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Topics of the day:
1. K12> Re: Disgruntled teacher-poet retorts
2. MISC> [DIGITALDIVIDE] Uganda's UNAB Opens up a Computer Institute for the
Blind (fwd)
3. MISC> [DIGITALDIVIDE] Hindi "Chatbot" Breaks New Ground (fwd)
4. RESOUR> The Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy (CIDRAP)
5. K12> STUDENTS TO SHARE THRILL OF SPACE EXPLORATION WITH LANCE BASS
6. K12> Re: PROFDEV: Divorce Recovery
7. K12> Re: TECH, WEB: HTML Class
8. MISC> Reporter in Search of Al Qaeda Posts Daily Diary on PBS Frontline
Site
9. K12> [DIG_REF] updated listing of chat services
10. CORRECT> [DIG_REF] updated listing of chat services
11. Last: posting for Tuesday, August 27, 2002
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:20:01 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Re: Disgruntled teacher-poet retorts
From: "Lauren Eve Pomerantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 08:49:13 -0700
Subject: Re: Disgruntled teacher-poet retorts
-----Original Message-----
From: K-12 Educators Interested in Educational Administration
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kathleen Carpenter
Sent: Friday, 23 August 2002 8:12
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Disgruntled teacher-poet retorts
> http://www.teachers.net/gazette/AUG02/mali.html
> "What's a kid going to learn from someone who
> decided his best option in life was to become a teacher?"
I have a very old humour book called Teachers: The Guide for the Adult in
the Classroom.
One of the things it talks about is socializing as a teacher. It says
teachers are at a disadvantage because unlike most other professions you are
not going to run into someone who says, "Oh, you teach English? I've been
looking for help with my dangling participle problem," or "Oh, you teach
history? Hey, can you settle an argument between my wife and me? What
country did Genghis Kahn operate in?"
There are a lot of suggested answers for stupid comments:
"You teach math? I was never good at math."
"We have excellent remedial programs these days."
But my favourite one, the answer that makes me keep this book for fifteen or
more years is what to say to people who ask, "How can you do it?"
The answer: "Look them straight in the eye and say, 'I really don't feel
like apologizing for doing important work.' (Note: There are many jokes in
this book. This is not one of them.)"
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Lauren Eve Pomerantz
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"Ancora impara" --Michelangelo
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:49:01 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [DIGITALDIVIDE] Uganda's UNAB Opens up a Computer Institute for
the Blind (fwd)
From: "Andy Carvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:22:41 -0400
Subject: [DIGITALDIVIDE] Uganda's UNAB Opens up a Computer Institute for the Blind
(fwd)
Also from today's Benton headlines... -ac
UGANDA'S UNAB OPENS UP A COMPUTER INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND
The Uganda National Association for the Blind (UNAB) has created an
institute for visually impaired people to learn how to use computers. The
institute's introductory class teaches students to navigate a computer's
operating system and how to use basic word processing features. After
mastering these skills, students are trained in the use of software that
enables them to scan printed material (such as books and documents) for the
computer to read aloud. While the project was set up to equip blind people
with digital skills, the center is open to all people. UNAB encourages
anyone without computer skills to seek training at the center.
[SOURCE: AllAfrica.com, AUTHOR: Catherine Ntabadde, New Vision]
(http://allafrica.com/stories/200208260276.html)
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Andy Carvin
Senior Associate
Benton Foundation
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http://www.benton.org
http://www.digitalopportunity.org
http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:49:22 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [DIGITALDIVIDE] Hindi "Chatbot" Breaks New Ground (fwd)
From: "Andy Carvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:23:37 -0400
Subject: [DIGITALDIVIDE] Hindi "Chatbot" Breaks New Ground (fwd)
HINDI "CHATBOT" BREAKS NEW GROUND
Computer science students in Chandigarh, a city in northern India, have
developed an interactive software program that can converse intelligently
with people. Called Deepti, the "chatbot" program uses natural language to
interact with people. "Deepti speaks in Hindi, and since the majority of
people in India are computer illiterate and don't speak English, this
feature is really great," explains Ritvik Shajpal, one of the chatbot's
developers. The developers hope that, combined with touch-screen technology,
Deepti will provide computer accessibility to people with little or no
knowledge of computers. They are optimistic about Deepti's future, saying
that the program and its source code should be ready for release within four
months. The developers hope that making their research available freely will
encourage further research and improvements on Deepti.
[SOURCE: BBC News, AUTHOR: Alfred Hermida]
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2209775.stm)
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Andy Carvin
Senior Associate
Benton Foundation
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http://www.benton.org
http://www.digitalopportunity.org
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:49:54 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RESOUR> The Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy (CIDRAP)
From: "David P. Dillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:39:32 -0400 (EDT)
This website is a benchmarking resource in the area of bioterrorism and
the area of disease transmitted through the food supply that focuses on
research and needed governmental and legislative needs in these fields.
The Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy (CIDRAP)
<http://www1.umn.edu/cidrap/>
Political, social, economic, and demographic forces at work in today's
world have increased the need for current and comprehensive public
policies for preventing and controlling infectious diseases on a worldwide
basis. Meanwhile, rapid advances in medicine and technology have magnified
the difficulty of establishing policies that reflect current science as
well as current public health and medical practices.
CIDRAP's mission is twofold:
To support the development of and refine public policies relating to the
prevention, control, and treatment of infectious diseases to ensure that
they reflect the most current biomedical knowledge
To promote practices among both healthcare professionals and the public
that aim at reducing illness and death from infectious diseases through
provision of accurate, up-to-date information and education
Website Subject Resources and Link Organization
Bioterrorism
General Bioterrorism Information
Anthrax
Botulism
Plague
Smallpox
Tularemia
VHF
Food Safety
General Food Safety Information
Biosecurity
Irradiation
Foodborne Disease
Related Links
<http://www1.umn.edu/cidrap/content/fs/food/websites/>
Selected Reading
<http://www1.umn.edu/cidrap/content/fs/food/readings/index.html>
News
<http://www1.umn.edu/cidrap/content/fs/food/news/index.html>
Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy
University of Minnesota
Academic Health Center
420 Delaware Street SE
MMC 263
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612-626-6770 (phone)
612-626-6783 (fax)
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:13:07 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> STUDENTS TO SHARE THRILL OF SPACE EXPLORATION WITH LANCE BASS
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:40:12 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: STUDENTS TO SHARE THRILL OF SPACE EXPLORATION WITH LANCE BASS
Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington August 27, 2002
(Phone: 202/358-1726)
Kelly Humphries
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)
John Bluck
Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, Calif.
(Phone: 650/ 604-5026)
RELEASE: 02-164
STUDENTS TO SHARE THRILL OF SPACE EXPLORATION WITH LANCE BASS
In the continuing quest to inspire the next generation
of explorers, NASA on Thursday will provide students across
the country an opportunity to interact over the Internet with
a popular music star who hopes to become the youngest person
to travel in space later this year.
Lance Bass, a member of the pop singing group 'N Sync, will
be at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston this week to
train for an upcoming space mission in which he would join
two others in a Russian Soyuz flight to deliver a replacement
"lifeboat" to the International Space Station. During a Web
chat, Bass is expected to share his experiences to date in
training for space travel, and to discuss what inspired him
to seek out this space flight opportunity.
The Web chat, hosted by NASA's Distance Learning Outpost and
education Web portal, Quest, will take place from 6 to 7 p.m.
EDT Thursday, August 29.
An audience of 9- to 12-year-old students from Pearl Hall
Elementary School, Pasadena, Texas, will join Bass in the
Johnson studio and ask questions face-to-face. Thousands of
students from around the United States also will be able to
submit questions via the on-camera host, Erika Guillory, who
will then ask questions of Bass.
The webcast also will look at the importance of music
education -- how music is metered, structured and formed, and
still allows the mind to be creative. Similar approaches are
needed for problem solving in math, science and technology or
in design challenges related to space exploration.
"What a great opportunity for students to interact with a
popular figure who can help inspire them to pursue careers in
the space industry," said Susan Anderson, distance-learning
manager at Johnson.
To participate in the Web chat, students and teachers should
visit either the Distance Learning Outpost site at:
http://education.jsc.nasa.gov
or the Quest web site at:
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov
For more information about the International Space Station,
the Expedition 5 crew and the taxi crew of which Bass will be
a member, visit the NASA Human Spaceflight Web at:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:13:42 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Re: PROFDEV: Divorce Recovery
From: "Classroom Connect -- Connected Teacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:44:11 -0700
Subject: Re: PROFDEV: Divorce Recovery
There are lots of web sites that are affiliated with Divorce Recovery. It's actually
a book that is in wide circulation and which I took out of my local library when my
marriage began to wane. Here are 3 general sites which would make for good starting
points:
Overview of Divorce Recovery for Children:
http://www.family.org/topics/a0017844.cfm
Divorce Source: Divorce Recovery:
http://www.divorcesource.com/index.html
DivorceCare Divorce Recovery Support Groups
http://www.divorcecare.org/html/index.html
I hope these prove to be helpful.
