Thought for the Week
Know your qualifications; realize your responsibilities; grasp your opportunities; banish fear to the side-lines--and success is inevitable.  --Jerome A. Waterman

Please remember to write down and store your email and log on password in a safe place for the summer. We always have many requests upon return to school to reset passwords because they have been forgotten. Due to the large demand to create accounts for new employees at the same time, your ability to check your email may be hindered.

Any email account that accumulates a large volume of email over the summer will be emptied.  If you are not going to check email over the summer, you should remove your name from listservs, etc. 

Remember, your CPSB email account can be used throughout the summer from any Internet connected computer!  To use your CPSB email account, go to www.cpsb.org and click on "Employee Email". 

IMPORTANT!!!!!  Viewing email this way will NOT remove your mail from the server!!!  Your mail box will continue to fill up.  To remove items from your mail box, select the item(s) you want to delete and click the "DELETE" icon then click the "Empty Deleted Item Folder" icon.  These icons are located near the top of the screen.

Have you received an email message warning you of a computer virus called JDBGMGR.EXE? The contents of the hoax message vary, but it advises Hotmail users of an email virus, JDBGMGR.EXE, that is spreading via MSN Messenger. It offers instructions on how to clean it from your system and suggests forwarding it on to contacts located in your address book. THIS MESSAGE IS A HOAX, AND TREND MICRO ADVISES USERS NOT TO FORWARD IT. JDBGMGR.EXE is the Microsoft Debugger Registrar for Java. It uses an icon of a bear. For additional information about JDBGMGR.EXE and other hoaxes, please visit Trend Micro at: http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/hoaxes/hoax.asp

ALWAYS CHECK WITH THE CPSB HELP DESK AT tech.help@cpsb.org BEFORE TAKING ANY ACTION ON OR FORWARDING ANY “VIRUS ALERTS.” MOST ALL OF THESE ARE HOAXES AND MAY CAUSE YOU TO DAMAGE YOUR COMPUTER BY FOLLOWING THE DIRECTIONS CONTAINED ANY MESSAGES. A GOOD THING TO REMEMBER IS THAT ANYTIME YOU GET A MESSAGE THAT ASKS YOU TO SEND IT TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW, STOP THEN AND THERE BECAUSE THE MESSAGE PROBABLY HAS FAKE INFORMATION.

Featured Sites: (These sites were submitted by teachers in Calcasieu Parish)

VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS: http://www.field-trips.org/
--> If you are teaching summer school and cannot get out there traveling, then think about taking a virtual adventure with your students. This particular virtual field trip explores natural wonders of the world, and students will learn much about ecosystems, the rock cycle, volcanoes, glaciers, and more, as they visit Mt. Fuji, Mt. Kiliman-jara, Mt. Everest, Victoria Falls, the Great Barrier Reef, and more. Now, who said you weren't doing any traveling this summer?

QUICK WORLD MAPS: http://www.theodora.com/maps/
--> If you are looking for world maps, country maps, population maps, coloring maps, country flags... this is the place. This site offers a huge resource of all kinds of assorted mapping learning tools for classroom use.