January 2000 Newsletter.

Happy New Year everyone. Wishing all of you the best for the year 2000.

I will be hosting a teachers chat this month at: http://www.teachers.net
The chat is primarily for Canadian teachers, but you're all invited to come out and
chat in real time on Friday January 14, 9:00 pm Eastern Standard Time.
The first ever Busy Educator's Newsletter Reader Survey has been posted
on the website at http://www.thebusyeducator.com/

In order to better help you my readers, I've put together a survey to find out what
you want to read about the most in The Busy Educator's Newsletter.
The questions are about what grade levels/subjects you are most interested in
seeing featured in this newsletter. The survey is anonymous and anyone who
takes the survey(only 7 questions) will see the results when they complete the
last question. With over 2000 subscribers to The Busy Educator's Newsletter,
it will be great to find out where people are from, what grades they teach and
what they really want to read. The link to the survey can be found on the opening
page of http://www.thebusyeducator.com/ in the bottom right hand corner!
CONTEST
Thank you to all those who sent in a favorite educational website. I'm tabulating
all the results. Books will be sent to the winners in the next few weeks.
To subscribe to The Busy Educator's Newsletter please go to:
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Marjan Glavac editor
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In This Issue:
*WEBSITE UPDATES
*BOOK REVIEWS
*EMPOWERED PARENTING
*YES I CAN! SCIENCE
*FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY ONLINE SCHOLAR CHALLENGE
*KINDERART
*AT&T VIRTUAL CLASSROOM
*BUSY EDUCATOR'S AWARD
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WEBSITE UPDATES
http://www.thebusyeducator.com/
Find out the ongoing polling results of how teachers use the Internet. Try
out our poll and see how other educators voted! Send me suggestions for
future polls!
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BOOK REVIEWS
http://www.thebusyeducator.com/
Two fellow Ontario educators sent me copies of their wonderful books to review.
Although one of them even lives in my hometown where I grew up, I've never had
the chance to meet them. Read the reviews of their books on the website.
Being the Parent You Want to Be 12 Communication Skills for Effective Parenting
GARY SCREATON PAGE
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Smart From The Start Make The Most Of Your Child's Learning
JANET MILLAR GRANT, VICKY HOPTON, SUSAN FLEURY PEARSON, HELENE PFEIFFER
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EMPOWERED PARENTING
http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/EmpoweredParenting
Timely Information for Today's Parent, the most important job in the world!
Tips, clues, answers. Get deserved respect; still have fun. Joan Bramsch,
successful writer, teacher, parent, grandparent will be your soundingboard.
Above all, she'll encourage you to be Your Best. She'll share family experiences
from Birth to Adulthood to make you an Empowered Parent! Subscribe today. It's
free! EmpoweredParenting-subscribe@onelist.com or
http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/EmpoweredParenting
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*YES I CAN! SCIENCE
http://yesican.yorku.ca
Initially funded by Industry Canada and currently hosted by the Faculty of
Pure and Applied Science, York University, Canada, the mandate of the Yes I
Can! Science project is to design and develop a database of curriculum
resources and make it freely available to K-12 Science teachers around the
world. The database contains the following resource types:
- -classroom lesson plans;
- -labs, demonstrations and classroom activities;
- -assessment tools, performance indicators; and
- -background information for teachers.
Based on a train metaphor, each "Station House" of the "Data Engine" allows
the teacher to search the curriculum outcomes and linked resources in a
unique way. For those teachers with limited time, the "Express Search" gives
a quick list of all resources for a given grade and subject.
The exceptional idea behind York University's YES I Can! Science database is
that by allowing keyword searches within a specific grade and subject area,
teachers across Canada and around the world are able to align the resources
they find inside the database to their own regional, local, or school
curricula. Visit often as high quality science resources are continually
being added.
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CARE
http://www.care.org/virtual_trip/mali/
CARE's Virtual Field Trip to Mali features a step by step trek over land
and water, through five places with daily journal entries from your CARE
guides. Video clips and an expedition photo album bring the people and
landscapes to you from the other side of the globe.
Learn more about CARE's history of development work in Mali
or further explore the country with Facts at a Glance, Recommended Books
and Related Links. Download a free screensaver as a souvenir from your
journey or make a donation to support CARE's work in the region.
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FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY ONLINE SCHOLAR CHALLENGE
http://www.fsu.edu
It's time for the third annual Florida State University Online Scholar
Challenge, an online information scavenger hunt for high school juniors
and seniors who are good at surfing the net. Top prizes are
full-tuition, four-year scholarships to Florida State University.
The competition pits teams of high school students against one another
in finding answers to tough questions by using a new information
service, Lexis-Nexis Scholastic Universe, which is targeted to the
information needs of high school students.
Qualifying rounds of the competition will be held entirely online. The
top five teams (teams may have one or two students) and their chaperones
will travel, all expenses paid, to Tallahassee for the finals April 7, 2000.
Registration is open now. Registration and additional information can be
accessed through clicking on the Online Scholar Challenge icon at
http://www.fsu.edu. Registration is limited to the first 2500 teams to
register, and officially closes January 21, 2000.
For more information, e-mail oschallenge@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
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KINDERART
http://www.kinderart.com
KinderArt, the largest collection of free art lessons and art education
information on the Internet. Your complete all-in-one art education
resource. This site is run by Andrea Mulder-Slater. She is also
Your About.com Guide to Toronto
http://toronto.about.com
email: toronto.guide@about.com
and Your About.com Guide to Art History
http://arthistory.about.com
email: arthistory.guide@about.com
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AT&T VIRTUAL CLASSROOM
http://www.att.virtualclassroom.org/
AT&T Virtual Classroom 1999-2000 is bigger and better than ever! Now
in its fourth successful year, this fun, innovative program brings
together primary and secondary students in a unique and stimulating
environment that simulates a real classroom.
It's all via the Internet, and it's all free! Your students can learn to:
- communicate and work with people from different cultures
- improve typing, language proficiency and writing skills
- research, analyze and solve problems
- delegate and carry out tasks
- work in teams and make group decisions
- use the Internet to communicate and research
- plan, design and create web pages
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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 "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
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