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Thought for the Week
Do not throw the arrow which will
return against you.
-- Kurdish Proverb |
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Region V TLTC Announces Online Workshop
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 Region
V TLTC is offering the Online Moderated "Microsoft Word
Projects for the Classroom". This 6-week online moderated
workshop is designed to enhance the instructional program
within the K-6 classroom. Emphasis will be placed on how
Microsoft Word can be easily integrated into standards-based
lessons and extend a teacher's understanding of effective
use of educational technologies and strategies to meet the
needs of all learners.
The cost is $50 and you will be awarded 12 CLUs for
professional development for successfully completing the
course.
To register, go to
www.cpsb.org/resources/regionv and click on Course
Registration in the left frame. You will be prompted to
enter your account number (your SS# without the dashes). If
you don’t have an account you will need to create one at
this time. Finally, select Register for Institutes, Online
Workshops or Graduate Credit Courses. You will find both the
spring and summer sessions being offered. |
Programs that Should Not be Loaded on CPSB Computers
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 For
those of you that are having trouble with your computer you
may want to look in your add/remove programs to see if you
have these programs listed. To get to add/remove programs,
click on start, settings, control panel, and double click
add/remove programs, or start, control panel, and double
click add/remove programs. Click on the program and click
change/remove or remove.
- hot bar
- Web shots
- Data manager
- Precision time
- Comet
- Comet Cursor
- New.net
domains
- Screensavers
- Search bars
- Google search
(tool) bar
- Desk flag
- Weather bug
- Games "NOT
School related"
- Bonzi buddy
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- Gator
- Save now
- Bargin buddy
- Ad-Destroyer
- Httper
- NMPsoft
- Virtual
Bouncer
- Interstitial
Ad Delivery by N-Case
- Pad-Look ups
by N-Case
- NMPSoft
- IPIsight
- ZipClix
- 180Search
Assistant
- Star Ware
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For further assistance
please contact
tech.help@cpsb.org |
Win
a SMARTBoard for Your Classroom and MORE!
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 Attention 6th grade teachers!!!
Interested in a SMARTBoard for your classroom, opportunities
to collaborate with other 6th graders, and travel? Then
apply to participate in the SMARTer Kids Foundation
Connections program. Applications are due online prior to
March 1, 2005. For more information go to:
http://www.smarterkids.org/k12/connections |
Out on a Limb - A guide to Getting Along
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 This website is designed to help
teach youth how to better manage conflicts and challenges
they face on a daily basis. It has great teacher recourses
and the web videos show kids in kid language real examples.
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/conflict/index.html |
Win a Prize - Submit a Lesson Plan Utilizing United
Streaming and Inspiration
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 Grades 6-12 teachers -
Unitedstreaming needs your help! Unitedstreaming is getting
many requests from teachers who want to integrate
Unitedstreaming with Inspiration, a student software used to
build thinking skills and organize writing. If you
have used Inspiration and Unitedstreaming in a lesson,
submit a completed plan to
betsy_whalen@discovery.com and you will be eligible to
win a Discovery computer bag!
Lesson plans must include (but are not limited to):
- Name/Title
- Subject area
- Grade level
- Time requirements
- Materials needed
- Lesson objective(s)
- Lesson details and
procedures
- Extensions and
differentiators (if any)
- Assessment
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Make a Scrapbook of PowerPoint Slides on Your Desktop
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 If
you have a few slides you refer to regularly from a given
presentation, you can easily create a scrapbook of them on
your desktop in three easy steps. First, simply select the
slides you'd like to bring together from your presentation
using the [Ctrl] key to choose them in your slide sorter
pane. Next, drag them to your desktop. You'll notice a new
file called Scrap is created which contains only the files
you selected. You can rename the Scrap file if you wish, and
now you can get to just the slides you need without having
to open an entire presentation. |
Hands-on Crafts
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 Students can try their skills at
quilt designing, making pottery, weaving, or
basketry...online. Two studios explore both fiber and clay
arts; background information is included for each art.
http://www.handsoncrafts.org/001.htm |
Excel Tip
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 When
creating a chart, you don't need to confine yourself to
Excel's built-in titles. You can replace those titles with
free-floating text boxes that offer more formatting options.
To add a free-floating text box to your chart, follow these
steps:
Click anywhere within the
chart except a chart title or data label.
- In the formula bar,
type the text you want to appear in the text box, and
press [Enter]. A text box containing the text you
entered will appear in the middle of the chart.
- Move the text box to
the desired position in the chart.
- Double-click the text
box to open the Format Text Box dialog box.
- Add the desired
formatting, and click OK.
In addition, you can also
use the Drawing toolbar's functions to draw an arrow or a
line from the text box to another data element in the chart.
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Click & Type feature in Word
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 There's
a feature in Word that allows you to double-click any blank
space in your document to instantly create an insertion
point. However, there's a catch to using this feature. If
you're not able to Click and Type, then you are using Word's
Normal view. For some reason, you can only click and type in
Print Layout view or Web Layout view. Therefore, to use this
feature, select View > Print Layout or View > Web Layout in
the menu bar. If you still can't use Click and Type, go to
Tools > Options, then click on the Edit tab in the Options
dialogue box. Next, check Enable Click and Type (it's near
the bottom), then click OK. |
Civil War for Kids (Elementary)
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 The students in Mrs. Huber's
class at Pocantico Hills School in Sleepy Hollow, NY learned
about the Civil War and made a timeline of important events
from 1860 to 1865. The bar graphs contain data about the
North and the South in 1861. They looked at Civil War battle
victories, used mapping skills to examine the nation in
detail and made both Confederate and Union flags. They have
drawings of uniforms, short biographies of leaders, links to
other sites, and activity sheets.
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/civilwar/cwar.htm |
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 531
infected computers out of a total of
9315 OfficeScan clients.
 The
latest OfficeScan pattern as of
2-01-2005 is pattern
2.385.00. 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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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)
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