July 2000 Newsletter 

A FREE newsletter edited by teacher, speaker and author
Marjan Glavac.   http://www.thebusyeducator.com/

A Happy Canada Day to Canadians everywhere! (July 1)
A Happy Independence Day to Americans everywhere! (July 4)

The time capsules that students made way back in September were handed
back the last week of June; an election simulation we had been working on
for the entire month of June culminated in voting, publicly counting the
votes, declaring a winner and hearing concession and victory speeches
from the participants; the video of the entire year's highlights was shown;
presents exchanged, a party held, report cards handed out and tears held
back. So ended another year of teaching and a great year with grade 5 students.
I  want to thank all of you for subscribing to this FREE newsletter.  This is the
second year anniversary of  The Busy Educator's Newsletter.  There are now
2274  subscribers and growing!  Thank you very much for all your support.
Wishing all my fellow Canadians a happy Canada Day and all my American
colleagues and friends to the south a happy Independence Day!
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In This Issue:
*WEBSITE UPDATES
*TIM'S TEACHER TIP
*WORDDRAGON.ORG
*MRS. SEAGRAVES' QUEST CLASS
*LANGUAGE COURSE FINDER
*THEATRE ON A SHOESTRING
*PLANETPALS EARTHZONE
*ADVANCE PLACEMENT WEB SITE PSYCHOLOGY 12 AP
*THE WILDCAT RESEARCH ASSISTANT
*THE HUMAN BODY ADVENTURE
*BUSY EDUCATOR'S AWARD
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WEBSITE UPDATES
http://www.thebusyeducator.com/
My book The Busy Educator's Guide To The World Wide Web is now
40% off the regular price (+postage and handling).  I am busy writing the
second edition for publication in August 2000.  A TOLL FREE ORDER
number and a new FAX number have been added to the website for easier
ordering. (TOLL FREE 1-877-244-3156 FAX 519-473-5549)
Check out the new poll "What Are You Doing This Summer?" and see
how others have voted.  It was a surprise to see how many of you are
teaching summer courses.
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TIM'S TEACHER TIP
Tim Bedley
http://www.eleMENTOR.com
In order to maintain standards in the classroom, try reminding the students
that the standard is still being enforced.  Many teachers say nothing when
everyone in class is following a rule.  "I told them once.  They shouldn't
need to be told again!"  The problem is that some students my begin to
think, "Hmmm, I wonder if my teacher was really serious about not talking.
No one has gotten in trouble for talking yet."  Because kids need to be
set up for success, when everyone is following a rule, even for just 2
minutes, give positive feedback and reset your standard.  For example,
"Boy, everyone sure is doing a great job working without talking to their
neighbors right now.  Keep it up.  And don't forget that I will ask you to
pull a card if you decide to talk to your neighbor instead of doing your math."
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WORDDRAGON.ORG
http://www.worddragon.org
On Worddragon.org, you will find lots of puzzles: word scramble, sentence
scramble, and matching.  All have a fun, colorful, drag'n'drop interface.
You can try the puzzles in the collection or create your own puzzles for
your students.  Creating a puzzle is as simple as filling in a form.  These
puzzles are great for practicing spelling, learning new vocabulary, and
many other learning activities.  List your puzzles on the Worddragon
server for others to use, or purchase a copy of the applets for your own
computer.
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MRS. SEAGRAVES' QUEST CLASS
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/5924/index.html
Mrs. Seagraves' QUEST Class, is an elementary gifted program in
Montgomery, Alabama, USA.  This site features individual student pages
showcasing their work, several complete units for teachers,and lots of
information about their classroom including internet projects, field trips,
and their desktop publishing business "QUEST Graphics."  At this site
you can create a virtual pond, play garden concentration, and lots of other
neat games.  Teachers should find the "How Did We Do That?" page very
helpful if they want to add online games and Java scripts to their pages.
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LANGUAGE COURSE FINDER
http://www.language-learning.net
Language Course Finder is an online directory of language schools, listing
more than 5,500 institutions teaching 54 different languages in 77 countries.
Comprehensive search facilities allow students to find a program matching
their respective study preferences. Each institution is listed with full
address details for direct contact. The website also includes further
information on language learning/teaching materials, language tests and
organisations. With free access, the website is available in 22 languages.
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THEATRE ON A SHOESTRING
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Balcony/6594/index.html
 
This is a dynamic, one-of-a-kind theatre education website with a plethora
of resources --everything from production photos to relevant articles and
classroom tips, publishers' listsand other theatre-related links, even a
detailed spreadsheet featuring plays for performance -- truly something for
everyone with a flair for the dramatic!
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PLANETPALS EARTHZONE
http://www.planetpals.com
Planetpals Earthzone teaches us to love the planet and everything in it.
Planetpals' adorable characters help kids learn and care in a fun way through
activities, games,  and crafts.  It is also a valuable source of earth science and
earthday information with recycle kits, facts, lists and teacher/parent pages.
Learn to do your part and be a pal. Like the Planetpals say..."a friend for earth
is a friend for life!".
Explore this site and you explore the universe! Planetpals: Free, fun, interactive,
educational and informative .
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ADVANCE PLACEMENT WEB SITE PSYCHOLOGY 12 AP
http://home.mdi.ca/victorfl/
A web site devoted to the course Advance Placement Psychology which
gives students a chance to gain university credits. This site contains tips,
essays, notes, web resources, and anything else that can benefit ap psych
students as well as anyone interest in psychology.
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THE WILDCAT RESEARCH ASSISTANT
http://www.wecdsb.on.ca/132/ra/index.htm
The Wildcat Research Assistant is a categorized, annotated list of over
500 sites which have been selected by a Teacher Librarian to help
students with their Internet research.  Although designed for high
school students, the Wildcat Research Assistant may be useful to senior
elementary students and as a starting point for post secondary students."
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RIVERDEEP INTERACTIVE LEARNING
http://www.riverdeep.net/
Riverdeep Interactive Learning offers students, educators, and parents a
host of features that build on Riverdeep Interactive Learning's core
curriculum of multimedia courseware and interactive simulations.
Riverdeep.net enlivens the classroom curriculum and connects it with
real-world developments and problems, even allowing students to
network with other students around the globe.
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THE HUMAN BODY ADVENTURE
http://www.vilenski.com/science/safari/index.html
The Life Sciences Safari section of this website contains the Human Body
Adventure, a virtual cartoon dissection of the human body intended for a
middle school-aged audience.  Each "layer" of the dissection contains body
parts that belong to specific systems (digestive, circulatory, etc).  Students
can learn interesting facts about those parts and their respective systems by
clicking on the areas of interest.  This is a fun way to learn about the human
body and the relationships among its many parts.
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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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