Microsoft Internet Explorer is the Internet browser of choice for Harrison County schools because of its compatibility with the security software for Internet safety.  This is for your safety and protection.  It allows the sites to be logged so that students who violate school/county policy can be tracked and easily made culpable for their actions.  This is most effective when you have your students log into the network. NEVER ALLOW ANYONE TO LOG ONTO ANY NETWORK WITH YOUR USERNAME OR PASSWORD!

Click here to see Harrison County Schools Policy 5601-Technology and Acceptable Use

Click here to see the Harrison County Schools Website.

You can print just the selection you want, instead of ads or other unnecessary information:

Click File, Print, then in the Print window, click the SELECTION button before you print!

You can "bookmark" favorite sites by using Favorites in Explorer

Click Favorites>Add Favorites (either with the icon or drop-down menu at top of browser)

You can use Explorer's Offline feature to save web pages you MUST have NOW.

Option 1:     Click File>Save As

Option 2:     Add to Favorites>Checkmark the MAKE AVAILABLE OFFLINE box

You can print a table of links from a website without printing the entire site.

File>Print>Under Options, Checkmark PRINT TABLE OF LINKS

You can change which toolbar options you want shown

View>Toolbars>Customize>Then, click the icons you want to take out and hit the REMOVE button  (This does not delete them; it merely hides them.  History and Print are good to hide, so students can't easily access them.  I can still access the information to track where they've been recently - View>Explorer Bar>History.  Microsoft's Proxy on our county servers details even more information.

You can "export" your Favorites and create a new file as a page of links in HTML.

With Explorer open, click File>Import/Export>Then follow the wizard.  It allows you to select the folders to take and select the location where you want to save them by clicking Browse. 

Tools>Internet Options>Type in the URL (or Use Current if that page is loaded)

A cache is a place in the computer's memory that temporarily stores the web pages you visit.  If your cache is full, pages can take a longer time to load, because your browser has to look through numerous files to find and reload the page.  Clearing the cache also insures that you get the most recent version of a page.  Another reason to clear these files is that they take up space on your hard drive. 

With Explorer open, Select Tools from the Main Menu>Internet Options>In the section for Temporary Internet Files, click on Delete Files>Then click OK.

     Word offers a wealth of possibilities as an integration tool.  In addition to its use as a teaching and learning tool to create a technology-enriched curriculum for students at any grade level, its use by teachers for communications, planning, and record keeping illustrate ways to meet the NCLB  standards.  You can create professional letters, envelopes, reports, lesson plan templates, seating charts, schedules, checklists, calendar, a table of hyperlinks for guided search on the Internet, posters, and other documents.  You can use the FILE>SAVE AS>SAVE AS WEBPAGE feature to create a web page that you can upload to your school website or a free homepage online.  Here are some suggestions and sites for you to peruse: 

(Click on the word to link to the site.)