September 1999 Newsletter.
Rosh Hashanah September 11
Yom Kippur September 20
I would like to thank the Caswell County District School Board for having
invited me to present my keynote speech "Chalk Board Lessons From The Digitial Age
at their convocation ceremonies in Yanceyville North Carolina on August 4,
1999.
Boy, was it ever hot in North Carolina!
A special thank you to Annemarie Timmerman and Diane Luquire for their work
in setting up the ceremonies and giving my family and me a warm southern
welcome!
Thank you as well to Nona Pryor who e-mailed me all kinds of great things to
do in North Carolina.
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Marjan Glavac editor
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In This Issue:
*WEBSITE UPDATES
*BOOK REVIEWS
*JEWISH TEACHING AND JEWISH HOME LIBRARY
*SEPTEMBER CALENDAR OF EVENTS AT TEACHERS.NET
*THE FIRST GRADE BACKPACK
*STUDY ABROAD AND WORK
*PROBLEM OF THE WEEK CONTESTS
*KINETOSAURS AT THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF INDIANAPOLIS
*EXLIBRIS: A WEEKLY E-ZINE
*PROFESSOR FREEDMAN'S MATH HELP
*THE ENGLISH ZONE
*AMY'S PAGE FOR TEACHERS
* SCOTTY'S SURFIN' SHACK, THE UNOFFICIAL CENTER FOR TECHNOLGY EDUCATION
*2ND BLACK FAMILY TECHNOLOGY AWARENESS WEEK
*TEACHER STUDY AWARDS-JAPAN
*WHY MEN ARE LIKE FINE WINE
*BUSY EDUCATOR'S AWARD
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WEBSITE UPDATES
http://www.thebusyeducator.com/
I've added the following new features on my website: Back to School Poll.
Try it out and see how other educators voted! Send me your suggestions for
future polls!
Need a little bit of motivation to take on the day? Try out the new Thought
For The Day feature. A new motivational message each and every day.
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BOOK REVIEWS
http://www.thebusyeducator.com/
This summer I really wanted to relax and be with my family. We rented a
cottage on the shores of Lake Huron. It gave me the chance to be away from
the TV, computer, phone and catch up with the family and with my reading.
I've posted reviews of the following books on my website
http://www.thebusyeducator.com/
Amelia Earhart Young Air Pioneer
JANE MOORE HOWE, ILLUSTRATIONS BY CATHY MORRISON,
EDITOR HAROLD UNDERDOWN
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Big Buck$ A Creative Discipline System
CAROLYN THOMPSON PRUITT, JOANNA LEBO HAZELWOOD
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How To Behave So Your Children Will, Too!
DR. SAL SEVERE
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Moonlight and Mill Whistles
TERRY WARD TUCKER
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The Legend of Mackinac Island
KATHY-JO WARGIN,
ILLUSTRATED BY GIJSBERT VAN FRANKENHUYZEN
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Raw Materials for the Mind:
Teaching & Learning in Information & Technology Rich Schools
DAVID WARLICK
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David Grossman Jewish Home Library List Moderator
http://www.eGroups.com/group/jewishhebrew/info.html
Jewish Teaching is a forum to help share ideas, concepts, materials,
sources,
resources, and plans for demonstrating that our Jewish children can study
Jewish and secular subjects as part of a single, unified scheme.
Share your ideas about teaching Jewish children according to Jewish
principles
at <mailto:JewishTeaching-Subscribe@eGroups.com>
As the People of the Book, Jews have always studied books and graced their
homes with reading materials. Today, with more books available than ever,
it is important to find ways to select, collect, arrange, organize, and
classify our growing home libraries. The bibliophiles among us are welcome
to join this group about the Jewish Home Library by sending a blank message
to
<mailto:JewishHomeLibrary-Subscribe@eGroups.com>
or by conveniently subscribing at the following website,
<http://www.eGroups.com/group/jewishhebrew/info.html>
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SEPTEMBER CALENDAR OF EVENTS AT TEACHERS.NET
http://www.teachers.net
The September "Back to School" calendar of events at Teachers.Net
features Dr. Gardner on September 28 discussing his book, Intelligence
Reframed: Multiple Intelligences in the Twenty First Century. Also, Dr.
Samuel Meisels appears on September 21, discussing the Work Sampling System
for assessment. On September 7 literacy expert and author Dr. Pat Cunningham
will field questions about her 4-Blocks Literacy program. September 13
features a
return visit by children's author/illustrator Joan Holub. Dr. Gerald
Tirozzi,
Executive Director of the National Association for Secondary School
Principals and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education has
confirmed an appearance at Teachers.Net on a yet to be announced date in
September.
The above sessions are scheduled for 9:00-10:00 p.m. ET in the
Teachers.Net Conference Room at http://teachers.net/conference.
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THE FIRST GRADE BACKPACK
The First Grade Backpack is a place to get young students, their
parents, and teachers too off to a good start on the Internet. The
age-appropriate links show solid correlation with the things that
students are learning in the classroom.
http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Tower/1217
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STUDY ABROAD AND WORK
www.studyabroadandwork.com
Here's a site that provides an opportunity for teachers to earn college
credit when they travel, learn a language, study abroad, do sabbatical
research or work-intern-volunteer USA and abroad. During last 21 years over
13,000 teachers have earned credits.
