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Thought for the Week
Get happiness out of your work or
you may never know what happiness is.
-- Elbert Hubbard
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Attention New Principals and LeadTech Principals! Register
Now!
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 Electronic
Portfolios for Administrators
This workshop will guide administrators through the
development of an electronic portfolio using a template (for
LeadTech or Principal Induction). Participants should bring
their resume and any other electronic documents they have
that to include within the portfolio. (ex. a picture of
yourself, faculty meeting agendas, powerpoints)
Location: Calcasieu - Lab A
Sponsor: Region V TLTC
CLU Hours: 2
Date(s): 2/23/2005 - 2/23/2005
Time: 1:30:00 PM - 3:30:00 PM
Register at:
www.cpsb.org/regionv Click on "Course Registration." |
Preparing for Standardized Testing
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 TEAMS
Teaching Circles offers resources to help you and your
students prepare for Standardized Testing. Resources
include: video clips for testing strategies, web resources,
student practice sites and professional articles including
release test questions, sample questions, practice tests,
tutoring lessons for LEAP 21, The Iowa Tests, GEE 21 as well
as testing information, testing accommodations, testing
schedules and links to NAEP.
Log-in at
http://teachingcircles.lacoe.edu and select either
preK-3 or 4-8.
Go to the eWorkshop: Engaging, Supporting and Assessing
Student Learning. Scroll down to (5) “Preparing for
Standardized Testing”.
Logging into the site to access these and many resources
requires registration. Registration is free. To obtain
registration information, email Pam Nicholson at
pam.nicholson@cpsb.org. |
ResearchBrief
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ResearchBrief is a Web-based publication designed to
offer field-based practitioners and policymakers focused
summaries of original, interdisciplinary, high-quality
research. The most recent question addresses the following:
How do the professional experiences of new teachers differ
in high- and low-income schools, and what are the
implications for retention? |
Adobe Reader
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 Adobe
Reader is the free download that allows you to view/read PDF
documents but not create them. To create PDF files, you will
need to purchase Adobe Acrobat. Adobe has just
released Adobe Reader Version 7.0. To download this latest
version, go to:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. |
Neptune’s Web
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 What
is oceanography? Oceanography begins at every shoreline. It
is the science of the oceans, their interaction with the
atmosphere above and the seafloor sediments below, their
chemical make-up, their biological contents, their physical
properties and motion, their creation, their past history
and development, their present state, and their future.
Neptune's Web is a site designed to engage your students in
the topic of Oceanography. It is a place to learn and
challenge their knowledge of the oceans and its many
mysteries. With this site it is “Full speed ahead!”
http://pao.cnmoc.navy.mil/educate/neptune/neptune.htm |
Microsoft Office Word Tip
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 If
you are a keyboard user, then this tip is for you. You can
quickly enlarge text in Microsoft Word and most other PC
text programs by first highlighting the text and pressing
and holding CTRL + Shift + >. You can also press and hold
CTRL + Shift + < to decrease the size of text. |
Looking for a great lesson plan for President’s Day?
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Check out Teacher’s Guide at
http://www.theteachersguide.com/presidentsday.htm
At this site you will find President's Day Thematic Units,
President's Day Lesson Plans, and President's Day
Activities. |
Trees are Terrific...Travels with Pierre
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 Let
me introduce you to Pierre - a lively acorn who gives kids
the low down on trees and why we need them. Young children,
5-8 years old (K-2) learn the parts of a tree, all about
leaves and how trees change during the different seasons. It
is a wonderful way for young students to learn about trees.
(Also available in Spanish...)
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/trees1 |
Excel Tip
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 You
can use Excel's COUNTIF function to compare the frequency of
specific data in a field. For example, say you've set up a
worksheet that tracks members' attendance at special events.
This database contains the following fields: First Name,
Last Name, Event, and Event Date. The Event field contains a
code-name for each of the club's events (such as Golf for a
golf outing, Picnic for the annual picnic, and Dance for the
annual Christmas ball). To determine how many members
attended each event, follow these steps:
- Select the column that
contains the Event data.
- Click the Name box,
type Data, and press [Enter].
- Select a blank cell,
click the Name box, type Event, and press [Enter].
- Select another blank
cell and enter the following formula:
=COUNTIF(Data,Event)
To count the number of Golf
Outing attendees, enter Golf in the Event cell. The COUNTIF
function counts all of the occurrences of Golf in the Data
range to return a total of all attendees to that event.
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Save All Open Word Documents and Templates Simultaneously
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We've
all had the unfortunate experience of losing changes to a
document because of a power surge or application error, and
we all know that the key to minimizing damage from these
events is to save frequently. When you're working in
multiple Word documents at once, there's a fast way to save
all the documents at the same time rather than manually
saving each document. To save all of them at once, press and
hold down [Shift], and then select File | Save All from the
menu bar. |
Spell Check All the Sheets in At Once in Excel
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If
a workbook contains several sheets, you probably spell check
each sheet individually. However, if you'd like to spell
check an entire workbook, first right-click on any sheet
tab, and then choose Select All Sheets. Then, simply press
F7 to launch the spell checker. After spell check is
complete REMEMBER to right-click on any sheet tab and then
choose Ungroup Sheets. |
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 670
infected computers out of a total of
9475 OfficeScan clients.
 The
latest OfficeScan pattern as of
2-16-2005 is pattern
2.410.00. 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)
CREATIVE
SPELLING LESSONS:
http://atozteacherstuff.com/lessons/Spelling.shtml
Find a collection of creative spelling games here for grades K
through six, with Sparkle, Glow-in-the-Dark Spelling, Silly
Sentences, Spelling Relays, Shaving Cream Spelling, and more.
SPARK INTEREST IN SPELLING:
http://www.educationworld.com/a_special/spelling.shtml
You can find numerous methods to make spelling lessons more
appealing to your students, helping them to become better spellers
at the same time. This site has collected a wealth of tips, tricks,
games, and strategies to help your students become better spellers.
HIGH FREQUENCY WORD INSTRUCTION:
http://www.readinga-z.com/more/highfreq_strat.html
Find tips here for successfully teaching high frequency words, along
with engaging activities for word walls and/or spelling lessons.
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