Fayette
County

Fayette County Board of Education Home Page

FCBOE WebMail

Fayette
County
Intranet
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Staff Dev.

Fayette County Intranet Home Page - The Fayette County Intranet an internal website, viewable only inside our network. It is only accessible from within our county schools and facilities, and cannot be accessed by computers outside our network. Its purpose is to facilitate better communication between our schools and departments by streamlining the location of information that is pertinent only to us.

Fayette County Staff Development Home Page (PD Express!)
Staff ID: Log on with your lastnamefirst name. (No spaces or punctuation) Ex. smithjohn
Your password starts as your AS400 5 digit FCBOE personnel number (NOT your email password). If you do not know this number, see your school secretary. By now, many teachers have changed their password to something easier to remember. That can be done through the PDExpress PREFERENCES.

Helpful Georgia Links

Georgia Performance Standards - our NEW guideline for instruction that helps teachers, students, and parents know what topics must be covered and mastered for a particular course.
Georgia Professional Standards Commission - type in your social security number to see your certification records!!!
Georgia Department of Education
Georgia Learning Connections - Georgia QCC's + lesson plan ideas & resources

Search

Google
Google Image Search - search for images and clip art. You will be shown pages of thumbnail views of the images.

School
Subscription
Sites

Our school has password-protected licenses which allow us to access these wonderful sites from school. We are not allowed to give the passwords out for home use, but home subscriptions may be available. Check each site for subscription info. The passwords may change periodically. See our media specialist for updates.

BrainPop - Great site with videos and more. Our school has purchased a password-protected license which allows us to access this site from school. We are not allowed to give this password out for home use, but anyone could purchase a home subscription if they wish to do so.
Enchanted Learning - Games, handouts, activities, and more.
Galileo - award-winning site from the University System of Georgia
Peachstar -
United Streaming - educational digital video library

Teacher Favorites!!!

Cool sites highlighted in Spring Hill Technology Classes will be added to this section!

ABC Teach - free printable activity sheets and project helpers; includes
everything from graphic organizers to math aids.
Discovery School - rubrics, glossary builder, Quizmaker, Puzzle maker, clip art, & more
Early Childhood Educators Web Corner - great for primary teachers
Education World - a fabulous resource site for teachers!!!
Eduhound - all sorts of teacher goodies from T.H.E. Journal magazine.
Gamequarium - as shown by Mrs. Gable
Microsoft Office Templates - Why start everything from scratch? This site has a ton of templates you can use to make business cards, labels, form letters, calendars, brochures, announcements and more. The For Teachers section also has templates for certificates, dividers, tests, grade books, seating charts, lesson plans and a syllabus.
Report Card Comments and Phrases - Are you tired of writing the same comments over and over on your report cards? Then check out these suggestions.
RubiStar - a free tool to help a teacher make quality rubrics.
Rubric Builder - If you use rubrics to evaluate your students, you just have to visit this site. It is a template and you just type in the info. This program formats it for you and it looks GOOD!
TeachNet - another good resource site for teachers
Teachers.Net - all sorts of Teacher Resources! - Different from above site.
Trackstar - Set up you own tracks with your approved web pages or use tracks created by other teachers.
Ultimate Organized Classroom - set up a classroom that's so well organized it can practically run itself
 

Sight Words - This page has tons of ideas and links to online activities for teaching sight word recognition.
Four Blocks Center - This is the reading site is highly recommended by Debbie Wheat.
Phonics - This page (by Surf the Net with Kids) has lots of links to phonics games, lesson plans, and research on phonics skills.
Reading Rockets - help for teaching new or struggling readers
Reading Lady - This site recommended by Valerie Young has information on 4 Blocks and much more.
Dave's ESL Cafe - help for teaching ESL students
Carol Hurst's Reading Literature Site - collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
 

McGraw Hill - web page to go with our Math books!
Worksheet Factory
Learning, Earning, & Investing - designed to teach the benefits of and strategies for long-term investing success. Grades 4-12. Recommended by Martie Johnson!

Social Studies

The History Place - tons of history / social studies exhibits
 

Science

National Association for Science Teachers Recommended Websites
Robert Krampf's Experiment of the Week -safe, dramatic, cheap, & fun experiments (newsletter available)
Explorer - a collection of educational resources (instructional software, lab activities, lesson plans, student-created materials ...) for K-12 mathematics and science education

Lesson Plans

A to Z Teacher Stuff - lesson plans, online resources, book activities, and more
The Gateway to Education Materials - lesson plans, curriculum units and more
TeacherVision - another resource for lesson plan ideas
The Teachers Corner - online lesson plans & thematic units
Scholastic's Teacher Page - lesson plans, reproducibles, professional resources, online activities, and more
EdHelper - includes 10,000+ lesson plans & 1000+ Web Quests. Includes worksheets, links and more.
 

Internet Lessons & Projects

Flat Stanley - Many of our classes have participated in the Flat Stanley Project.
Kathy Scrock's Guide for Educators - FABULOUS!!!
Big Chalk - a list of links to online projects and contests for the current year
Adventures of Cyberbee - ways to integrate the Internet into the classroom; a new topic is presented each month
Teaching With the Web - Great site from Kennesaw State University
EPals - directory that helps classrooms meet, correspond, and interact via e-mail ( Your class could correspond with a class in another state or country!)
Classroom Connect Teacher Page - ideas for using technology to enhance your curriculum
700+ Great Sites - Amazing, spectacular, mysterious, colorful websites for kids and the adults who care about them. That about says it all.
Field Trips - Virtual field trips (links) on nature projects, such as The Rainforest, Volcanoes, Endangered Species, Salt Marshes & more.
Blue Web'n - searchable database of outstanding internet learning sites
The WebQuest Page - a great resource from Bernie Dodge for those using Webquests to teach the web. A webquest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the web.
ThinkQuest - Another great source of WebQuests on tons of different topics
Main XChange - stock market simulation games for the classroom
Citing Internet Sources - Just as students need to cite the books and periodicals they use to support their research, they must also cite online sources of information. This site explains how to cite web sites, graphics, sounds, and video clips students retrieve for use in their reports and multimedia presentations.
The Best of the Web for Teachers

Copyright Laws

These pages are a must if you or your students are thinking about "borrowing" someone else's creations! There ARE certain uses that are permissable (fair use) for education and some that are not. It's important for educators to understand the difference.

* Copyright & Fair Use in the Classroom, Internet, & WWW
* Citing Internet Sources
The Copyright Website
Web Law FAQ
10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained
Copyright Crash Course