Welcome to the On-line Staff Resources Page

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand.

-Latin Proverb

Here's a site with good web sites for kids.

Here's another Mac tip-of-the-day site.

Here's a new site called www.studycurve.com which "blends elements of My Space and Wikipedia to help students find experts to answer their questions."

Here's the link to the Teacher's Guide to Fair Use and Copyright.

For multimedia content, try this site:  www.teachersdomain.org

Here's NASA's education page - they are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year!

Here are two sites with fantastic Hubble space telescope images:

www.hubblesite.org

www.spacetelescope.org

Here's the link to Dr. Willis' site :www.radteach.com

What is Web 2.0?  Click here for one perspective:

Click here to sign up for an Apple Education Community Account.

Click here to login to the Apple Education Community if you already have an account.

Here is a collection of links for staff to check out.

Here are some sites to help in moving to the Apple MacBook platform:

http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/

http://www.xvsxp.com/misc/keyboard.php

http://www.applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/a-switchers-guide-to-windows-and-mac-equivalents-and-differences/

Here's a PDF for about using the iPod in the classroom.

Other good sites:

http://213.232.94.135/ipodined/news.php?extend.19

http://www.learninginhand.com/ipod/index.html

 http://www.vickiblackwell.com/index.html

Here is a great resource page for using the programs found in the Apple iBook and MacBooks.

Here is Mike Muir's blog.

This site references a number of 21st century skills pages:
http://www.socialstudiescentral.com/?q=book/export/html/14

This is an online conference site.
http://k12onlineconference.org

New:  Check out YouTube for Teachers - TeacherTube!

Here is the link to the 2007 Summer Institute web page at UMF: http://outreach.umf.maine.edu/

Check out math applets at the MISTM Math Portal :  http://www2.edc.org/mistm/

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.  We're currently in the process of building our own Moodle site.  You can check it out here:

We now have a Wellness Page on our web site, and we are re-introducing the Walk at Work Program!  Click the links for more info.

Here's a new page with links to a ton of web sites gathered at the Wellness Conference in Sugarloaf.

Here's a site that aims to build an open-source curriculum:  www.curriki.org.

I've updated our site for information on school nutrition and learning in school. You can browse the pages starting here.

Here is a web site geared for teachers who want to integrate technology into their curriculum: www.4teachers.org. 

Cyberbullying

We now have information on our site about CyberBullying.  Click here to see the new staff resource page.

Interested in doing a Podcast with your class? Click here for an overview of that process.

Teachfree provides preschool through 12th grade educators with high-quality educational materials that supplement the curriculum. Resources can also be downloaded for use in the classroom.

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