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Issue 29
Volume 1
March
22, 2001
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Thought
for the Week
It
takes a special person who is willing to "C's"
(and seize) the day (carpe diem)
through C-ommitment, C-onviction, C-haracter,
C-onsistency, and C-onnectedness.
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The
Best Images on the Net... |
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 The
National Archives and Records Administration presents a luminous
"best of the best" collection of images tracing America's
20th century. Browse the collection by time period (A New Century, A
World in Flames), or peruse the portfolios of famous contributors like
Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and documentary photographer Danny
Lyon.
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/picturing_the_century/home.html
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CASE
SENSITIVE or not... |
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 To
change the case of a sentence quickly select the sentence and press Shift-F3.
The first time you press Shift-F3, the sentence will turn to
all caps. The next time you press Shift-F3 the sentence will
turn to all lowercase. Pressing the combination an additional time
will then display the sentence with standard capitalization (it begins
with a cap and others letters are in lowercase).
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LEADTech |
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LEADTech is a
professional development program for principals and superintendents
in the state of Louisiana. It
is a project of the Louisiana Department of Education funded by the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
If you are a principal and interested in this professional
development opportunity (you get a free laptop computer!), please go
the web site listed for further information and specifics about
registering online. The
application
deadline for participation the summer Cohort is Monday, April 2,
2001. http://www.lcet.doe.state.la.us/LEADTECH/
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Printing
Multiple Documents |
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 Did
you know that you can print multiple documents from within the same
folder without opening each document? To do this you just need
to hold down the CTRL key and left-click each document, then
right-click on each of the selected documents, then a
"Print" option will appear. You can then select this
option and each document will open successively and print. This
can be a real time-save if you have three or four documents to print.
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Math
Addict 5.3 |
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Do you have a
student who could use some help with math? Make learning math fun
with a program called Math Addict 5.3. This is a free math flashcard
program designed to help children learn addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division.
The program is adjustable -- the number of questions, the time, etc.
Your students will like the sounds and cool graphics.
http://www.jeremiahcalvino.com/mathaddict/index.htm
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Teaching
Technological Literacy In Schools Is Vital |
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 William
E. Dugger Jr. of the International Education Association discusses
the importance of
promoting technological literacy in schools and explains why setting
standards for technology education is vital to America's future.
Kappan (March 2001) http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/kdug0103.htm
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Article
Review |
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A
review of "Vision" from If You Don't Feed the
Teachers, They Eat the Students.
by Neila A. Connors. Incentive Publications, 2000.
To
address the topic of "Vision," one must encounter several
questions and arrive at viable solutions. The questions might
include:
- What
are we here for?
- What
is the present situation?
- How
can we better meet the needs of ALL students?
- What
is the vision of our faculty?
- What
do we need to change to get closer to our overall vision?
- How
can these changes be made?
- What
resources do we need to be successful?
- How
can we involve ALL in being successful?
- What
are the major setbacks?
- What
are the solutions?
- How
do we measure success?
Through
effective involvement, detailed planning, and a cooperative
environment, a school's mission can be transformed into a compelling
vision that has resounding results. As Warren Bennis says,
"Vision animates, inspires, and transforms purpose into
action."
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