Bethel School District

Technology Resources – Staff/Parents/Students



/ Google Apps / Google Apps is Bethel’s integrated communication and collaboration tool.
Google Apps:
Gmail: Email (compose, receive, organize), add contacts, text or video chat, and create a list of tasks.
Calendar: Create events, invite others to your events, share and subscribe to calendars. The integrated calendar manages your schedule.
Docs: Create and share a variety of online documents, from word processing and spreadsheets to forms and presentations. These web-based applications are accessible from any computer, so teachers and students can work inside or outside the classroom on documents together at the same time from multiple locations.
/ FamilyAccess /
This site is for all parents and guardians who want to be more involved with their child’s education. With the Family Access web portal, parents and guardians can review their child’s progress from any computer connected to the Internet.
Parents and guardians have access to a variety of student information, such as attendance, schedules, grades, and student and family demographics.
One Family Access password and user name will work for all children who live in a household, regardless of grade level or school of attendance.
/ NetTrekker /
  • Connect to over 300,000 of the best online resources, aligned with state standards and organized by readability and grade level.
  • Each resource is carefully selected by educators to ensure it is safe, age-appropriate and 100% academically relevant.
  • An easy-to-use tool for K-12 students and educators in a search environment you can trust!

/ Atomic Learning / Atomic Learning provides web-based software training for more than 250 applications students and educators use every day. These short, easy-to-view-and-understand tutorials are an integral part of a professional development program, a valuable curriculum supplement, and an anytime/anywhere training resource.
/ World Book / The World Book Web is a suite of online research tools that includes encyclopedia articles, primary source collections, educator tools, student activities, pictures, audio, and video, complemented by current periodicals and related Web sites. With World Book Web, teachers and students have access to World Book Kids, World Book Student, World Book Advanced, World Book Discover, Dramatic Learning, Early World of Learning, and Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos.
/ Proquest / ProQuest offers a growing family of classroom-focused, subscription-based educational resources that support the 21st century information literacy needs of technology directors, librarians, teachers, and students across all curriculum areas.
/ eLibrary / eLibrary is the perfect resource for delivering full-text and multimedia reference essentials. The easy-to-use interface makes research easy. Students find the answers they need from more
than 2,500 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts--plus thousands of maps, pictures, educator-approved websites from Homework Central, and top-quality multimedia (audio/video) files.
/ Culture Grams / CultureGrams are country reports that go beyond mere facts and
figures to deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture, including the background, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people. Individual reports covering 182 countries and all 50 United States are written and reviewed by in country experts and are updated every year, so you can be sure it is offering only the very best information to students.
/ AP Photo Archive / AP Images from AccuWeather™ is a primary source database from the Associated Press that takes users on a sensory journey of photographs, audio sound bites, graphics and text spanning over 160 years of history. User comprehension and recall skills will improve with visually stimulating imagery meant for use in research papers, theses, reports and PowerPoint presentations.
/ TypingClub / This online program assists students with learning to type. Users can practice each lesson over and over to earn three stars. It really doesn't take much to learn to type - a few minutes a day for one to two weeks and you will be a pro! Using this program,students will be able to increase their typing speed rather quickly.
/ Moodle / Moodle is a course management system (CMS) – a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.