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News:
  • Please visit my blog page and comment on blogging and podcasting, as they pertain to a classroom setting
  • Harcourt math has provided online resources for MCSD teachers. Directions for accessing them can be found here. The MegaMath software that accompanies the math adoption has not yet been installed, but should be soon
  • I am considering incorporating a page on this site that lists MCSD teacher suggested web sites. Many of you share with me wonderful online resources, and I'd like to share that information with other teachers throughout the district. If you have would like to submit such a recommendation, please use the “Contact Me” link on this page and email me the web address with a brief description of the web page. I will include your name along with the description and the web address
Notes:
  • Harcourt Publishing, the publisher for most of the MCSD textbooks, has an abundance of online resources available to MCSD teachers. Click here to access these links. The resources provided by Harcourt (eProducts), that can only be access by paid subcribers, are also available to all  MCSD teachers. Directions for registering and accessing these resources can be found here
  • More and more of you are using PowerPoint to present lessons in your classrooms. Houston County Schools has posted many educational PowerPoint presentations on their county website. You may want to peruse them and consider using some of them in your classroom, or editing them to suit your needs. Click here to visit the page. Remember, to edit the files, you must download them to your computer 
  • Teachers, if you are concerned about slow network activity, such as the slow loading of internet pages, let me encourage you to refrain from some practices that put greater stress on the network and directly affect its speed:  1) Forwarding emails or sending emails that include pictures, music, or video files. 2) Downloading or streaming video during the school day. 3) Using the network/internet to play music or a playlist
  • Schools using the wonderful resource, United Streaming, are asked to download the videos or clips during the afternoon or from home and avoid streaming them during the day. Streaming during the day ties up limited bandwidth and slows the network for everyone in the county. To learn more about using United Streaming to create video lesson plans, click here (and scroll down) to sign up for the staff development class: United Streaming and PowerPoint 
  • This website has been updated during the summer. If you do not see a resource that you have used before, first check the link at the bottom of the Helps & Handouts page titled Link to Old Helps & Handouts page. If the resource is not there either, email me, using the Contact link on the left panel of this page, and I will try to post the missing resource on the new Helps & Handouts page soon.
  • This resource page is primarily intended to server as support for the six MCSD elementary schools supported by Tony Mitchell. The Helps & Handouts link to the left has many guides and directions for the various software packages used in our district. Many of the hand-outs from training classes are also posted in the H & H section.