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Back to School Tips
Summertime is coming to an end with the start of the school year. Excited chatter about setting up classrooms, finalizing lessons, and attending many back to school professional development opportunities are all a buzz in the stores, on Twitter, on Facebook and netTrekker Village. In other words, anywhere teachers congregate.
Hopefully some of your back to school plans include netTrekker. After all, we are releasing some great new features this new school year. To help you with your back to school professional development, here is a video from our Spring Scholarship for Personalizing Learning and some tips from netTrekker users and employees.
Leslie Peterson, netTrekker Account Manager
To help increase your usage in netTrekker, and really make the new admin features POP, consider promoting netTrekker on your school website with these easy to follow directions, found at the Customer Center. Also, send home one of our parent letters, in English or Spanish, to parents reminding them that you are providing access to netTrekker with great tools for research and homework help. Remind your staff to take advantage of the Promethean and SMART resources in netTrekker by using the Collections Refinement Menu or by doing a keyword search for “Promethean” or “SMART”. With the downloadable viewers, you can use them even if you do not have a white board.
David Candelaria, Technology Coordinator/CTE Department Chair Del Norte HS Albuquerque, NM
David is currently working on the technology plan for his school. He encourages his teachers to think beyond the term, “technology”. He starts by questioning, “what is technology? Many people hear the term and think “computers”, but to me technology, educational technology, is anything that will stimulate students to be productive, innovative and enterprising. These are important 21st Century Skills, whether teaching core standards, STEM, ELL, or Special Education curriculum. ”
David just finished the netTrekker 101 course and says, “I can honestly say in taking the netTrekker course I can see the ‘plan’ and how netTrekker will engage and stimulate the 21 Century Skills aspect of my school.”
Angie Maccani, netTrekker Account Manager
When training faculty and staff on netTrekker, model how the My Portfolio system can be used for paper free communication with students and parents. Upload your documents, such as permission slips, course syllabus, field trip information, and rubrics for projects, to an Online Office or Storage Location and use the ADD A WEBSITE feature in My Portfolio. This is a great way to organize and share resources for classroom procedures, lessons, and assessments.
Sandra Doran, M. Ed. Educator, Jennings County MS, Jennings County Schools, IN
To help spread the word in my building I will be offering a one hour hands -on training workshop in our computer lab one day after school. I believe one hour is a nice amount of time for teachers and their busy schedules. I will spend the hour doing an orientation of the netTrekker site, search tips, and benefits for all learners. Before I dismiss attendees I will tell them that in two weeks I will be in the lab again to discuss: Advanced My Portfolio, English Language Learners, and 21st Century Learning.
To help introduce families I will be creating a short video tutorial to post on our school website. The link will be next to the link that parents go to for viewing students’ grades so it will be easy for them to locate.
I will also be giving a short demo to our guidance counselors. I believe that they are a vital link between parents and the school.
Danielle Abernethy, netTrekker Professional Development Solutions Team
Make sure you are familiar with the various tools on netTrekker Customer Center. Great resources to be used in your training can be found there, including videos, letters, quick reference guides, scavenger hunts, and other handouts. Aside from the Customer Center, keep an eye on the netTrekker Village. Join in on discussions about the new enhancements; participate in the netTrekker Tip Tuesday webinars and other learning possibilities. Another great tip, if your school uses agenda/homework books, consider making labels that have the URL for netTrekker and then the Student Universal Username and Password for your school. Put this on the page dealing with Library Resources or in the front for a quick reminder of where students can go for research and homework help.
Tom Turner, Network Manager for Lake Marion Creek School, Polk County Schools, FL
I am actively training teachers on how to use netTrekker, along with Weekly Reader Express, on their SMART Boards. One lesson I have learned is to make sure there is student buy-in, and excitement. This year, my television broadcast team will be showcasing their favorite sites found in netTrekker, tips for using netTrekker beyond a research tool, and other student friendly netTrekker tips. By showcasing the students using this fantastic tool, the teachers will be encouraged to explore the many possibilities to integrate netTrekker into their classroom curriculum.
