From T.H.E. online
The Microsoft Corp. along with AMD and a host of other companies committed to computer security have launched the Web Watchers program, an Internet security and safety program directed at children grades three through eight. The program will provide teachers with age- and curriculum-appropriate lessons that will help students understand the opportunities and risks of the Internet, including avoiding installation of malicious software and how to protect their online identity. Participating schools will also be eligible to win $1,000 or $5,000 for the purchase of new computer hardware and software. Beginning February 9, schools were able to sign-up at the Web Watchers site, which provides students and their families with information on how to secure their computers and allows them to vote for their school to receive technology funding. Voting for that funding is open until March 31. For info, visit http://www.WebWatchersOnline.com
2005 Educational Road Map to the Web!
Order
your copy of the new 2005 Educational Road Map to the Web! This
year’s Road Map is loaded with more than 200 educationally
appropriate Web links from netTrekker (http://www.nettrekker.com),
the search engine for schools, who also co-sponsored this
one-of-a-kind classroom poster. Copies of the Road Map can be ordered
online at http://www.thejournal.com/roadmap/
http://www.nclbgrassroots.org
In
2001 the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act was passed to ensure a solid
and complete education of all children while holding teachers and
schools accountable if they failed. This site was launched following
a survey of parents conducted in February 2004 by the Civil Society
Institute, which revealed parents unease with NCLB and its
implementation. In September 2004, the Web site began compiling
stories and essays pertinent to the ongoing struggle of schools,
parents and students as they try to cope with the constraints and
failures of NCLB. Articles on the Web site are sorted by state, as
well as by issues such as federal intrusion in education policy,
narrowing of curriculum, teacher flexibility and class size, funding
burden, unintended negative consequences of NCLB, adequate yearly
progress reporting and, of course, standardized testing.
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worksheets, wallpaper, and more. Choose from categories such as
animals, creatures, education, holidays, just to name a few. We
have thousands of graphics organized in a simple, easy to use format
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From eschool news
NASA
unveils climate-science research tool for classrooms
Students
and teachers now can explore the fundamentals of climate science and
dive deep into the mysteries of our planet's ever-changing
environment using the same scientific technology employed by
top-level scientists from one of NASA's leading environmental
laboratories. The Educational Global Climate Model is a
three-dimensional climate mapping and tracking device....
Enhancing
Your Curriculum
with Web-Enabled
Resources
To help you use the internet to improve
instruction, we at eSchool News have compiled a one-stop
source for expert advice and key intelligence. This popular online
toolkit features an extensive collection of stories and articles from
the eSchool News archives that help you effectively integrate
the web into your curriculum.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/resources/reports/enhancingcurriculum/index.cfm
Assessment
and Achievement
Few issues are hotter than
assessment—thanks to the No Child Left Behind Act and similar
measures—but few are more misunderstood. The editors of eSchool
News have assembled a variety of news and information as well as
outside resources to help
put assessment in clearer perspective and tie it more closely to
its primary purpose—namely, better test scores through improved
instruction.
Wireless
Solutions for Education
Today's wireless technologies
open many doors for learning. No longer tied down to available
ethernet ports, students can work at anytime or anywhere on school
grounds. The editors of eSchool News have assembled a
collection of news, information, and resources
that will help you connect to the brave, new world of wireless.
By Tim Wilson on February 26, 2005 in Emerging Technologies, in School Communications. Discuss it below
File enclosures have been a part of RSS since version 2.0, but have only recently come to everyone's attention with the emergence of podcasting. Most people now associate RSS attachments with MP3 files, but there's no reason to restrict the attachments to audio files. For example, Fraser Speirs recently coined the term "appcasting" to refer to the practice of using RSS enclosures to deliver software updates or release notes for applications.
My favorite RSS aggregator, NetNewsWire, already supports enclosures of any type and automatically downloads them. I've been planning to include the free "Lite" version of NetNewsWire on the student laptops in our 1-to-1 project next year, and now I'm thinking that RSS enclosures would make it really easy for teachers to distribute files to their students. A teacher could post lecture notes, multimedia content, or any other kind of electronic document and let each student's RSS reader take care of the rest. Similarly, school principals could use RSS to distribute newsletters or other materials to parents who are subscribed to a school's news feed. RSS: it's not just for text anymore.
From EduHound
Women in History
Some sites to help in this effort:
Women Who Changed History
- from Scholastic
Discover women who have made a
difference. Celebrate Women's History Month!
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/women/index.htm
Women in American
History
From Encyclopædia Britannica. Includes
1230 articles including 1000 biographies, a four–part
timeline, topical essays, study guide, video and audio pieces, and
much more!
http://women.eb.com
Celebrating Women's
History
Thomson Gale has assembled a collection of
activities and information for teachers and students to complement
classroom topics.
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/index.htm
History Channel: Women's
History Month
All through the month of March,
HistoryChannel.com will be celebrating Women's History Month -- with
the life story of a different extraordinary woman each day. Meet the
trailblazers who changed the world!
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/womenhist/main.html
Distinguished Women of Past and Present
This
site has biographies of women who contributed to our culture in many
different ways. There are writers, educators, scientists, heads of
state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers,
and others. Some were alive hundreds of years ago and some are
living today.
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com
National Women's History Project: 25th Year!
http://www.nwhp.org
March
is Women's History Month. The 2005 theme, "Women Change
America," honors and recognizes the role of American women in
transforming culture, history and politics as leaders, writers,
scientists, educators, politicians, artists, historians, and informed
citizens. This site recognizes and celebrates the diverse and
historic accomplishments of women by providing information and
educational materials and programs.
The Best Second Grade
@ Walnut Grove Elementary
School
Suwanee, Georgia
http://www.thebestsecondgrade.com
List of speeches at history.com . You can hear great clips of important speeches
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive1.html
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