Convert Microsoft Office 2007 files for use with version 2003

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats
If you are using Microsoft office 2007 at home and want to open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the 2003 programs Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file formats to use at school you can install the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. You will then be able to save and open your files in the 2003 version at school. Just click on the Office Logo to the left and follow the download instructions

Thanks to Ed Moloney, Technology Education Department at Gelinas JHS

Web site offers free online math lessons

Although this item deals with math, the link itself has other disciplines as well:

This web site offers free online math lessons. The California-based Web site Brightstorm offers online math help for students with video lessons created by teachers. Most of the site's math lessons are free, but the company also offers fee-based lessons in preparation for standardized tests. "Anybody who is confused with their homework can come to our site, search for the concept, find it really quickly, and then they can get an explanation that is concise and to the point from a really talented presenter who is also a great teacher," http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/drive_to_discover&id=7196389 or http://www.brightstorm.com/

(this from Alan Baum, Principal WMHS)

SMART EXCHANGE

Find resources for your classroom and connect with other teachers who use SMART boards. On this website you can search for lessons, images and web pages that can be used with the SMART interactive white board. You can browse by keyword, subject, grade or NYS core curriculum. Teachers can also upload and share a resource that they have found successful or connect with other teachers on the message board. This website is a great compliment to the SMART Notebook lesson activities on the SmartTech website.

All My Faves Web Browser

All My Faves is a visual logo directory that specializes in the top 10 faves of each category. Making the internet an easier place to find teacher resouces. Click on the Education tab and you will find resources for each subject area as well as books, computers and many other educational themed websites.

List of Virtual Field Trips from Simple K-12

Virtual Field Trips: K-12 Solutions has put together a list of virtual field trips for students by subject area. A virtual field trip takes students on a tour of a location using a series of web sites that have been linked together, creating a guided experience. Virtual field trips can enhance the content of a lesson by providing an activity that extends students' experiences with a topic by taking them outside of the classroom and into a different environment.
Don't have time to create your own virtual field trip? No problem. Simple k-12 compiled a list of great Virtual Field Trips that were put together by other teachers, schools, or organizations that are available to you on the web - most are completely free. So don't spend hours searching for a virtual field trip....they have already done that for you!

Media Infusion

Media Infusion
A PBS Teachers blog offering strategies and resources to help you create rich, engaging learning experiences with multimedia. Free Resources for Teaching & Learning grades preK-12. Here you'll find classroom materials suitable for a wide range of subjects and grade levels. Thousands of lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations. These resources are correlated to state and national educational standards and are tied to PBS' award-winning on-air and online programming like NOVA, Nature, Cyberchase, Between the Lions and more.

Although Microsoft office (or one or more of the components - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc) may be on many of the computers in the world, there are free alternatives.OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose. It also allows for cross-platform sharing of files.The features are parallel to those available from MS Office and it is FREE!You may download the suite from http://www.openoffice.org. There are tutorials available for the suite on the website