December 2007 Newsletter

Happy December! I wish you the best during this holiday season. Consider how I can help you. I am happy to locate and preview resources, print and electronic, to support your curriculum. Here is a link to an assignment that I helped to create with Phil. Also, I can visit your class and teach technology skills. In the past, I have instructed science students in the creation of spreadsheets and graphs, social studies students in the creation of PowerPoint presentations, and many other topics. Additionally, I can work with your classes on research skills. Let me know how I can help. Check out our DMS Teacher Tech Wiki. This wiki exists to support your tech needs. Please consider looking for help here and posting your tips. The W.D.E. has contracted with netTrekker to provide this useful curriculum resource. Chris B. has posted a description and directions on VINCent (must be in district to view --or use your network username and password from home) Curriki is a wiki for curriculum sharing. From Curriki:

Curriki, a play on the words 'curriculum' and 'wiki', is a nonprofit organization that is building the first and only Internet site for Open Source Curriculum (OSC), which will provide universal access to free curricula and instructional materials for grades K-12.

We are focusing initially on developing an online repository for K-12 curricula in theareas of mathematics, science, technology, reading and language arts, and languages. We want this repository to attract everyone from educators, students and parents, to programmers, instructional designers, authors and public officials throughout the world to contribute or freely access quality learning materials.

This is worth looking in to.

Commoncraft creates "In plain English" explanations. These are nice introductions to various technology tools. And, some of them have subtitles that are added using Dotsub, another cool tool. You can use Dotsub to add subtitles to your videos free of charge.

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