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Topics of the day:
1. CORRECT> [learn-net] Correction to ***DEADLINE: October 1, 2002 -- Civic
Education Grants***
2. K12> 8pmE Thurs., 9/12 Mentors Online for New Teachers
3. MISC> [DIGITALDIVIDE] Afghans thirst for Web access (fwd)
4. RESOUR> NEWS: ANCIENT: The Federal Government Helps Parents Keep Up With
Safe Internet Use for Children When They Get Around to It
5. K12> Re: SCIENCE, WEB: Websites related to constellations
6. MISC> NEWS: GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT: A Decade of Deception and Defiance:
Saddam Hussein's Defiance of the United Nations
7. K12> Call for Manuscripts: Secondary Education related topics
8. Last: posting for Thursday, September 12, 2002
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:54:47 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CORRECT> [learn-net] Correction to ***DEADLINE: October 1,
2002 -- Civic Education Grants***
To: "Cindy Koeppel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Cindy Koeppel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:23:56 -0500
Subject: [learn-net] Correction to ***DEADLINE: October 1, 2002 -- Civic
Education Grants***
The correct URLs for this posting are:
http://www.dirksencenter.org/grantmichelciviced.htm
and
http://www.dirksencenter.org/grantmichelcivicsample.htm
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For Release:
CONTACT:
Frank H. Mackaman
The Dirksen Congressional Center
301 South 4th Street, Suite A
Pekin, IL 61554
309.347.7113
309.347.6432 FAX
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.dirksencenter.org
<<<Robert H. Michel Civic Education Grants Announcement>>>
***DEADLINE: OCTOBER 1, 2002***
The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants totaling
$50,000 in 2001-2002 to help teachers, curriculum developers, and others
improve the quality of civics instruction, with priority on the role of
Congress in our federal government. Areas of interest include designing
lesson plans, creating student activities, and applying instructional
technology in the classroom.
Teachers (4th through 12th grades), community college faculty, and college
and university faculty are eligible as are teacher-led student teams and
individuals who develop curriculum. Priority will be given to the following
disciplines: history, government, social studies, political science, and
education.
Institutions and organizations are not eligible. Inter-institutional
consortia and other groups of individual may apply, but grant funds may not
be used to defray indirect costs or overhead expenses. The funds are
intended solely to produce "deliverables" of use to classroom teachers.
Final proposals must be submitted by no later than October 1, 2002. Complete
information about eligibility and application procedures, may be found at
The Center's Web site --
http://www.dirksencenter.org/grantmichelciviced.htm. The Center does not
provide an application form. You may find it helpful to review the sample
grant proposal at --
http://www.dirksencenter.org/grantmichelcivicsample.htm. Frank Mackaman is
the program officer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Center, named for the late Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, is
a private, non-partisan, nonprofit research and educational organization
devoted to the study of Congress and its leaders. The Center created the
Michel Civic Education Grants to fund practical classroom strategies to
improve the quality of teaching and learning about civics, with a particular
emphasis on the role of Congress in the federal government. The goal of
education in civics, we believe, is informed, responsible participation in
political life by competent citizens. Current levels of political knowledge,
political engagement, and political enthusiasm leave much to be desired.
Part of the solution rests in better instructional practices.
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:00:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> 8pmE Thurs., 9/12 Mentors Online for New Teachers
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:17:29 -0400
From: Kathleen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
8pmE Thurs., 9/12 Mentors Online for New Teachers
Mentors Online will be offered again this evening for an hour beginning
at 8:00 pmE in the Teachers.Net Meeting Room
http://teachers.net/meetings . A similar session will be offered on
Friday 9/13, also at 8pmE.
Tonight's mentors will include:
Grace Haskins/IL, a retired first grade teacher, author of The Spel-Lang
Tree, a set of two teachers manuals for teaching spelling and language
at the primary level.
Sheree Rensel-veteran of 21 years teaching experience, a National Board
Certified Teacher (Early Adolescence-Young Adult Art) presently serving
as a teacher in St. Petersburg, Florida. Holds a BFA, MFA, and one year
completed toward a Ph.D. in Educational Technology. Currently Florida
certified in Art K-12, Special Ed. (Emotional Handicaps) K-12.
Hal Portner, former K-12 teacher & administrator, author of Mentoring
New Teachers, Training Mentors Is Not Enough, and Being Mentored.
"Magoo", graduated college in 1994, at age 51 with a degree in
elementary education. Now works as a professional substitute in K-6,
Music, PE, Library. A member of the National Substitute Teachers
Alliance.