If you have any favorite training tips, please feel free to share them with us here or on netTrekker Village.
All Children’s: Joey keeps learning even in hospital
My son, Joey, was diagnosed as a seizure child several years ago. When I first found out, I used netTrekker to find information for myself and for his teachers. Periodically we have to do a 48 hour study where they monitor his staring spells (petite mals) and his sleep habits. We’re in All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg right now for our latest check up. They have just built onto the hospital and it is beautiful! Joey has a private room, the nurses are FANTASTIC, and the volunteers are great. In Joey’s room he has this nice size TV that is controlled by a keyboard. He has movies, television, older arcade style games, and the Internet.
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And while it’s summer, Joey is still working on school activities. This morning we worked on math. We started with a netTrekker search, refreshed his memory on addition rules with BrainPOP and then he moved onto his workbook pages. His reward for doing the math problems was to read “Belly Up” (he thinks the silly fish is named after him), and to play other games on BrainPOP Jr. Then we went back to our netTrekker search and he played another game that he found using the refinement menu. All on the cool TV.
I made a quick Animoto Video to showcase him using the keyboard and the netTrekker and BrianPOP screen-shots.
This hospital is so cool! And the nurse assigned to Joey also thinks that netTrekker and BrainPOP make a cool combo.
Social Studies Goes Digital
As school districts around the country look for solutions to a variety of challenges, including ever-shrinking budgets, disengaged students, growing class sizes with students of all different abilities and interests to name a few, many are exploring how a transition from print textbooks t
o digital resources can help them address some of these challenges. When the Indiana Department of Education issued a blanket waiver allowing school corporations to use a broad range of multimedia, computer and Internet resources to supplement or replace traditional textbooks, two districts quickly took advantage of this new option and chose to implement netTrekker as a replacement for their social studies textbooks.
Delphi Community School Corporation, a small district in Delphi, Indiana, and Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation with over 11,000 students in Columbus, Indiana, both subscribed to netTrekker in 2009 to provide more engaging, dynamic resources specifically for their social studies curriculum. Both districts realized that a transition from traditional print textbooks to a new way of teaching with digital resources was not something that would happen overnight, and not something that would be successful without the right combination of digital resources, professional development, technology/hardware infrastructure, and a commitment to transform teaching to meet the unique learning needs of their 21st century students.
Both districts have seen exciting results including a more current and vibrant social studies curriculum, a more engaging collegial classroom atmosphere, the ability for teachers to quickly find resources for differentiated instruction, and even increased attendance and graduation rates. But the most powerful result of this print-to-digital transition might be summarized in this statement by Greg Lewis, a member of the Bartholomew Textbook Adoption Committee.
“Students have choices as to how they go about accessing the information – versus one pathway to the assignment like in a textbook. They can be masters of their own education.”
Click here to read more about the print-to-digital transition in Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation.
Is your school or district making a transition from print textbooks to digital resources? If so, what has been the biggest impact you’ve seen on teaching and learning?
ISTE Winner – Roderick Hames, Gwinnett County Public Schools
At the ISTE 2010 conference in Denver a couple of weeks ago, there was a lot of excitement in the netTrekker booth. Booth visitors got sneak peak at the exciting changes coming to netTrekker for back-to-school. We had a full line-up of great customers presenters sharing their own best practices for using netTrekker in their classrooms. And we had over 125 educators participate in our Explore a New World of Personalized Learning passport game. The game required educators to learn about the new enhancements coming to netTrekker, find out how netTrekker helps personalize learning, and attend one of the many customer-presented workshops.
The lucky winner of the passport game was Roderick Hames, Business Education Instructor at Crews Middle School in Gwinnett County Public Schools, in the metro-Atlanta area. Roderick won the grand prize of a brand new Apple iPad and a one year netTrekker subscription for his school. We asked Roderick to share a little bit about himself, and it sounds like the netTrekker subscription and the iPad will fit perfectly into what he’s already doing to engage students with technology in his classroom. He shares some great examples below of how he’s made the print-to-digital transition with digital content and project-based learning activities. Thanks to all who stopped by to see us at ISTE, and congratulations, Roderick!
