WELCOME TO THE COMPUTER LAB

Regular Hours: 8:00 AM to 3 PM

Tues, Wed, and Thurs: 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM (200 Lab)

Mr. Thanh Nguyen, Computer Facilitator

Mr. Hung Dinh, Computer Resource Aide (8:00 AM to 11:30 AM)

Mr. William LeVar, Computer Resource Aide (11:30 AM to 3:00 PM)

RULES

LINKS TO RESOURCES

LATEST EDUCATIONAL LINKS FOR TEACHERS (10/24/ 2005)

http://www.teachersdomain.org/
You need to register to have your username and password.
Teachers' Domain is a multimedia digital library for the classroom that provides learning experiences in ways no textbook can. This ever-expanding library currently includes:
o Science: Life Science, Physical Science, Engineering
o Social Studies: The Civil Rights Movement, Brown v. Board of Education
o High-quality multimedia from NOVA, American Experience, and other public television productions and partners
o Video, audio, interactives, images, and documents - o Explanatory background articles for each resource
o Correlations to national and state curriculum standards - o Media-rich lesson plans - o Resource management tools

http://marcopolo.k12.ca.us/
MarcoPolo Internet Content for the Classroom is a nonprofit consortium of premier national and international education organizations and the MCI Foundation dedicated to providing the highest quality Internet content and professional development to teachers and students throughout the United States. This website has tons of lesson plans for projects. It covers K-12 and all subjects. This website is the California version of Marco Polo.

http://webquest.org/
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation.

http://www.atomiclearning.com/
Atomic Learning: Very user-friendly, easy-to-understand, Quicktime-movie-format online tutorials for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other popular software. You will find answers to all questions you have about Microsoft Office and Adobe software. The district paid for the subscription to this website until Mar 2006. Ask Mr. Nguyen for username and password.

District Resources:

http://www.ggusd.k12.ca.us/DEPARTMENT/insttech/websites.html Ed websites categorized in subject areas
http://www.ggusd.k12.ca.us/DEPARTMENT/insttech/staffdev.html Staff development opportunities

www.pdictionary.com  Picture dictionary in 5 different languages. Vocabulary for ELD, Spanish, French

www.manythings.org  Tons of resources for ELD teachershttp://www.ggusd.k12.ca.us/DEPARTMENT/insttech/staffdev.html