Document Embedder

Posted on November 16, 2011 by LPH

A new plugin was installed tonight in order to ease uploading, linking, and viewing documents. This plugin supports:

Adobe PDF
Microsoft Word (DOC/DOCX)
Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT/PPTX)
Microsoft Excel (XLS/XLSX)
TIFF Images
Apple Pages (PAGES)
Adobe Illustrator (AI)
Adobe Photoshop (PSD)
Autodesk AutoCad (DXF)
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
PostScript (EPS/PS)
TrueType (TTF)
XML Paper Specification (XPS)
Archive Files (ZIP/RAR)

Teachers may look for the button in the upper right corner of their menu bar.

Common First Page and How are you feeling page

Posted on October 12, 2011 by LPH

I’m working on common pages for the start of each lesson. One lists the materials students need as well as the page number for their composition book. The second page is a question regarding how the kids feel …

Flipchart Resources

AP Chemistry Test Preparation Notes

Posted on July 22, 2011 by LPH

The attached document is about 70 pages of notes for AP Chemistry students. You are free to download and use for preparing for the AP test.

Let me know if you find errors or if you make changes (enhancements). Also, let me know if the material was helpful. Positive and negative feedback are welcome. Simply use the comment field below this post. Please do not send me emails or private messages regarding this file.

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General Restrictions and License
This file is available to you for free if you are using the material for test preparation. Teachers are welcome to use the material; If you use the material for your students then attribution would be nice, including a link to the www.thechembook.com website. The material should never be sold to anyone.

The work is a compilation of notes from numerous sources. I ran the work through a plagiarism checker a few months ago and all should be fine but let me know if something is amiss. I apologize in advance for not listing the original textbooks, review guides, and websites.

I created the images using ActivInspire (by Promethean).

Will there be an update?
If there is a major mistake then it will be fixed as soon as it is called to my attention. Otherwise, I’m not sure. If there is time or interest then I might consider updating this file.

The electron is a sphere

Posted on May 25, 2011 by LPH

Nature is publishing a new measurement of the electron, to a precision of 0.000000000000000000000000001 centimeters.

Replacement Assignment Templates

Posted on April 25, 2011 by LPH

The first rough draft must be done in writing. The second draft must be typed. The lesson template should be downloaded after your first draft has been approved so that you can type your first draft information into it. Be careful not to complete things out of order.

Download: Lesson Plan Template

After downloading the template, rename the file to “Lesson XXX.doc” – in which the XXX is the lesson number, for example, Lesson 01.doc

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New Forums Installed

Posted on April 24, 2011 by LPH

As the site expands, the BuddyPress forums were too complex to allow students easy access to information. Simple:Press forums were installed the other day and the importer was successfully run.

Exceptions

File attachments from BuddyPress were not imported.

File attachments are enabled in SimplePress but do not appear to be working. I'll keep working on the configuration.