Scholastic News Interactive Weekly Reader Online!

E-mail sent on 3/23/13 

Thanks to the collaboration of Soutwick's 4th grade team and all those who responded to the original e-mail!  This is a useful resource for those with projectors...

Scholastic News Interactive Weekly Reader Online!

http://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/#

Online digital version of the popular classroom magazine offers videos, pop-up maps, a link to a bonus online news story, and much more!

• Digital editions: Perfect for your whiteboard or projector, online copies of the magazine make Scholastic News a whole-class activity.
• Video: Photos come to life! Pre-reading videos build background knowledge and excitement.
• Pop-up maps and graphs: Enlarge images for easy viewing on a projector or an interactive whiteboard.
• Preview vocabulary and its definition in a pop-up slide, with audio support. (The boldface words in the text also link to the pop-up slides.)
• Audio: Students can follow along as the magazine is read aloud. Excellent support for striving readers.
• Back-page interactive skill-building activities & quizzes check reading comprehension and vocabulary with direct ties to CCSS and technology standards.

You DO NOT need to register to use these great resources....

User’s Guide to the online issue 
http://sni.scholastic.com/resource/uploads/HowToUseThisWebsite.8.27.10.pdf)

Enjoy,

Maria

Maria E. Pearson

Instructional Technology Specialist

Winnisquam Regional School District

603.286.7143  x220

FAX 603.286.7410

Tech-Tips: Installing and Using doPDF (FREE PDF creator)

doPDF is a free PDF (Portable Document File) creator that does what the name suggests, creates PDF files. Once installed, it will allow you to convert any type of printable documents to PDF files.  Attached are two Tech-Tip documents, the first on how to install doPDF and the second on how to use doPDF.    Once you begin to use this tool, you will want it on every system you use!  

Installing doPDF, click on image to open full document.

Click on the image to open a PDF of this document.

Using doPDF: click on image to open full document.

Tech-Tips: Saving Open Office Files:

The WRSD Netbooks have a suite of office products called Open Office.  Files created using the Open Office are compatible with the Microsoft Office suite of products when you save them in the correct format.  Follow these directions when saving files in Open Office to ensure the ability to open later in Microsoft Office on another computer.

Click on the image to open a PDF of this document.

Google Apps for Education WRSD Resource Website

Google Apps for Education is a free suite of hosted communication and collaboration applications designed for school and universities.  Google Apps include Gmail (Webmail services), Google Calendar (shared calendaring), Google Drive (online document, spreadsheet, presentation, and form creation and sharing), Google Sites (team website creation with videos, images, gadgets and documents integrated  

WRSD has implemented the Google Apps for Education suite of products for ALL teachers and selective students. This website contains various resources used during the workshop training sessions and additional links to videos and self tutorials for those who want to learn more.  Use the link below or click on the image to go to the website.

https://sites.google.com/a/wrsdsau59.org/wrsd-google-apps-resources/

Tech-Tips: Making Gmail your default mail application

You can designate Gmail as your default mailto handler, I've tested this at home & school, it seems to be the solution.  

You can designate Gmail as your default mailto: handler. This means that when you click on any hyper-linked email address, a Gmail compose window will open so you can send a message to that address from Gmail.  To set this up, go to this link http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10966 and follow the steps provided OR open and print this PDF for easy step by step directions.

Click on this image to open the PDF document.

Link to Download Gmail Notifier file:
http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/notifier_windows.html