************************************************************** Educational CyberPlayGround Community http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ K12 Newsletters Mailing List - Subscribe - Unsubscribe - Set Preferences http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/K12Newsletters.html Advertise on K12 Mailing List http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/Subguidelines.html All Mailing Lists http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/index.html ************************************************************** ***************************************************************** NHN: 2/8/05 NETHAPPENINGS NEWSLETTER #14 NEW THIS WEEK for NHN <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/NHnewsletter.html> ***************************************************************** Dear Readers, Net Happenings Newsletter, launched by the Educational CyberPlayGround, features both news and resources. Karen Ellis* Founder of the Educational CyberPlayGround invites others to help sponsor NHN sent to members of the NetHappenings Mailing List. Written by Classroom Teacher Alan Haskvitz 1997 National Teacher's Hall of Fame All USA Today First Team Teacher Reader's Digest Hero in Education Cherry International Award for Outstanding Teachers 1994 National Middle Level Teacher of the Year (NCSS) [e] newsletter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [w] http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/al.html <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> IN THIS ISSUE <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> IN THE NEWS Getting Students Involved in Good Projects to help soldiers, cancer victims Summer homework ruled legal Is technology hurting real learning? School uses video conferencing to talk to soliders overseas Tsunami schools try to start over School superintendent raps NCLB NCLB statistics questioned Spelling sworn in as new Secretary of Education INTERESTING SITES The law and IEPS: How to write and understand them. Large link site. Sequenced Lesson Plans: Most core subjects up to grade nine National Atlas of the United States The best new search engine for students: Kartoo SITES YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW EXISTED Two minute radio programs about child labor with lesson plans WalMart: A lesson plan that teaches students how to think using WalMart as a case study. Plant or animal: A discovery lesson plan A costume history: including leisure suits Teachers Flea Market Internet's very first online dance course. The Pizzazz of Jazz: The Sanas (Irish etymology) of Jazz QUOTES FACTOIDS <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> IN THE NEWS <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> A very special program to have your students complete cards for those in need. National Hall of Fame Teacher Dr. Larry BARAN, and hopefully four time cancer survivor, is the Project ROSEBUDS Program Director and has a few thousand Arlington National Cemetery boutionniere left for students to easily put together and write a note upon before shipping. In addition, he has several thousand Cancer Rose of Hope for this year also. These are very simple to do. A great service learning project. The address is PROJECTROSEBUDS@YAHOO http://www.projectrosebuds.com Homework rules legal over the summer A Whitnall High School student and his father have filed a lawsuit against the boy's math teacher that seeks to bar teachers from requiring homework over the summer. He lost the case. <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/main.jhtml?xml=/education/2005/01/27/t eftech27.xml> School uses video conferencing to talk with troops overseas. The ultimate primary resource. <http://www.hometownsource.com/2005/January/31waa.html> Tsunami schools try to start over An interview with those trying to reopen the schools and the psychological damage done to children by the water. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4215775.stm> The federal No Child Left Behind needs fixing, according to grade school superintendent Ed Allen. <http://www.pantagraph.com/stories/013005/new_20050130014.shtml> Editorial questions NCLB and the statistics used by the previous federal Secretary of Education <http://www.educationnews.org/wesley-elementary-a-hoax.htm> Margaret Spelling sworn in as Secretary of Education Sites negative statistics: "Today, only about 60 out of every 100 students entering our public high schools in four years ever make it to graduation." <http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/01/20050131-1.html> Margaret Spellings says The Bush administration has no plans to impose price controls on college tuition or to extend strict accountability measures to postsecondary institutions, the new U.S. secretary of education, http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/02/2005020701n.htm <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> INTERESTING SITES <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> Learn about the law and how to write and understand IEPs: A large link site <http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/ieps.html> Downloadable lesson plans for most core subjects laid out by days and weeks. In sequence, in other words. <http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/seqlps/homepg.htm> The National Atlas of the United States A zillion printable maps more or less <http://nationalatlas.gov/> The best new search engine uses visual aids to help students quickly learn how to search. If you don't check this out you're missing a great resource. http://www.kartoo.com <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> SITES YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW EXISTED <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> Two-minutes radio shows about child labor and lesson plans, too. More <http://congress.indiana.edu/radio_series/child_labor_law.php> WalMart right or wrong: A lesson plan to teach thinking skills <http://www.teachablemoment.org/high/walmart.html> Plant or animal: A discovery lesson plan <http://www.michigan.gov/scope/0,1607,7-155-10710_10722_10729-41283--,00.html> A costume history: including leisure suits Dates from ancient to pre-Janice Jackson <http://www.costumepage.org/tcpinfo2.html> Teachers Flea Market Barter, exchange, and keep you off the highways. <http://www.teachersfleamarket.com/> Welcome the the Internet's very first online dance course. http://nfo.net/dance/index.html The hidden influence of Irish and Scots-Gaelic on what we call American English. The Secret Irish Traveller Bain-Fhile (Woman-Poet) of "Whoopie Ti Yi Yo, Git Along Little Dogies" The Pizzazz of Jazz: The Sanas (Irish etymology) of Jazz The Irish and Scots Gaelic Sanas of Fizz, Fizzle, and Sizzle <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/irish.html> <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> QUOTES <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. ~Author Unknown Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them. ~Author Unknown "There's nothing as stupid as an educated man, if you can get him off the thing he was educated in." ~ Will Rogers. Work like you don't need the money, Love like you've never been hurt, Dance like nobody's watching, Sing like nobody's listening, Live like it's Heaven on Earth!". [source unknown] <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> FACTOIDS <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> Since 1993, salaries have actually declined in a third of the US Lowest per-pupil spending for 2002-03: Utah ($4,907), Arizona ($5,197), Alabama ($5,418), Arkansas ($5,789) and Mississippi ($5,822) Average teacher salaries declined in 18 states over the past 10 years in real, inflation-adjusted dollars. Last fall, nearly 400,000 additional children entered the nation's classrooms, representing the 19th consecutive rise in school enrollment. 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