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Microsoft Office Training Page
This page has links to training resources on Microsoft's web site for all Office components and even includes resources for past versions of Office. |
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NYS Educatioin Department Office of State Assessment
A portion of the New York State Education Department's web site with downloacable copies of state assessments in pdf format. |
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Interview with a SMART Board Using Math Teacher
An excellent article including videos and links to other online resources for teaching math with a SMART Board! |
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tequipment's SMART Downloads
Lots of Notebook files to download including many question sets for the SMART Response system |
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SMARTTech's web site
The place to go for all things SMART |
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SMART Notebook Download Page
The place to go to download the Notebook software for your use at home. Be sure you have your district's authorization code! |
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SMART Notebook Lesson Search Page
Don't re-invent the wheel! See if another teacher has created your Notebook lessons for you! |
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Simple SMART Skills Books
A link to a company that sells books on how to use the SMARTBoard Notebook software. Also links to other online resources to support the use of a SMARTBoard in your classroom. |
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Free downloads - SMART Number Cruncher & SMART Speller
This link will take you to a page on SMARTTech's web site where they offer 2 free downloads that work really well with a SMARTBoard. SMART Number Cruncher is a drill on basic math operations and SMART Speller is a spelling exercise. |
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JST Virtual Science Center
The Japanese Science and Technology Center offers nine outstanding science lessons. The list of lessons and activities covers topics in physics, biology, psychology, geography, and space science. The general format of each virtual lesson is to present a manageable chunk of information followed by activities in which students try to use that information. |
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How to Communicate Effectively
This is a SUPER article at wikiHow, this is excellent information for anyone beginning any kind of a communications unit or project. If your school is doing a TV news show or a podcasting project, this is an invaluable resource! |
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Preparing for the Worst in Presentations
A super article I found on the PC World website that gives excellent tips on how to deal with technology glitches during presentations. |
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Lit2Go Web Site from the University of Florida
This is the web site with information on the Lit2Go section of iTunes U, a new feature offering FREE downloads of hundreds of books commonly used in K-12. |
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Getting Started with iPod Touch and iTunes for teaching and leanning
Link to a PDF file which contains essential information for employing iPod Touch in the classroom. |
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iTunes U Monthly Feature
Highlighting featured topics and podcasts each month from colleges and universities all over the country. |
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Frontline - Digital Nation
Frontline has done it again - required viewing for anyone involved with technology and today's students! |
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PBS Frontline - Growing Up Online
A fascinating program about how the use of the internet impacts teenagers. |
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The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Dozens and dozens of online interactive activities that deal with math concepts. This site works great with an interactive whiteboard as well! |
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The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard
A fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. |
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Free quick reference guides to download
Download and print out these free quick reference guides for many Microsoft products. Guides are available for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Internet Explorer, FrontPage and many more. Versions for 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007 are all included. |
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Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
From the University of Houston. |
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Free Rice
A super little online quiz that helps raise money to help feed starving children. |
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Thinkfinity
The best place to start as you begin to search for educational material and resources in the internet. |
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Rubistar
An online tool for creating rubrics! |
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Google Services
An amazing collection of online services all in one place. |
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Pics 4 Learning
An online library of copyright friendly photographs that teachers and students can use in their multimedia projects, easy to search and totally safe. |
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The Workbench
A great site that allows you to create multimedia rich web sites for the classroom. Projects can be used on or off line! |
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Word It Out
A very cool and simple online application that allows you to create "word clouds". |
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Jeopardy Labs
This web site allows you to create a your own online Jeopardy style games. The games you make can be played online from anywhere or downloaded to your computer for when you aren't connected to the internet. Building your own jeopardy games is easy and can be saved online when you set up your free account. This also works great with a SMART Board |
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Prezi - the Zooming Presentation Editor
An online tool with a very unique approach to creating presentations. Instead of creating individual "slides" you arrange all your information and pictures on a single giant canvas and click to zoom in and out on information as needed. Free, but requires you to set up an account and offers limited storage space. Be sure you set up an "educator account" and not the generic public one. |
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