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Issue 8,
Volume 5
October
7, 2004
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Thought for the Week
"The essence of teaching is to
make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another."
-- Marva Collins |
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TNT6
Was a Huge Success!!
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 600+ attendees enjoyed the best that technology has to offer in
Southwest Louisiana. Teachers, Para-professionals,
Administrators and McNeese Students participated in 129
sessions that empowered them to become more productive through
the use of technology. Congratulations to Dolby
Elementary Teacher, Angela Schmitt, the door prize winner of the
TNT6 grand prize...a
brand new Dell desktop computer!! Stay Tuned!! - We have
already begun planning for TNT7!! |
Apply for Classes Now!
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Region V TLTC Graduate Credit Courses:
Winter Quarter:
December 4, 2004-February 12, 2005
Limited Registration!
Apply now at
the Region V website
http://www.cpsb.org/regionv. Click
on "Course Registration."
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The
Region V Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center
will be offering two online professional
development, graduate credit courses entitled,
“Curriculum Enhancement with Technology” and
"PBL (Project Based Learning) in Action" .
Participants will receive three hours of graduate
credit, per course, from Louisiana Tech that can be
counted towards plus 30 certification.
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ONLINE - Graduate Credit |
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EDUC 489C:
Special Topics Project Based Learning in Action
Project-based learning in Action (PBL
in Action)
will provide teachers the opportunity to network
with other colleagues about instructional strategies
proven to impact student achievement. PBL in
Action is based on increasing student
achievement by focusing on curriculum standards and
is designed to show educators how technology can be
melted into the present curriculum in such a way
that the two become seamless.
Go to
http://www.cpsb.org/regionv/online_course/pbl_syllabus.htm
to view the complete course syllabus.
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Tuition for each course
is $365.00 plus a $20.00 application
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Selection
Criteria/Requirements to participate: |
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To
apply, go to
http://www.cpsb.org/regionv
and click on "Course Registration"
by noon on Tuesday, November
9, 2004.
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All
participants MUST have an
active email account, access to the
Internet after hours. Participants
in the Curriculum Enhancement with
Technology course MUST have
PowerPoint software.
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If you are
selected to participate in either
course, you will be notified via email
on Wednesday, November
10, 2004 by 4:00 p.m.
For
further information, feel free to
contact Kim Leblanc,
kim.leblanc@cpsb.org. |
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Keyboard Shortcuts for Microsoft Excel
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To Copy Data:
- Fill down - Ctrl +
D
- Fill right - Ctrl
+ R
- Copy formula above
- Ctrl + '
- Copy value above -
Ctrl + "
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 To
Format Numbers:
- General - Ctrl +
Shift + ~
- Currency - Ctrl +
Shift + $
- Percentage - Ctrl
+ Shift + %
- Date (d, m, y) -
Ctrl + Shift + #
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Congress for Kids
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 Learning
about the federal government doesn't have to be boring.
Congress for Kids gives you access to interactive,
fun-filled experiences designed to help you learn about the
foundation of our federal government and how its actions
affect you. Although designed for students in grades fourth
through high school, other students, teachers, parents, and
interested citizens will find helpful, engaging activities,
too.
http://www.congressforkids.net |
Speak Up
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 NetDay's
mission is to connect every child to a brighter future by
helping educators meet educational goals through the
effective use of technology. In 1995, NetDay inspired a
grassroots volunteer effort to wire the nation's K-12
classrooms for Internet access, launching a national
movement. Over 500,000 volunteers wired more than 75,000
classrooms in 40 states from 1996 to 2001. Today NetDay
balances hands-on, school-based projects and national
awareness initiatives. To learn more about NetDay Speak Up
Day for students Oct 11 - Oct 29, 2004 go to:
http://www.netday.org/about_netday.htm |
Hiding the Popup Menu Button During a Presentation
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 The
popup menu button that appears in the bottom-left corner of
your slides in Slide Show view can be helpful during a
presentation, but it can also be distracting. Fortunately,
hiding it so your audience doesn't have to see it on every
slide is a simple procedure. To hide the button, choose
Tools | Options to launch the "Options" dialog box. Click on
the "View" tab, deselect the "Show Popup Menu Button" check
box in the "Slide Show" panel and click "OK". In PowerPoint
2001, choose Edit | Preferences to launch the "Preferences"
dialog box, click on the "View" tab, select "No Slide Show
Controls" from the spin box in the "Slide Show" panel and
click "OK". Now the next time you watch your presentation in
Slide Show view the bottom-left corner of your slide will be
clean of and unimpeded by the popup menu button. If
you'd rather leave the popup menu button displayed by
default, you can temporarily hide it during a presentation.
