General Staff Resources
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Teacher Resources
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To access sites, click on the image or graphic.
Note: if you have a great online resource to add to the list, email Kim Forster (kforster) or Patrick Voisine (pvoisine) with your suggestion(s).

Accessing a Server

Please use the following steps to access your file server folder:

(Mac OS 8.x-9.x Users Only)

            1.  Single-click the apple in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.
            2.  Single-click Chooser.
            3.  Single-click Appleshare in the upper left-hand window.
            4.  Single-click Server IP Address.
            5.  Type STAFF.
            6.  Single-click Connect.
            7.  Type your username and password in the blanks.  (the default password is                                 always the first eight characters of your username.  Example, Ryan Stefanski =   
                 rstefans)
            8.  Single-click the Connect button.
            9.  Single-click CHALLENGER.STAFF.
            10.  Single-click OK.
            11.  The file server icon will appear on the desktop; double-click this icon.
            12.  Double-click USERFILES.
            13.  Double-click STAFF.
            14.  Double-click (YOUR USER NAME).
            15.  You will backup your files to the (YOUR USER NAME) folder.
           
(Mac OS X Users Only)

            1.  Single-click Go from the menu at the top of the screen.
            2.  Single-click Connect to Server.
            3.  Type STAFF at the Address line.
            4.  Single-click Connect.
            5.  Type your username and password in the blanks.  (the default password is                                 always the first eight characters of your username.  Example, Ryan Stefanski =   
                 rstefans)
            6.  Single-click the Connect button.
            7.  Single-click CHALLENGER.STAFF.
            8.  Single-click OK.
            9.  The file server icon will appear on the desktop; double-click this icon.
            10.  Double-click USERFILES.
            11.  Double-click STAFF.
            12.  Double-click (YOUR USER NAME).
            13.  You will backup your files to the (YOUR USER NAME) folder.

If you are having issues accessing the server or need to be set up, please contact the Help Desk.

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Aesop

Click here to download the phone system instructions.

Click here to download the quick start guide.

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E-Mail

You can access the Hazel Park School e-mail system by clicking here, or by typing mail.hazelpark.k12.mi.us into your browser address bar. 

If you are using Mac OS 8.6 / 9.x / X using or an Internet Explorer 5 browser, use the top link or click here.

Mac OS X, Windows 2000/XP using, Internet Explorer 6, Safari, FireFox, and other browsers, use the bottom link or click here.

If you are having issues accessing your e-mail, contact the help desk.

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Help Desk

The Hazel Park Schools Help Desk is the means for staff members to receive technology services, orders, and repairs.  All services, orders, and repairs require the staff member to fill out or request a work order. Work orders allow the technology department to keep all of the requests streamlined in an organized and efficient manner.

To contact the Help Desk, use any of the following three methods:

• Call extension 5555 (formerly 418) to phone in a request.
• E-Mail helpdesk@hazelpark.k12.mi.us and leave a detailed description of your request.
• Fill out and send a hard copy (paper) work order and send it via interschool mail to the Help Desk at the Central Office.  Download a hard copy work order PDF by clicking here.

* Please note that in order to complete your new purchase request, you MUST use the hard copy method, with an account code and signature from your building administrator.

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Policies

A comprehensive list  of staff policies and memos will be available soon.  In the meantime, check the board policy for some additional information.

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Zangle

Click here to download the Zangle FAQ pdf.

Click here to troubleshoot a "Secured Connection Failed" error.  The file downloads in pdf format.

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	Early Childhood Education Preschool-Grade 2 Catagorized links to content rich Lesson Plans & Units, Technology & Integration sites, Educational articles & research, ECE Theories & Practice, Developmentally Appropriate Practice, Special Education materials and more! Also contains a link to EduHound Español.
	Early Childhood Education and Resource
	Mr. Roger's Neighborhood
	PBS Kids is an interactive site for early elementary with games, music, stories and coloring.
	Sesame Workshop
	Game Goo: Learning That Sticks offers K-2 grade students a place to play games that reinforce the early literacy skills they are learning in class. Because GameGoois standards-based, it represents an important first in online educational games.
	Kinderstart: Learning Activities and Crafts - a great set of links to online learning activities and crafts intended for the younger primary grades but also including many items of interest for all ages.
	Early Childhood Technology Literacy Project includes many lesson plans and teaching ideas for incorporating the use of technology, including the internet into early childhood education (PK-3). Contains links to pages for a listing of websites appropriate for young children.
	PreSchool by Stormie includes Monthly Curriculums with Activities, Teacher Preparations, etc.
	Sunnie Bunniezz is an interactive early elementary site that includes poetry, storytelling, puppetry, clowning, holiday, puzzles, activities, and more.
	Disney Playhouse is an interactive site for early elementary that has activities, games, stories, and music.
	Nick Jr. is an interactive site with many stories, activity packets, games, and more forearly elementary students.

