September 1998 Newsletter.

Here in Southwestern Ontario Canada, it's the "dog days"
of summer and I'm slowly getting ready to go back to school in September to
teach K-8 computers:-).

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Marjan Glavac editor
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In This Issue:
* FOURTEEN GREAT ACTIVITIES FOR THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
* SPORTS MEDIA
* HARRIET TUBMAN AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
* SURFEZ LE NET
* TABS
* MAC VERSION OF THE BUSY EDUCATOR'S WEBSITE DIRECTORY
*THE PAGE ONE LITERATURE AND WRITING NEWSLETTER
* BUSY EDUCATOR'S AWARD
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FOURTEEN GREAT ACTIVITIES FOR THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
Teachers from round the world have sent in their favourite first day of school activities to this site. Check them out. If you've already started school, add to the list of activities or save them for next year.

http://www.education-world.com
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SPORTS MEDIA
This site is a tool for P.E. teachers, coaches, students and everyone who is interested in P.E. and Sports. I recommend surfing to the physical education lesson plans & activities page - to the coaching page and to the links' pages. It's a
practical site for educators and students.
http://www.ping.be/sportsmedia/
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HARRIET TUBMAN AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad for Children is an interactive site written by second graders at Pocantico Hills School in Sleepy Hollow, NY. It has a timeline, interactive quiz, and character sketches written by second graders. It has additional resources and lessons for teachers.
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/tubman.html
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SURFEZ LE NET
Surfez le Net is Learner Online's annotated database of Web sites in French. It was originally created for users of the French in Action video series who were looking for French resources on the Web. Visitors can search for or browse through sites in a variety of subjects. Surfez le Net is updated twice a week.
http://www.learner.org/collections/multimedia/languages/fiseries/surfez/
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TABS
Planning for next year? Think about being in the centre of the big wave
called 'TABS'. Looking for High School, Intermediate and Junior classes who are willing to exchange descriptions and photos of 3D models created with the drawing and modeling program 'Tabs' by The Knowledge Tree. Visit our web site for more information and to view 'Tabs' photos. Starting Date: September 15, 1998
Deadline: December 10, 1998
http://www.ocdsb.edu.on.ca/vmasweb/tabs.htm
Email : bcrooks@cyberus.ca
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MAC VERSION OF THE BUSY EDUCATOR'S WEBSITE DIRECTORY
Mitch Powell Prof. (ret.) Fanshawe College (London, Ontario Canada ) has just finished a program containing all the URLs, table of contents and all the links of my book The Busy Educator's Guide To The World Wide Web for the Macintosh computer. It is an HTML program, with graphics - and works very well within Navigator and Explorer. The HTML program is approx. 69K and total program runs about 160K. For more details and ordering information, contact:
Mitch Powell <PowellM@claven.fanshawec.on.ca>

Thank you Mitch :-)
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THE PAGE ONE LITERATURE AND WRITING NEWSLETTER
John Weaver is the editor of The Page ONE Literature and Writing Newsletter.

It is a free weekly newsletter (and advertiser free) for all pageturners and ink scribblers who are in search of useful, informative, resourceful, intelligent and thought-provoking, literary-versed news and tips. Page ONE currently has over 1000 subscribers and is a recent recipient of the Petals of Life Excellence Award.
You are welcome to stop by the Page ONE Website site at:
http://members.aol.com/FICTWRI/page1.html
(Check out the interview with John Grisham)
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BUSY EDUCATOR'S AWARD
If you have a web site or know of one that you feel merits the Busy Educator's Award, please feel free to send me your suggestions. The award is given out to web sites that contain excellent content for busy
educators.
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Send us those tips, insights or web sites that have helped you with your
class and students. We will share these in future updates. Please send to: marjan@glavac.com
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Mr. Marjan Glavac author of "The Busy Educator's Guide To The World Wide
Web"
LONDON, Ontario ISBN 0-9683310-0-9
Canada 200 pages
marjan@glavac.com http://www.thebusyeducator.com/
Bonaventure Meadows P.S.
http://www.lbe.edu.on.ca/bonavent/welcome.htm
"There are no boundaries for the journeys of the mind."
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