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=Welcome staff of St. Thomas of Canterbury and St. Mary of the Lake!=

This is a space where we can share ideas, talk about what worked and what's not working. Let's be creative and model our love of learning for our students and each other.


 * Grant Possibilities: List grants you think are worth pursuing here.
 * Hopes for the Future: Here we can discuss the ways in which we re-envision education and share excitement about new things learned and dreams of the future.
 * Lesson Plans: Here is a place where we can upload and share successful lesson plans.
 * Troubleshooting - St. Mary of the Lake: Here is where we can share frustrations and solutions to the actual utilization of the equipment. Hopefully here we can document not only the times technology fails, but also the tricks, or kernels of knowledge needed to increase our seamless use of technology.
 * Troubleshooting - St. Thomas of Canterbury: Here is where we can share frustrations and solutions to the actual utilization of the equipment. Hopefully, here we can document not only the times technology fails, but also the tricks, or kernels of knowledge needed to increase our seamless use of technology.
 * Web Resources: Place your favorite websites here.

Online Tools:

 * [|Teacher Tube]: You Tube for teachers who are uploading classroom created videos and educator-produced videos. A great place to look for videos.
 * [|Thinkfinity]: A free portal to lesson plans from eight content partners: ArtsEdge, EconEdLink, EdSitement, Illuminations, ReadWriteThink, Science NetLinks, Xpeditions, and the Smithsonian
 * [|Google Earth]: An amazing tool that maps aerial, satellite images for viewing by all people. They have recently added the Google Sky feature, which maps parts of the universe also. This does require downloading software to your computer.
 * [|Edutopia]: This is a project of the George Lucas Educational Foundation to increase and enhance the education system in the United States. There are many great articles and learning tools, especially about project learning at this site.
 * [|Edtech]: This magazine and website is the product of CDW and is a great resource around technology integration and teaching the 21st century students the skills they need for the technology-infused culture of the global business community.

You may have read this poem before, but I love the passionate sentiment and mission expressed by Taylor Mali about the profession of teaching.

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