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	A to Z Teacher Stuff
	Teaching with the Web
	Sheppard Software offers a variety of online content:  geography, science, math, history, vocabulary.
	A resource for ESL teachers
	Online brain games and challenges
	Comprehensive site with many resources
http://www.mikids.com/	Educational site with original material and reviewed links. Safe site for students, parents and teachers. *Some sites have plug-ins that may not be supported on our computers. Also, some links are British and use words with British spellings.
http://www.ala.org/	American Library Association recommended websites for kids.
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/learn.jsp	Online activities and interactive learning from Scholastic
http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/	Create your own content related puzzles.
http://www.factmonster.com/	Fact Monster is a free reference site for students, teachers, and parents. Get homework help and find facts on thousands of subjects.

	Yahoo’s search engines for kids
	Ask Jeeves Kids – Type in a question and Jeeves will help you search.  Click on one of the 10 study books for more references.
	Awesome Library organizes the Web within 26,000 resources
	Seach a wide variety of subjects.  Includes dictionary, encyclopedia, atlas, and homework links.
	Google – everyone’s favorite
	KidsClick! Worlds of Web Searching is a project of the Ramapo Catskill Library System.
	Virtual library is selected and evaluated by librarians and is designed to be an electronic information tool for Michigan's libraries, schools and citizens.

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	Free alternative word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software – similar to Microsoft Office.
	Free web-based diagram editor. Create and share flowcharts, network diagrams, floorplans, user interface designs and other drawings online.
	Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.
	vozMe is web tool that turns text into an mp3 file that you can listen to immediately online or download onto your hard drive to listen to later.
	Zamzar supports conversion between a wide variety of different file formats. Support for new formats all the time.
	Voice Thread allows users to add audio and/or text commentary to an image. As in this thumbnail, one could imagine every person in this photo potentially.
	Blabberize is a new service that allows you to create your own talking picture, basically a moving mouth on a still image.

	Ben's Guide contains information and interactive activities about our U.S. government.
	Whitehouse for Kids explains the executive branch of government, Includes video and quiz.
	From PBS Kids, this is an interactive site about elections and voting
	Internet Public Library site containing information on U.S. presidents.
	The official Michigan government site for kids, contains many lessons.
	Michigan Senate Virtual Tour and tour of the Capital of Michigan.
	Information on the U.S. Supreme Court, including justices, cases, rulings, and more.

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	An interactive simulation game fr budding entrepreneurs where kids open their own pet spa, skateboard factory, etc.  Students start marketing campaigns; change products, services, and prices; and respond to demanding customers and big news events.
	United States Mint - Interactive site that generates interest in coins, the Mint and U.S. history.
	A premier source of classroom tested, Internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students.
	See how well you know the value of money.

	Interactive site including sections of arcade, map quizzes, trivia, puzzles, and find it.
	Interactive site for one or two players to identify states, capitals, or countries.

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	SeaWorld site "Just for Teachers" contains guides, activities, publications, and more.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/index.html	Includes maps, photos, videos and daily news stories, as well as articles and features about animals, the environment, cultures, etc.
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/	Features different people, animals, and places each month with facts, games, activities, and related links.
http://www.mikids.com/5/biomes.html	Links to sites with information on Earth’s biomes.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/	With stunning visuals and a focus on volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis, students learn just how fragile the earth and its crust are.
http://www.weatherwizkids.com	A wealth of weather information that includes a glossary, terms, jokes, experiments, folklore, an "ask" section, and even access to Doppler sites, hurricane tracking charts, and charts for wind chill, heat index, and temperature conversions.
http://www.theweatherchannelkids.com/	The Weather Channel Kids provides interactive weather games, maps, activities and educational teaching materials for classrooms.
http://www.cellsalive.com/	Learn all about cells on this interactive website.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/	Explore large structures and what it takes to build them.
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov	Energy education from the California Energy Commission.
http://www.fema.gov/kids/	A resources for kids to learn about disaster preparedness. Includes information for teachers and students.
http://www.nasa.gov/	Games, art, stories, and activities for children presented by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) The Nine Planets
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu	Learn about astronomy, space, telescopes, stars, discoveries. Includes “Tonight’s Sky” constellations, deep sky objects and planets.