--
Kathleen Carpenter - Editor
http://teachers.net/gazette
Your state's forum: http://teachers.net/states
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:15:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [DIGITALDIVIDE] Afghans thirst for Web access (fwd)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:58:31 -0400
From: Andy Carvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [DIGITALDIVIDE] Afghans thirst for Web access (fwd)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From today's Benton headlines... -ac
AFGHANS THIRST FOR WEB ACCESS
One might not expect the Internet to be high on the list of Afghanistan's
priorities, but Andrew Stroehlein says that among local journalists,
government workers and other educated Kabulis, "there is a real thirst for
access." Stroehlien writes about a recent media-training visit to Kabul in
which he instructed a group of Afghan journalists in online publishing. Many
returning Afghans, who became accustomed to the Internet while living
abroad, have found almost nonexistent access in Afghanistan. The capital
city of Kabul has only two Internet cafés, and in a country where the annual
GDP per capita is $160, four dollars an hour online is prohibitively
expensive for most Kabulis.
[SOURCE: Online Journalism Review, AUTHOR: Andrew Stroehlein]
(http://www.ojr.org/ojr/world_reports/1030032560.php)
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Andy Carvin
Senior Associate
Benton Foundation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.benton.org
http://www.digitalopportunity.org
http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:15:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RESOUR> NEWS: ANCIENT: The Federal Government Helps Parents Keep Up
With Safe Internet Use for Children When They Get Around to It
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:14:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David P. Dillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Office of Educational Technology of the United States Federal
Government has a web page titled "Internet Safety".
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Educational Research and Improvement
Office of Educational Technology
Internet Safety
http://www.ed.gov/Technology/safety.html
This page is sponsored by the government which is so concerned about the
intellectual health of children using the web that it is pushing for
legislation on a regular basis that legitimizes censorship of websites by
blocking and filtering in schools and public libraries. On this website
the government provides a link to a very promising title: "Parents Guide
to the Internet"
The list of contents for this publication look rather useful:
Contents
Title Page
How To Use This Booklet
What Is the Information Superhighway?
Benefits of Getting on the Information Superhighway
Starting the Engine
Navigating the Journey
Tips for Safe Traveling
Supporting School Use of Technology
Sites Along the Way
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Reviewers
As a person who has studied some history in my lifetime, I find the
publication date of this work rather interesting also:
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Educational Research and Improvement
Office of Educational Technology
Parents Guide to the Internet
November 1997
<http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/internet/>
Perhaps the current administration is trying to demonstrate that the web
was worse for children under the previous administration, perhaps,
perchance??
Have a look at this section:
Tips for Safe Traveling
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/internet/tips.html
Perhaps some media balance would be appropriate here, say a link to a
publication that warns parents about some of the dangerous radio shows for
children during the Coolidge and Hoover administrations.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:30:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Re: SCIENCE, WEB: Websites related to constellations
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:38:10 -0700
From: Classroom Connect -- Connected Teacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCIENCE, WEB: Websites related to constellations
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Mark,
Try:
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/
http://www.fourmilab.ch/solar/solar.html
http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/space.html
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/
Hope that is helpful. We use the top one for our grade 6s and find it
quite good. The best thing, however, is software called Starry, Starry
Night
Barb
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Havergal College
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Toronto, Ontario
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fax: 416 483 8747
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:46:41 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> NEWS: GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT: A Decade of Deception and Defiance:
Saddam Hussein's Defiance of the United Nations
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:36:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David P. Dillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
NEWS: GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT: A Decade of Deception and Defiance: Saddam
Hussein's Defiance of the United Nations
A Decade of Deception and Defiance:
Saddam Hussein's Defiance of the United Nations
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/iraqdecade.pdf>
The George W. Bush administration has just posted a .pdf document
to the Whitehouse website that discusses the history of Saddam
Hussein's administration in defense of the proposed military plans of
the United States to remove the leader of Iraq from office by force.
A Decade of Deception and Defiance:
Saddam Hussein's Defiance of the United Nations
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/
2002/09/iraqdecade.pdf>
Bush Tells U.N. Iraq Represents a Threat to
Global Peace, Security
Updated: Thursday, September 12, 2002 11:51 AM ET
<http://www.quicken.com/investments/news_center/story/?
story=NewsStory/dowJones/
20020912/ON200209121151000494.var&column=P0DFP>
WASHINGTON -- pledged Thursday to work with the United
Nations to enforce a series of U.N. resolutions on Iraq, but also
warned that the U.S. will take action if this process fails.
In a much-awaited speech to the U.N.'s General Assembly, said
that Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq represents a grave threat to
world peace and stability both by its history of aggression and its
continued efforts to build weapons of mass destruction. also told
the U.N. that Iraq's defiance represents a challenge to its own
relevancy within the international order.
Full Story May be Read at the URL Above
A Grave and Gathering Danger
President Bush makes the case against Iraq.
By George W. Bush
EDITORS NOTE: This is the text of the speech President Bush
delivered to the United Nations on September 12, 2002.
<http://www.nationalreview.com/document/document091202.asp>
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:46:55 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Call for Manuscripts: Secondary Education related topics
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:23:45 -0500
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Subject: Call for Manuscripts: Secondary Education related topics
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