Forms and Guides
Classroom Forms
Various forms provided by TeacherVision
Technology Service Request Form
Fill out this request form, and submit it to your Technology Coordinator
Student Referral Form
Our former Technology Engineer, Mr. Woods, devised this form, which you can type onto and then print, or print a blank and run copies.
Laptop Receipt Contract
Blank contract for laptops loaned to high school teachers
Harper High School Forum
This is a place where you can rant or begin discussions with your colleagues.
Harper Tech To Do List
This is some of the monthly technology work that needs to be done. If you have a sizeable job order, e.g. adding a particular application to all of your computers, make sure the job is listed on this site.
Chicago Public Schools
This site, home of the third largest school district in the United States, provides access to useful information for teachers, parents, and students as well.
CPS Office of Specialized Services
Access IEP Forms
CPS Email
Login to your CPS Email. If you have a problem, or have forgotten how to login or your password, see your Technology Coordinator for assistance
CPS Calendar
Lost your calendar? Here you can find the Professional Development Days, Staff-Development Days, Grade Card Pick-up Days and more.
CPS Phone Directory
Find phone numbers of individuals, offices, and schools
CPS Department of Libraries
Excellent links provided, many that have been included elsewhere on this page
CPS Intranet
Standards, Programs of Study, Lesson Planning
Bloom's Taxonomy: Original and Revised
Use this site as a guide for developing higher order thinking skills.
Illinois State Board of Education
Illinois High School Association
etc...Education to Careers
Chicago Teachers Union
CPS NCLB Educator Qualification System -- EQS Web Site
Check and update your certificate
Online Teacher Information System -- OTIS
Access your private certification records
National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers 2008
A 21st Century classroom must integrate technology into the lessons, and these are the national standards recommended for teachers. Equally important are the NETS for Students, because these are the technology skills it is recommended that you help your students develop.
Reinventing Schools
The technology is now! But are you living in the past?
CPS Acceptable Use Policy
This is the policy manual for STUDENT ACCEPTABLE USE OF THE CPS NETWORK. Pay particular attention to section IV - B. It identifies what students may not do.
Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty
Arizona State University has provided numerous sources related to this topic.
Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers
This explains what kinds of information or work teachers can use without violating copyright and fair use laws.
Copyright & Fair Use
This is a fairly comprehensive guide from Stanford University Libraries.
Bound by Law
Copyright law presented in a comic book form using Flash.
Grant Opportunities for Teachers
Courtesy of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Grant Opportunities for Teachers
Find educational grants here.
Classroom Management Tools
Scholastic Teacher Tool Kit
Easy to use service for teachers to organize class work, prepare a calendar, list sites and resources, and write quizzes.
WebAuthor
A tool to make online exercises. All you need is enter your data in the fields given, and the requested form is generated for you. It even has a field that you fill in so the students work is sent to your email.
QuizStar
Manage all of your classes and quizzes from one place. Allow your students to take and review quizzes outside the classroom.
Script-O Quiz Maker
Teachers can create online quizzes, tests, and activities. Each response can have a specific score value, and immediate feedback and custom explanations can be provided. Teachers can access results online as individual scores or in an Excel sheet format.
ProProf.com -- Create a Quiz
Create your own FREE online quiz,online assessments and tests. Customize with your own choice of logo, text & colors. Post your quiz at any webpage.
QuizLab
Develop quizzes, assign them to classes, set up rosters, and record scores online. Try it free for 30 days.
NoteStar
Create and manage quizzes, assign
students' quzzes online, keep scores organized. Using the NoteStar NoteCards
tool, students can take notes from online sources as they browse the Internet.
Source information (i.e. title, url, etc.) is automatically captured in order to assist in work citation.
RubiStar Rubric Maker
This assessment tool allows you to create rubrics or use pre-set rubrics for evaluating your projects. Share them with your students at the beginning of the project, so they know the criteria by which they will be measured.
Teacher Created Rubrics for Assessments
This site from University of Wisconsin -Stout offers a variety of rubrics for different disciplines.
Learning Styles Questionnaire
This instrument is an online, multiple-choice test which provides insight into the learning styles of the test taker. There are 44 questions which the student can quickly move through.
HPR*TEC
FREE
web-based programs, including QuizStar which allows you to create custom quizzes that your students can take online, also, RubiStar, which is a rubric maker, and PBL Checklist, which creates a checklist for project based lessons.
