Web Time Savers for Teachers

The hardest part about sending students to the internet is having them type in the web address. Here are some hints to help with that.

Many of you use riverdeep, fcat explorer, as the home page on the browser. That is good and helps save time.

Here are some other choices… to use.

1.NetTrekker - a kid safe search engine. Great for having the students do research.

This is a subscription service. http://nettrekker.com/

passwords for the different grade levels

perkins3 password third

perkins4 password fourth

perkins5 password fifth

perkkids password perkins

perkins2 password second

perkinshome password perkins

2. Trackstar- allows you to control the content and keeps the students focused.

check out thses track # 30120, # 305963,# 303315, #282038

3. Wiki for can be set up for your home page as well. Very easy to keep the students focused.http://perkinselementary.pbwiki.com

4. Social Bookmarking

http://del.icio.us/

Please take the rest of the time to search for sites for your class. Please post them at this site Mining for Curriculum Resources

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Current information about Scholastic and Reading Counts will be posted here.

Teachers, see attachment for new RC quizzes, forgive the spelling please.

Del Marie Brenn

Library Information Specialist

Perkins Elementary School