December 2002
Newsletter
A FREE newsletter edited by teacher, speaker and author
Marjan Glavac.
(Id) al Fitr December 6
Saint Nicolas December 6
Chanukah ends December 7
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day December 7
First Day of Winter December 22
Christmas December 25
Kwanza Begins December 26
Boxing Day (Canada, UK, Australia, NZ) December 26
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I want to thank Susan Silverman and her committee for inviting me to
present my speech “Burn Bright or Burn Out- Motivating Teachers
for Life” at the New York State Association for Computers and
Technologies in Education Conference in Buffalo New York on
Sunday, November 24. They did a fantastic job on this conference.
For more information on the wonderful projects that New York State
Association for Computers and Technologies in Education are doing,
go to http://nyscate.org
Thank you Susan.
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Thanksgiving Day has come and gone. Report cards have been distributed and
parent interviews have been completed. The end of the first term is upon us!
Let me wish all of you Season's Greetings and all the best for your Christmas,
Chanukah, Kwanzaa and Ramadan celebrations. See you all again in 2003!
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In This Issue:
* SPECIAL REQUEST
* UPDATES
* GLOBALSCHOOLNET PROJECTS
* ECLASSROOM
* EDUPALM
* NORTHPOLE.COM
*VIEWING SPACECRAFT
* BOGGLE'S WORLD
* TALLMANIA
* CAMILLA SENIOR SCHOOL
* MRS. BORUSIEWICH FIRST GRADERS
* MRS. SULLINS' KINDERGARTEN CLASS
* MRS. HICKS’S 2ND GRADE WEB PAGE
* BUSY EDUCATOR'S AWARD
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SPECIAL REQUEST
If you are using an on line or off line grading program for your marks, could you
send me the name of the program and the link? Please include if you would
recommend it to other teachers at the elementary, middle school or high school level.
Thank you!
mailto:marjan@glavac.com
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UPDATES
Longtime friend and Busy Educator’s Newsletter subscriber, Diane Midness has
made some big changes in her life. She is in New York working with iEARN.
She is the coordinator for the Friendship through Education project. http://www.friendshipthrougheducation.org/ Friends and interested teachers can
contact Diane at: mailto: dmidness@us.iearn.org.
Debbie Abilock, contributor of Choose The Best Search For Your Purpose to
the Busy Educator’s Guide To The World Wide Web 2nd Edition, pp. 150-155
has greatly revised and moved it to: http://www.noodletools.com/
The Imagination Factory http://www.kid-at-art.com/ has just added a new feature
The Project Matcher is designed to match many of the site's art/recycling activities
with 4-H projects, and those carried out for school social studies and science fairs.
The Project Matcher joins the Badge Matcher that was created for Girl Scouts
and Brownies. In addition, the Education Department has a new section on
landfills, with a great link to a site that explains how landfills work.
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GLOBALSCHOOLNET PROJECTS
http://www.globalschoolnet.org/
Check out the following GLOBALSCHOOLNET PROJECTS:
CYBERFAIR 2003: Educate & Unite (projects due 3/21/03)
For ages 5- 19: International learning challenge, now in its 8th
year, for students kindergarten through high school, to showcase
their own local community.
DOORS TO DIPLOMACY (projects due 3/21/03)
For ages 12-19: $2,000 scholarships and a trip to Wash DC for best
web projects!
DRY VALLEYS ANTARCTICA (now through end of January)View incredible
photos and polar desert ecosystem reports from the “Stream Team.”
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ECLASSROOM
http://www.aspenleaf.com/eClassroom
The eClassroom is a set of reports and photos generated from a teacher's trip
around the perimeter of the continental United States. The reports encompass
history and geography lessons and stories from literary sites. The reports are
listed alphabetically for easy reference and contain links to further information
about each topic. The website information can be used with classes from first
grade through high school. Parents and teachers will also find very interesting
material here.
