Teacher+Resources

=__ Teacher (and Technology Integration) Resources for HCISD Middle Schools __= ( for assistance with technology integration and technology equipment contact your campus librarian )


 * Items on this page are in alphabetical order, u se CTRL-F to search for a particular term or topic on this page. **

............................... || =**Link, guide/manuals and information**= || . || Typing program that is on all student computers at HCISD middle schools. Students can type as a Guest with no login, or classes can be set up with tracking and grading capabilities. || Start by identifying the learning activity, then choose technology integration strategies that match the activity type. @http://activitytypes.wmwikis.net/
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 * **All the Right Type** (software)
 * **Activity Types**
 * & Tech Integraton** || The document and link below are great resources to help you plan successful technology integration.

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( For assistance with technology integration contact your campus librarian ). || **AverPen** || || . || Document cameras are a great classroom presentation tool. Place almost anything under the camera and the image is displayed. In addition, AverVision document cameras come with software that allow you to record images, video, and annotations. verVision Training Videos, @http://www.averusa.com/presentation/videos.asp AverVision Lesson Ideas, @http://www.averusa.com/presentation/lesson_plan.asp . || . || Web logs - Blogs used in the district are Wordpress, Edublogs and Weebly. Using blogs that are moderated by the teacher are encouraged for safety reasons. See your librarian for more information. ||
 * **AverVision Document Camera**
 * **Blogging**
 * **Blogging**
 * ** BrainPop ** || @http://www.brainpop.com/

See your campus librarian for username and password for your campus.
. || . || http://midweb.wikispaces.com/Computer+Care+and+Cleaning || . || Classroom Performance System (CPS) User Guide, @http://www.einstruction.com/support_downloads/assessment/cps/index.html CPS Video Tutorials, @http://www.einstruction.com/support_downloads/training/resources/index.html How to Import an ExamView Text, @http://www.mypearsontraining.com/products/cps/tutorials.asp ||
 * **Cleaning and Care of Computers**
 * **Clickers (CPS)**
 * **CSCOPE** at HCISD || CSCOPE link

. || || See your campus librarian for information. || Library Database (K-12 State Funded Databases) . || EBSCO K-12 link This link guides teachers and students to a database of information for research and information. Once a selection is made, for example US Middle Schools, you then have access to many databases covering different subjects.
 * **Data Projectors**
 * ** EBSCO **
 * ** EBSCO **

Library Database Information page (wiki)

