Saving your favorites/bookmarks May 22, 2008
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Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve posted — I’ve gotten busy preparing for the big move. I probably won’t post too much more for the rest of the year unless something like today’s topic comes up. I’ll be back with lots of tips and great resources after we’ve gotten everything settled — hope you’ll join us then!
I believe every effort will be made to allow you to keep your current teacher station next year, but you may want to take a couple of precautions just in case that doesn’t happen.
1) Save any documents that are currently on your computer to your H (server) drive as a backup! (This is as simple as opening up two windows, one of your H drive, one of your My Documents folder. Highlight everything in your My Documents folder, click and drag it to your H drive.)
2) Export any favorites/bookmarks you have saved in your internet browser (Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox). I’ve created a couple of how-to documents on this topic and they are attached.
Saving your bookmarks in Firefox
Saving your bookmarks in Internet Explorer
I hope you find this helpful!
Katrina
Tech Terms April 7, 2008
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Ever wonder what the difference between a Megabyte and a Gigabtye is? What is a LAN? A thumb drive? Do all these technology related terms confuse you? Check out this online Glossary of Computer and Internet Terms. Terms are listed alphabetically and the definitions seem to be written in language most anyone can understand!
Picturing America March 26, 2008
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The Picturing America website is part of an exciting initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities to bring masterpieces of American Art into classrooms and libraries. The gallery is searchable by image, artist or theme, and each image includes additional information about both the image and the artist, and offers links to quality web resources related to either the image or the artist. This is an awesome resource not only for art lessons, but also as a place to get images to accompany lessons in other subject areas. This would also be a great source for students to get high quality images for projects. A link to this web resource has been added to our webpage: Media Center | Subject Area Links | Art Resources (under The Arts).
Lesson Plans Resource — Science March 24, 2008
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The ScienceNet Links Lesson Plans page contains science lesson plans sorted by grade level. Lessons are also tagged to show which offer printable student worksheets, electronic student worksheets, and hands-on activities. The main listing of lessons also includes national benchmark correlation information and can be sorted by benchmark. A link to this resource has been added to our webpage. (Teacher Resources | Internet Tools 4 Teachers | Science section)
Need a Map? February 28, 2008
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Most all of us have visited MapQuest or Yahoo maps to find maps and directions for an upcoming trip. The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection includes those and so much more! Not only does it list the commonly known mapping sites, it also lists other mapping sites and lists links to many sites with specialized maps, such as maps of the Toronto subway, bike trails in the Grand Junction, Colorado area, and other points of interest around the world.
Penny Postcards February 12, 2008
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Here’s a great resource for social studies units dealing with communities and individuals interested in genealogy and history. The Penny Postcards website allows users to search for communities by state and then county to find images of penny postcards from the past … take a trip down memory lane and see what your community looked like at another point in time.
A link to this web resource has been added to our web page under
… media| subject area links | history (found under the social studies category)
New Digital Cameras! January 24, 2008
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Through some savvy shopping by Rob the district was able to obtain several new Canon PowerShot digital cameras. Each of the buildings received multiple cameras with the exception of WECEC which received one (sorry, smallest population …) The cameras are available for checkout by staff through the media centers. Media staff also have access to the software that came with the cameras and will be happy to load the software onto your computer. The cameras are very user friendly and the software to move the pictures from the camera onto your computer is super easy to use! We hope you will take advantage of these new cameras and use them with your students!
Superbowl XLII facts from the Census Bureau January 23, 2008
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In recognition of our nation’s most celebrated sporting event the U.S. Census Bureau has put together a page listing various facts relating to both the teams involved and the host city. Check it out! Facts for Features - Special Edition Super Bowl XLII
License Plates January 18, 2008
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Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I’m close to getting things back under control after our much needed Christmas Break and hope to start posting more regularly again this next week. For today, something fun … we’ve all heard that prisoners make our license plates here in the state of MI, but other than that, I had never given much thought to how that piece of metal becomes the identifier for my vehicle. Visit the link below to take a virtual tour of the MI license plates factory @ Parr Highway Correctional Facility. http://www.cqql.net/adrian.htm
On the First Day of Christmas … December 10, 2007
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On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree … we all know what the gifts were for the first few days of Christmas, but do you ever get part way into the song and can’t remember what comes next? Use this handy website to look up the song and get all the words!
http://www.asksam.com/cgi-bin/as_web6.exe?Command=First&File=ChristmasCarols