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PROBLEM OF THE WEEK CONTESTS
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~mathed/problem.html
The University of Central Florida and The University of Mississippi
Mathematics Education Programs co-sponsor the "Problem of the Week
Contests". Every Sunday, a new set of six problems is placed on the site.
The sites receive approximately 400 e-mailed solutions per day from over
1300 cities in 72
countries, as well as from all 50 states in the United States.
A personalized response is sent to each individual answering a problem,
indicating whether the respondent's solution was correct or incorrect. If
the answer is correct, the individual's name and school address are listed
with the problem. Each week, Casio awards a calculator as a prize to one
correct respondent in each category.
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"KINETOSAURS: PUTTING SOME TEETH INTO ART AND SCIENCE AT THE CHILDREN'S
MUSEUM OF INDIANAPOLIS
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/
Click on the Kinetosaurs link under "Online Exhibits" on the home page
Have you ever seen a dinosaur dance, roll its head around or swish its
tail? Artist John Payne uses science and art to create his dinosaur
sculptures, and to make them move.
Explore this Web site to learn about the connections between inosaurs and
art. See how John Payne creates his kinetosaurs, discover the cience behind
his art, and find out how to make your own dinosaur art!
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EXLIBRIS: A WEEKLY E-ZINE FOR LIBRARIANS AND OTHER INFORMATION JUNKIES
http://marylaine.com/exlibris/
This e-zine from Marylaine Block (creator of Best Information on the Net),
offers 2-3 short articles every Friday on information, search tips,
reference, the internet in libraries, page design, etc. Also, it
features a series of interviews with librarian internet gurus, and is the
new home of Marylaine's review page, "Neat New Stuff I Found This Week."
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PROFESSOR FREEDMAN'S MATH HELP
http://www.mathpower.com.
"Professor Freedman's Math Help" is a mixture of sound, humor, color,
animation and graphics with lots of help for the "math anxious" student.
The site includes tutorial lessons authored by students, math assignments,
study skills tips, links to free tutors and learning style information --
all with really "cool" animation and music.
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THE ENGLISH ZONE
http://surf.to/englishzone
The English Zone offers visitors entertaining and educational activities.
The award-winning site provides interactive language lessons, exercises and
quizzes. The English Zone also supplies teachers of English with easy-to-use
printable materials, suitable as handouts, quizzes, or in-class language
lessons. Visit the Zone today!
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AMY'S PAGE FOR TEACHERS
www.geocities.com/Athens/Cyprus/9255/amy.html
Amy's Page was created to help teachers cut down on "search" time when
planning lessons using the Internet. There are links to lesson plans,
curriculum sites and pages of links that students can visit when working on
a particular theme such as oceans, weather and the millenium.
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SCOTTY'S SURFIN' SHACK, THE UNOFFICIAL CENTER FOR TECHNOLGY EDUCATION
http://www.igs.net/~mascott
Scotty's Surfin' Shack, has served teachers and students of technology since
1995. The Shack features philosophy and lessons on teaching and learning
with technology, how to teach design, Quote of the Month, using virtual
reality in education and a description of CS4, a space station simulation
project.
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2ND BLACK FAMILY TECHNOLOGY AWARENESS WEEK
http://www.tbwt.com.
We are seeking proposals to fund. The 2nd Black Family Technology Awareness
Week (February 13-19th, 2000) is being sponsored by IBM Corporation, USBE
Information Technology Magazine www.ccgmag.com and The Black World Today
www.tbwt.com.We plan to fund twenty activities around the country in the
amounts of $500 to $2000. Please submit the following.
1. Describe the program.
2. The time of the program.
3. The budget.
4. The audience and reach.
5. What you believe the impact on the community will be.
6. How you plan to promote the activity.
7. The people/organization behind the activity.
8. A list of recommendations.
Please send proposals to:
Black Family Technology Awareness Week
c/o USBE and Information Technology Magazine
729 East Pratt Street, Suite 504
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
410-244-7101 (voice)
410-752-1837 (fax)
Contact: Tyrone D. Taborn
The deadline for proposals is the end of October. Solid proposals received
before then may be awarded. Other awards will be announced in November 1999.
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TEACHER STUDY AWARDS-JAPAN
http://www.iie.org/pgms/fmf
The Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program will offer 600 grants for
fully-funded 3-week study visits to Japan in 2000 to 1-12th grade teachers
and administrators. Contact the Institute of International Education at
1-888-527-2636 or www.iie.org/pgms/fmf for applications.
DEADLINE: January 11, 2000
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WHY MEN ARE LIKE FINE WINE
This quote is taken from the August bulletin of St. Vincent de Paul Parish
in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario Canada:
"Men are like fine wine-they all start out like grapes, and it's our job to
stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something
we'd like to have dinner with." (Submitted by a happily married
parishioneress!)
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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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