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Thought for the Week
"The most pathetic person in the
world is someone who has sight but has no vision." -- Helen
Keller
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Teachers Participated in High Tech Hide and Seek Day
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 Region
V TLTC held it's first ever High Tech Hide and Seek
Day for teachers in the five parish region this past
Saturday. Participants began their adventure at the
Technology Training Center where they were introduced to the
sport of Geocaching.
After getting acquainted with the GPS, participants set out
to find the 15 Geocaches hidden by the Region V TLTC staff
as well as the six Geocaches that are registered at the
Official Geocache Site.
At the end of the afternoon, participants had to find the
final meeting place using only GPS coordinates (it was F.K.
White). They received a resource CD of GPS lesson plans and
prizes were awarded to teams finding the most caches,
earning the most points, funniest story, and most unusual
item found.
Mary Wilkinson and Susan Meche from the Career Center found
a Travel Bug in one of the caches. A Travel Bug is a
trackable item that moves from cache to cache, picking up
stories along the way. It's location is tracked at the
Geocache site and some Bugs travel all the way around the
world.
To view the photo album and find out more about this event,
visit:
http://www.cpsb.org/regionv/geocacheday |
Receive a Handheld Computer to Keep!
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 Experience
1-to-1 computing at its best! Register Now - Space Limited!
PalmQuest (Cycle 5)
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
(June 14 and June 15), followed by a four-week online
course (June 16-July 14) and a half-day follow-up
face-to-face training (July 26 from 8:00-11:30).
Registration cost is $500.00 (cost includes 1 night
lodging, meals, handheld computer, software, online
course, and training materials)
For further details and to print a registration form
visit
http://www.cpsb.org/regionv/palmquest/brochure.pdf.
Register at:
https://www.cpsb.org/techclasses/
Registration is limited. Participants are not officially
registered for the institute until the Registration form
and payment have been received. The registration
deadline is May 6. For questions
contact Kim Leblanc:
kim.leblanc@cpsb.org
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Students, Get Published! Teachers, Showcase Your Lesson
Plans!
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 Technology
& Learning invites K-12 students to participate in the fifth
annual digital photography contest sponsored by Adobe
Digital Kids Club. This year's theme, "Express Yourself,"
encourages you to capture and share your own unique vision
with our editors and readers. The contest is open to all
K-12 students who may submit up to three digital photos
taken between January 1, 2005 and October 15, 2005. The
subject of your photo is entirely up to you. For more
information go to:
http://www.techlearning.com/content/contest/photos
Winners: 12 winners will be
named, with 1 first place and 3 second place winners in each
of the following categories: elementary, middle school, and
high school.
First Place:
Student: wins Adobe Photoshop Elements and an Olympus
digital camera.
Student's school: wins an Adobe Digital Kids Club Digital
Photography Lab Kit, including 3 Olympus digital cameras and
accessories.
Second Place:
Student Winner: Student wins Adobe Photoshop Elements.
All Winners: Winning photos
will be featured in the December 2005 Awards Issue of
Technology & Learning magazine, a national publication with
over 81,000 subscribers, and online at techLEARNING.com and
Adobe Digital Kids Club Web site.
New! Calling All Creative Teachers! Adobe is inviting
educators to enter their digital photography lesson plans
that teach photo manipulation using Adobe Photoshop Elements
in a separate educator contest. Winners will be awarded the
newest version of Adobe Photoshop Elements software. Submit
directly to Adobe at:
http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/lessonplan |
Quick Calculations in Excel
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 You
can quickly sum any numbers in Excel. Hold down your "Ctrl"
key and click the cells containing the numbers you would
like to add (the Ctrl key allows you to select any cell on
the workbook). With the cells selected, look at the bottom
of Excel’s window. The sum of the selected cells
(SUM=”total”) appears along the bottom right side of the
status bar. Now, right click anywhere on the status bar for
additional options. |
Internet Explorer Tip
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 Automatically
enter the "www." and ".com" into an Internet Explorer's
address by typing the name of the page and pressing CTRL +
ENTER on the keyboard. For example if you type "google" and
then press CTRL + ENTER, you will automatically be sent to
the proper page. |
Print a Blank Calendar using Outlook
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 Did
you know you can use Outlook to print a blank calendar?
Blank calendars may be useful to take notes on or to consult
when you meet to discuss a project with your team.
- On the "File" menu, point
to "New", and then click "Folder".
- On the "Go" menu, click
"Folder List".
- In the "Folder List",
click the "Calendar" folder.
- On the "File" menu, point
to "Page setup", and then click the print style you want.
- Select the print style
options you want, and then click "Print".
- The "Print" dialog box
will appear in which you can select more options.
- To print multiple
calendars, select the start and end date under the Print
Range.
- Click "OK" to print.
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Junk Email Options
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 If
you have Microsoft Office 2003 then you have the "Junk
Email" option. Use this option to help protect you
against Spam Email. To determine the version of Outlook you
have, open Microsoft Outlook, click on "Help", and click on
"About Microsoft Office Outlook". Visit this site for
help setting the "Junk Email Options":
http://www.une.edu.au/itd/help/settings/filters.html#outlook.
Outlook 2003 is part of Office
2003. If you would like to purchase Office 2003, go
to: http://help.cpsb.org,
click on Tech Purchases, and under the Software Heading you
will see Office. For further questions, please
email tech.help@cpsb.org. |
Outlook Tip
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If
you have created a contact in Outlook and that contact
contains a fax number, Outlook views that number as a valid
email address. Because of this, both the email address and
the fax number will show up as separate contacts in your
address book. To remedy this, go into the contact
information and enter the word fax in front of the fax
number. This will remove the fax number entry from the
contact list of your address book, but not eliminate the
information. |
Freeplay Music
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 Freeplay
is a great source of music (mp3 format) for educational use.
Freeplay's musical compositions and recordings may be used
(broadcast, synchronized and/or copied) without fee, but
limited to school grounds and classrooms.
http://www.freeplaymusic.com |
PowerPoint Tip
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 To
copy an object on your slide quickly and easily instead of
using cut & paste, try this instead. Select the object you
want to copy by clicking on it. Hold down the "CTRL" key on
the keyboard. Click (with the left mouse button) and drag
the object to the new position. Now try it
again, but press the "Shift" key at the same time as the
"CTRL" key. This will keep the objects aligned.
This technique is great for
making diagrams etc. |
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 5154
infected computers out of a total of
10395 OfficeScan clients.
The
latest OfficeScan pattern as of
4-28-2005 is pattern
2.604.00. 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:
https://antivirus.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)
acrosticPOEMS:
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/acrostic
Build an acrostic poem online and print it out. This site walks the
student through the process of writing an acrostic poem and then
allows than to print their work.
GAMEQUARIUM:
http://www.gamequarium.com
Looking for some great teaching ideas? Check out Gamequarium.
Voted best site by USA Today!!
TEACHING MAY FLOWERS:
http://www.123child.com/easter/flow.html
Find all kinds of ideas here to celebrate May flowers in your
preschool classroom. Learn the parts of a flower as you grow seeds
in a see through container in your classroom, then make your own
popsicle flowers. Find songs here as well as ideas to celebrate
flowers across the curriculum.
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