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Part 1–Overview:
The intent of this toolbox is to offer Oak Hill High School Seniors with a “one stop shop” for their English Research needs.  It is created with the following premises in mind:

Students have successfully created research projects previously in the Freshman Position Paper, Sophomore Speech, English / Science Research Paper, and the American Literary Criticism paper.
Students understand how to appropriately and ethically cite research materials when placing and / or referring to outside work(s) within their own …

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One of the problems I’ve learned with giving students email accounts is that they already have one. I understand and am not surprised.

Why log in to another email account if it has never been used?

The answer is simple: it is the email account on record for the school. If I need to send out a mass communication (as I did the other day), I can do so quite easily by using the addresses already available to me for each student in Gmail. This means little though, if they aren’t being delivered to an attended mailbox. How can we fix this? We can forward your email to an account that you use. This way you can check your email without logging in to your Gmail account. (FYI–don’t lose your credentials though, we may be using your Google account over time to share and collaborate on documents.)

Over the past few years I’ve found my time is spent more and more inside of a browser. This could be considered a good thing or a bad thing. Either way the browser has become my work space and my digital desk. This being the case, I need it to work for me and not the opposite way around. I like to have things at my finger tips and to find them easily. I can make bookmarks and have them “hidden” under the Bookmarks drop down, but I’ve found that out of sight can mean out of mind. When I’m at my desk I don’t want to have to search for things that I’m using all of the time. This makes that possible.