About Our Winner
My name is Roderick Hames and for the past 19 years I have taught computer applications, keyboarding, programming, entrepreneurship, and web design using both Mac and IBM to middle school students. I hold an Ed.S degree in Business Education from the University of West Georgia. In addition to my teaching assignments, I also serve as Program Specialist which is a leadership position at the county level to help facilitate staff development and other needs for a group of 25 other middle school computer teachers.
My website: http://www.crews.org/curriculum/ex/compsci/ is widely regarded as a hub of resources for not only my own students but teachers around the country as innovative and engaging relevant lessons. I also work after school coaching an intramural sports program. I have presented at numerous national, regional, state, and local conferences. This was my third time presenting at ISTE (formerly NECC).
I do not use any text books, my entire curriculum can be found online. My activities are project based and student centered. I work my units around a theme for each grade level. For 6th grade it is city planning and urban development. For 7th grade students learn about leadership character qualities and for 8th grade students focus on financial literacy and entrepreneurship. I work hard to create my lessons as realistic and engaging as possible. I also strive to make harder lessons video based so student can learn at their own pace. My passion is to see kids who can successfully use technology as a tool to accomplish a project that would otherwise lack creativity and skill. Since one of my passions is seeing young adults prosper and reach their full potential, using technology is a great tool to bring out hidden talents in children. I love to see kids who problem solve and can express themselves in creative professional ways using technology.
I am excited about winning the subscription to netTrekker and an Apple iPad. I fully expect to see kids who would have struggled presenting in class fight to use the iPad to present.
Beat the Cyber Bully!
The Education Business Blog (Lee Wilson) recently posted an article highlighting the challenge schools face when educating students on cyber bullying. Lee explains that, while cyber bullying incidents will likely occur outside of school grounds, the effects have a direct impact on a student’s performance in school. In addition, many students simply aren’t aware of the potential consequences of their actions online. You can find the full blog post here, including mention of netTrekker as an effective combatant to cyber bullying.
Research on cyber bullying prevention indicates that prevention programs should be implemented at the classroom, school, family, and community levels. To aid this effort, netTrekker has partnered with CyberSmart! Student Curriculum to help K–12 educators get started in the prevention of cyber bullying at all these levels. netTrekker subscribers have free access to all of CyberSmart’s student curriculum lessons and activity sheets. Students can learn how to examine their own and others behaviors and learn what constitutes cyberbullying. They can also explore how to deal with cyber bullying situations. Users can keyword search “cybersmart” in netTrekker to see the full collection of Cybersmart! student curriculum, or keyword search “cyberbullying” to target only those resources.
Cybersmart! also offers professional development workshops for educators. One of CyberSmart’s 4-week fully-facilitated online workshops is titled “Manners, Cyberbullying, and Ethics.” This workshop supports safe schools and digital citizenship initiatives, as well as:
- Equips staff model shared vision of acceptable use and good cybercitizenship
- Avoids legal issues or situations embarrassing to school administration
- Examines the ramifications and prevention of cyber bullying
- Clarifies educators’ copyright use
To learn more about Cybersmart! Online Workshops, click here. You can also contact your netTrekker Representative to learn more about effective strategies to beat the cyber bullies!
Make the Connections with the Timeline
One of my favorite netTrekker features to play with is the Timeline Tool. I love to build a timeline and add layers to make it just what I want. In training, I often showcase this tool by selecting United States History and the WWII Timeline from the events section. This pulls up both the timeline for the United States and their activity in WWII, as well as famous Americans who lived during this time. Nothing shows up for the arts or innovations and discoveries – but so much happened in the arts or sciences during this time! To prove that point I simply add layers, beginning with American Literature. How were stories written during that time influenced by the war? Next I add music and see a famous musician, Duke Ellington. The next layer is Physics, where we discover beta-trons, fission, and atomic bombs. Was the push for the discovery of the atomic bomb influenced by the war? Did it have an impact on WWII?
