5-8 Launch Page

Documents

• Student/Parent Handbook
• Word Processing Guidelines

Links

• Amazon Audible
• Bensound Music (Royalty-free, OK to use music for projects)
• Clever
• Creative Commons Search
• Computers and Coders Game Details & Points Logging
• Common Area Expectations
• Device Collection Day
• Digital Maine Library
• Epic Reading
• Fact Checking Sites
  • AllSides.
  • Fact Check.
  • Media Matters.
  • NewsBusters.
  • Open Secrets.
  • Politifact.
  • ProPublica.
  • Snopes.
  • The Sunlight Foundation.
  • Washington Post Fact Checker.
• Gmail
• Help Desk Request
• Immersive Reader Chrome Extension
• IXL Math and Language
• K-8 Library Resources
• Khan Academy (NWEA Mapped Practice)
• Lexia Student Page
• Library Card Catalog
• Listen to Music (No Login Needed – Kids section is allowed at school only)
• MDIRSS Tutorials
• Middle School Pages
• Natural Reader Chrome Extension
• NewsELA
• Noodle Tools
• Overdrive for MDIRSS (Use email address without the @mdirss.org)
• Pemetic Energy Team  (Archive – not currently in use)
• Photos and Images for Projects
  • FlickrCC
  • Pics4Learning
  • Photos for Class  (Download photos to use for school projects)
• Powerschool
• Powerschool (OLD ONE)
• Rank One Sports Forms
• ReadLive
• School Cancellation Page
• Typetastic (code = red panda)
• Youtube Audio Library (Royalty-free music AND sound effects, OK to use for projects)

Technology

• MDIRSS Inappropriate Technology Use Discipline Rubric
• Middle School Laptop Guide
• Tech Help Request Form (Students ask for help)
• Tech Team (Openings for 4th to 8th grade students in 2019-20 school year)