November 2000
Newsletter
A FREE newsletter edited by teacher, speaker and author
Marjan Glavac. http://www.thebusyeducator.com/
Veteran's Day (USA) November 11
Remembrance Day (Canada) November 11
Remembrance Day (UK) November 11
Thanksgiving Day (USA) November 23
Ramadan November 27
Thank you for all the support you've given me for my new book The Busy
Educator's Guide To The World Wide Web 2nd Edition (foreword by
Dr. Harry Wong, author of The First Days Of School). A very big thank you to
Netsurfer Education http://www.netsurf.com/nse/ who included this review in their
November newsletter:
Netsurfer Recommendations
Items our staff likes and you might too.
The Busy Educator's Guide To The World Wide Web 2nd Edition
Marjan Glavac
NIMA Systems; ISBN: 0968331017
Early in our history, Netsurfer Education offered a recommendation of the first
edition of this practical reference, adding that our only real reservation about the
book was that the Internet is a dynamic resource that could be hard to capture on
paper. We were right. The Web doesn't stand still - and neither does author
Glavac. The second edition of his very smart, very useful resource builds on the
first, searching out new and substantive sites that can contribute to classroom
excellence on a daily, even hourly, basis. We're more than pleased to recommend
Glavac's second edition for teachers and students who might be new to the online
experience or old hands at it. It's quite simply one of the most practical resources
any educator or learner could have at hand in the Information Age.
If you liked the book please post a review on amazon.com THANK YOU!
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A very big thank you to Judy Byers, Larry Deacon, David Harrison and
other members of the Saskatchewan Association for Computers in
Education (SACE) who invited me to Saskatoon to deliver a keynote and a
workshop for their 3 day November conference. I met a lot of great teachers
and experienced Saskatchewanian hospitality at its best! Thank you.
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In This Issue:
*WEBSITE UPDATES
*CLASSROOM TEACHER'S EMERGENCY LESSON PLANS
*METLINK WEATHER WATCH INTERNET PROJECT
*GARY PAGE'S FREE ONLINE COURSE
*CLASSROOM CONNECT INTERNET EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR
AWARD
*ONLINE SURVEY FROM JUDI HARRIS
*LES GRANDES CHANSONS DE LA PETITE ECOLE
*HYPERMUSIC HISTORY OF CLASSICAL MUSIC
*eNATURE BIRD AUDIO SECTION
*UN CYBERSCHOOLBUS POOK IN THE WORLD
*NASA SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION RESOURCE DIRECTORY
*ABCTEACH
*ROOSEVELT FOURTH GRADE
*THE ELECTRIC TEACHER
*DISCOVERSCHOOL CUSTOM CLASSROOM
*DISCOVERSCHOOL THE SEARCH FOR ANCIENT SHARKS
*BUSY EDUCATOR'S AWARD
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CLASSROOM TEACHER'S EMERGENCY LESSON PLANS
John Philips
http://jjohnnypress.com
These emergency lesson plans come from John Philips new book "Jivin
Johnny's Classroom Teacher's Emergency Lesson Plans for elementary
and high schools." The book contains over 90 student centered lessons and
projects to help you survive--while your students learn!
BLIND
List 10 things you would miss seeing if you were to lose your sight.
List 10 things that would be difficult to comprehend if you were born blind.
Read Helen Keller's essay "Three Days to See."
List what she would most like to see if she were given the opportunity.
Under safe and fully-supervised conditions, take turns blindfolding each
other and trying to compete some simple tasks or maneuvers.
Some suggestions: - pick up a dropped ruler
- extract exactly 19 cents from a pencil case
- staple a piece of paper to the bulletin board
- hand out books to your row
- open a combination lock
- add 3 of your own
When finished, record your observations and feelings.
Facing the back of the room, describe 10 features of the front of the room.
How many doors are there between you and the outside of the school?
How many stairs?
Assuming you didn't have sight to help you, what parts of your walk home
from school would be the most treacherous?
Once home, which areas of your house would cause navigation problems?
What could you make yourself for supper?
Which appliances or machines around the house would you still use?
Which would you avoid?
