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Hello,

E2T2 Support will be making our next visit on Wednesday December 3rd. In previous visits some of you have had some confusion about what we could help with. Here are some suggestions.

Some of you might like help with Microsoft Office software. Let us know if you'd like help with Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.

Some of you might be thinking about adding some Internet resources to add to your classes. Let us know what subject areas and topics are of interest. We can help with general Internet searches and Thinkfinity.

If you are looking for good ways for your students to collaborate or a way to reach your students and their parents at home, we can help with Edublogs, Google Apps or Wikis. (And if you don't know what these are, just invite us to show you so you can think about this for next time.)

Please visit .... To sign up for a visit.

Dear Teacher, Click the link below to sign up for some quality time with an E2T2 technology integration specialist. Our primary goal, according to the e2t2 (Enhancing Education Through Technology) funding, is to help you help your students use technology to enhance learning. We've got plenty of good ideas to help - perhaps you would like to start a new classroom blog or get help with your existing one. Maybe you could use some one-on-one or team SmartBoard training. In addition, we are able to help with **any** of your technology integration needs. Just ask!

Click the link and follow the directions to sign up. We look forward to seeing you! LINK HERE>

OTHER INFO: Check out what some of your colleagues have been up to: Colonial S.D. teachers' blogs. Get ideas, share, link blogs, add comments to their blogs, go nuts! http://equity854.edublogs.org/example-teacher-blogs/ We meet with all levels of expertise and need--so sign up for further help. And always know, if you can't arrange a time with us during our next visit, we are just an email away to answer your questions:

The e2t2 Staff [|e2t2support@udel.edu]

The e2t2 Staff [|e2t2support@udel.edu]

Dear (principal’s name),

We look forward to working with you again this year. The e2t2 sign-up process is a bit different this time. Instead of leaving a sign-up sheet in the office, we are moving the process completely online. The next email you receive will contain a link to the sign-up sheet for our next visit. Please forward that message to your faculty with a brief note encouraging them to make use of our services. We will send this message two weeks prior to our visit to give your teachers plenty of time to sign up. Feel free to check the link at any time to see who has signed up. If there is not a good response we will contact you the week before the visit so you can send out one more reminder.

We are looking forward to a productive year! Best Regards, The e2t2 Staff [|e2t2support@udel.edu]

Dear Teacher, Click the link below to sign up for some quality time with an e2t2 technology integration specialist. Our primary goal, according to the e2t2 (Enhancing Education Through Technology) funding, is to get kids using computers to enhance learning. We've got plenty of good ideas to help - perhaps you would like to start a new classroom blog or get help with your existing one. Also, maybe you could use some one-on-one or team SmartBoard training. In addition, we are able to help with **any** of your technology integration needs. Just ask!

Click the link and follow the directions to sign up. We look forward to seeing you!

The e2t2 Staff [|e2t2support@udel.edu]

LINK HERE

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 * e2t2 Tip of the Week**

p.s. Sorry, we can't fix your computer! That's a job for the district's tech support folks.

Hello Ladies, It was great seeing you all today. I've been thinking about activities for Social Studies and I'd like to point you to a few really cool interactive websites that can be used (on the Smartboard) to compare nations, for example - so these are not necessarily for Australia only. However, if there is one thing I believe we need to start doing is using the Internet to connect with the outside world in addition to using it to find information. So let's talk about ways to do that this year. I-earn is a great place to start. [|http://iearn.org] First - interactive maps are very useful to get oriented with the place you're studying. [|http://maps.google.com] http://www.flashearth.com/ I highly recommend Google Earth (lots of very useful [|GIS]) but this needs to be downloaded - try it at home first http://earth.google.com/ Gapminder - This is an amazing tool that allows the user to manipulate statistics visually. http://tools.google.com/gapminder To get more insight into gapminder - lots of great presentations and ideas go to: [|http://gapminder.org] Also, Dollar Street is an eye-opening activity, but you'll have to download it at home to look at it. http://www.gapminder.org/downloads/presentations/dollar-street-2002.html Nation Master is also very good, relatively easy to use - very powerful http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php [|My Wonderful World] is a real nice site. Here is the teachers' page which has a lot of good ideas. http://mywonderfulworld.org/educators_welcome.html Australia I used [|Thinkfinity] (a great, great resource!) to find this excellent resource on Australia. http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_australia.html There is enough just here if you want students to do research - they don't have to go any farther. Wow, that's a lot! Sometimes I get carried away. I don't want to overwhelm you, but there's so much great stuff out there! Take or leave any of this, but let me know if something captures your attention so we can focus in on that. Don't forget to sign up next time!!! Look for an email from Mrs. Fleetwood. Barry p.s. [|www.21classes.com] was a blogging site I mentioned for students. Lemme know if you need help with this as well. p.p.s Please forward this note along to any other teachers you think would benefit.