Bethel School District



Bethel School District

Technology Resources – Staff/Parents/Students

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|[pic] |Google Apps |Google Apps is Bethel’s integrated communication and collaboration tool. |

|[pic] | |Google Apps: |

| | |Gmail: Email (compose, receive, organize), add contacts, text or video chat, and create a list of |

| | |tasks. |

| | |Calendar: Create events, invite others to your events, share and subscribe to calendars. The |

| | |integrated calendar manages your schedule. |

| | |Docs: Create and share a variety of online documents, from word processing and spreadsheets to |

| | |forms and presentations. These web-based applications are accessible from any computer, so teachers|

| | |and students can work inside or outside the classroom on documents together at the same time from |

| | |multiple locations. |

|[pic] |Family Access | |

| | |This site is for all parents and guardians who want to be more involved with their child’s |

| | |education. With the Family Access web portal, parents and guardians can review their child’s |

| | |progress from any computer connected to the Internet. |

| | |Parents and guardians have access to a variety of student information, such as attendance, |

| | |schedules, grades, and student and family demographics. |

| | |One Family Access password and user name will work for all children who live in a household, |

| | |regardless of grade level or school of attendance. |

|[pic] |NetTrekker |Connect to over 300,000 of the best online resources, aligned with state standards and organized by |

| | |readability and grade level. |

| | |Each resource is carefully selected by educators to ensure it is safe, age-appropriate and 100% |

| | |academically relevant. |

| | |An easy-to-use tool for K-12 students and educators in a search environment you can trust! |

|[pic] |Atomic Learning |Atomic Learning provides web-based software training for more than 250 applications students and |

| | |educators use every day. These short, easy-to-view-and-understand tutorials are an integral part of |

| | |a professional development program, a valuable curriculum supplement, and an anytime/anywhere |

| | |training resource. |

|[pic] |World Book |The World Book Web is a suite of online research tools that includes encyclopedia articles, primary |

| | |source collections, educator tools, student activities, pictures, audio, and video, complemented by |

| | |current periodicals and related Web sites. With World Book Web, teachers and students have access |

| | |to World Book Kids, World Book Student, World Book Advanced, World Book Discover, Dramatic Learning,|

| | |Early World of Learning, and Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos. |

|[pic] |Proquest |ProQuest offers a growing family of classroom-focused, subscription-based educational resources that|

| | |support the 21st century information literacy needs of technology directors, librarians, teachers, |

| | |and students across all curriculum areas. |

|[pic] |eLibrary |eLibrary is the perfect resource for delivering full-text and multimedia reference essentials. The |

| | |easy-to-use interface makes research easy. Students find the answers they need from more |

| | |than 2,500 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts--plus thousands of maps, |

| | |pictures, educator-approved websites from Homework Central, and top-quality multimedia (audio/video)|

| | |files. |

|[pic] |Culture Grams |CultureGrams are country reports that go beyond mere facts and |

| | |figures to deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture, including the background, |

| | |customs, and lifestyles of the world's people. Individual reports covering 182 countries and all 50 |

| | |United States are written and reviewed by in country experts and are updated every year, so you can |

| | |be sure it is offering only the very best information to students. |

|[pic] |AP Photo Archive |AP Images from AccuWeather™ is a primary source database from the Associated Press that takes users |

| | |on a sensory journey of photographs, audio sound bites, graphics and text spanning over 160 years of|

| | |history. User comprehension and recall skills will improve with visually stimulating imagery meant |

| | |for use in research papers, theses, reports and PowerPoint presentations. |

|[pic] |TypingClub |This online program assists students with learning to type. Users can practice each lesson over and|

| | |over to earn three stars. It really doesn't take much to learn to type - a few minutes a day for one|

| | |to two weeks and you will be a pro! Using this program, students will be able to increase their |

| | |typing speed rather quickly. |

|[pic] |Moodle |Moodle is a course management system (CMS) – a free, Open Source software package designed using |

| | |sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. |

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