Saturday May 17, 2008
4th Grade Teacher
E. F. Starr Elementary (308) 385-5882
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• Instructional Plans updated. (March 9th )
• The Classroom Events page has finally been updated. (Nov. 24th)
  
• New Season of Starr Reads! Pocasts are available on Mondays and Fridays in the Starr Reads! area.
  
• New pictures in the Starr Reads! Photo Gallery. (Oct. 18th)
  
• New navigation buttons! Thanks to the Button Builder Program from Realmac Software (Oct. 10th)
  
• New Season of Starr Reads! pocasts are available in the Starr Reads! area. Listen to episode 1.1 today! (Oct. 8th)
  
• E-ducation 2.0 Episode 07 has been uploaded. Visit the podcast section to view it. (Oct. 5th)
• New blog post "Parent Teacher Conferences". (Sept. 29th)
  
• Homework Calendar now has a navigation button above. (Sept. 29th)
  
• Welcome message updated. (Sept. 29th)
  
• Embedded a new calendar with all the homework assignments for the year. (Sept. 25th)
  
• Fixed a glitch in the navigation buttons and rearranged the order of the buttons. (Sept. 16th)
• Changed my icon, and the update buttons to match the welcome message. (Sept. 16th)
  
• New blog post "Topic-less but Searching". (Sept. 15th)
  
• Updated the Teacher Read Aloud book in the Reader's Corner. (Sept. 11th)
  
• Uploaded episode 7 of E-ducation 2.0 Teacher's Edition audio podcast. (Sept. 10th)
• Welcome message updated and animated. (Sept. 9th)
  
• Posted Unit 2 Letter Home on the Math Table. (Sept. 1st)
  
• About the Teacher updated. (Aug. 29th)
  
• Photos from the Summer Zoo trip are now online in the Classroom Events area (Aug. 24)
  
• Uploaded the newest episode of E-ducation 2.0 Teacher's Edition audio podcast (Aug. 19th)
• E-ducation 2.0 Episode 06 has been uploaded. Visit the podcast section to view it. (Aug. 6th)
  
• New blog entry: A Wond-zoo-ful Trip. (Aug. 2nd)
  
• New filtering by ESU 10 may cause parts of this website or links off the site to fail when accessed within the district.
  

• Hey look, new navigation buttons! (July 27th)
  
• Embedded the RSS feed for my Virb blog into the blog page on this site. Now it will update automatically. (July 27th)
  
• Uploaded the newest episode of E-ducation 2.0 Teacher's Edition audio podcast (July 19th)
  
• Updated the podcast section with new links to the webpages for the audio and video podcasts. (July 19th)
  
• Updated the Teacher's Work Room. Now has a full set of Prevokes as well as Science Lab Notebook covers. (June 26th)
  
• Updated the Math Table. It's a bit more user friendly now. (June 25th)
  
• Summer Reading Program has begun. See new front page art. (May 28th)
• Weblog updated. Read it here! (April 27th)
  
• E-ducation 2.0 Episode 03 has been uploaded in the podcast section. Available in flash and .mov formats (April 21st)
  
• Produced and uploaded my first video podcast, E-ducation 2.0 (April 14th)
  
• Expanded and updated the Web 2.0 section (March 31st)
  
• Updated the read aloud book in the Reader's Corner. (March 31st)
  
• Added my shelfari shelf to the Reader's Corner. (March 18th)
  
• Due to server issues, I appologize that I have not been able to update the site until now. (March 18th)
  
• New welcome messaged added to the home page, check back often for message updates. (March 6th)
  
• Updated the profile page to include twitter status. (March 6th)
  
• New TIE Logo created and added to the top of the page. (March 5th)
• The Homework Station has been removed (Feb. 11th)
• New icon of me added to the left tool bar.
  
• The urls from the Navigation Bar links have been renamed. For example, if your click on Instructional Plans, the the url now reads http://sites.gips.org/nbalcom/instructionalplans this should make navigation a bit less confusing. (Feb. 10th)
  
• The Navigation Bar has been moved from the left of the screen to the top of the screen for easier access. (Feb. 10th)
  
• Instructional Plans have been updated for the week of February 12th.
• The students will take the Nebraska State Writing Assessment today and tomorrow! (Jan 30th)
  
• Homework Station has been updated for the week of January 29th.
• Reading log updated in the Reader's Corner (Jan. 24th).
  
• Classroom Events updated with a slideshow of our Archway Field Trip (Jan. 24th).
  
• Math Table has been updated with Unit 9 Letter to Parents.
• New twirling icon in upper right-hand corner (Jan. 23rd).
  
• Weblog updated on January 10th.
• New navigation buttons added (see left).
• New Web 2.0 section added (see navigation bar).
• Have a wonderful holiday season. We will see you back in school on January 8th!
  
• Our family Christmas letter has been added to the About the Teacher Page.
• Per student request I have added our Math song lyrics to the Math Table area (Great idea Sam!).
  
• Classroom Events updated with Halloween Pictures
  
• Starr Reads! Podcast section updated with first episode.
  
• New Starr Reads! section added for the weekly book club.
• Don't forget about the Christmas Program tonight at 6:30!! See you there
• Slideshow link added to the Classroom Events page displaying pictures of the Luau.
• Weblog was updated on October 15th.
• Math Table has been updated with the Parent Letter for Unit 3.
• The Message Board now includes the Parent Letter from fall conferences.
• I added the school library Catalog link in the Web Links section, under Language Arts.
• The Weblog was updated on Sunday, September 10th.
• New icon in upper right hand corner of the page (Fourth Grade Stallion).
• Meet the Teacher has been updated.
• The Trip to the Omaha Zoo on August 8th was an amazing success!!! The students were rewarded with an incredible learning experience. We all enjoyed ourselves and are energized for the new school year!
• I have added new sections for Science and Social Studies, as well as A teacher resource section called Teachers' Work Room