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Greetings All,

Just a quick Reminder that we start our summer vacation in less than a month!
I will close the lists down May 15th.

best,
<Karen>

1)
Urge Rep. Boyd to End EdChoice Vouchers
<http://www.congress.org/congressorg/webreturn/?url=/aauw/issues/alert/
?alertid=9613101>
Ohio Governor Ted Strickland announced in his State of the State
address his intention to eliminate the state's EdChoice voucher
program. If successful, this would be the first time a voucher program
was eliminated through the legislative process. AAUW has long opposed
the diversion of public funds to private or religious schools, and we
support Governor Strickland in his efforts to end Ohio's EdChoice
voucher program.

2)
Math Lesson Plans and Math Avoidance Strategies in Mathematics.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/math.html
AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository)
is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically
for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free
for anyone to use. We provide a folder system
(which allows you to share resources online), bulletin service
(to update you with subject specific resources), saved
searches, rating and comments systems and more.  Because we are new,
we would appreciate any feedback for improvements that could be made
to the site to make it more useful for you, as well as any
suggestions for online material that we could add.

Find other resources like a Collection of 521 lessons for preK-12 math
educators


3)
What is Relative, Absolute and Perfect Pitch
http://www.edu-cybrpg.com/music/Sing_in_tune.html
Steps:
1. Hear sound
2.Think (remember) the sound
3. sing the sound.

4)
Rhythm, melody and harmony stimulate several areas of the brain
http://www.edu-cybrpg.com/music/neurological.html
suggesting that music could be used to help repair everything from
damaged speech to damaged emotions, researchers say.

5)
30,000 year old ivory flute found in Germany is the oldest instrument.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/worldmusic.html
The flute's makers lived in the Upper Palaeolithic era of the last ice age,
a period when Europe was occupied simultaneously by the last
Neanderthals and the first modern humans.

6)
What is the evolutionary science of interspecies language?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/linguistics/interspecies.html

7)
Musical training during childhood may influence regional brain growth
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/braingrowth.html

8)
Native languages influence the way people group non-language sounds
into rhythms
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/linguistics/originvocal.html

9)
The origin of words: or Where does language come from?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/evolution.asp

10)
Babies Can Learn Words as Early as 10 Months
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/linguistics/BabySign.html

11)
Sign Writing is a system of writing the movements and
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/linguistics/signwriting.html
handshapes of sign languages. It was developed in 1974
by Valerie Sutton, a dancer who had two years earlier developed Dance Writing.

12)
End of the year music activities to help stop classroom management and
discipline problems.
http://www.edu-cybrpg.com/music/endofyear.html

13)
Why is Play So Important? Keeps kids from being disicipline problems.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/literacy/Play.asp

14)
Find out the importance of laughter and learning research (for adults
and children)
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/literacy/Laugh.asp
Keep your sense of humor towards the end of the school year.

15)
Reading Assessment and Readability Tests and Tools
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/literacy/readability.asp

16)
US Sens. Harkin (D-IA), Isakson (R-GA), Bingaman (D-NM),
and Lieberman (I-CT) introduced a bipartisan bill today dedicating
$43 million to help reverse the nation's critical shortage of preventive
medicine and public health doctors.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-04/acop-usi041607.php
This is increasingly important
as the country faces continued threats from infectious diseases such
as pandemic flu, bioterrorism attacks and an aging public health workforce.

17)
Bird Flu Disaster Information
"BIRD FLU" INFORMATION FOR ETHNIC LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES
AVIAN FLU, BIRD FLU, H5N1, AVIAN INFLUENZA
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguisitics/birdflu.html

18)
Homework -- Keeping children, parents and teachers together
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-04/esr-hkc041107.php
A new interactive learning system which helps parents keep in touch
with what their children are doing at school is proving to be a great
success with children, parents and teachers, according to new research
funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
The research, based at the University of Sussex and the London
Knowledge Lab, developed the 'HOMEWORK' interactive learning system
which enables children between the ages of 5 and 7 to learn and
practice Key Stage 1 maths using a range of multimedia technologies -
both in the classroom and at home with their family.
The researchers found that using HOMEWORK:
improved communication between parents, teachers and learners
provided continuity between home and school learning
made numeracy learning more engaging for many learners
increased participation and enjoyment in homework (by parents as well
as pupils)
and may have increased the effectiveness of time spent learning.

19)
Last month, as part of a nationwide crackdown on peer-to-peer sharing
of music files on college campuses.Pam Gerace, has advised
students not to identify themselves to the RIAA
<http://media.www.technicianonline.com/media/storage/paper848/news/2007
/04/13/News/Riaa-Files.23.Lawsuits.Against.Ncsu-2839394.shtml>
 Ms. Gerace warned students that if they reveal their
identities to the RIAA, the trade group might then sue the students or
give their names to record companies, the newspaper said.
<http://media.www.technicianonline.com/media/storage/paper848/news/2007
/04/13/Viewpoint/Fight.The.Riaa-2839422.shtml>
applauded Ms. Gerace's efforts, saying that if
students settle with the RIAA, it will be encouraged to go after more
students at the university that it suspects are infringing copyrights.

20)
FISMA grades: What do they mean?
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/43544-1.html
The new federal computer security report card is out, and once again the
grades are pretty bad. And once again it is hard to say just what they
really mean.
The report card is issued each year by Virginia Rep. Tom Davis, ranking
Republican on the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee. Davis
gave the 24 executive branch agencies covered in the report an overall
grade of C- for 2006, a grade he said showed slow but steady improvement
from past years.


21)
My Friends Betsy and Burnell's cat Nora <Karen>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ860P4iTaM
"Nora, the piano-playing cat..." of YouTube fame

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