April 1999
Newsletter.
I would like to thank the North Carolina Association for Educational
Communications and
Technology (NCAECT) conference planning committee for inviting me to do
a workshop and
present my keynote "Beyond The Rainbow" to their Friday luncheon on
March 5, 1999.
Thank you to Ray Midgett, Betty Bean, Mary Jane Crum, Jeff Tudor, Ann
McCormick, Kay
Spilker, Libby Gray, Sue Spencer and Ruby Hunt. Special thanks to Diane
Midness, Caroline
McCullen and Earl Moniz for help with my keynote speech.
Correction Note: In last month's newsletter, the URL for Gander
Academy's theme pages was
incorrect. The correct URL is:
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/themes.html
<http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/themes.html>
If you have any good news to share with your colleagues, please e-mail
marjan@glavac.com
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Marjan Glavac editor
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In This Issue:
* SENDING YOUR KIDS OUT IN CYBERSPACE TO CHAT
* FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY ONLINE SCHOLAR CHALLENGE
* MEDIEVAL ACTIVITY CENTRE
* TAMMY TIDBITS
* THE BEACH STREET MIDDLE SCHOOL HOMEPAGE
* SCIENZFAIR PROJECTS
* INTEL ACE SUMMER INSTITUTE
* "MATHS ONLINE "
* REACH EVERY CHILD
* THE CRACKED POT
*BUSY EDUCATOR'S AWARD
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SENDING YOUR KIDS OUT IN CYBERSPACE TO CHAT
http://familyinternet.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa031299.htm
<http://familyinternet.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa031299.htm>
Are your kids asking to chat? What are the dangers? Here are some points
to consider before
letting them venture out into cyberspace.
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FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY ONLINE SCHOLAR CHALLENGE
http://www.fsu.edu <http://www.fsu.edu/>
"Frances Aidman Conaway, APR" <fac6314@garnet.acns.fsu.edu> offers this
challenge:
I am responsible for promoting a very exciting competition--an online
information scavenger hunt
for high school juniors and seniors, the Florida State University Online
Scholar Challenge. The
competition pits teams of high school students against one another in
finding answers to
tough questions by using a new information service, the Lexis-Nexis
Scholastic Universe, which
is targeted to the information needs of high school students. Winners
receive four-year full tuition
scholarships to FSU and other great prizes.
Qualifying rounds of the competition will be held entirely online. The
top five teams (teams may
have one or two students) will travel, all expenses paid, to Tallahassee
for the finals June 3 - 5.
Registration is open now at http://www.fsu.edu <http://www.fsu.edu/>
and is limited to the first 2500 teams to register.
You must be a US resident. Good luck!
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MEDIEVAL ACTIVITY CENTRE
http://www3.sympatico.ca/ferndale/Medieval.htm#gr4
<http://www3.sympatico.ca/ferndale/Medieval.htm#gr4>
Pat Elliott offers the following medieval resources at her site:
1. General Information
2. Music / Entertainment
3. Games / Entertainment
4. Clothing / People
5. Medicine / People
6. Religion / People
7. Cathedrals and Architecture
8. Castles and Medieval Buildings
9. Knights / Armour / Weapons
10. Foods & Feasting / Festivals
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TAMMY TIDBITS
http://edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu/~tbushey/educ.html
<http://edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu/~tbushey/educ.html>
Tammy's Tidbits was designed for teachers, students, and parents to use
as a resource to finding
some of the best educational sites on the web. This site offers monthly
freebies for teachers to use
in their classrooms as well as graphics for webpages, newsletters, and
computer
wallpaper. Visit often for updates.
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THE BEACH STREET MIDDLE SCHOOL HOMEPAGE
http://www.li.net/~computr <http://www.li.net/~computr>
The Beach Street Middle school Homepage is an extensive, colorful and
engaging Web site
with an innovative design and user-friendly interface. Academics,
electives, student work and
achievements, sports, extracurricular clubs and activities, and much
more can be accessed with
the click of a mouse! This site is not only a tribute to our students,
teachers, and parents, but a
way of showing the world what Beach Street Middle School has to offer.
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SCIENZFAIR PROJECTS
http://members.aol.com/ScienzFair/index.htm
<http://members.aol.com/ScienzFair/index.htm>
This is one of the web's fastest growing and most popular sites for
teachers and students
grades 4-12 seeking science fair projects, ideas and web references.
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INTEL ACE SUMMER INSTITUTE
http://www.eduniverse.com/schools/intel/lesson.html
<http://www.eduniverse.com/schools/intel/lesson.html>
These award-winning lesson plans were developed through the Intel ACE
summer institute,
a pilot project hosted by edUniverse and designed to encourage teachers
to incorporate
computer technology into their classroom curriculum. New lesson plans
will be added from the
1999 Institute. There are nearly 1,000 Lesson Plans
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"MATHS ONLINE "
http://merlin.mpi.univie.ac.at/~fe/indexe.htm
<http://merlin.mpi.univie.ac.at/~fe/indexe.htm>
Franz Embacher, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Vienna
has created "maths online"
a project that has been launched in March 1998 at the University of
Vienna. Its goal is to create a
novel style of interactive learning material. The didactical key point
is the attempt to facilitate
understanding in a more or less direct way, linking imagination, user
action and the symbolic
mathematical language. The site is continuously growing. There is a
German and English version of
the site.
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REACH EVERY CHILD
http://www.reacheverychild.com <http://www.reacheverychild.com/>
Reach Every Child contains over 5000 resources for free and inexpensive
resources used by
Hall of Fame and award winning teacher Alan Haskvitz. It covers all
subject areas and is changed
on a regular bases to reflect current events and the calendar. Resource
discs are available for $20
by writing 9655 Carrari Ct., Alta Loma, CA 91737.
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THE CRACKED POT
>From Pat Elliott comes this inspirational story. Thank you Pat.
A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on each end of a
pole which he carried
across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other
pot was perfect and
always delivered a full portion of water at the end of the long walk
from the stream to the master's
house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.
For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only
one and a half pots full of water to his master's house. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its
accomplishments, perfect
to the end for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed
of its own imperfection,
and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had
been made to do. After two
years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the
water bearer one day by the stream.
"I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you." "Why?" asked
the bearer. "What are
you ashamed of?" "I have been able, for these past two years, to deliver
only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out
all the way back to your master's house. Because
of my flaws, you have to do all of this work, and you don't get full
value from your efforts," the pot
said.
The water bearer felt sorry for the old cracked pot, and in his
compassion he said, "As we return
to the master's house, I want you to notice the beautiful flowers along
the path." Indeed, as they
went up the hill, the old cracked pot took notice of the sun warming the
beautiful wild flowers
on the side of the path, and this cheered it some. But at the end of
the trail, it still felt bad because
it had leaked out half its load, and so again it apologized to the
bearer for its failure.
The bearer said to the pot, "Did you notice that there were flowers
only on your side of your path,
but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known
about your flaw, and I took
advantage of it. I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and
everyday while we walked
back from the stream, you've watered them.
For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to
decorate my master's table.
Without you being just the way you are, he would not have this beauty to
grace his house."
Each of us has our own unique flaws. We're all cracked pots.
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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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Mr. Marjan Glavac author of "The Busy Educator's Guide To The World Wide
Web"
LONDON, Ontario Canada ISBN 0-9683310-0-9 200 pages
speaker, teacher, author
marjan@glavac.com http://www.thebusyeducator.com/
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"There are no boundaries for the journeys of the mind."
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