See your campus librarian for username and password for your campus. || District database . || Eduphoria website Eduphoria is the District's online database housing TAKS data, PDAS forms, and Professional Development Database. || Library Database (K-12 State Funded Databases) || www.school.eb.com See your campus librarian for username and password for your campus. Great starting place for general research, includes 3 reading levels, encyclopedia articles, photos, images, maps, downloadable videos/media, dictionary, thesaurus, world atlas, and feature that defines and pronounces any word that a student clicks on. Check out the 3 minute introduction at @http://teacherweb.hayscisd.net/web/midweb/Pages/InternetResearch.htm. Since videos are downloadable, they can be included in PowerPoints! . Library Database Information page (wiki) || . || Video Tutorials (from eInstruction), @http://www.einstruction.com/support_downloads/training/examview.html# || . || FirstClass is the District's email program. You can download the same program for home use here: @http://www.firstclass.com/ Follow directions for the FirstClass download client for the most updated install. || . || @http://www.glencoe.com/sec/medialibrary/ Find video, audio, and print resources that go with your Glencoe textbook. || . || GLENCOE Science lab link || . Variety of Graphic Organizers in pdf format from Region 13, including spanish versions, @http://www.region15.org/page.php?pid=107 . Online Brainstorming Tool, bubbl.us . || . || @http://www.p12.nysed.gov/biling/bilinged/bilingual_glossaries.htm "The bilingual glossaries are intended to be used by teachers, LEP students, test translators, and material and curricula developers. Students may use these documents as supplements to their texts, as study or as references. Teachers can use the glossaries as reference in preparing lessons. They should be of special value in classrooms where the teachers do not speak the targeted languages." For more information on English Language Leaners (ELL), visit Texas Education Agency (TEA) site @http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index3.aspx?id=3300&menu_id=793 . || Most databases and campus library catalogs provide the user with reading levels and/or lexile levels. A Lexile measure is a valuable piece of information about either an individual's reading ability or the difficulty of a text, like a book or magazine article. The Lexile measure is shown as a number with an "L" after it — 880L is 880 Lexile. Contact your campus librarian for assistance with converting Lexile to the compatible grade level. || . || Applications include WORD, EXCEL, POWERPOINT, PUBLISHER, ACCESS Check out these Interactive Guides to help you learn the changes from Office 2003 to Office 2007. || Organized around instructional units. Includes games, online activities, quizzes, and resources for researching student performance indicators. Can be updated by your campus librarian. Please feel free to send feedback. Want to add a great link? Send it to your MS Librarian. Found a dead link or one that is not the best for middle school? Let your librarian know. . || Designed as a teacher resource. Is listed in all middle school teachers Internet Favorites list for easy access. Organized around instructional units. Includes links to videos, rubrics, technology adaptations of student performance indicators, techconnect lessons, templates. Includes information about accessing online textbook resources. Please feel free to send feedback to your campus librarian. . || . || NEO Alphasmart Ideas (from Irving ISD) Neo AlphaSmarts 101 Ideas for Artfullly Integrating the NEO AlphaSmart . || Introduction to Photoshop CS5 - Even though written for CS5, has great general information with screen shots and videos about imaging concepts. . || Printing Guidelines Quick Printer Troubleshooting The Quantile Framework for Mathematics is a scientific approach to measurement that locates a student’s ability to think “mathematically” in a taxonomy of math skills, concepts, and applications. The Quantile Framework measures a student's mathematical achievement and concept/application solvability on the same scale, enabling educators to use Quantile measures to monitor a student’s development in math and forecast performance on end-of-year tests. || Online games, quizzes, and activites. Must have paid subscription to create, but can search for already created activities. . || . || Rubrics are used to aide students in evaluating their projects/assignments. Some websites that offer educational rubrics are: Makeworksheets.com , www.rubrics4teachers.com/, rubistar.4teachers.org/ || . || ==== Subscription video resources provided by our district library. See librarians for pass code need to create a new account. Can download video to computer, be sure to delete when finished. One way to share great videos with other grade level teachers is to us the MY CONTENT folder. Once you add a video to the MY CONTENT folder, you will have the option to SHARE the video to the MY DISRICT folder. ==== . || . || Read about the teacher technology proficiencies on the HCISD Instructional Technology Blog. @http://wordpress.hayscisd.net/it/?page_id=75 __Sign up__ for the Teacher Technology Proficiency eCourses in Eduphoria. Be sure to click on ** REGISTER **. || **.** || Technology TEKS Checklist, @http://teacherweb.hayscisd.net/web/midweb/4teachers/TATEKS_checklist.xls Technology Applications TEKS
 * ** Eduphoria **
 * ** Encyclopedia Britannica **
 * **ExamView**
 * **FirstClass** (Email)
 * **Glencoe Media Library**
 * **Glencoe Science Labs**
 * **Graphic Organizers** || Inspiration is a powerful graphic organizer software program available at HCISD. Talk to your ITS if it is not on your comptuer.
 * **Imagination Cubed** || Imagination Cubed is an online drawing site. You can draw an image, then replay the drawing! Might be a nice tool for art or math teachers to show the steps of drawing an object. Here is an example of drawing a cube. After I drew it, I emailed it to myself, then copied the link. The site also allows multiple drawers, but email is required for that feature. I don't know how long the drawing stays active. Let your ITS know if you find out!
 * **LAT Glossaries** || Linguistically Accomodated Testing (LAT) Glossaries from New York by Subject Area,
 * **Lexiles (Reading levels)** || @http://lexile.com/
 * **Microsoft Office**
 * **MidWeb** (for HCISD students) || http://teacherweb.hayscisd.net/web/midweb/
 * **MidWeb** (for teachers) || http://teacherweb.hayscisd.net/web/midweb/4teachers/index.html
 * **Movie Maker** || Movie Maker is free video editing software available from Microsoft. It should already be installed on all HCISD computers. Find out more on the Movie Maker page in MidWeb.
 * **NEO**
 * by AlphaSmart** || Teachers Guide to the NEO AlphaSmart
 * **Photoshop** || Photoshop CS4 Tutorial Videos from Adobe TV
 * Printers at HCISD . || How to Add HCISD Network Printer
 * **Quantiles** (Math) || @http://www.quantiles.com/
 * What is the Quantile Framework for Mathematics?**
 * What is the Quantile Framework for Mathematics?**
 * **Quia** || @http://www.quia.com/shared/
 * **Rubrics**
 * **Smartboard** || http://midweb.wikispaces.com/Smartboard
 * **Discovery Education** (formerly United Streaming) || www.discoveryeducation.com
 * **Teacher Technology Proficiencies at HCISD**
 * ** TEKS Checklist for Middle School Technology at HCISD **

