Technology Tips for Teachers
Using a template for Lesson Plans: Open up lesson plan if you have it in your files, or Go to the Hill website http://www.trenton.k12.nj.us/hill/index.htm
Look for the Menu Table near the bottom of the first page. When you see the third box from the left, Use the Right click button on the mouse on Staff Lesson Plans. Select “Save target as” with your left button. Pick Thawspace and save it. (or save it on your floppy disk)
1. Just click with your mouse to begin typing in your lesson information in each section.
2. As you type your name and/or other information on the top of the template, you may need to hit the delete key if part of the template spills over to the next line.
3. To get rid of extra lines as they accumulate when typing in the actual lesson information, just hit your “Delete” or “Backspace” key at the beginning of a line.
4. To erase any typing mistakes, you can use the “Backspace” or “Delete” keys also .
5. Save what you have typed (see next step).
SAVING & YOUR LESSON PLAN (GIVING IT A NEW NAME)! Fact: Every time you use Save As instead of Save, you are actually closing the original file and leaving it intact. The file you now have open is a copy of the original. Give this file a new name immediately so that you do not get confused!
IMPORTANT: Save your new lesson plan right as you begin and often!!! Here’s how:
Ø On the top left of the screen, click FILE, then SAVE AS
Ø See FILE NAME box, on bottom of screen. Type in a new name for your lesson plan. For example: ALDente_Lesson_9_15_04. Using your last name in the file is important to the person receiving the email since it identifies the owner, and doesn’t overwrite other lesson plans that are generically named.
Ø On the top of this screen, see the SAVE IN box. Here you can click on the small upside down triangle to choose where to save your lesson plans (ex. “My Documents” folder, your Desktop, or “My Lesson Plans” folder (*see instructions below).
CREATING A SPECIAL FOLDER FOR YOUR LESSON PLANS Save all your lesson plans in THAWSPACE in a special folder you create. Here’s how:
Ø Go to Thawspace
Ø Go to file > New > folder
Ø Give the folder a name, such as Lesson_Plans_03_04
Sending Your Lesson Plan via Email: Attach and send your Lesson Plan via email.
1. Log into your email.
2. Click on the small envelope icon on the toolbar (upper left corner) “Compose new mail message”.
3. Click in the “To” Box. Type in the first initial and last name of recipient.
4. Click the icon of a person with checkmark to check that it is the correct email address.
5.
Type
in your subject (i.e. Lesson Plan 9-19-03)
6. Click the “Attachments” button located below “Subject” area, or click “paper clip” icon on toolbar.
7. In the Attachment box Click Browse.
8. In the “Look In” box, find, and click once on the file to attach. Then click Open.
9. Click “Attach”. See the file now appear in the “Current file attachments” box of screen.
10. Click “Close”.
11. Type your “subject” and message.
12. Click “SEND” button. The attachment will now accompany your message.