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EDUPALM
http://edupalm.org/
EduPalm offers help in selecting and using a PDA. It describes the differences
between the major platforms, including a complete table of Palm type PDA
features. EVERY Palm O/S single-purpose PDA currently produced for the US
market is included.
Original features and selective annotated link lists will help you find and choose
software and hardware and clue you into interesting and practical ways to use
your Palm O/S handheld, with an emphasis on K-12 education.
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NORTHPOLE.COM
http://www.northpole.com
The site commercial banner-free offers all FREE activities for families to share
at home during the Holidays. Foremost, the site provides children a quick, secure,
and certain means to write Santa a letter and get a reply. There are original stories
to read and selected stories to print and color. Parents can create a Good Deed
Calendar for children to keep up with their chores throughout the year.
The Elf Pal Academy, an animated classroom, offers over 80 different exercises
that can easily be incorporated into teacher's lesson plans or to a home schooling
curriculum. You can customize and print award certificates or a diploma signed
by Santa.
Some of the activities found within the site include: connect-the-dots, connect-the
-dashes, simple and advanced mazes, connect-the-letters, letter concentration
game, fill-in-the-letter and spell-the-word exercises, rhyming words, crossword
puzzles, word-search games, connect-the-number, math riddles, flash cards, an
interactive coloring book, and Santa's favorite Rubik's cube.
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VIEWING SPACECRAFT
Longtime Busy Educator’s Newsletter subscriber and now retired teacher, Frank
Scarfino sent these two sites for viewing spacecraft:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/
http://www.heavens-above.com
Thank you Frank.
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BOGGLE'S WORLD
http://bogglesworld.com
Boggle's World is a resource site for language arts and ESL teachers. The site
contains free worksheets, crosswords, word searches, and flashcards to
download print and photocopy. There are also lesson plans and articles with a
mix of theory and practice. The materials are created by teachers and have all
been tested in classroom situations.
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TALLMANIA
http://www.tallmania.com/
TallMania is designed for Class 7 and 8 English students, and their parents, at the
International School of Geneva. Included are web resources and class handouts
for The Hobbit, Walk Two Moons, The Giver, Boy, The Diary of Anne Frank,
Friedrich, and the Native American short novel Two Old Women. Also, there are
pages dedicated to Reading and Writing Workshop lessons. TallMania is also
home to the TallMania Web Directory, a web resource designed for and maintained
by students, age 11-15.
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CAMILLA SENIOR SCHOOL
http://camillasenior.homestead.com/mst.html
This is a site for all middle school science and math teachers, students and parents.
It is colourful and easily navigated. The site contains useful information for
teachers as background knowledge or for lesson preparation. It has activities,
experiments, some full units, a teacher resource page and appropriate links.
Students might use it in class for research, to do WebQuests, to review for tests,
to play games, or they might use the information for tutorial or reinforcement of
math and science skills.
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MRS. BORUSIEWICH FIRST GRADERS
http://myschoolonline.com/MO/Mrs_Borusiewich
This site was created for first graders (past and present), their parents, and other
teachers. It’s a place where children can use a different medium to learn and
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MRS. SULLINS' KINDERGARTEN CLASS
http://home.attbi.com/~sullins5
This is a Kindergarten class from McKinney, Texas. This website is a tool to
keep parents informed about learning, how the classroom looks and work on the
site. There are some fun safe sites that students can use for learning. ************************************************************************
MRS. HICKS’S 2ND GRADE WEB PAGE
http://www.cape.k12.mo.us/blanchard/hicks/index.html
Mrs. Hicks’s 2nd Grade web page is designed for use by students, parents, and
teachers. Students are very involved in this web page, interacting on this
web page daily with their published work, links, games, and internet projects
that coordinate with their curriculum. Parents can find reading tips, classroom
information and links to informative sites on parenting. Teachers find many sites
with lesson plans, curriculum help, and in Missouri, tips for our MAP assessment
testing.
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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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class and students. We will share these in future updates. Please send to:
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