To do so, simply press Ctrl +H ([command]H on the Mac) to
hide the button, and then press Ctrl+A ([command]A on the
Mac) to make it reappear. Note that these keyboard shortcuts
also make the arrow on your slide disappear and reappear. |
The Pumpkin Patch
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 Robert
Pinsky, a contemporary American poet, believes that poetry
is a medium for transmitting vital information across
generations. But how do we help our students understand why
people read poetry, or how poetry can help them to see a
subject in a new way? This fall season you can help your
elementary students enjoy poetry with Pumpkin Patch. This
site has a collection of student generated poetry to enjoy,
as well as helpful information for teachers who are ready to
have their student jump right into the poetry patch.
http://www.kids-learn.org/pumpkins/welcome.html |
Moving and Resizing Autoshapes with the Mouse
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 Word
2002 (and later) comes with a wealth of AutoShapes that you
can use to build flow charts, room plans, and banners for
your letterheads. These AutoShapes come with sizing
handles that appear when you select the object. By
manipulating the sizing handles with the mouse, you can
change the size, shape and position of an AutoShape to build
your own custom drawings.
- To change the size of
an AutoShape, click the object to make the handles
visible. Then, click and drag one of the sizing handles
to the desired size. Depending on which handle you
select, you may end up distorting the image when you try
to enlarge or reduce it. To resize an object without
changing its proportions, press [Shift] while dragging a
sizing handle. To resize without changing the object's
position, press [CRTL] while dragging a sizing handle.
- To change the shape of
an AutoShape object, drag the yellow, diamond-shaped
reshaping handle (e.g., dragging the yellow handle can
change the length of an arrow head.). Drag the green,
round rotation handle to rotate the object.
You can also use the mouse
to move or copy an object.
- To move an object:
place the mouse pointer anywhere over the object but not
over a handle. When the pointer shows a cross-arrows,
click and drag the object to the desired position. Or,
you can simply select the object and press the arrow
keys to move it to the desired position.
- To copy an AutoShape,
place the mouse pointer anywhere over the object but not
over a handle. When the pointer displays cross-arrows,
press [CTRL] and drag the copy of the object to the
desired location.
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Display Fractions in an Excel Spreadsheet
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Microsoft
Excel can display fractions using numerators and
denominators, rather than as decimals. When students need to
see real fractions in cells, let Excel take care of the
formatting for you. This special way of formatting numbers
will especially come in handy when you need to add,
subtract, multiply, or divide fractions. To use the
"Fraction" format:
- Select the cells where you
want to enter fractions, and then select Cells from the
Format menu.
- Click Fraction in the
Category list, and then, from the list on the right, select
the type of fraction that you would like to display.
- Click OK.
Now you are ready to type
fractions in these preformatted cells. To type fractions in
cells, just type the numerator, followed by a slash (/),
then followed by the denominator—do not type spaces.
For example, 1/2 would represent one-half, as would 4/8
(Excel reduces fractions to their lowest terms). If you need
to type a whole number and a fraction in one cell, type the
whole number followed by a space, and then type the fraction
(numerator, slash, denominator). |
Top Ten Viruses Found on CPSB Computers
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top ten viruses found on CPSB computers in the past 7 days.
The stats are based on 848
infected computers out of a total of
9145 OfficeScan clients.
 The
latest OfficeScan pattern as of
10-06-2004 is pattern
2.188.00. 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 different than this, 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)
THE GREAT
PUMPKIN PATCH:
http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2001/10/102201t_pumpkins.jhtml
Charlie Brown would surely appreciate these giant pumpkins, though
he might have to consider how he could move a one-thousand pound
pumpkin in order to enter it into the great pumpkin fair. Pumpkins
are a very serious business at these fall festivals, and your
students can get involved by measuring the world's largest pumpkins,
estimating weights and circumferences of your own class pumpkins,
and linking to spectacular designs for jack-o-lanterns.
THEMATIC UNIT ON BATS:
http://www.tlgrant.r9esd.k12.or.us/english1/vonlubke/bats/batstext.html
Cover the essentials through a question and answer period on how
bats fly, if they are really blind, and how they smell and hear,
etc. Background text is supplied, along with a suggested list of
student activities across the curriculum.
SPIN A WEB WITH SPIDERS:
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/ScienceSpiderWebsK5.htm
In this science investigation, students will make classroom
observations on how a spider actually spins its web. They will need
to build the correct habitat first, and of course you will have to
catch a spider. Discuss the scientific method and record your
observations with this excellent lesson plan.
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