TWTW Teaching with the Web	The Instructional Technology Journal of Greenwood School District 50 http://www.gwd50.org Volume 4, Number 20 June 1, 2009
A Few More Days… 6/1/09	Important Teacher Notes · Now is a great time to back up files on your laptop. Use your flash drive, or a CD to back up information that needs to be saved. Teachers can also use their network drive to back up information, but remember: the network drive is not accessible from home. Directions for backing up files (written by OCS technician, Donald Mack) can be found on the new “Technology Survival Guide” webpage. · Be sure to “browse” the summer issues of TWTW for interesting and amusing information as well ideas for your students for 2009-2010. · Tech Tip: How to sort data in Word To alphabetize a list you've typed in Word, make sure you typed each list item on a separate line (i.e. clicked Enter/Return between items.) Then click Table > Sort and OK. If text other than the list appears on your page, highlight the list before sorting.
Quick Picks Check out 10 Math sites for your classroom and pick a winner every time! 1. To Excel in the Classroom: Ten reasons to use Excel in the classroom, strategies and graphing ideas, teacher resources and much, more! 2. Math Quiz Generator: Teachers construct a set of simple math problems by choosing the number of problems and the types of questions. Students can complete a sheet offline, or answer the problems on the computer and have the results graded. 3. The Maths Teacher’s Toolkit: (UK – SmartBoard) Flash tools like place value generator and 12-hour clocks that work well with SmartBoards. 4. Mathwire.com: Designed to provide activities and appropriate worksheets for classroom use. All activities and worksheets support the constructivist approach, the NCTM Standards, and are FREE. 5. Tessellation Town: Click and drag to create your own tessellations. 6. The MegaPenny Project: Great for helping students visualize large numbers. 7. Cosmic Zoom: Another site helpful in visualizing large numbers. 8. How Far Is It? : (Math and Social Studies) Plug in 2 destinations and this site will figure the mileage and give you lat/long. 9. SavingsQuest: Excellent savings and budgeting activity for students! 10. Interactive Activities suitable for SmartBoard: Money, Oddball, Base 10 Blocks, Cuisenaire Rods, Fraction Bars, Splat Square, Odd or Even, Overlapping Shapes, Coin Combo, and The Counting Game.	Site Survey: Websites that Educate, Enlighten, Entertain, and Engage · People of Influence http://cliptank.com/PeopleofInfluencePainting.htm Here’s something a little different! Move your cursor over the people in this painting and read about who they are. Double click on the link to get more information on each person. · Everything Differentiated Instruction http://www.everythingdi.net/ Resources to help teachers differentiate instruction using technology. · Kids off the Couch http://kidsoffthecouch.com/index.php A free, “weekly email that provides families with fresh ideas for getting kids off the couch and into their city.” The site was created by mothers of elementary and middle school aged children who wanted a more creative way to use the time youngsters spend with media. · Wonderful World of Weather http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/weatherproj/index.html A standards-based Real Time Data Module developed by the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE). It allows elementary students to investigate weather phenomena locally as well as in other places around the world. · New York Public Library Digital Gallery http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm The New York Public Library developed this site to provide free online access to the general public to its more than 363,000 images including photographs, illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, illustrated books, printed ephemera and more.
	The Laptop-and-Projector Project Website Tech Project: http://www2.gwd50.org/TechPlans/TechPlan2006.htm Resources: http://gwd50.schoolwires.net/16891058111442710/site/default.asp? Previous TWTW Issues: http://www2.gwd50.org/techplans/TWTW-Index.htm Instruct. Tech. Specialist: http://www.gwd50.org/1689105110365557/site/default.asp