How would you entertain yourself?
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METLINK WEATHER WATCH INTERNET PROJECT
http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/radgeog/metlink/metlink.html
Chris Jackson, principal of James Gibbons School, Edmonton Alberta
Canada is looking for participants for the MetLink Weather Project for 2001.
Last year, the school participated in an International Weather Watch Project
and shared data collected with a number of other schools around the world.
They were the only school in North America to participate. The UK Metlink
Project lasted for a two-week period and the support the school received
was exceptional.
The project involved students in observing maximum and minimum
temperatures, barometric pressure, wind direction and speed, humidity,
precipitation and cloud cover.
The MetLink International project will run again in January and February
2001. The active period, when weather observations will be exchanged
every day for two weeks, will be Monday 29 January to Friday 9 February.
For more information, contact Chris Jackson at:
cjackson@epsb.edmonton.ab.ca
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GARY PAGE'S FREE ONLINE COURSE
http://www.parentingteens.com/
Busy Newsletter subscriber and author Gary Page has a free online course
based on his book Being the Parent YOU Want to Be: 12 Communication
Skills for Effective Parenting. It is being made available on the Parenting
Today's Teens web site: http://www.parentingteens.com/
This free course will include a chat room and will also have a real-time role
play session at the end.
If you are interested in taking this free course, send an e-mail to Gary at:
garypage@enoreo.on.ca
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CLASSROOM CONNECT INTERNET EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR
AWARD
http://www.classroom.com/conferences/award/
Classroom Connect has the following announcement of its 2nd annual
Internet Educator of the Year Award!
The recipient of the Internet Educator of the Year 2001 Award will be any
PK-12 educator who has...
* successfully integrated the Internet into his/her 1999-2000
curriculum;
* submitted the best plan for future integration of the Internet into
his/her classroom curriculum for the 2000-2001 school year;
* demonstrated significant impact on his/her learners in any grades
PK-12;
* demonstrated impact on others outside of the classroom and school
Award Benefits
In addition to being recognized and awarded among his/her peers, the winner
will receive a $10,000 grant ($5,000 cash and $5,000 in Classroom Connect
products) and be named to Classroom Connect's Board of Advisors for a
one-year term. The Internet Educator of the Year 2001 will also be honored
with an all expenses paid trip to Chicago to attend the award ceremony at
the Connected Classroom Conference in March 2001.
Nominations for the Internet Educator of the Year 2001 Award must be
received by December 31, 2000. The awardee will be notified in
January 2001.
To apply, please visit: http://www.classroom.com/conferences/award/
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ONLINE SURVEY FROM JUDI HARRIS
Judi Harris from the University of Texas at Austin whose work assists
teachers in doing curriculum-based online projects with elementary,
middle-level, and secondary students, such as the Electronic Emissary:
Virtual Architecture sent in the following request for any teacher to help a
research team find out how using online tools and resources with students
helps teachers to learn?
Judi and her research partners are doing a large-scale online survey study of
telecomputing teachers' professional learning. If you are a classroom
teacher whose students use any kind of online resources or tools, and if
you would be willing to contribute about 45 minutes of your time, thoughts,
and experience by completing a Web-based questionnaire about what you
learn as your students participate in online projects, please send an e-mail
indicating your interest to: judi.harris@mail.utexas.edu
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LES GRANDES CHANSONS DE LA PETITE ECOLE
http://www.lesgrandeschansons.qc.ca
This website offers 16 songs from a music CD that young students of music teacher Sylvain Bédard at École St-Damase elementary school in
St. Hyacinthe Quebec Canada created with synthesizers and a computer.
These songs are all related to a calender on the website. From the first
one (first days at school) to the last (moving away during vacations),
themes follow one after the other in the imaginary world of any student.
This CD reflects a model to follow and demonstrates that it’s possible for
students to show their point of view as well as professionnels do. They
can write properly. They can compose music and they are able to
demonstrate it.
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HYPERMUSIC HISTORY OF CLASSICAL MUSIC
http://www.musichistory.is-online.net
This site focuses on the periods, styles, and composers of classical music,
from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century. The list of composer biographies
is constantly growing as new reports are researched and written by students.
