Tech Tips From a Teacher

By: Maria Watson, Technology Teacher

Robert E. Lee Academy, Bishopville, SC

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Great Tech Tips For The Week:
 

 


 

 

 

***Save and save often.

 

***Need a flash drive? Check out this site…     For Great Teacher Sites Click Here

 
     http://www.supermediastore.com/flasmemprod.html                                                                                                                              

 ***For whole group instruction, hook up

     your computer to a television or LCD

     projector.

 

 ***Always burn a CD of your pictures when                                    

     you download them to your computer            For Teacher Tutorials Click Here

     so that you don’t lose them in the event

 
     of a crash.

 

Hot Links:

Lesley University                                                        

Robert E. Lee Academy

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Alta Vista

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Great Sites for Teachers: 

 

 

All Teachers

Science / Health

http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/browse/cai0000/

This site has good computer references.

 

http://www.ipl.org/div/projectguide/

This site has good science fair projects.

http://www.flickr.com/

This site has good pictures.

 

http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/browse/hea0000/

This site has good links about health.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/letters/n.shtml

Great site for teacher worksheets (elementary).

 

http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html

Great site for Biology.

 

http://www.rubistar4teachers.com/

Site to make rubrics or get ready-made ones.

 

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/RayLec/scwquest.htm

Great science webQuest list.

 

http://www.eduplace.com/

Good site by Houghton Mifflin.

 

http://westwood.wikispaces.com/Computer+Science+portfolio

     This is a site that a high school computer science teacher blogs about final projects and assessment for the course.

Math

Language Arts

http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L690

Good geometry unit.

http://www.puzzlemaker.com/

Make puzzles for vocabulary and math online.

 

http://www.puzzlemaker.com/

Make puzzles for vocabulary and math online.

 

http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/mssites/langArts.html

Language Arts for Middle School list of websites.

 

http://www.aaamath.com/grade3.html

Good site for math concepts and help kindergarten through eighth grade.

 

http://www.dawcl.com/

Database for award-winning children’s literature.

 

http://www.schoolexpress.com/

165 thematic units, online math, and more.

 

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/

      Lesson plans galore.

http://www.math-drills.com/

Free math worksheets.

 

http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi//Language_Arts

      Good reference for Language Arts.

History

Other

http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/stateknow/sc1.html

This site contains good trivia info. about South Carolina. (Also available for all states.

 

http://www.starfall.com

Great early childhood site for letter recognition, sounds, building words and sentences.

 

http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/

     This site contains great biographical info. about the

     US Presidents.

http://www.freetypinggame.net/

      Free typing games.

http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html

Great site for Biology.

 

http://users.dragnet.com.au/~donovan/mb/

      Music education.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem

Library of Congress history site.

 

http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~pstuart/index.html

      Disability awareness and character development.

http://historychannel.com

Good history information with speeches, videos, etc.

 

http://www.learnenglish.de/

Free resource for ESL students and teachers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Tutorials for Teachers:
 

 


 

 

 

If you are not savvy in Microsoft PowerPoint, try Kathy Schrock’s tutorial to help you refine your skills.

http://kathyschrock.net/visual/visual.pdf

 

Do simple keyboarding tasks have you stumped? Work your way through this Microsoft Word tutorial to impress everyone.

http://www.baycongroup.com/wlesson0.htm

 

Does Microsoft Excel have you extremely stressed? If it does, try this tutorial:

http://www.exceltip.com/tutorial/garrison/2.html

 

 

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Great Sites for Students
 

 

 

 


Homework Help

Games

http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/

Great homework help in every subject area.

http://www.gamequarium.com/

1500 online learning games.

http://www.factmonster.com/homework/index.html

Homework help in every subject area.

http://www.freetypinggame.net/

Free typing games.

http://www.math4u.us/

Help with math and physics.

http://math-and-reading-help-for-kids.org

Math and reading games online.

http://www.statisticshelp.us/

Help with statistics problems.

http://www.funbrain.com/index.html

Fun games for everyone.

http://www.refdesk.com/homework.html

Help with all subject areas.

http://www.scholastic.com/andygriffiths/game.asp

Game of survival.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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About the Author:
 

 

 

 

 


Maria Watson is a High School Technology

 
teacher at Robert E. Lee Academy in            

Bishopville, South Carolina. She has

been teaching for 17 years. She is currently

working on her Master’s Degree in Technology

 in Education from Lesley University. Years of

experience have rewarded her with a catalog

of great websites and technology information

 for teachers that she would

like to share.

 

Maria Watson

Robert E. Lee Academy

Bishopville, South Carolina

Last updated: September 6, 2006

 

 

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