You can take this beyond just WWII of course. Do your own layering! For instance, would the people of America been so enamored by Franklin D. Roosevelt had he not taken office during the time of the Great Depression and saved the banks? Did the events during his term influence America into a four term president instead of the traditional two term? How about George W. Bush? What would his presidency have been like without September 11th? Did his focus change, and did it influence Americans into another term of Bush Presidency? What about Obama? What is influencing his presidency and will Americans decide if he’s a two term or one term President? It’s not just the laws that are passed – it’s often an event and the response to that event that influences those decisions. Those events will also often inspire art, literature, scientific discovery or invention. Nothing happens in a bubble without touching something else.
It was pointed out that many standards require connections to historical events and people. Make those connections with netTrekker’s Timeline tool!
New Science Professional Development Resources from the NSTA Learning Center
Recently, President Barack Obama launched the “Educate to Innovate” campaign, a nationwide effort by public and private organizations to improve the participation and performance of America’s students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). What is your school or district doing to address this renewed focus on STEM education? Are you looking for ways to help your teachers expand their science knowledge and easily integrate STEM teaching into their classrooms?
To help you improve science education and to give your teachers the science professional development they need, netTrekker has partnered with the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) to offer seamless access to high-quality online PD resources from the NSTA Learning Center on a wide variety of science topics directly from netTrekker.
A small sample of NSTA Learning Center resources will be freely available to all netTrekker subscribers as part of your netTrekker subscription. The free resources include:
- 1 SciPack
- 1 SciGuide
- 64 Science Objects
- 132 Archived Web Seminars
- 600+ Free Journal Articles
- 179 e-book Chapters
- Click here to download a PDF with complete descriptions of these resources.
- Click here to learn how to access the free resources within netTrekker.
Schools and districts can also provide extended professional development opportunities by purchasing additional licenses to access to the complete set of more than 4,400 NSTA Learning Center online PD resources. The resources will be easily accessible, 24/7 from your netTrekker search results.
Click here to learn more about the complete NSTA Learning Center professional development package or ask your netTrekker Account Manager for more details.
Doing More with Less
“Doing more with less.” This statement, unfortunately, has become far too familiar to many in education today. The budget crisis facing schools around the country has been all over the news both in the education “world” and in the national news. It’s difficult to hear about the stories of districts facing classrooms with 40+ students per teacher, of 4-day school weeks, and of drastic cuts in teachers and other instructional staff. And although I’ve never been in the classroom as an educator, I grew up with two parents who were teachers and have children who will soon be heading into the public school system, so I find it even more difficult to consider the impact these budget issues might have on our students’ education, both in the near and distant future.
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But in the midst of all the negative news about the budget crisis, there are also some positive stories surfacing about how some districts and schools are facing these difficult challenges in innovative ways. Sometimes the problems of having to do more with less can force us to take a step back and consider how we might do things differently. Districts and schools are finding new ways to help teachers collaborate and share teaching resources and best practices, new models for delivering professional development using just-in-time and online options, new ways to offer students robust course options by providing more online courses, and many are considering moving from printed textbooks and curriculum resources to engaging digital content.
At netTrekker, we want to help you get through these difficult times and have a positive impact on your students’ education. With a commitment to improving education through innovation and technology and to providing equitable access to digital resources for every learner. . . netTrekker can help you as you explore options for doing more with less.
“Recent budget cuts have reduced our teacher librarian support at the middle level, so we’re training classroom teachers to use all of netTrekker’s tools. As everyone tries to do more with less, netTrekker will help us organize Internet resources, differentiate instruction, and address the language needs and reading levels of our diverse student population.”
Julie Bowline
Director of Instructional Technology and Library Services
Adams 12 Five Star Schools, CO
Explore a New World of Personalized Learning at ISTE 2010
Are you heading to Denver for the ISTE conference June 27th – 30th? If so, we know that your time there will be jam-packed with workshops and time spent in the exhibit hall exploring all the latest and greatest in educational technology. We hope you’ll take some time to visit the netTrekker booth #884 to explore new ways that netTrekker can help you personalize learning for your students.