Other features of interest include a glossary of terms, lesson plan
suggestions for teachers, and a detailed list of quality links to classical
music and music education sites.
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eNATURE BIRD AUDIO SECTION
http://www.enature.com/audio/audio_home.asp
eNature has launched a new Sounds of Nature feature, starting with bird
audio section containing songs and calls of over 550 North American birds
online. These vocalizations, recorded in the field, are available free online
and can be played over the Internet using QuickTime's streaming audio
plug-in. eNature.com features color photos and detailed descriptions of
more than 3,400 species of wildlife. Nature lovers can find any plant or
animal they're likely to see in North America on the site, and by simply
entering their zip codes, all the ones in their own backyards.
Visitors can also send wildlife eCards, keep Web-based Life Lists, share
observations and tips with other nature enthusiasts, post questions to
eNature's expert naturalist, and receive weekly newsletters that include
destination highlights and little-known facts about plants and animals.
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UN CYBERSCHOOLBUS POOK IN THE WORLD
http://www.un.org/CyberSchoolBus
Pook wants to be a superhero, but when she says so, everyone laughs. "Pook
in the World" is an animated Flash story that takes Pook, her animal friends,
and YOU on a mission to help save the world... at least a little bit. Come
join Pook on her first adventure. Ages 6-10.
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NASA SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION RESOURCE DIRECTORY
http://teachspacescience.stsci.edu
The Education Resource Directory is a web-based directory that provides
easy access to high-quality, online space science educational resources for
teachers and students from kindergarten through high school.
This first release of the directory contains more than 100 electronic
resources, including lesson plans, educator guides, student activities,
websites, and spectacular space science imagery such as auroras, comets,
the birth place of stars, and colliding galaxies. Educators, resource
developers, and space scientists have worked together to design a system
that is scientifically accurate and easy to use.
Science educators can locate science lessons and activities for their
classrooms by searching by keyword or browsing by subject, grade level,
and topics that align with National Science Education Standards.
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ABCTEACH
http://abcteach.com
abcteach is a site for kids, parents, student teachers and teachers and home
schoolers. It offers free printable activities and materials to aid in
lessons, theme units, research projects and classroom activities. The goal
of abcteach is to provide a place for quality materials that are easy to use
and easy to find for the busy teacher. Creator, Sandy Kemsley, will make
custom worksheets to go along with your units, help college students with
methods classes and personally answer questions to help you succeed.
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ROOSEVELT FOURTH GRADE
http://www.prairy.org/manndarla/
The Roosevelt Fourth Grade site serves as a scrapbook for former students,
an information page for parents, and a source of classroom ideas for teachers.
It is updated at least weekly with the latest school information.
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THE ELECTRIC TEACHER
http://www.electricteacher.com
If you want to begin using technology in your classroom or currently do, this
site can help you. There are tutorials and a photo achive that you can use to
search for images that are in the public domain. You'll find ideas for using
technology in your classroom. There are sample pages that teachers can create,
a Microsoft Office discussion forum and more.
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DISCOVERSCHOOL CUSTOM CLASSROOM
http://school.discovery.com/teachers/
DiscoverySchool.com has unveiled a new feature for teachers called
"Custom Classroom". Custom Classroom utilizes break-through technology
to provide online tools that help teachers create, host, manage tests and
quizzes. Quizzes can be saved for free online and re-used, modified, or
printed for off-line classroom handouts.
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DISCOVERSCHOOL THE SEARCH FOR ANCIENT SHARKS
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/prehistoricsharks/
Appropriate for students in grades 3-9; spark their curiosity about
evolution through an online expedition to the world of ancient sharks. Go
on a virtual tour of the ancient seas. Then head to the shark gallery for a
peek at the modern-day shark’s frightening ancestors. Has an interactive
make your own shark feature. Useful as a homework resource for
students studying evolution or sharks. Also useful for science, evolution,
or shark research papers.
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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"
Completely Revised and Updated 2ND Edition
LONDON, Ontario Canada ISBN 0-9683310-1-7 200 pages
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