Tchefuncte Middle School
Computer Lab
Jammin 'n' Jazzin with Learning!
  3/2/08:
- I've finally updated my contact information. Please drop me an email if you have any questions or would just like to say, "Hi!". I'd love to hear from you. My new email address is mhoff@ltc.edu.
- New links added to student and teacher links webpages.
- Teachers
- If you're looking for a great professional development opportunity during your summer break, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities or LEH, is curently accepting applicants for their 2008 Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study. The benefits: Up to $750.00 stipends, tuition waivers, 45 CLU's, and a variety of topics and locations, including 2 at SLU in Hammond. Click here to find out more. I've taken part in 2 past institues and can't recommend them highly enough.
- Need monthly celebration lesson ideas? Visit Dr. Sue LeBeau's, "March Holidays & Celebrations" webpage for some great links to Women's History, Dr. Seuss, Alexander Graham Bell, etc.
- Students
- Click here to read about the "Three Queens of Egypt", Cleopatra, Hatshepsut, and Nefertiti.
- Click here to learn about women in the "Children's Encyclopedia of Women". Each entry was written by a 3rd or 4th grade student.
 12/15/07:
- Farewell to my TMS family- Sadly, I must bid everyone a fond farewell at this time. It has truly been a great joy of mine to teach at Tchefuncte these last few years. While I'll miss sharing the joy of learning with each of my classes, I know they'll be well taken care of with the new computer lab teacher, Mrs. Shannon Althouse. Have a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year!
- Teachers- I have added a link to Blackboard on the teacher link page (TMS Teacher Links). For those of you who use this site regularly, please bookmark it. I'll leave my site up for your convenience but I don't know how long my teacher website will stay linked on the TMS webpage.
12/04/07:
09/13/07:
- Class Reservations Schedule added- The new schedule for computer lab reservations has been added to this website. You can also click here for a copy.
Hello students, teachers, and parents. I hope you find this site useful and informative. I welcome any and all suggestions to improve this site and invite your participation.
Below, you will find the links for the computer lab lessons which your computer lab teacher, Ms. Hoff, will have prepared for you. If your regular teacher will be presenting a lesson in the computer lab, she/he will give you further instructions.
Saving Work:
- Students are taught about saving their work to the tms-server, but this is not a fail-safe approach. Occasionally, files get moved or erased.
- Students are welcome to bring floppy disks to class to save back-up copies of their work.
- We even have usb access on the front of each computer, so flash/thumb/jump drives are also a possibility. These items are not required by me but are welcome in the lab and I'm more than happy to assist students in their use.
- Some of you may even get an email from me with an attachment of your child's work if they wish to continue at home. If so, I will put "TMS computer lab work" in the subject line.
- Unfortunately, there aren't any CD burners in the lab, but some of the teachers do have a CD burner on their classroom computer. If your child asks for a CD to burn their work, please give them a CD-RW. A CD-RW allows work to be edited and saved to it again, whereas a CD-R only allows work to be burned to it once.
If you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact me.
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