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1. K12> PROJECTS: Call for Participation - Animal Diaries 2. K12> EPALS: Distance Learning to Canada 3. K12> Ideas for Welcoming Teachers & Students Back to School 4. Last: posting for Thursday, August 8, 2002 ***************************************** For individual postings, send the message: set net-happenings mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, click and send (no body or subject: required) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Net-happenings mailing list is a service of Classroom Connect - http://www.classroom.com Archives for Net-happenings can be found at: http://www.classroom.com/community/email/archives.jhtml?A0=NET-HAPPENINGS Newsgroups: news:comp.internet.net-happenings http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&GROUP;=comp.internet.net-happenings ******************************************* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:00:22 -0500 From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: K12> PROJECTS: Call for Participation - Animal Diaries From: Connected Teacher Email List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Classroom Connect -- Connected Teacher Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 12:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PROJECTS: Call for Participation - Animal Diaries ******Call for Collaboration****** Project Name: ANIMAL DIARIES URL of Project site: http://www.tesan.vuurwerk.nl/diaries/index.html Date: Begins Fall 2002 - End: - none, it is ongoing and continuous Purpose: The purpose of this project is to give students all over the world a safe place on the web to publish stories about animals and their interaction with other living things. We hope that this site will inspire and encourage authorship among students of all ages as well as a love of reading. Subjects: Multi-disciplinary: Science, Language Arts, Social Sciences, etc. Grade Level: Open to all grade levels Summary: Animal Diaries is an award winning online collaborative project, winner of a Childnet 2001 Award (Schools category)! Participating classes/students will become authors and illustrators through the writings on animals and their interactions with other living things. We offer several interactive topics for students... such as animal diaries (humorous or serious animal adventures written by students from the animal's point of view), becoming a co-author by being a part of a progressive animal story which changes according to the school/ town/ or country that adds the next chapter, a chance to chat or email your favorite author of children's stories (See our previous chats archived on our site!), animal cartoons, animal illustrations or photos that students wish to share, travel buddy stories ("animals" who travel the world and have many adventures to tell), and even a place to create animal greeting cards to send to friends. Number of Participants: There is no limit here as we hope to have many school children involved from all over the world. Project Coordinators: Joan Goble, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cannelton Elementary, Cannelton, Indiana-USA and René de Vries, [EMAIL PROTECTED] De Wadden Primary School, Haarlem, The Netherlands: Registration Information: We will accept registration for participation starting now (August 2002) and throughout the school year - Any classes wishing to participate should email us at the following E mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - or go to the Participants page (http://www.tesan.vuurwerk.nl/diaries/t7/home.htm) on the website and fill in the form. (Important: each class must register seperately by mentioning grade-number, teacher, etc.) . Click here to see the list of other participants of our projects. Please include the following in your email message (copy and paste the lines below): Your name : Your email address: Your school's name: Your school district: Your school address: Your school's URL: Zip code: Grade/s participating: Number of students: Subject/s taught: What are you submitting? (story/stories, poem/s, illustrations, cartoons, photos of animals...) It would be great if whole classes could get involved. If you are thinking of doing that and you are going to publish student work on your own site that is great...we would only need to link up to your pages. Let us know what your specific ideas are and we will work to accomodate! Timeline: Fall 2002 (now)- register (see above) Fall, '02-June, 2003 - send in entries. *If you sign up to send in entries of any kind...please know that we expect something sent in within a month from the time you signed up. Please try to keep to this or email us if there is a problem. If you wish to send in more things later, that is great...just email us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] to let us know. Project Outline: Our project encourages creativity, diversity, and above all creative expression. Again, as stated earlier we hope that this site will inspire and encourage authorship among students of all ages as well as a love of reading. With topics like animal diaries, animal drawings and photographs, progressive stories, meet authors and illustrators, nominate your favorite author/illustrator, travel buddies, animal-grams, and more we feel we have provided many opportunities to foster the students appreciation for reading and writing. We will support your students' authorships in any way we can, however, we will not publish anything that contains foul language or anything of a suggestive nature. We believe in using the Internet positively and safely, therefore we will not be publishing any last names of student authors or give out any student personal information. We also have a safety page which we encourage you and your students to read. We have included information on copyright issues and curriculum ideas. We hope you will join us in our efforts to encourage students to become lifelong readers and know that they too can be authors. We look forward to hearing from you at Animal Diaries! Sincerely, Joan Goble - Cannelton Elementary School in Cannelton, Indiana USA and Rene de Vries- Primary School De Wadden in Haarlem, The Netherlands ANIMAL DIAIRIES http://www.tesan.vuurwerk.nl/diaries [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ To send a resource or project announcement to our list, please address your email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A free service moderated by Classroom Connect's Teacher Community host, Paul Heller, this email list is archived at Connected Teacher: <http://www.classroom.com/community/email/archives.jhtml?A0=CRC> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:20:42 -0500 From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: K12> EPALS: Distance Learning to Canada From: Connected Teacher Email List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Classroom Connect -- Connected Teacher Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: EPALS: Distance Learning to Canada Hello, I'm searching for a sixth grade class in one of the provinces of Canada. We have access to a video conferencing unit and would like to set up a video conference with a class in Canada. Our sixth grade classes study Canada but it is a superficial study without any real understanding of the reality of what it is like to live in this great and idverse land. I would like to set up a exchange with a Canadian class in order for our students to learn about daily life and how we are similar and different. The particulars of the exchange are something we can discuss when we make the connection. Our county have a broadband fiber optic network that can be bridged. This, I am told will allow us to do the video connection. Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Bob Kern Technology Specialist Prospect Park School Prospect Park, PA USA ______________________________________________________________________ To send a resource or project announcement to our list, please address your email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A free service moderated by Classroom Connect's Teacher Community host, Paul Heller, this email list is archived at Connected Teacher: <http://www.classroom.com/community/email/archives.jhtml?A0=CRC> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:40:45 -0500 From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: K12> Ideas for Welcoming Teachers & Students Back to School From: Kathleen Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 1:26 PM Ideas for Welcoming Teachers & Students Back to School Members of the Teachers.Net community have compiled links to ideas for "survival kits," "goodie bags," and other forms of "Welcome back!" gifts and activities for faculty and students. Available now at http://teachers.net/gazette/AUG02/welcome.html . Kathleen Carpenter Teachers.Net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:02:17 -0500 From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Last: posting for Thursday, August 8, 2002 Last: posting for Thursday, August 8, 2002 NOTE: This is primarily for website/newsgroup readers. If list subscribers do not want to see this notice any longer, send the message: SET [name of this list] TOPICS -last to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ End of NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 8 Aug 2002 (#2002-497) *****************************************************
