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Issue 18,
Volume 5
January
6, 2004
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Thought for the Week
"The aim of education should be to
teach us rather how to think, than what to think." -- Bill
Beattie |
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Attention K-2 Teachers! Learn AnyTime, AnyWhere! Earn 12
CLUs!
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 Online
Professional Development: Online Moderated Workshops
Region V TLTC and CPSB Tech Center announce the Spring
schedule. Choose from 8 workshops.
(Online Courses via Blackboard)
These 6
week workshops will be conducted online via Blackboard.
(Most workshops require only 1-2 hours of online contact
each week.) The cost
of each course is $50.00.
To view the courses offered or to register, go to:
http://www.cpsb.org/resources/regionv and click on
Course Registration in the left frame (if you have not
created an account, it is extremely important to do so
before registering). Then, click on Register for
Institutes, Online Workshops or Graduate Credit
Courses. |
Visit the Electronic Campus
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 The
SREB-State Teacher Center (www.TheTeacherCenter.org) at
SREB’s Electronic Campus (www.electroniccampus.org)
is an online system that can help teachers — both veterans
and newcomers. Designed with the help of many at state
education agencies, it has the support of K-12 and higher
education agency leaders in all SREB states. It offers links
to online courses and programs; professional development;
information about financial aid; information about No Child
Left Behind and requirements for “highly qualified”
teachers; information about licensure, certification and
alternative routes to teaching; and numerous other online
services. The center allows educators to find all of the
resources on any SREB state —including the latest
information about every state’s ‘highly qualified’
requirements. |
Tech Tip for Students
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 Are
you tired of your students typing in an URL spending
valuable class time making typing errors? When using web
sites, make an electronic list of the URL's in Word so you
can click on them as links OR have them marked as favorites
in your web browser ahead of time. |
Happy New Year
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The Tech Support Center would
like to thank everyone in the district for helping us have a
great year with technology. Of course there have been some
changes in our system as you have all been aware and despite
this you all have streamed right along with ease. We would
like to thank you for your patience with repairs, help desk
issues, networking, and other policies and procedures that
have been implemented. We will continue to improve our
service and network every day and with your helpful support
we know we will be able to achieve this goal. From: Scott
Schonefeld, Mike Gray, Layton Hebert, Jason VanLeuven, Nancy
Rougeau, Wendell Christian, Jacob Tyree, Michael Franks,
Jerry Baus; we hope you had a Merry Christmas and Happy New
Year!!!!! We look forward to another great year. |
Personal Educational Press
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You can make flashcards, game
boards, quizzes, etc... from pre-selected words or you can
edit the lists with your own. This site is also great for ESL
students words.
http://www.educationalpress.org |
Avoid the My Documents Default In MS Word
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 When
you choose "Save As" or "Open", Word automatically opens the
"My Documents" folder in the resulting dialog box. If you
tend to work from a folder other than "My Documents", you'll
save valuable time by setting that primary folder as your
default.
To do this, choose Tools | Options from the menu bar, and
click on the "File Locations" tab. Select "Documents" from
the File Types list box and click "Modify". In the "Modify
Location" dialog box,
open your preferred folder, then click "OK". Click "OK" to
close the Options dialog box. Each time you start Word, it
opens the folder you designated as the default working
folder the first time you
access the "Open" or "Save As" dialog box.
Regardless of which folder you've selected as the default,
Word remembers which folder you navigate to during your Word
session and sends you there for subsequent saves or opens.
For example, if your default is the C: drive, that folder
opens when you first launch Word. But if you navigate to a
folder on your network to open or save a document, Word
opens that folder next time you click Save As or Open. When
you close and reopen Word, the "Save As" or "Open" dialog
box again defaults to the C: drive. |
No Flakes Like Snowflakes!
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 Few
things are as awe-inspiring as snowflakes, those miniature
masterpieces of symmetry. This activity invites students to
explore snowflakes from the inside by making their own. An
integrated math, science, art, and computer skills activity
providing students with experience in key concepts of
geometry, including symmetry, angles, and scale, and expose
students to the structure of snowflakes (regardless of
weather conditions!).
http://www.microsoft.com/education/flake.aspx |
Create Check Boxes in Excel
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 Are
you looking for a great way to get a yes or no decision from
an end user? Try presenting your question in the form of a
check box. If the user selects the box, the answer is yes.
You can store the result of the decision as a value in a
cell and use that value in your code or calculations.
To see how the check box
works, open a blank worksheet, go to View | Toolbars, and
choose Forms. Click the Check Box tool once, and click and
drag in the worksheet to draw a check box. When you release,
click the Forms toolbar's Control Properties tool, or
right-click the new check box, and choose Format Control.
You'll have plenty of time
later to tweak the text associated with the check box. Your
first order of business is to tell Excel where to store the
check box's "state." On the Control tab, enter A1 in the
Cell Link field, and click OK.
When you select the check
box, you'll see the value in A1 change to TRUE when checked
and to FALSE when unchecked. You can use that value in your
formulas. For example, you can display a custom message with
a formula such as the following:
=IF(A1,"Checked
message","Unchecked message")
By the way, the check box
Control Properties also let you set the initial value
(state) for the check box. If you choose Mixed, the check
box will initially appear grayed out and return a value of
#N/A to the linked cell, which tells you that the item is
neither checked nor unchecked. |
Story Starters
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Teachers and students will be
delighted to find the numerous ways this site gives us to
begin a story. There are 248,832 different story starters
that can help spark the interest for the makings of a great
story.
http://www.thestorystarter.com |
Palm Quick Tip
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 Everyone
has special dates or events on their Calendar that occur
every year, week (or every other week), or month. The
Calendar on the Palm handheld makes it easy to enter the
event one time and reoccur as you request. Simply launch the
Calendar, add your new event, and then tap on Details. Tap
on the down arrow next to Repeat (on some calendars, you
will just need to click on the box next to Repeat) and you
will be provided with the following choices: Daily until,
Every week, Every other week, Every month, Every year, and
other. When you click OK you will notice that event has been
added as you requested. |
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 466
infected computers out of a total of
9696 OfficeScan clients.
 The
latest OfficeScan pattern as of
1-05-2005 is pattern
2.331.00. 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)
LITERATURE
RESPONSES:
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/SCORE/actbank/sliterat.htm
Try something new for your students' literature responses with these
activities. Choices include Geometric Characters, Interrupted Book
Reports, Dialog Jackets, Found Poems, Literary Report Cards, and
Collaborative Talks.
CYBERGUIDES FOR GRADES 4 TO 5:
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cy45.html
Are you looking for some extra teaching materials to help you round
out a novel, perhaps "Miss Rumphuis", or "Dragon Wings"? Find an
extensive list here of possible novels, each accompanied by great
teaching resources.
WEATHER HERE AND THERE:
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Edu/RSE/RSEred/WeatherHome.html
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/home.rxml
http://archive.globe.gov/tctg/tgtoc.jsp
A series of six lesson plans form the core of this unit on weather,
each including student hands-on activities. Topics cover
characteristics of the earth's atmosphere, forecasting and
broadcasting weather, and more. Use the 2nd URL above for
information on clouds and precipitation; the 3rd URL above to access
data sheets on atmosphere, hydrology, & GPS, as well as lab and
field guides.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A STORM COMES?
http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/weatherstation.html
Students can make their own weather prediction and measurement
tools, as well as learn about air pressure and weather conditions.
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