District+Resources

__**MOODLE**__: moodle.mcpss.com MCPSS Moodle provides a virtual learning environment and course management system for Mobile County Public School System’s students, teachers, and other employees. For specific questions, contact David Morrow 221-6208 dmorrow@mcpss.com. Help site: mcpssmoodlehelp.wikispaces.com

__**EDMODO**:__ mcpss.edmodo.com Edmodo for Mobile County Public Schools Edmodo is a secure, social learning platform for teachers, students, schools and districts that provides a safe and easy way for classes to connect and collaborate, share content and access homework, grades and school notices.

BRIDGIT: a SMART software download that brings video, audio and desktop sharing capabilities.

__**JABBER VIDEO**__ (formally MOVI) Jabber Video works with your computer and a webcam to provide high-definition video communications to classrooms and experts around the district or around the world.
 * Contact your TRT if interested.

BIG UNIVERSE 4500 ebooks for K-8 students To get your school admin, teachers and students started, please follow these easy steps:
 * Go to www.biguniverse.com and click Sign In
 * Enter following credentials // (note: Group Username is always “mcpss”): //
 * Teacher: Username is teacher id //(e.g. 111952)//; password is last name + first 2 characters of id //(e.g. hall01)//
 * Student: Username is student id //(e.g. 1940609108)//; password is initials + birth year //(e.g. ah1998)//

[|NetTrekker] netTrekker Search is the leading educational search tool for K-12 schools, brings digital resources into the classroom in a safe, relevant and engaging way, making it faster and easier to provide a more personalized and productive learning experience for every student For specific questions and login issues, contact Denise Valentine 221-6209 dvalentine@mcpss.com

GIZMOS 450 highly interactive online simulations for grades 3 - 12. Contact Chris Nassar in Curriculum for details.

[|ALEX] Lesson plans and resources pulled from the web correlated to State courses of study.

[|AVL] The Alabama Virtual Library provides all students, teachers, and citizens of the State of Alabama with online access to essential library and information resources. It is primarily a group of online databases that have magazine, journal, and newspaper articles for research.

[|DISCOVERY STREAMING] United Streaming is a digital video library, sponsored by the Discovery Channel. It offers for download 4,000 videos, 40,000 video clips and thousands of images.

[|THINKFINITY] Lesson plans, student activities and reviewed Web sites. Thinkfinity resources include the Kennedy Center for the Arts, the National Council on Economic Education, the National Endowment for Humanities, the National Council of Teachers of Math, Read/Write/Think, Science NetLinks, National Geographic.

ASSESSTRAX Assess Trax is a website that allows tracking, analysis, and reporting of standardized student test scores. It crosses multiple years, in order to track growth and performance trends for a single student, as well as for classroom, school, and district groupings of students.

__**DATA WAREHOUSE**__: See David Morrow or Anne Heitman for training. The warehouse is available only to those that have been through the 2 hour staff development on its use.

__**EDUCATIONAL VIDEO LIBRARY**__ - "YouTube at School" - A service of LightSpeed Systems (our Internet filter). This is where your browser takes you when you try to go to YouTube at school. But you can now submit the URLs of YouTube videos for approval. Find the videos while at home and then email the URLs to yourself at school. At school, log in with your MCPSS username and password and submit the URL for approval. A one-page set of instructions: or