The Collaboratory Project
The Collaboratory Project is an easy-to-use, web-based collaborative environment that teachers use to develop project-based activities that are linked to Illinois Learning Standards.
Nicenet
Nicenet's Internet Classroom Assistant (ICA) allows virtually any classroom, even those with modest resources, access to powerful tools. Everything in Nicenet is offered free for public use, and Nicenet makes no profits from your participation.
Hotchalk
HotChalk automates the work involved in lesson planning, assignment distribution, and collection and grading. HotChalk makes communicating with parents easy, helping teachers, their students, and parents work together to produce measurable academic results. Also, there is an online professional development section that provides CEUs.
WeTheTeachers
Join the first community created solely for teachers. Create a personal profile, send messages, join groups tailored to your interests, share your lesson plans and search for more.
WISE
This web based inquiry science environment from U of California, Berkeley, provides access for Projects, where you can explore the WISE project library of available curriculum activities, or create your own. The Management area provides on-line tools to grade student work, manage your students, and update your own account.
Chalksite
After registering for free, teachers can develop their site, where students and parents have a central point to access assignments, discussions, grades, and messages.
Web 2.0 Tools for Educators
From the 21st Century Information Fluency Project, this site has links to numerous Web 2.0 tools, such as social bookmarks, blogs, and wikis sites.
The Six Web-and-Flow Activity Formats
Fairly comprehensive strategy for integrating the incredible power of the Internet with student learning
Creating Your Own Blog
Instructions on how to create a Blogger blog as a class activity or just click on the Blogger button below and follow the steps at Blogger's site.
TeacherWeb
TeacherWeb is a basic web site maker, where a teacher can create assignments, a calendar, list of links, and add photos. It free and easy to use.
This is a free wiki collaborative site.
The Icing on the Cake: Online Tools for Teaching and Learning
Kathy Schrock has provided links to numerous sites with management tools for teachers. As always, Ms. Schrock has an eye for web sites that assist teachers in wearing their many hats with style.
Nextaris
Nextaris is an entirely new concept; an all- in-one set of web-based tools for searching the Web, capturing content, saving/sharing files, publishing blogs, messaging and networking.
Pageflakes
Use Pageflakes to customize your start page. It provides many widgets that make Pageflakes worth checking out.
Landmark's Citation Machine
Citation Machine is an interactive Web tool designed to assist teachers and students in producing reference citations for crediting information from other people.
OSLIS Elementary Citation Maker
Fill in the information to create MLA citations.
Wikis are collaborative spaces that allow multiple users to provide input, changing the original into something different. The changed version is archived, so it isn't lost.
Peanut Butter Wiki is free and has numerous ways it can be applied for education.
Wetpaint
Wetpaint is a wiki site, which is free and easy to set up, and also popular with educators.
MyClass.net
A service for teachers to set up their
own interactive class web sites, includes an email account for students. There is a monthly fee. Similar to Blackboard, which is used for distance learning.
Thinkport
Maryland Public Television and Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education has created a site for all teachers to organize themselves online. It provides video clips, lesson plans, calendar, free downloads, and much more. Registration for the site is free.
Student Materials Index
ReadWriteThink offers a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom. These interactive tools can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to use technology while developing their literacy skills.
YourHomework.com
Makes it easy
for any teacher to post assignments online for students and parents, enhancing
communication between school and home! Also, check outyourlocker.com, which
provides custom homework access, eReminders, safe chat and more!
Textalyzer
Got a piece of text that you need to determine the reading level? Copy and paste in a piece of text, or give it a URL, and it will analyze the text for word count, readability, sentence count, average sentence length, most frequently used words, etc. A useful tool for teachers and for writers. It is available in French and English.
Global
SchoolNet
Conversion tools, project registry, and more.
EduHound Hotlist
Create Your Own FREE Educational Web Pages, HotLists and Worksheets!
Allows you to create a webpage with links to the sites you want your students to visit. Tutorial available and free.
Crossword Puzzle Generator
Generate a crossword puzzle based on vocabulary and concepts from your lesson. This is offered free from TeAch-nology.
The Really Big List of Classroom Management Resources
Here's a collection of classroom management and discipline websites.
