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Help directions for connecting to VBCPS.net from home

Teacher Quick Reference Card for SharePoint

The following sites are accessible through school. If you are trying to view them from home you will have to login with user name - vbschools\your network login, password: your network password
Kempsville Middle School's SharePoint Intranet Site
KMS Technology SharePoint Site

Using Outlook Client - finding the Public Folders to schedule technology use and how to make shortcuts.

What are all these drives in My Computer?

Technology Lesson Plan Template (right click, save target as, put it in your folder). Complete the form, re-save it with a different file name into the CRS Lesson Plan Folder in the Teachers folder on the H Drive (at school).

Scheduling Technology Resources (labs,laptop carts, alphasmart carts and multimedia carts.)

New - 20 Technology Skills every Educator Should have - Does your technology skills measure up? A great site for what you need to know and where to go to learn it if you don't!

New -Computer Technology Standards of Learning For Virginia’s Public Schools

Middle School Technology Proficiencies in .pdf format

Using Outlook Client or Web Access for email
Directions Manual in .pdf form
New - Changing your Outlook Password - If you use the client version, (administration) you must go to Outlook Web Access to change your password.
Visit the Microsoft site: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/CH790018071033.aspx for additional training and ideas

IRC - Instructional Resource Center - IRC

BrainPop - http://www.BrainPop.com - Please see LMS or CRS for login and password

United Streaming - United Streaming - Please see LMS or CRS for login and password

How to insert videos into PowerPoint

Looking for a VBCPS Form? - http://www.vbschools.com/forms_page.html

TSIP Review
TSIP Review, TSIP Test, TSIP Terms
A great website to take practice TSIP tests is Ocean Lakes Elementary School

Great Tutorial Sites for basic programs

http://www.atomiclearning.com/home - Subscription, required but well worth it
http://getit.rutgers.edu/index.html - Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey (Word 2003)
http://www.hplearningcenter.com - Sponsored by Hewlett Packard, lessons for everything
http://www.tech4learning.com/snacks/index.html - short tutorials on different applications
http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000 - Tutorials for Office 2000
http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX010778051033&CTT=98 - The Crabby Office Lady from Microsoft - great advice on using Office.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032254519&Culture=en-US - Tips and Tricks for Office 2003
http://www.presentersuniversity.com/index.php - PowerPoint tutorials and templates
http://wwwbrainybetty.com - PowerPoint tutorials and templates

Great Sites for Lesson Plans

http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=LessonPlans - Microsoft in Education
http://www.teach-nology.com - Teach-N-olgy
http://www.theeducatorsnetwork.com/main/index.htm - The Educator's Network
http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/bluewebn/index.cfm - Blue Web'n
http://www.teachervision.com - Teacher Vision

Great Sites for Rubrics

http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/profdev/summerbookclubs/grade46/index.htm - Great tutorial on how to create a rubric
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php - RubiStar

Free Web Hosting for teacher pages

Schoolnotes.com - http://www.schoolnotes.com (free)
Teacherweb.com - http://www.teacherweb.com (charge)
Scholastic - http://teacher.scholastic.com (free)
Freewebs - http://www.freewebs.com (free)

Just For Fun
http://www.charthouse.com/product_film_fp.asp - FISH! - The way everyone should live life! - Be there, Play, Make their Day, Choose your Attitude!

Great Downloads
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ - Hot Potatoes

Teacher Resources
http://www.tech4learning.com/ - Tech4Learning
http://www.brainybetty.com - PowerPoint templates
http://www.edgate.com/partners.php - Home to Schoolnotes.com a great site for free teacher webpages, also many more resources available on subscription basis
http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/ - Digital learning from Adobe. Tutorials on digital images, videos
http://school.discovery.com/quizcenter/quizcenter.html - Discovery School Quiz Center. A simple registration process allows you to create Online quizes and tests FREE