Tech Gazette

A Publication for SMES  Faculty & Staff                                                                                              Volume 3, Issue 3

November 2001

What's New?  

**If you've checked the SMES Resources Page recently, you may have noticed a change. Each school now has a separate resource page specific to that school including classroom/faculty pages, links to age-appropriate websites, test calendars, etc. Check it out for yourself!  

         http://www.smes.org/lower/resources.htm                 http://www.smes.org/resources/middleresources.htm

                                         http://www.smes.org/resources/upperresources.htm

                                                                                                  

**Mary Mortimer, Human Resources Manager, is pleased to announce the online version of the St. Margaret's Employee Handbook and Personnel Directory are now available. You can find them under the Human Resources section of the SMES web page. Click on the Faculty/Staff quick link on the bottom of the SMES Home Page, select "SMES Human Resources", and select "Handbook" or "Personnel Directory". Both are password protected.

                                                                       

The Acknowledgement of Receipt of Access to Handbook needs to be printed, signed and returned to Human Resources (Mary Mortimer) by November 15, 2001. This applies to all SMES employees.

 
                                                       Get Connected                                     

Classroom Connect brings together K-12 educators from around the world at conferences presented several times a year. 
Attendees receive top-notch instruction on how to introduce online connectivity to their schools and classrooms, how to 
creatively incorporate the use of the Internet to deliver better instruction to their students, and how to make more effective 
use of the Internet as a research and resource tool to meet the growing educational needs of students today.

There will be a Connected Classroom Conference in Long Beach from November 28-30 at the Hyatt Regency. This is an 
exciting way to add to your technology training hours. For more information on workshops being presented, the schedule of
events and presenters, click on the link below.

 http://proflearn.classroom.com/profdev/conferences/Current/default.asp?ConfID=LBH01

 

Training Opportunities

 

Did you know...

The SMES server is connected to the Atomic Clock in Washington, D.C.? Each time you log off and on, you've reset the time on your computer to the official U.S. time. This public service is provided by the Time and Frequency Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It uses Coordinated Universal Time from the national time scale as its time reference. If you would like to learn more about time, visit their amazing "Time Exhibits" which includes information on The History of Timekeeping; calendars and the sytem of counting days, months and years; the illustrated mechanisms of famous clocks; etc.

For more information, go to http://nist.time.gov/

 

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