September 2001 Newsletter
A FREE newsletter edited by teacher, speaker and author
Marjan Glavac. http://www.thebusyeducator.com/
Father's Day (New Zealand) September 2
Labour Day September 3
Grandparents Day September 9
Respect for the Aged Day (Japan) September 15
Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown September 17
Autumnal Equinox September 22
Yom Kippur begins at sundown September 26
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Mr. Marjan Glavac author "The Busy Educator's Guide To The World Wide Web"
Completely Revised and Updated 2ND Edition (Foreword by Dr.Harry Wong)
LONDON, Ontario Canada ISBN 0-9683310-1-7 200 pages
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In This Issue:
*WEBSITE UPDATES
*CLASSROOM TEACHER'S EMERGENCY LESSON PLANS
*DIANA'S PICKS
*QUICK TOPIC
*FINDITQUICK.COM
*AQUACULTURE RESEARCH GROUP
*ADVENTURE LEARNING FOUNDATION (ALF)
*PE PROGRAM AT FARMINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL-WEST
*ALTRUIS BIOMEDICAL NETWORK
*PORTLAW NATIONAL SCHOOL
*BUTTERFLIES 2000 ON THE WINGS OF FREEDOM
*CRIMINAL JUSTICE EDUCATORS
*THE TEXAS COUNCIL OF ELEMENTARY SCIENCE
*BUSY EDUCATOR'S AWARD
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WEBSITE UPDATES
I finally had a chance during the summer to fine tune http://www.thebusyeducator.com/ I added
all the back issues of The Busy Educator's Newsletters to the newsletter archive. All
the newsletters including the entire site is keyword searchable. Let me know if you
have any other suggestions for the website.
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CLASSROOM TEACHER'S EMERGENCY LESSON PLANS
John Philips
jjohnny@csolve.net
Click Here
ISBN 0-9686403-0-3
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!
TO EVERYTHING A SEASON
What is your favorite season? Why?
For each season, identify 10 'signs' that tell us that season has arrived or is
approaching.
Pick 1 animal or bird in nature and describe how its life is affected by the seasons.Then, pretending to be that animal or bird, write a 1st person account of 'Things I
Must Do' with each of the seasons.
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DIANA'S PICKS
I had a wonderful telephone conversation with Busy Educator subscriber Diana
Echezabal who is a computer teacher at Florida Bible Christian School. It was great
to hear her enthusiasm just before school started. Diana was full of great ideas and
websites. Here are some of her recommendations:
If you want to go to a GREAT computer conference, you may want to think about
attending the Florida Educational Technology Conference March 6-10, 2002
The link to their site is: Click here
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A fantastic site that Diana recommends is The Beacon Learning site:
Click Here
There are sections here for Educators, Parents and Students. The Educators' section
contains the following sections: Lesson Plans, Student Web Lessons, Web Site
Review Library, Instructional Websites, Software Evaluation Library, Mentor Journal
Educator, Accomplished Practices, Tips for Integrating Technology into the
Curriculum, Connections and Software Training Manuals.
Thank you Diana!
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QUICK TOPIC
Click Here
Quick Topic lets you set up a single topic discussion forum on the web in 20 seconds.
It's the easiest-to-use forum there is (perfect for children), and doesn't require any
special software -- just a web browser and an Internet connection.
Teachers can easily create, monitor, and administer their forums. It's already widely
used in education from the elementary through the college level.
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FINDITQUICK.COM
Click Here
Finditquick.com is an online resource guide/homework helper that directs children to
kid-friendly and safe URLs that provide answers to FAQs for popular topics in
entertainment, science, our universe, history, and famous people.
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RE-QUEST.NET
Click Here
Re-quest.net is a free online library offering substantive, fully annotated, links to
valuable resources in both a unique frames version and a non-framed version.
The website serves to help students and professionals locate day-to-day and much
needed information and resources in a relatively quick and concise manner.
