float

Wednesday, February 6             Harrison

Thursday, February 7                Harrison

Friday, February 8                    Float

 

 

Have a GREAT week!

Barbara
Barbara K. Barr
District Technology Resource Teacher
Fayette County Public Schools
701 East Main Street
Lexington, KY  40502-1669
Cell/Pager:  859.983.3602
Fax:  859.381.4763
E-mail:  bbarr@fayette.k12.ky.us
Web Page:  http://www.fayette.k12.ky.us/instructtech/trt4 

 

 “I touch the future. I teach.”

Christina McAuliffe, American teacher and astronaut