A few of our ISTE highlights include:
- An exploration game that will help you learn more about netTrekker and give you a chance to win an Apple iPad!
- Sneak previews of the new enhancements coming in netTrekker Search for Back-to-School 2010! Learn how the new enhancements support an even more personalized, productive, and engaging learning experience.
- A full schedule of workshops presented by netTrekker subscribers that let you explore netTrekker’s advanced features, hear best practices, get integration tips and strategies, and more.
- Demos of the new NSTA Learning Center online science professional development content available in netTrekker.
- Visit our ISTE page for more details and check out our full workshop schedule.
If you’re unable to attend ISTE this year, stay tuned in netTrekker Village for some post-conference highlights.
We’re looking forward to seeing you in Denver at the netTrekker booth #884!
What are you looking forward to most at this year’s ISTE conference?
Museums are Everywhere
I’m usually rushing from point A to point B, especially at an airport. I never take time to enjoy the scenery or ambiance that was created by the designers.
Recently at the Atlanta Airport, I had enough time between flights to walk the corridor instead of taking the tram from Terminal D to Baggage Claim, and I realized I was missing more than ambiance.
I was missing an entire museum!
Beautiful art work, sculptures, and images from an African Artist line the corridor. I took the hint, and at the next airport, I paid attention to what was around me. Clothing from a different era was on display. Another airport had yellow pages turned into relief artwork. Local culture
s were also on display, enticing the traveler to visit and learn what makes their city or state unique.
Museums are special. They contain many great pieces of our history and culture. But if you don’t have time to make it to a museum, just open your eyes.
You might just see one surrounding you!
And if you want to visit a museum, but can’t make it to the one of your choice in person, visit netTrekker’s Reference Section and see some of our online museums.
Motivation. Training. Accountability.
No, this is not me. This is an image found during an image search in netTrekker courtesy of Science News for Kids.
I need to exercise more. I know this. I have bought the shoes, Sketcher Shape Ups to walk and a pair of running shoes. I have the outfits. I even downloaded the apps – yes more than one- designed to encourage me to eat healthier, exercise more, and be accountable for my lifestyle. I have a shelf full of workout DVDs, two exercise balls, the different bands, a stepper and a stationary bike. And while I have all this stuff, I still wasn’t working out. I’d find an excuse. I went to bed late. I woke up too late in the morning. I was already showered and didn’t want to sweat at lunch, evenings were too busy, and then it was time for bed again.
And then I found a walking buddy. Now I have to get up at 5:40 so I can meet her at 6 to walk anywhere between 2.5-3 miles around our neighborhood. Since I know she’s waiting on me, I know I have to get up. I’m being held accountable. I even have tried a few of those training videos and have been reading up on how to improve your walking workout. Add some tunes and changing the route to keep the walk from getting boring, I think the walking will be well implemented in my lifestyle.
Last night I spoke to a friend of mine on Skype who also uses netTrekker. He wants to get his teachers using it more, so he’s trying to find ways to implement for next school year. The teachers like netTrekker, they know it’s good for them and their students, but they open up their browser and start a keyword search in the search engine that automatically opens up or in the search bar of the browser. And while the teachers know they should use netTrekker, they get caught up in the other search engines. It’s just easier for them since it’s first accessible.
So why not make netTrekker easier to access? That takes care of accessibility. Start with checking out the Customer Center and look at the Access Page. From here you can learn how to make netTrekker your homepage, add a netTrekker search box and a netTrekker log in, and even how to make netTrekker your default search engine. Once they have this set, there’s no excuse for not using netTrekker first, as their dedicated search engine. Our number one users will tell you that this is one way to improve usage. Forsyth County in Georgia has all of their computer homepages set to netTrekker, which helps make sure it’s used and probably why they are one of our top users.
Next, provide training. We have a dedicated professional development team that can help you start with the basics, train the trainer, or an integration training. We also include videos on how to get started with netTrekker. And here’s a tip – once you have them using it for the basics, take it to the next step. Show how to use it with other products, with their curriculum, and make it an integral part of their teaching. Share how to create project based learning folders with My Portfolio. netTrekker is more than a search engine, and if you use those tools, you’ll realize just how powerful it is. Plus, by keeping it from being just a another search engine, you keep it exciting.