Janet McGee
5638 Davis Ford Road
Manassas, Virginia 20112
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:14:06 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Re: TECH, WEB: HTML Class
From: "Classroom Connect -- Connected Teacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:41:11 -0700
Subject: Re: TECH, WEB: HTML Class
Webmonkey has some excellent tutorials for kids at
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/kids/
Mike Johnson
Technology Resource Teacher
Fayette Co. Public School
Lexington, KY
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http://itech.fcps.net/trt20
http://www.fcps.net/talk
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:24:35 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> Reporter in Search of Al Qaeda Posts Daily Diary on PBS
Frontline Site
From: "Eric Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:54:10 -0400
URLwire for August 27, 2002
PBS FRONTLINE offers web-exclusive online diary of
an investigative reporter in search of Al Qaeda
http://www.pbs.org/frontline/roots/dispatches/
PBS's flagship documentary public affairs series
FRONTLINE is offering web visitors an unprecedented
behind-the-scenes perspective on the making of a
FRONTLINE documentary and the life of an
investigative journalist attempting to uncover what
has become of the remnants of the Al Qaeda
terrorist network.
Web surfers can follow veteran FRONTLINE producer
Martin Smith and his production team's journey
through email dispatches and photos posted on the
FRONTLINE Web site. Working on a FRONTLINE
documentary scheduled to air on PBS in November,
the FRONTLINE investigative team set out two weeks
ago on a two-month trip that will take them from
the United States to London, the Persian Gulf,
across Afghanistan and Pakistan, and points beyond
in search of Al Qaeda operatives. Along the way,
the team will continue to send regular email
dispatches and photos that capture both the
intriguing and the mundane aspects of investigative
reporting—from interviewing Muslim sheiks in London
to accompanying Canadian sailors as they search a
rat-infested Chinese fishing trawler for stowaway
terrorists.
One dispatch details Smith encounter with a former
spy for India's foreign intelligence.
"He is a firehose of information. But as
interesting as it is, I interrupt often and ask
him how he knows what he says he knows. 'What
is your source for that?' He is sometimes
evasive in a way that doesn't seem so. He also
admits it when he is just guessing, which I
find refreshing.
As the interview goes on I conclude, rightly or
wrongly, that much of what he knows comes from
sources inside or around various madrassas
(religious schools) operating throughout
Pakistan. He even repeats a sighting he
reported in one of his articles that bin Laden
is hiding out at the Binori Madrassa in
Karachi. He says his source for this bit of
information is credible. Others have mentioned
this madrassa to us already. I think this is a
door we should knock on, though I wonder how
I'll feel when I get there."
Regular dispatches "In Search of Al Qaeda" from
Smith and Gaviria will continue to post on the
FRONTLINE web site throughout the filming. When
the documentary is completed the site will include
the latest information and broadcast times.
Eric Ward
Alerts of Educational and Useful Web Content Since 1994
http://www.urlwire.com/headlines/
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:25:43 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> [DIG_REF] updated listing of chat services
From: "Stephen Francoeur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:11:20 -0400
Subject: [DIG_REF] updated listing of chat services
This summer, I've been updating the list of chat reference services on my
web site, the Teaching Librarian. I've added dozens of new services (both
standalone services run by a single library and consortia run by a group of
libraries). The site has separate lists grouping the services by:
location
http://pages.prodigy.net/tabo1/chatsites.htm
software used
http://pages.prodigy.net/tabo1/chatsoftware.htm
library type
http://pages.prodigy.net/tabo1/chatlibrarytypes.htm
services that are run by a consortium or partnership
http://pages.prodigy.net/tabo1/chatconsortia.htm
One of my favorite services I added this summer is the Information Gas
Station, which is offered by the Helsinki City Library
(http://igs.kirjastot.fi/index3.html). Someone in Finland has been having a
lot of fun designing thes pages.
I've also added some new material on the main chat reference page
(http://pages.prodigy.net/tabo1/chat.htm) about promoting chat services
using more than just flyers and links on the library website.
To prevent spam from cluttering up my mailbox here at Baruch College, I've
changed the e-mail contact address to [EMAIL PROTECTED], so if you
have any corrections or suggestions, please send them to that email
address.
Thanks to all those who sent me in the past few months tips about new
services, dead links, etc. I'll continue to udpate the site through the
fall.
Stephen Francoeur
Information Services Librarian
Newman Library, Box H-0520
Baruch College
New York, NY 10010
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(212) 802-2058
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:26:39 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CORRECT> [DIG_REF] updated listing of chat services
From: "Stephen Francoeur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:14:07 -0400
Subject: [DIG_REF] correction to email address
In my haste to send out the last message about updates to my Teaching
Librarian website, I mistyped my new email address for the site. It should
be:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stephen Francoeur
Information Services Librarian
Newman Library, Box H-0520
Baruch College
New York, NY 10010
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(212) 802-2058
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:41:10 -0500
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