Graphic Organizers
Teacher Resources and Self-guided Tutorials
Education for the Information Age
This online text is offered by Bernie Poole et al. and as Mr. Poole says in his preface, "The primary goal of the text is to help you incorporate the computer into your K-12 curriculum. A secondary goal is to support your endeavors towards becoming the most effective educator you can be in the context of the K-12 classroom of today and tomorrow." (Note: Bernie Poole is credited with designing The WebQuest).
Doing Research: An Introduction to the Concepts of Online Searching
The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has provided this mostly visual tutorial site. This might be a good place to begin a research unit.
Teaching Now! 102
We visit Schaumburg School District #54 in Illinois where state test scores have increased through the use of technology and inclusion as well as through strong leadership and professional development strategies. We also see how technology has allowed one special needs student access to core curriculum. Check some of the other Teaching Now tech integration videos.
WebLog in Education -- Video
This two and a half minute video explains why many educators have incorporated online journaling or web-logging into their curriculum. This technology provides each student with his or her own web site for writing, and offers instructors a paperless method of responding to their students' work.
The 21st Century Classroom: Using Wikis
This is a WebQuest designed to introduce educators to wikis and how they might be used in the classroom.
The Computer Is...
An introduction to teachers on how to use the technology effectively.
You Quote, You Note It!
This plagiarism tutorial should be used by your students before they begin to work on a research paper.
The World Is Flat
On May 16, 2005, Thomas Friedman, author of The World Is Flat presented a lecture at MIT to discuss his book's premise and answer questions. This site presents the video of this event, and provides some biographical information on Friedman.
Tech Talk
This excellent tech video series from The University of Minnesota covers numerous technology categories from email and spam to online security. Click on the list of Episodes from Season 1-4, and then choose the topic you want to watch.
Podcasts for Teachers #47
Interview with Adam Frey (one of the founders of Wikispaces) about wikispaces, student blogging, and MySpace. This site also contains archives of past PFT broadcasts from Fordham University's Regional Educational Technology Center (RETC) in New York City, which provides lively conversations about technology and education with leaders in the field.
Podcasting Basics
An introductory course on the basics of educational podcasting.
Atomic Learning
During the 2006 school year, every teacher received access through June. Did you take advantage of this? Whether you are new to the Windows platform, a seasoned expert, or somewhere in between, you are sure to find the help you need in this library of thousands of tutorials on dozens of applications that are designed for the Windows platform. This subscription or license based site provides some free but limited tutorials.
SchwabLearning.org Quizes
A series of short quizes (answers shown after submitting) on a variety of Specialized Services topics that every teacher should know.
Resources for Students with Disabilities
This site is a collection of links primarily focusing on learning disability issues.
Star-Online
Providing teachers with online professional development, and CPDU, Star-Online requires the use of a license number. Ours is CE298892. The online coursework is free, except if you use it for graduate credit through Western Illinois University.
Getting Results
Created as part of partnership between the National Science Foundation and WGBH, this self-contained professional development course is designed to "challenge previous thinking about teaching and learning and give you the basic tools for effective classroom practices."
Benefit 100 - Fluency with Information Technology
Free instruction from University of Washington
The WebWise Online Course
Click START for this introductory tutorial for using a Browser, Email, Search Engines, Forms, and Communities.
Ask the Techies
These video lecture/lessons are produced and presented by Ohio University.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
This site provides "open courseware", which is free and does not require a registration. As the title suggests, the student will find courses related to public health.
Computer Knowledge Virus Tutorial
Learn about types of viruses and what you can do to protect your computer -- from CKNOW.COM
webTeacher
Your source for web knowledge -- a self-paced Internet Tutorial that puts both basic and in-depth information about the World Wide Web at your fingertips.
Kidzonline - Tech Training
These video tutorials include numerous and various tech topics.
Inspiration Tutorial
This tutorial slide presentation is offered by TeacherPD.com and if you click on this link to the parent site, you will find tutorials on the entire group of Microsoft Office applications, web design, graphics instruction, file management lessons, and a section on pedagogy.
RSS: A Quick Start Guide for Educators
This tutorial by Will Richardson explains how to set up RSS feeds
IT Learning
Materials
Tutorials, guides, and other ed-tech resources for teachers and students
HyperStudio Tutorials
Several tutorials to teach you how to develop a HyperStudio project.