Last, create professional development folders for the teachers and standard folders for the students. These folders become their ”netTrekker buddy”. This particular school is learning how to use SMART Boards. Create a folder with SMART Notebooks found in netTrekker to help the teachers get started. Use the “user-defined” template to add steps on how to create their own notebook. Add external links to include other pertinent information. If your teachers are studying more on the use of graphic organizers, create a folder with resources for how to use and create the graphic organizers. As for the standards folder for students, create a folder with interactive media and games for the standards that students are struggling with. Share them in the school or district folder. Use these folders for enrichment.
When the teachers and students are encouraged to go to netTrekker for their professional development or enrichment, they are accountable for using netTrekker.
If you follow these steps, you will see an increase in your usage. It’s not too late to book professional development this summer. We have limited days available. And if you’re thinking fall, consider booking now because we’ve already started getting requests! (I just booked a trip for the end of September!)
And by using netTrekker, your students will see a healthier lifestyle with the Internet. They’ll be more focused on their projects, have tools there to assist them, and will keep them on task.
Career Choices
My favorite class to teach when I taught middle school was Career Choices. I’ve always enjoyed hearing about everyone else’s careers, from the education it takes to get the job, the skills and knowledge to retain the job, and what the job entails day to day. As a career teacher I was able to explore with the students that there was more to being a nurse than applying a band-aid, more to being a fashion designer than knowing your summer colors and fabrics, and more to being a lawyer than playing golf with the right people. I also showed them how a career will decide your lifestyle. We played a game based on a career of their choice and for nine weeks they had to balance their paycheck with regular bills like rent/mortgage, car payments, student loans, and such, along with surprises like a flat tire or speeding ticket. Plus, they had to keep a journal of their career and what they learned about that career through extensive research using the Internet.
This class came to mind this morning when I saw a co-worker on facebook mention that it was nursing week, and wishing all her fellow nursing friends a great week and thanking them for a job well done. It reminded me of a conversation between former students that went something like this:
Student 1: “When I graduate and finish school, I’m going to be a doctor. That way I can get the fast car, the big house, and a title. DOCTOR!”
Student 2: “And a huge student loan bill, bigger than most, since you don’t like to study now and will probably have to repeat a year or two. And a big malpractice insurance bill since who in their right mind is going to trust you to be their doctor??”
Student 1: “You’re going to be a nurse right?”
Student 2: “Yes. I’m going to work my way up to a nurse-practitioner. I’d like to work in a doctor’s office and do more than just take a temperature and weight.”
Student 1: “Right. And guess who I’m going to hire? You! Then you can see all the patients while I go play golf and attend all the fancy functions. Maybe I’ll even let you be my arm candy.”
Typical student talk, but student 1 did realize how lofty his goal was, how much education he was going to need, the cost of the education and how his current study habits were not going to cut it. The last I heard, he was going to join the military and take classes in the health field, but not necessarily so he could become a doctor. I wish him the best of luck. Student #2 is right on her career track, and said that the class really helped her focus on her path.
To help the students with their career path, making the right educational decisions, and to learn more about their chosen career field, we used online articles and newspapers geared towards their field. I definitely didn’t have the budget to subscribe to all the different journals that are out there. You probably don’t either, but I’ve got a tip for you. Did you know that in netTrekker, if you click on “Current Events” in middle or high school tab, and then click on “News By Topic”, you will find newspapers that cover Social Studies, Mathematics, Health News and more? Great resources for studying your favorite career. Another area to check out is the Career and Technical Education Section. I can promise you, from my experience, it’s difficult to find trusted resources for career research. Thankfully, netTrekker makes it easy with these two sections.
Last week we thanked educators for their dedication, this past Sunday we thanked Mom’s for their passion and love, and this week we celebrate the nurses who care for us. I’d like to just give a big shout out to every career field, because each role is important to help make the world go around in interesting ways. Thanks everyone!
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