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Thought for the Week
All of us do not have equal
talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to
develop our talent."
-- John F. Kennedy
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Region V Educators Receive State Honors
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 Three
educators from Region V received state honors from Three
educators from Region V received state honors from the
Louisiana Association of Computer Using Educators at the
20th Annual LACUE Conference held December 2nd & 3rd in
Alexandria, Louisiana. Dr. Yixin Zhang from McNeese
State University was named Louisiana Post Secondary Teacher
of the Year, Kathie Istre from Dolby Elementary
received the Louisiana Educator of the Year award and
Julie Turnage from Our Lady Queen of Heaven was named
Louisiana Elementary Teacher of the Year. Pictured with the
award winners are Kim Leblanc, Region V TLTC Coordinator,
Jude Theriot, Calcasieu Parish Superintendent, Pam
Quebodeaux, Dolby Elementary Principal and Region V LACUE
Board Member and Sheryl Abshire, CPSB Administrative
Coordinator of Technology and new LACUE State President. |
Recent CPSB Email Issue
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 You
may have already received a "bounce back" on some of your
emails with the phrase: “InterScan Messaging Security Suite
cannot retrieve this message due to the administrator’s
policy setting.” The reason was we recently changed the
virus protection on the mail server and the settings were
set to high by default. You may want to resend any messages
that bounced back to ensure delivery. |
Registration Now Open! PalmQuest!
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  PalmQuest
is an integration project for classroom teachers. This
handheld institute will provide classroom teachers with an
overview and working knowledge of the functionality of a
Palm handheld to support student learning. PalmQuest
consists of a two-day face-to-face institute (April 14 and
April 15), followed by a four-week online course (April
16-May 12) and a half-day follow-up face-to-face training
(May 12 from 8:00-11:30).
Registration cost is $500.00 which includes a Palm Zire 72.
For further details and to print a registration form visit
http://www.cpsb.org/regionv/palmquest/brochure.pdf
Registration is limited. Participants are not officially
registered for the institute until the Registration form and
payment have been received. The registration deadline is
March 4. Mail registration form and $500.00 check to:
Region V TLTC
Attn: Kim Leblanc
600 South Shattuck
Lake Charles, LA 70601 |
Christmas PowerPoint Themes
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 Looking
for a Christmas theme to use in a power point presentation
for your students? Brainy Betty offers hundreds of free
downloads and resources for PowerPoint templates,
presentation backgrounds, graphics, and much more. Take a
look at this site- you will definitely want to bookmark it
for future use.
http://www.brainybetty.com/powerpointchristmasthemes.htm |
Palm Tip
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 Each
time you sync your handheld, all applications are examined
for changes and sometimes this takes a bit of time. However,
you can cut down on HotSync time by specifying precisely
which applications are to be synchronized with your
handheld. To do this, launch the Palm Desktop application on
your computer, go to HotSync from the menu bar, and choose
"Custom". Here you can change how each applications
synchronizes. If you want the changes to remain, be sure to
check the "Default" option. |
The Academy of Natural Sciences
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 The
Academy of Natural Sciences' website was built especially
just for kids! This site has special activities for
families, programs for Boy and Girl Scout groups,
information about the types of scientists that work at the
Academy and much more! Visit the site at:
http://www.acnatsci.org/kids/index.html |
PaintShop Pro Tip
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Easily Resize your Brush:
While painting on an Art Media Layer, you can resize your
brush quickly and easily between strokes without lifting the
brush and manually resizing on the "Tool Options" palette.
To resize the brush, press and hold "Alt" key. Now press and
hold the left mouse button and move the mouse up or down -
this resizes the brush head starting from your current size.
To gradually change the brush size one pixel at a time,
press and hold "Alt" and use the "X" and "C" keys to adjust
the brush. |
Play and Learn at the Literacy Center
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 Developing
skills in phonics and phonemic awareness are important to
building sound skills in fluency and comprehension. This kid
friendly, interactive site will engage even the most
reluctant student.
http://www.literacycenter.net/lessonview_en.htm |
Develop Best- And Worst-Case Models in Excel with Scenarios
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 Excel's
Scenario Manager lets you develop best- and worst-case
models of your data. For example, let's say you want to show
what your monthly payment would be for a $10,000 loan if
your current 6 percent interest rate falls to 5.9 percent or
rises to 6.1 percent. First, create a model for the
current interest rate. Follow these steps:
- Go to Tools |
Scenarios, and click the Add button.
- Enter a name in the
Scenario Name text box (for example, "Monthly payment
under current 6 percent rate").
