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By Mark/GA

I agree with the last poster. If you have Powerpoint, it is a great teaching tool and if the children are knowleable about Powerpoint, encourage them to do slide show presentation for use during oral reports.

If your students
are learning about money and budgets in mathematics, or keeping statistics, then creating a spreadsheet is a fun way to do this. MSExcel is popular as well as Lotus. The students can learn to set up a sheet that will keep a monthly expense report complete with totals.
If you have experience with these spreadsheets, you can keep your gradebook on your class computer. BE SURE IT IS

KEPT ON A SECURE PLACE IN THE COMPUTER SYSTEMS HARDDRIVE. Ask you school computer tech how to keep it secure. You can create a spreadsheet for each class that calculates averages based on the point system. I am working on this for a teacher right now. If you would like a copy of it, email me.

You can definitely use the computer to create form letters that you send out to parents on a period basis (weekly, quarterly, yearly). If you do not have MSWord or WordPerfect, most computers come with notepad and Wordpad. You could start with those and maybe talk your school into getting the other software.

I am not a teacher yet, but I am surprised at the amount of manual paperwork that is still being done. Does software not exist for all of this record keeping? As part of my college cirriculum, I am taking computer application courses as well as programming courses. I'm surprised that the gov't has not made it mandatory to put everything on computers and do away with all of this paper shuffling.

List your grade level in your next post and we might have some more ideas. Tell me some of the things your class is learning.