Louisiana Principals' Office

ALPHATECH For Administrators

ASCD Smart Brief
http://www.smartbrief.com/ascd
• ASCD SmartBrief is a FREE daily news briefing delivered directly to you through e-mail. Each ASCD SmartBrief takes you straight to the most salient news and trends affecting education today. This FREE service will help you break through the information overload and provide quick, easy-to-read summaries of top news in areas important to you.

Backflip
http://www.backflip.com/login.ihtml
• Ever been somewhere, and you’re trying to describe a website that you find extremely useful to someone? Can you remember the URL? Instead of doing brain flips trying to remember how to find a site, get Backflip, and your sites can travel with you. Backflip is a virtual file cabinet for the websites you visit. Unlike your favorites folder, backflip goes where you do.

Calendars
http://www.calendars.net/
• Calendars Net is a free interactive web calendar hosting service, where you and anyone you choose can post events visible and printable by whomever you choose, or everyone.

Database- Profiler Pro
http://profilerpro.com/index.jsp
• ProfilerPro allows for the evaluation of knowledge, attitude, and skill based on simple surveys implemented via the World Wide Web. Inspired by the widely popular collaboration tool - Profiler, ProfilerPro maintains the ability for members of a group to share knowledge and promote collaboration based on responses to skills-based survey items.

EXCEL
http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=Excel97Tutorial
• LEADTech 2-
– Excel
– Access
– Creating School Newsletters
– Creating Web pages
– PDAs

Faculty Handbook
• Blackboard - http://www.blackboard.com/k12/academic/ls/index.htm
• Faculty Handbook on CD Contact kirk.guidry@la.gov for more info

Grants
http://www.schoolgrants.org/index.htm
• SchoolGrants shares grant information with PK-12 educators.
• SchoolGrants provides online tips for grant writing.
• SchoolGrants reduces the effort by listing a variety of grant opportunities available to public and private nonprofit elementary and secondary schools and districts across the United States.

Homepage for Educators
http://teacher.scholastic.com/chb_tutorial/tutorial.htm
• Post homework assignments, reading lists, and spelling words.
• Share class news with parents.
• Showcase your students' best work
• Walk through each step with easy-to-follow instructions.

Images- Google
http://www.google.com/imghp
• Search Engine.
• The most comprehensive image search on the web.

Photo Jam
• http://www.shockwave.com/sw/content/photojam
• Free software- you will be able to create high-quality slide shows in just minutes!
• It's easy: simply add music and visual effects to your favorite digital photos, and you're ready to share your PhotoJam with the world.
• School CD’s of Athletic Banquets, Proms, Elementary Yearbooks

Kathy Schrock
• Guide for Educators
• http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
• A categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning

Louisiana Department of Education
• http://www.louisianaschools.net
• Louisiana Principals’ Office
• Leadership and Professional Development
• Blackboard
• Coursewhere

My School Online
• http://myschoolonline.com/golocal/
• A complete website building and hosting solution for K-12 classes, schools, districts, and other educational organizations.
• Class homepages to school and district-wide websites.
• MySchoolOnline is the fast and easy way to create your own site and connect to parents, students, colleagues, and other community members

NECC
• National Educational Computer Conference
• Attend NECC in New Orleans, June 20–23, 2004
• More than 16,000 teachers, technology coordinators, library media specialists, teacher educators, administrators, policymakers, and industry representatives from all over the world will gather.

Online Learning
• Effective Instructional Technology: An Introduction
http://www.louisianaschools.net/lde/lcet/1820.html
• Teaching Learning and Technology Leadership Institute
http://www.louisianaschools.net/lde/lcet/322.html

Performance System
• Classroom Performance System
• http://www.einstruction.com/
• Research on the learning benefits of questions has shown that the learning environment can be improved by as much as 150 by the application of various questioning approaches.
• engage the learner
• focus the learner on specific
• help the learner practice retrieval and application of information to answer questions
• provide opportunities for feedback allowing students to understand why they missed specific questions
• provide opportunities for repetition within the learning process.

Quicktopic
• http://www.quicktopic.com/
• For any quick group discussion, use QuickTopic free bulletin boards instead of just email!
Your messages will be in a private central place. Your friends can participate by email or use the web forum, because QuickTopic's super-easy web bulletin boards let you get and post messages by email. Use it on your web site too.

Book Reports
• http://members.aol.com/sskufca/bookunits.htm
• Collection of lesson, units, activities for books for preschool to twelve grade.
The titles are in alphabetical order. Click on a letter to go to the list of titles

Schoolnotes
• http://www.schoolnotes.com/
• A simple and effective means to communicate school information to your education community, you've come to the right place.
• Homework page for teachers.
• SchoolNotes.com complements school websites by allowing teachers to post school information on the world-wide-web without worrying about HTML or FTP because there is no programming required!

Tablet PC
• PC Magazine list of Tablet PC’s
• http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0 2C4148 2C2379 2C00.asp
• Portable
• Accepts handwriting and changes to type
• Advantages of Journal

Universal Design for Learning
• Making Connections - http://www.doe.state.la.us/conn/
• GLEs are included
• UDL- Accommodations and Modifications included
• UDL Opportunities -http://www.louisianaschools.net/lde/lcet/399.html

Video on Demand
• United Streaming - http://www.unitedstreaming.com/
• The largest and most current K-12 video/video clip library available today
• The only standards-based video-on-demand application shown to increase student achievement
• Practical teacher and student learning resources
• Access to a wide variety of producers—United Learning, Discovery Channel School, Standard Deviants, Weston Woods, and many more


Walk Around Management
• 5 Minute Observation
• Become more familiar with schools curriculum
• Observe teachers’ instructional practices
• Get a feeling of school climate
• Determine student engagement
• Establishes principal as an instructional leader
• Contact kirk.guidry@la.gov for more info

X-tra’s
• Powerpoint tutorial http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_powerpoint.htm
• Powerpoint Presentation for Meetings
• Powerpoint presentations in Lobby

Yahoo Briefcase
• http://www.yahoo.com ( Under Organize section)
• Yahoo! Briefcase is still the easiest way to put your files online and share them with friends or co-workers.
• Get 30 MB of space, absolutely free
• Access your important files from anywhere

Z - End
• LEADTech - http://www.louisianaschools.net/leadtech/
• LEADTech is a technology leadership initiative that prepares school principals and district superintendents with an in-depth understanding of the role of instructional technology as it relates to total school improvement and increased student learning.