- In the Changing Cells
section, enter the address of the cell that contains the
interest rate.
- Enter any comments in
the Comment text box, and click OK.
- The Scenario Values
dialog box will display the current rate next to the
address of the cell that contains the interest rate.
Click OK.
To create the best-case
model, click the Add button to return to the Add Scenario
dialog box, and repeat Steps 2 through 5, but change the
rate displayed in Step 5 to 5.9 percent. To create the
worst-case scenario, change the rate displayed in Step 5 to
6.1 percent. To view the scenarios, follow these
steps:
- Go to Tools |
Scenarios.
- Select a scenario from
the list, and click Show. The values in the spreadsheet
will change to reflect the value set in Step 5.
- To display a second
scenario, select it, and click Show. The values will
change accordingly.
- Close the Scenario
Manager when you're finished viewing each model.
To retain the original
worksheet values, return to the current value scenario
before closing and saving the worksheet. |
Download PowerPoint Presentations
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 Jefferson
County Schools have a huge collection of downloadable or
viewable PowerPoint presentations for grades K-12. The
presentations focus on the subject areas of language arts,
math, science, social studies, and the arts. There is also a
collection of interesting tutorials and teacher-tools in the
navigation bar to the right that you may want to view.
http://jc-schools.net/ppt.html |
Top Ten Viruses Found on CPSB Computers
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| Here are the
top ten viruses found on CPSB computers in the past 7 days.
The stats are based on 824
infected computers out of a total of
9492 OfficeScan clients.
 The
latest OfficeScan pattern as of
12-08-2004 is pattern
2.285.00. Please
check your pattern by placing your cursor over the
OfficeScan icon and viewing the pop-up window that appears.
If your pattern is significantly
LOWER than this
(A HIGHER PATTERN NUMBER IS OK), please
email tech.help@cpsb.org
regarding this or any other question you have regarding
OfficeScan.
 The
information shows the name of the virus, the number of
infected files found, and the percentage of the virus from
the total.
ALL school board employees need
to ensure that their Dell, Compaq, HP, IBM or other PC
classroom computers stay virus free. Go to the
following link to download the district copy of OfficeScan:
http://teacherlink.cpsb.org/officescan and your computer
will automatically be updated daily to scan for the latest
viruses. You must install the software using Internet
Explorer 4.0 or later (Netscape will not work!!!!!) Please
answer "Yes" to all prompts as the software installs. If you
have any questions, please contact the CPSB Help Desk at
tech.help@cpsb.org.
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Best on
the Net!! -- Visit this site for hundreds of websites
for teachers! We would love to hear from you about the best
educational sites you have found on the web. Please submit, via
email, the sites you feel merit inclusion. Send to
tech.connect@cpsb.org. Please include the URL and a short sentence
about the site.
Featured Sites: (These sites were
submitted by teachers in Calcasieu Parish)
CHRISTMAS
STORY STARTERS:
http://www.abcteach.com/Christmas/prompts.htm
Find twenty-five story prompts to keep your students writing on a
holiday theme during the month of December.
THE CHRISTMAS BLIZZARD:
http://home.flash.net/~helenket/cb-planner.htm
Students will conduct simple research, complete creative writing
exercises, practice geography skills, and complete student science
worksheets for this holiday-themed lesson plan.
MAKING RESOLUTIONS:
http://riverdeep.net/current/2001/12/123101_resolutions.jhtml
Everyone knows the familiar refrain as the New Year rolls around;
what are your New Year's resolutions? Learn much about calendars and
the whole process of making resolutions, and then find activities
and tips to help you and your students make and keep your own.
CHRISTMAS
AROUND THE WORLD:
http://northpole.net/world.htm
http://www.kidsturncentral.com/holidays/christmas/ccrafts18.htm
Click on any of the numerous countries included in this list to
learn new cultural holiday traditions. With a simple construction
paper tree cutout, you can create your own classroom advent calendar
for your door or bulletin board by including one of these traditions
for each day of December up to the 25th. Ask your students to
contribute their own family traditions for another unique take on
this holiday project. Use the 2nd URL above for an advent Christmas
tree template.
DR. SEUSS' HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS:
http://www.seussville.com/grinch/activities.html
If you plan to read the famous Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole
Christmas" story, you may want to check out these activities. There
are six Who-liday activities available to go along with the story.
Early elementary students will love the printable mask. They can
color it, add some string, and pretend to be the famous Grinch. You
can use these activities as a springboard to discuss the Grinch's
character and his actions. What makes him change in the story?
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