Links of Interest

• Northside ISD Internet Website
  This website helps the members of Northside's Web community find answers to frequently asked questions, and serves as the information gateway for those wanting to find out more about San Antonio's "destination district."

• Northside ISD Intranet
  This site contains a wide variety of online resources that are for District personnel only.
  

• NISD Web Warning
  This Web resource is designed to help educate parents about the risks associated with social networking sites. This site shares online news articles and video clips on this hot topic, as well as an online collection of parental advice, tips, and guidelines.
  

• Online Administrator Resources (intranet)
  NISD administrators may access important information, computer applications, forms, and training guides.

• Campus Instructional Technologist (CIT) Resource Site (intranet)
  CITs will find a wide variety of resources on this site to help them integrate and support technology on their campuses.

• Elementary Computer Technologist (ECT) Intranet Site (intranet)
  ECTs can quickly locate information specific to their job at this site. The site is updated monthly with current announcements, information and lesson ideas.

• Clerical Administrative Support Staff Website (intranet)
  This site was designed to assist support staff in a variety of administrative and clerical duties necessary to run an office/campus efficiently.

• Student Laptops Tips & Tricks
  Advice for educators who teach in a classroom with students who have laptops. Includes suggestions of some rules and procedures for the instructor.

• Technology Acquisitions Website (intranet)
  The purpose of this website is to facilitate the technology acquisition process by setting standards for technology items,
  establishing procedures and providing assistance to district staff throughout the process.
  

• Northside Acceptable Use Website
  This website is a collection of district-developed strategies, resources, guidelines, and policies that address how students, staff, and parents may best use the Internet and related technologies.

• Technology Turning Points (2006)
  Technology Turning Points sessions (October, December, March, June) are designed for campus and district administrators to facilitate, support and shape effective leadership for technology in education in Northside. These sessions focus on six key areas that are the framework for administrator technology standards in the nation, in Texas, and in Northside. Role-specific technology leadership tasks are delineated in each area. (Turning Points 2005)

• Confronting the Technology Puzzle
  This website shares District initiatives, exemplary projects, and resources that are key pieces to confronting the technology puzzle related to teaching, learning and educator preparation in the Northside Independent School District.

• Technology Applications TEKS
  These Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills describe what students should know and be able to do with technology. They are organized in four strands for K-12: Foundations, Information Acquisition, Problem Solving, and Communication.

• Technology Standards for Teachers
  These Texas State Board of Educator Certification (SBEC) standards describe what all beginning teachers must know and be able to do with technology. They are organized into five strands.
  

• Technology Standards for School Administrators
  The National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Administrators developed through the Technology Standards for School Administrators (TSSA) Collaborative identifies knowledge and skills constituting the "core" of what every P-12 administrator needs to know about and be able to do with technology regardless of specific job role.
  

• Northside ISD Division of Curriculum & Instruction
  Northside offers a complete educational curriculum with a broad selection of academic courses, electives and special programs.

• Northside ISD Division of Administration
  The Division of Administration manages much of the day-to-day operations of the Northside Independent School District.

• Webopedia
  Need help with terminology? Use this online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology definitions.