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ClipArt Samples
Welcome to Teachers Mac Subscription site! Click on areas of interest in the side index to the left. Let us know if you experience any difficulties navigating our site or using the materials you find here.
Teachers Book Store - is a new service we're offering in conjunction with Amazon.com. Purchase great books, at up to 30% discount via secure online use of your credit card. Shipping is within 48 hours in many cases. Currently, a small general selection and 50 great science resources are available.
Brown Bag Press - is the ebook publishing arm of SchoolHouse Mac. Check out our site for more information about the following and other resources available there.
Teachers' Idea Book: Using Computers with K-8 Students - A brand new project from SchoolHouse Mac based on six years of collecting and devloping ideas for classroom and home computer use with children. Available in Mac disk based, Windows 95 disk based, or paper editions, Teachers Idea Book has hundreds of ideas, lesson plans, tips, and practical ideas for using computers in one computer classroom and low-budget situations with nearly any computer platform. Email or write for details!
Keyboard Tag ..... painless ways to teach elementary school children how to keyboard well to write and use computers in other ways...all in a one computer classroom without a lab. Available in paper, Macintohs and Windows versions. Email or write for details!
Check our home page for free samples of both of these you can download. While you're there, download our newest clipart sampler "Summer Suns & Butterflies."
Coming Soon
Do the Database Dance - ideas, plans and projects for using databases in elementary and middle school instruction.
101 Basic Software Activities - Class projects and plans using nothing but a word processor like ClarisWorks.
This Month's Contents..........
The Newsletter
S97 Teachers MacWe've got it all! Well, maybe not, but you're sure to find something useful in this month's issue.
Special Programs
Small but Good!-small, useful programs including Adventure, a very small interactive text adventure,
Composition Time,
EnglishCalendar,
Mandelbrot,
Roman Date 4.0, and
Number Game by Terry Fletcher
Interesting text Files - a food and nution unit, a poetry unit, and the story of Daniel Boone.
Mr Fixitup - a great grammar program for about fourth through nineth or tenth grade children.
ClipArt and Halloween
Color School Clip - a small collection of color clipart.
H Graphics - some great halloween graphics from our collection.
Halloween File -A file to accompany the Halloween game contributed by Steve Saboda.
Halloween Recipes - Looking for that special recipe to spice up your Halloween party? How about "cheesy eyeballs" or one of the forty or so other wierd by edible recipes and ideas in this file?
One of the changes which seems to be a combination of the growth of the web and AOL and Apple Computers' problems is that fewer and fewer new Macintosh programs are available. Here's a few oldies but goodies....
Element-ary Adventure - a great science program, probably for about fourth through eighth grade or older.
Make-A-Bird - Learn about birds... for elementary or middle school science.
Math
Toucan Tom's Problem Solving - for elementary math.
Mathematics History HTB - for middle school and up or as a teacher resource.
Readers Guide to Mathematics - for middle school and up or as a teacher resource.
Most In One File - all of the files except Mr Fixitup and our current newsletter. This is a longer download but will save you time if you want most of the files.
Tools & Help
Go to our Tools page for places to download the following useful programs.
1. You should be able to download the following files, double-click them and supply the password to open them. However, on some Macs, the files are downloaded as MacBinary or binhexed files which need an additional step to open. The easiest way is to get Aladdin's freeware Stuffit Expander. You can drop the file you downloaded onto Stuffit Expander and it will open it to the point where you supply the password. If your browser says the file you're donwloading is unknown, save it anyway and use Stuffit Expander.
2. We've started a PC version of Teachers Mac Plus, called Teachers PC....what else! It and several of our other materials are in .pdf format. You'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available to Mac, Windows 95 and other platforms. As many documents are appearing on the web in this flexible format, you'll probably need it for other things as well.
3. We frequently make HyperCard stacks available. They can be used with the HyperCard Player which should have been on your Macintosh.
Teachers Mac Plus
is a subscription ezine we've been publishing for six years. This is site 2 which will contain all the material found on the September, 1997, disk based version, along with everything else we can squeeze in. By maintaining two web sites, we can leave each issue online a little longer.
Our original goal was to collection programs, lesson plans and ideas, reviews, how-tos, computer help and lots of other material aimed at teachers struggling to use computers in one-computer classrooms. Despite all the wonderful technology, many schools are still working at the low end of the spectrum with minimal training and resources. Our goal is to help them!
With the growth of the web, we're adding a new componet, finding and sharing the most exciting resources available for educators.
This particular page is for subscribers, although anyone is welcome to use the links found here and other material on our site. If you're interested in subscribing or finding out more about this site or SchoolHouse Mac, check the subscription information below.
Charles Doe
SchoolHouse Mac
Our newletter and various shareware and freeware programs and materials found on this page are for our subscribers to download. Each file is encrypted with the password we've sent (or will send soon) to our subscribers. The files cannot be extracted without the password. If you're not a subscriber and don't have the curent password, we urge you not to waste your time downloading the material on this page. Look at other places on our web site for free samples of our work.
Teachers Mac is aimed at K-12 educators and those interested in K-12 education, but we seem to be centering more and more on 1-8 or 9 grades. Any help, suggestions or contributions are greatly appreciated. We would especially appreciate being notifed of any links which didn't work on this page! Of course, we'd love to hear your good thoughts as well! Above all, we hope this page and newsletter helps you use your Mac to educate your children or students more effectively. -Charlie, Editor
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