See your librarian for assistance with || **.** || http://midweb.wikispaces.com/Textbooks+Online || //Online stopwatch and timer.//. || . || Texas Math and Science Diagnostic System TMSDS is an online tool that assess student strengths and weaknesses in relation to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). The Texas Education Agency (TEA) partnered with CORE K-12 (formerly the Princeton Review), a leader in low-stakes formative assessment, to provide the platform and content to create, administer, and report on formative diagnostics that can put current, relevant, and actionable data into the hands of teachers and administrators on a daily basis. The system contains both a test bank of approved items and pre-configured diagnostic exams. TMSDS is FREE to public and charter school districts. Video Introduction to TMSDS, HCISD teachers need to talk to their campus technologist or instructional strategist for logins. Help files can be found in the X drive/Training Folder. . || Free online service. Must register. Can create lists of links that are displayed within the trackstar frame. Limited to 15 sites per track, can only be edited by the person who created it. Can also browse tracks that are already created. See social studies tracks: []. . ||
 * ** Textbooks Online at HCISD **
 * **Timer** || @http://www.vickiblackwell.com/timer.html
 * **TMSDS**
 * **TrackStar** || trackstar.4teachers.org
 * **Tumble Books** || @http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/

See librarian for username and password for your campus.
|| . || Collect Temperature Data Directly Through the USB Port of Your ComputerWe've made it easy to use technology to teach science concepts with Go!Temp. Just plug Go!Temp into your Windows® or Macintosh® computer, start the free Logger Lite™ software, and click "Collect" to see the temperature graph plotted in real time! @http://www.vernier.com/go/gotemp.html || . || . || A free online tool for creating and maintaining teacher web pages. Drag and drop feature makes creation simple and online editing makes updating a snap. It is district approved. If you are just creating your web page, be sure to ask the campus ITS to link to it from the campus web page. . || . || A collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it. A website or similar online resource which allows users to add and edit content collectively. ||
 * **Vernier Science Probes**
 * ** Video Conferences at HCISD ** || Hays Distance Learning, @http://www.hayscisd.net/DL/ ||
 * **Vocabulary Quiz Maker** || @http://wordwizard.scholastic.com/quizmaker/ //From Scholastic. Create a vocab quiz with word bank. Save as .pdf.// . ||
 * **VozMe** || VozMe is a cool site that allows you to convert text to an .mp3 file. You can download the .mp3 file and use in powerpoints, web pages, or anything else you like. You can also choose from a variety of languages.
 * **Webquests** || Web Quest - "a method used to engage students in inquiry based learning. A web quest is meant to guide students through a process of inquiry through a set of assigned tasks that lead them to a conclusion, or that results in a product." from @http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/web_quest/ . Can create your own or search for what others have already created.
 * **Website:**
 * Weebly** || **http://www.weebly.com**
 * **Wikis**
 * **Word** || Microsoft Word Tutorials

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