A note on Region IV Resources
Professional Development
The Region IV web site has LOTS of professional development
opportunities listed, and the workshops that they sponsor are
usually top notch! You can even sign up for them online!
Most of them are held on school duty days though, so be sure
to get permission from Dr. L before you make plans!
http://www.escweb.net/tx_esc_04/default.aspx
After you’re okayed to take a class, you can register for
Region IV classes online.
Here’s how:
**Log in info:
Benfer’s School ID is 101-915-107
Teacher ID is last 4 digits of your SSN
a note from jamie…
recently, I have been working on a resource wiki for our
teachers that I hope to grow this year with your help. On the
wiki, I hope to include information & web resources for
teachers: nationally celebrated days/month (Black History
Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Veteran’s Day, etc), book
recommendations, digital citizenship resources, author study
info, professional development resources, etc.
Please take a look at it, and help me gather usable web
resources for our teachers! If you’d like to collaborate, just click
the button that says Join This Wiki!
http://benferlibrary.wikispaces.com
http://classroom.kleinisd.net/webs/benferlibrary
Check out the
Fall 2009
Benfer Library!
Welcome to the library!
Here are some great resources for you
and your students to use this year! Please let
Jamie or Christa know if there’s any way we can help
you or your class! We look forward to working with
classes on research strategies, internet safety topics,
and best of all, choosing great literature to engage our
Bobcats and help create life-long readers and learners!
Search our online catalog any time at:
http://karl.kleinisd.net
Don’t forget the library web site! Links
to all of these resources are there!
http://classroom.kleinisd.net/webs/benferlibrary
Additional teacher resources on the(unofficial) library wiki:
http://benferlibrary.wikispaces.com
Resources for
District Teacher Resources…
Atomic Learning: Computer tutorials for LOTS of different programs
such as MS Office Suite, Inspiration, podcasting & bunches more. Your
ID is your full klein email address, and your sign up password is _____.
Change that password on your first login!
http://www.atomiclearning.com
Eduphoria: You will come to know Eduphoria well! Here, you access
district professional development class registration, curriculum links,
computer help questions & answers, lesson planning and much more.
Students and Teachers…
Remember to look at Studentnet at school to remember all the
online databases and district-recommended web sites available. At home,
an easy place to remember to go for links to these Texas Databases is:
http://esc20.net/k12databases/accessk12.html
Mybookmarks: The library & some grade levels maintain a list of web
sites that you might find useful! Help us by adding web sites that you
think other teachers and students will find useful! Have a look!
http://www.mybookmarks.com/public/benfer
To add web sites you must log in:
Login: ______ Pass: _____
TeachingBooks: LOADS of web resources, including author interviews
(audio and video). This is a very useful resource for fresh ideas and
information about books and authors!
http://www.teachingbooks.net
Login: ____________ Password: ___________
Discovery Education Streaming: Streaming video & graphics for
Here are the recommended research databases that your students can use
to locate reliable information.
Students should use these BEFORE they Google to get reliable,
authoritative information!!
EbscoHost: Primary grades will love Ebsco’s Searchasaurus, an online
research database, searchable by Lexile level! Or try out Kids Search! This
is a great source for professional literature—looking for an
article from a professional journal? EbscoHost is your source!
http://search.ebscohost.com
classroom use. You’ll LOVE this! Great videos for your students, lesson
ideas from other teachers, etc. You sign yourself up for Discovery using
Encyclopedia Britannica Online: This online encyclopedia will be a
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/
http://school.eb.com
Benfer’s Passcode: ____________
Now, all Database Passwords are the same for Benfer users!
Username:
Password:
favorite resource both for browsing and researching! Choose
information by level (elementary, intermediate, high school), find
images, videos and even play games on the new Learning Zone!
Nettrekker: An educator-reviewed search engine that is a PERFECT
alternative to Google for the classroom! Search for images, lesson plans
and take a look at the timeline feature too! Returning teachers should
already have set up your own accounts. New staff and students who
don’t yet have an account can get one using Benfer’s Registration code:
_______. http://www.nettrekker.com