The site also has a "porn free" QUASAR Search engine. It is a family oriented search
engine that notifies the user, in no uncertain terms, that certain searches may not be
suitable for younger viewers.
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AQUACULTURE RESEARCH GROUP
Click Here
I received this request from Patrick Wells of Bishops College in St. John's,
Newfoundland, Canada. Pat is helping an aqua culture research group conduct a
survey to produce an educational resource. The resource, a web page or CD, would
likely be provided to educators on cost recovery basis or for free.
If you're interested in helping out this group, the survey link is at: Click Here
And if you'd like to see Patrick's website, check it out at:
Click Here
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ADVENTURE LEARNING FOUNDATION (ALF)
Click Here
The mission of The Adventure Learning Foundation (ALF), a nonprofit organization
is to promote greater understanding of the world's different cultures by promoting
global thinking while encouraging students to explore outside the traditional classroom.
By means of the website, ALF provides Internet training, curricula and study guides
for K-12 education based on expeditions to different countries around the world. This
information is provided free of charge to all. The next project is "Walk in the Footsteps
of Pioneers in the American Southwest" Oct - Nov 2001
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PE PROGRAM AT FARMINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL-WEST
Click Here
This is the home page for the physical education department at Farmington Middle
School-West (grades 8 & 9) in Farmington, Minnesota USA. The site contains
information about the PE program, as well as study guides, handouts, lecture
presentations and outlines, pictures from classes, and the "Question of the Month".
There are also useful links for students, parents, teachers and anyone interested in
activity, fitness or sports.
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ALTRUIS BIOMEDICAL NETWORK
Click Here
The ALtruis Biomedical Network is a novel, large collection of over 70 websites
(more are added monthly) focusing on various topics in healthcare, medicine, and
biomedical R&D. All the sites within several familial clusters, such as women's health,
men's health, health & fitness, skincare, infectious disease, cancer, medicine, and
biomedical R&D, are readily accessible via easy navigation or a powerful search
engine. Suitable for educators and students from junior high to college.
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PORTLAW NATIONAL SCHOOL
Click Here
The information here covers everything from the history of the school to sports,
pupils works, being a green school and an A to Z of Portlaw. There is a section
covering class photographs to details on staff.
This website has a simple, effective and user friendly navigation system. The site is
designed for a wide audience, from 5th/6th grade pupils to teachers to people with an
interest in the history of the village. An extensive links page is also provided.
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BUTTERFLIES 2000 ON THE WINGS OF FREEDOM
Click Here
This website is an interdisciplinary resource for information about butterflies for
children, students of all ages, adults and teachers. It includes scanning electron
microscope photos showing great details, a high speed shooting, other films, amazing
facts and information on keeping butterflies. The relationship of humans and butterflies
is shown in ecology, butterfly gardening, bionics but also legends, art, literature and
poems and stories submitted by users. Children will enjoy the trick film, games
and activities suggested.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE EDUCATORS
Click Here
The Methodist College Criminal Justice Studies website includes up to date
information about the program. Of particular interest for students, teachers and
practioners, is the extensive criminal justice links. The links are useful in research in
the criminal justice and related fields.
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THE TEXAS COUNCIL OF ELEMENTARY SCIENCE
Click here
The Texas Council of Elementary Science is the elementary science teacher
organization for the state of Texas. The website has information for those teachers
as well as links that would benefit any elementary teacher.
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BUSY EDUCATOR'S AWARD
If you have a website 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 websites that contain excellent content for busy educators.
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Send us those tips, insights or websites 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 (Foreword by Dr.Harry Wong)
LONDON, Ontario Canada ISBN 0-9683310-1-7 200 pages
Refer Marjan for Speaking Engagements and earn up to $1000.00
mailto:marjan@glavac.com
FREE subscription to The Busy Educator's Newsletter http://www.thebusyeducator.com/
"There are no boundaries for the journeys of the mind."
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