Internet4Classrooms - Online Practice Modules
from Internet4Classrooms
Techtorials
from Lorrie Jackson for Education World
InPictures
Microsoft Office Suite tutorials based on pictures
Jan's Illustrated Computer Literacy 101
Easy-to follow tutorials for Microsoft Word and Excel, Internet Explorer, and HTML
Essential Microsoft Office 2000
Manuals on Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Access from Bernie Poole
Using Microsoft Word Like A Pro
from Tech Learning
Word
2000 Tutorial
from Cyberbee
Word Tutorials
from Electric Teacher
PowerPoint and Presentation Tips
Chris Campbell provides links to discussions of how to make PowerPoint Presentation engaging rather than just another static tool to bore a workshop audience or classroom of students.
Powerpoint Tutorials
from Electric Teacher
PowerPoint Tutorial
from Learning Electric
Active Learning with PowerPoint
from Center for Teaching and Learning Services at The University of Minnesota
Excel Tutorials
From Augusta Schools, these Excel tutorials and templates offer a variety of instruction and ready-made Excel documents.
Learning Microsoft Excel
This comprehensive series of Excel lessons from The Land Grant Alliance includes exercises, is clearly detailed, but not visually engaging.
Classrooms that Excel Resources
Guides, tutorials, applications and lesson plans
Excel Tutorials
from TeAch-nology
Karyn's Tutorials -- Excel
Easy to understand tutorial.
Microsoft Access Tutorial
Simple step by step tutorial.
Web Page Creation: Microsoft FrontPage
Video based tutorial program introduces you to a beginner's guide to FrontPage.
FrontPage 2000 in the Classroom
FrontPage Tutorials
from Electric Teacher
Web Design
from Rosemary Shaw
HTMLementary
An Introduction To HTML
from P.J. Labrocca
Introduction to HTML
from Learnthat.com
Homepage Construction
from WebTeacher
HTML
Primer
from HTML Primer.com
Dreamweaver MX Tutorial
From RiverWithin, this is for the advanced web designer.
Flash Tutorial
Provided by Berkeley's School of Journalism -- multimedia reporting and convergence
JavaScript Tutorial
In this JavaScript tutorial you will learn how to write JavaScripts and insert them into your HTML documents, and how to make your pages more dynamic and interactive.
Thau's JavaScript Tutorial
This webmonkey tutorial will provide you the basics in how to add JavaScript to your web site.
AJAX Tutorial
AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript XML, a programming language that allows web sites to be interactive.
MyT4L
MyT4L includes software tutorials and reference guides, online tools, and a step-by-step process for implementing project-building with students.
Podcasting 101
Short video tutorial explains how to create a podcast, but you may need to do a little additional research on the process.
Project Based Learning
This PowerPoint Presentation from the George Lucas Educational Foundation explains the rationale and process for engaging students in PBL.
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
Teach students to develop discussions using digital images and voice-overs.
National Educational Computing Conference 2005
Webcasts of Presenters from NECC 2005
Classroom Resources
Since 1995, Patrick Crispen has been an invited speaker at numerous technology conferences around the country. The following are just a few of Patrick's most recent PowerPoint presentations which you are free to download and use provided that you not make any money from these presentations, and you give credit where credit is due.
Reference Center
The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
Encyclopedia.com
Wikipedia -- The Free Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition
Just type in Harper's Unit Number for both the username and password.
Acronyma
A search engine to find acronyms
The World Fact Book
Smithsonian Museums
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
The Educator's Reference Desk
Google Scholar
This Google search engine is designed specifically to search for scholarly articles.
WaybackMachine
Ever look for a web site and it is no longer listed on the Internet. That's where the WaybackMachine comes in handy. It archives web sites, and even if the site is no longer on the Internet, the WaybackMachine probably has it catalogued and can bring it up, if you type in the original web site address.
Eduction Index
Looksmart -- Find Articles
Macmillan English Dictionary's Glossary to Internet Terms
Thirty Must-Have PC Skills
Do you consider yourself computer literate, tech savvy, able to move around in a 21st Century technology environment? Can you say you are in compliance with the National Education Teachnology Standards (NETS) for teachers? Check out this 30 pc skills' list.
High School Hub
This is a free online interactive learning center for high school students
Urban Legends Reference Pages
Check those virus warnings, chain mail promises, and other too-good-to-be-true emails to see whether it is a hoax or scam, before you pass it on to a zillion other people.
Macromedia Autorware Web Player
This must be downloaded to your computer to make KeyTrain work correctly.
Timer
Set this timer on a classroom computer and then begin the timed assignment or test. Or just use it to remind yourself that X minutes have passed.