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	Jamestown Online Adventure – an interactive simulation game where the year is 1607. You are the captain of the Jamestown Colony in Virginia and have to make important decisions for your crew to survive.
	The Underground Railroad – Interactive site includes classroom ideas, timeline, resources, links, and much more.
	Go West Across America with Lewis and Clark.  Interactive site where Lewis and Clark have chosen a special team for the journey.
	America’s story from America’s Lbrary.  Discover the stories of America’s past, see the timelines, information on states, join America at play, see, hear and play along with America’s past.
	Web Quest of European Explorers.  Interactive site developed by students.  Includes bibliography, timeline, games and  a logbook.

	Screen Actors Guild members present children’s books online.
	Free audiobooks from the public domain.  Download as MP3 or use iTunes subscription.
	Interactive site that emphasizes learning to read for early elementary students.  Online interactive stories, reading games, videos and printable materials.
	Teenreads.com provides book summaries and author interviews as well as reading lists,contests, and question of the month.
	AwesomeStories.com uniquely uses the Internet to link its story content to hundreds of thousands of the world's best on-line primary sources.
	Search for lesson plans, interactives & more resources to promote literacy. Searching as an educator, parent, or student.  Free online training available.
http://www.starfall.com/	Interactive site that emphasizes learning to read for early elementary students. Online interactive stories, reading games, videos and printable materials.
http://pbskids.org/lions/	Interactive games, stories, and printable character activities.
http://www.kids-space.org/	An educational learning site devoted to bringing out the creativity in kids of all ages around the world. Invites children to share their stories, pictures
http://www.readwritethink.org/	Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.
http://www.eduplace.com/tales/	Wacky Web Tales – Students fill in parts of speech to create stories. Also has a parts of speech explanation section.
http://buddyproject.org/backpack/default.asp	Family Literacy Backpack Project – this website provides everything teachers need to create theme-based backpacks filled with materials and activities for use at home.
http://gigglepoetry.com/	Students can read funny poems, perform poetry plays, answer rhyme-time riddles, and learn how to write poems.
http://www.poetryteachers.com/	The site provides ideas for poetry lessons, contests, and activities. http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/ Interactive storybooks and phonics games.
http://www2.scholastic.com/	Scholastic News Online is the place for kid news with games and quizzes, debate topics, and in-depth reports.
http://www.ala.org/	Links to various author and illustrator websites.
http://www.aesopfables.com/	Collection of more than 600 or Aesop’s fables, many with accompanying audio
http://www.kidzclub.com/level1.htm	Printable books that can also be read online.
http://www.funbrain.com	This site by the Family Education Network provides free educational games and quizzes in math, grammar, science, spelling, and history. It also provides excellent resources for teachers and parents.
http://janbrett.com/	6,939 pages of free activities, coloring pages, and projects to go along with Jan Brett’s books.
http://bogglesworldesl.com/dolch/lists.htm	Printable Dolch Sight Word Lists. The following link contains the Dolch sight word lists of the 220 most freuqently used words and corresponding activities.
http://www.a4esl.org
http://www.eslcafe.com	click stuff for students

	Create a Graph explains and illustrates the different types, and provides a step-by-step guide to creating examples for downloading and printing.
	Searchable and sortable site containing online activities and java applets for K-12 math topics.
	A library of virtual manipulatives for all grade levels K-12.
	National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' resources.
http://www.funbrain.com	Test math skills with these fun and interesting games. Inlcudes some teacher and parenting resources.
http://jmathpage.com	Johnnie's Math Page has activities to help with subjects like fractions, geometry, multiplication, statistics, probability, measurement, and numbers.
http://aaamath.com/	a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons. Unlimited practice is available on each topic which allows thorough mastery of the concepts
http://www.mathfactcafe.com/	Provides the best math worksheets for elementary grades. The site requires no login and is free. Create and access worksheets for math facts.
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm	Online math activities for all levels.

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Sites with Subscriptions
- United Streaming contains video lessons, photos, clipart, writing prompts, etc.  Videos can be streamed or downloaded.   http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html - Enchanted Learning produces a children’s educational website that covers all subject areas.  A small fee is required. 

http://gaggle.net/ - Gaggle.net is a site that is an e-mail service designed specifically for classroom use.  Some free areas – some areas require fees. 

http://www.abcteach.com/ - ABC Teach has many materials for Pre-K to 6th grade teachers to use for their class.  Membership fee required.                                   

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Sites that create MLA citations
http://www.easybib.com

http://www.citationmachine.net

http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/

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