Announcements - March 1st

Dear TecEd Lab Users

This is a friendly reminder to please tidy up the KDES TecEds Lab after your class or group finishes using it.

Often, the next group that uses the lab after your group leaves has to spend valuable class and meeting time getting the lab back in order. A few simple rules will ensure the lab is in good condition for everyone:

· Push the chairs back under the table
· Throw away any bits and scarps of paper
· Wipe off the tables of snack crumbs or stains
· If you are responsible for returning equipment …. please return laptops, mice/mouse pads and electrical adapters to the TecEds Lab closet

Thanks very much
ISCS

Families Count!

Come join us on Wednesdays, March 1, 8, 22, and 29!

Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Where: We will meet in the KDES cafeteria.

Families Count! is a hands-on approach to learning mathematics skills. Our workshops provide an excellent opportunity for your family to learn how to play math games, sign math signs, help your child with math at home, etc. If you have any questions, please see your family educator.

Thanks, Tyese Wright and the Family Involvement Unit

Lost and Found:

Missing: a single key attached to a brown-beaded necklace. If found, please give it to Ruth Innes.

Thanks.

To students, teachers, and staff: We Need Your Help!

The Clerc Center is printing a new magazine. The magazine will be a showcase of art and writing of deaf and hard of hearing students. It will be sent to students throughout the country and show the winning entries in the Gallaudet National Essay and Art Contest for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students.

Please help us decide the name of this new magazine. We have put three popular names on the web and are asking people to vote on their favorite. We would like to hear from teachers, staff, and, especially students. What is your opinion? Please look at the names and vote at:

http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/worldaroundyou/2006-02/mag-poll.html

The deadline for voting is March 1.

Thanks for your patience!

Michael Walton, Writer/Editor
Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
Publications and Information Dissemination
Phone: (202) 651-5340 (V/TTY), Email: michael.walton@gallaudet.edu, VP: 202-651-5340

Kendall School Library purchased 371 new Reading Practice Quizzes and they were installed into Clerc Center’s AR database. Come to the library to see new AR books on the shelving display.

If you need more AR color coding labels for your team library, please contact the library staffs.

Cynthia Sadoski

Hello, my name is Angela Dunkle and I am a student teacher with Sharon Sandoval in Team 6/7/8, Social Studies. In March, my students will be acting out the "Boston Tea Party". I am asking that whoever is a tea drinker, please save your empty tea cartons and drop them off in Sharon's classroom or front office for me. I hope to collect quite a few so that my students will understand how much tea was wasted by being thrown out in ocean in the 1700s!
Thanks for your help.
Angela Dunkle

· Has your computer mouse died?


Don’t toss it---give it new life by donating it the Mouse Explorers!

KDES Computer Technology classes are looking inside computer mice to learn more about how they work. Please donate your old computer mice to Kathy Pongor at KDES. You can put them in my mailbox or drop them off at my office #2413
Any type, style or condition would be gladly accepted!

· Reading is Fundamental – RIF

We will be having our second RIF book distribution event on the last week of February. Activities will be conducted before distributing the books. Each student may receive 4-5 books. Here is our schedule.


Team
Day
Time
Activity
Team 4/5
Thursday, Mar 2
9 am
Read Aloud
(Sue Gill-Doleac)

*Parents will volunteer to read aloud their child’s team. Thank you, Rosemary Adamca-Balzer and Richard Jeffries, Co-coordinators

Hello everyone,
This bulletin is written to inform you that the Russian Deaf Performance Group, ”TOYS” will offer a very special performance for everyone. Because we want all teams to participate, the performance will be given in the MSSD Auditorium. It will be on Tuesday, March 21st @ 10:00 a.m. Many thanks to Tim Frelich for arranging this special performance for our children, teachers and staff. Everyone tells me that this group is fantastic and the children will love it.

See you there, Don



The 4th and 5th Team will be videotaped during Writers’ Workshop on the following dates:
Wednesday, March 1
Thursday, March 2

Tuesday, March 7
Wednesday, March 8
Thursday, March 9
Friday, March 10

All students, along with Susan Schatz, Preston Ponder, Nanette Virnig, Leslie Brewer, along with Tara Downing, Ruth Reed, Patti McIntyre, Cynthia Hunt, along with intern Holly McFarland, along with Dave Schleper, will be writing from 10:15 until 11:15 a.m. We are excited to be videotaped, and the videotape will be used for training of teachers throughout the country!

Any questions? Contact David.Schleper@gallaudet.edu. Thanks!


Technology Training Class Schedule
The ISCS team is pleased to announce this semester's offering of TecEds Technology Training classes. Take some time to peruse the class schedule and class descriptions and pick a class or two that appeal to you.

Classes will take place in the MSSD TecEds Lab or the KDES TecEds Lab.
We'd like a minimum of five students per class and a maximum of twelve.
Certificates will be given to students who complete a class.
Classes will be offered 3:15-4:45 PM. Check the calendar for specific dates and times.
Here's a list of upcoming classes: click on the link to see more information.

Microsoft Word Form Fields - Tuesday, March 7, 3:15 pm @ MSSD
Microsoft Publisher - Wednesday, March 22, 3:15 pm @ MSSD
SMART Board & Notebook in the Classroom - Tuesday, April 18, 3:15 PM @ KDES
Microsoft Word – Track Changes - Wednesday, April 26, 3:15 pm @ KDES
Macromedia Dreamweaver - Tuesday, May 2, 3:15 pm @ MSSD
Excel Basics - Thursday, May 18, 3:15 pm @ MSSD
Contact Bill Humm - William.Humm@gallaudet.edu if you'd like to reserve a place in this class or any of the classes.

TecEds Technology Training Class Schedule can be viewed at http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/TecEds/training/short-sessions/2006/index.html