Nettrekker.com Staff Dev Handout!

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A safe search engine and resource management tool. The thinking person’s Wikipedia.
The Perfect Tie into our Black History Month Focus

Log-In Steps:
1. Log in or choose “register” if not previously registered
A. Consider creating a class-wide user name and password that all students may log into simultaneously to avoid having to create a log in name/password for each student.
B. Create a personal log in name/password for yourself.

“Famous Person” Feature
1. Click “show” if the Tool/Feature bar is not automatically listed
2. Click “Famous Person” feature
3. Choose your search parameters (male/female, time period, profession, culture)
4. Click “Search” and view the source generated.

Selecting Readability
1. Click the readability drop down menu and select a level 1-5
2. Click “Refine Search”

Read Aloud Feature
1. Click the “Open Read Aloud” button (upper right corner).
2. Click on resource and highlight the text. (Don’t highlight more than a paragraph at a time.)

Resource Management & Distribution
1. Hit the check box for 1 or more resources and click “save search.”
2. Save the link to your site in “My Portfolio”
3. Consider making a folder for each student in the class-wide user log in side.
4. If you want the ability to share resources in the “Willow Crest” folder, click profile and enter “polarbear” in the Teacher Code box.

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