Middle School T.I.M.E.S.

Technology Integration Made Easy & Simple

Danita Russell
ITF
Lee County Schools

Getting settled in? Drussell@LEE.K12.NC.US

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Now that the year is underway, I hope this newsletter finds you getting comfortable October 2006
with your students and your new routine. The beginning of the year is always an ex-
citing time of year — everyone is eager to learn and do their best. Technology Opportunities
October:

I’ve had many teachers invite me into their classrooms to model lessons for them. ⇒ 3rd Spreadsheet tutorial
Thank you. I have enjoyed working with the students. I would love to join you in your West Lee

classroom or the computer lab. Email me with the topic you’re teaching and available ⇒ 4th Microsoft Office at
dates and we’ll design a lesson. Southern Lee 3:00—5:00
register on Schoollink

⇒ 10th Database tutorial West

I have saved the newsletters in each school’s common folder, if you would like to Lee
refer back to them throughout the year.
⇒ 17th Ethics tutorial West
Lee

⇒ 24th West Lee faculty

computer test

Curriculum Links
Essentials of Music
Art:
Language Arts:
www.essentialsofmusic.com
Art Historian
203 Creative Writing Prompts
Science:
www.cmcss.net (search for art historian)
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/
Stalking the Mysterious Microbe
Artopia creative.html
http://www.microbeworld.org
http://cfmedia.scetv.org/artopia/ 25 Ideas to Motivate Reluctant Readers
index.html Cells Alive!
www.hse.k12.in.us/staff/mfassold/25%20ideas%
ESL: 20to%20motivate%20readers.htm www.cellsalive.com/toc.htm
ESL Lesson Plans Math: Social Studies:
www.everythingesl.net/lessons Line of Best Fit Library of Congress Countries Study
ESL Lesson Plans http://www.bcps.org/apps/CBTIA/cbtia.aspx? http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs
http://rong-chang.com id=2808 Teaching the Election Process
Health & PE: Symmetry in Flags, Traffic Signs, & Wheels www.hse.k12.in.us/staff/mfassold/election%
www.cmcss.net www.cmcss.net (search for sym- 20unit%20lesson%20plan.htm
Skills Games
metry New Teacher
www.funattic.com/
game_skill1.htm#anchor9 Music: Summary of Major Concepts Covered by Harry
The Symphony—An Interactive Guide Wong
Teaching Movement with Gymnastics
http://library.thinkquest.org/22673/index.html http://www.glavac.com/harrywong.htm
www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/pe810/8gym.htm

You can insert clip art and hyperlink
(link to a website) by inserting them
into the Smartboard notebook
* Open the Smartboard software by
going to the Novell Applications box
and click on Smart Notebook.
* To insert clip art, click on the gal-
lery on the right tab. Click the essen-
tials for educators. Choose the cate-
gory of the clip art you want to add.
As an example, I chose the timer un-
der gallery sampler, then profes-
US Department of Education
Over 40,000 lesson plans and ideas.
www.ed.gov/index.jhtml
To-Do List
Personalize to-do list that you can
share with others online.
www.tadalist.com
Changing the background on Power-
point will enhance your presentation.
You can easily change the color or
insert a design background.
To change your Powerpoint back-
ground to a solid color, click on for-
mat on the toolbar at the top. Then
click background. This will open a
dialog box that says background.
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Smartboard Tips
sional, then presentation. Click on the
timer to insert it into your slide.
You can set it to count up or count-
down. The timer will beep when you
have counted down to zero.
* The insert a movie clip from an out-
side source, click on the attachments
tab on the right hand side of the
page. Click insert.
Professional Tips
Jefferson City Schools
Hundreds of pre-made Powerpoints
for all disciplines.
http://jc-schools.net/ppt.html
Happy
Halloween
Technology Tips
Your options are to add color, more
colors, or fill effects. Color will give
you a solid color choice, more color
will let you choose from a color wheel,
and fill effects will give you an option
of textures.
If you would like to have these
changes apply to one slide, click apply.
If you want this background for all of
your slides, click apply to all.
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* This will bring you to an insert hy-
perlink page. Type in, or cut and
paste, your weblink and name the link.
Your link will now appear on the right
hand side under file name. To insert
into your Smartboard notebook, drag
the link onto your slide.
* You will now have the name of your
link and a small blue dot. During your
presentation, click on the blue dot
and this should take you directly to
your webpage.
Online Jigsaw
Online jigsaw program with different
puzzles for you to solve. Be careful—
this can be addictive!
www.jigzone.com/g.php?44
30 Boxes
Online calendar
www.30boxes.com
To insert a design background, click
on format, then slide design. You will
now have the option on the right hand
side to insert a design. If you click
on the down arrow, you will have the
option to apply to one slide or to all of
them.
Next month we’ll add clip art and ani-
mation.
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