- Check web sites you read about in the morning
paper, or go directly to the paper, or get an e-copy of something
you read in the paper and duplicate it for your class
<
http://www.latimes.com/>,
<http://www.usatoday.com/>,
<http://www.cnn.com/>
- Check sites you heard about last night on
TV
<http://www.finalfour.com>
- Check the freeway conditions before you head for
home
http://www.scubed.com/caltrans/la/la_big_map.shtml
- E-mail people you don't have time to call (or
don't have access to a phone in your room) colleagues,
counselors
- E-mail parents so the message is at home that
evening for them to read.
Have students give you their parent's e-mail
address the first day of class.
- E-mail school district personnel who have a
terminal, at this site or district wide, everyone from Jan
down
Supt. Billings:
<billings_j@auhsd.k12.ca.us>,
Arlene
<oatman_a@auhsd.k12.ca.us>,
Dr. Brennan
<brennan_t@auhsd.k12.ca.us>,
(syntax:
LastnameUnderscoreFirstinitial@auhsd.k12.ca.us)
- Sign up for free web-based e-mail so you can
check your mail on ANY computer in the world that is connected.
And, have your address book and old mail saved
on their server for access Anywhere you go online.
<http://www.hotmail.com>
- E-mail textbook vendors, school supply companies,
computer vendors, etc.
<http://apple.com>
- Go to web sites for subject-specific lesson
plans
<http://classroom.net>
- Go to colleague's pages for teacher links and
teacher pages
<http://www.auhsd.k12.ca.us:80/schooldistrict/school/high/High878080398/teacher889485581/index.html>
- Look at school web pages around the world as a
model for your page
<http://web66.coled.umn.edu/schools.html>
- Read e-mail assignments students have sent
you. Grade them on screen. Record the grades in you
on-screen gradebook. Return the graded 'papers' via e-mail having
never lifted a red pen nor #2 pencil!
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