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Topics in this special issue:
1. RESOUR> [netsites] Planet Ark
2. RESOUR> [netsites] USDA Hardiness Zone Maps
3. RESOUR> [netsites] Wooden Nickel Historical Museum
4. RESOUR> [netsites] World of Money
5. [DIG_REF] RE: [DIG_REF] information of collaborative virtual reference in
Spanish
6. K12> Re: Fw: Art History Question - 4 msgs
7. K12> [WWWEDU] Hurricane Virtual Field Trip
8. MISC> BREAKING NEWS: Gale Launches E-Books with OCLCs netLibrary
9. K12> free cyber security kit for schools from NetDay
10. K12> Getting the most from tech in schools
11. K12> FREE Educational Software Available Now
12. K12> [WWWEDU] ThinkQuest Quiz Cup started @ StudentFactory.org
13. NEWSLTR> "Path to Success" eCourse and Newsletter!
14. MISC> Space Medicine
15. K12> Moving Every Child Ahead: The Quest for Evidence
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:15:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RESOUR> [netsites] Planet Ark
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Colin Ransinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:35:15 -0500
Subject: [netsites] Planet Ark
Planet Ark
http://www.planetark.org/index.cfm
"Planet Ark gives you up to 40 'World Environment News' stories every
day from the Reuters news agency. Nearly 10,000 environmental news
stories are fully searchable at this site along with environmental news
pictures, free environmental software and environmental radio
broadcasts."
Colin Ransinger
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:15:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RESOUR> [netsites] USDA Hardiness Zone Maps
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Foggy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:52:54 -0700
Subject: [netsites] USDA Hardiness Zone Maps
USDA Hardiness Zone Maps
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zones divide the United States and southern Canada
into 11 areas based on a 10 degree Farenheit difference in the average
annual minimum temperature.
http://www.growit.com/Zones/
-Foggy-
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:15:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RESOUR> [netsites] Wooden Nickel Historical Museum
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:14:49 -0500
Subject: [netsites] Wooden Nickel Historical Museum
Wooden Nickel Historical Museum
http://www.wooden-nickel.net/
"The Wooden Nickel Historical Museum is dedicated to making the
general public more aware of the history of Wooden Nickels, and their
many different uses."
Alan
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:15:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RESOUR> [netsites] World of Money
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "E N Compass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:05:05 -0500
Subject: [netsites] World of Money
World of Money
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/worldofmoney/
The British Museum presents a fascinating exploration of money - it's
history, how money is made, the study of money, how to save money, and
much more.
E.N. Compass
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:05:30 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [DIG_REF] RE: [DIG_REF] information of collaborative virtual reference
in Spanish
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:53:09 -0600
From: Karely Carrion del Rey ITESM Campus Sinaloa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [DIG_REF] RE: [DIG_REF] Collaborative virtual reference with
public and academic libraries?
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- Mensaje
Hi, this is an information of collaborative virtual reference in Spanish,
I think that is very interesting for us.
http://pregunte.carm.es/pregunte/pub01.shtml
Karely.
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:08:15 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Re: Fw: Art History Question - 4 msgs
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:22:13 -0400
From: EDTECH Editor-Eiffert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fw: Art History Question
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Joyce Brody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Here are a couple:
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Intro.html
I'll send a few more later.
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From: Thomas Daccord-fac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My Best of History Web Sites at http://besthistorysites.net has a section
on Art History that should prove helpful to you. My favorite site is Creative
Impulse.
You might also check my section on Lesson Plans/Activities while you're at
BOHWS.
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From: Ernest Bessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My personal favorite Art History site is:
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html This site has links to a great many
other sites and is in itself one of the most comprehensive sites on Art
History that I have found. I hope this helps.
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From: Eve Datisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
here are some of the best ones that I've found
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/ -- Artcyclopedia --art history, art time
lines, search by work or artist or time period
http://www.musee-online.org/ -- Mussee --this is a gateway to worldwide
museum access
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/welcome.html -- Web gallery of Art --European art
from 1150-1800
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:30:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> [WWWEDU] Hurricane Virtual Field Trip
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
From: Kim Foley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:31:12 -0700
Subject: [WWWEDU] Hurricane Virtual Field Trip
Hi all,
With all of the current storm/hurricane activity, you might want to
introduce your students to the Hurricane Virtual Field Trip. It's geared
for older students but if you happen to teach younger students, you may
find a thing or two to use in your classroom. For example, Stop 11
features a Cyberflight into the Eye of Hurricane Opal, which is a lot of
fun for any age - I loved it!
Go to Field Trips Site and click on the Featured Field Trip:
http://www.field-trips.org/
Sincerely,
Kim
--
Kim Foley, Field Trips Site
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www.field-trips.org/book/ (The Big Pocket Guide to Using & Creating
Virtual Field Trips)
www.field-trips.org (Field Trips Site for K-12)
www.tramline.com (TourMaker - FREE Trial Virtual Field Trips
Software)
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The principal goal of education is to create people who are capable of
doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
- Piaget
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:30:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> BREAKING NEWS: Gale Launches E-Books with OCLCs netLibrary
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 20:05:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David P. Dillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gale is a major and reputable publisher of a wide variety of important
reference books. NetLibrary is an electronic web based library of full
text electronic books covering a wide range of subject fields that was
purchased recently by OCLC.
Gale Launches E-Books with OCLCs netLibrary
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb020930-2.htm
September 30, 2002 Gale Group (http://www.gale.com), a business unit of
Thomson Corp., has launched an e-book program that will make a large
collection of its reference material available to online library patrons
through netLibrary (http://www.netlibrary.com). Any library with a
netLibrary account can access the Gale e-books. At press time no list of
titles was available, but the company plans to offer 30 to 50 of them
sometime this fall with hundreds more scheduled for the future. Initial
titles will include single-volume and multivolume reference works, some
from the Macmillan and Scribner lines. Prices for e-book versions of the
Gale collection will increase the prices of the print versions.
Full Story May be Read at the URL Above
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:30:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> free cyber security kit for schools from NetDay
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 05:32:56 -0700
From: "J Cravens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tech
Subject: free cyber security kit for schools from NetDay
The "NetDay Cyber Security Kit for Schools" features tools and resources
to raise awareness about online safety and computer security. NetDay
encourages education leaders to distribute these resources in schools
across the country, to ensure that schools and homes -- the places where
children are most likely to access computers -- are "cyber secure."
Resources -- some in both English and Spanish --are included for K-12
educators, school district administrators, parents, and families.
http://www.netday.org/cyber_security_kit.htm
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:30:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Getting the most from tech in schools
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 05:32:33 -0700
From: "J Cravens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tech
Subject: Getting the most from tech in schools
Computer-based technology is a means, not an end. It is a tool that can be
used to achieve instructional goals, not a goal in itself. Yet, many
schools and districts invest time and money in acquiring technology
without clarifying their goals for how best to use this important tool.
This Knowledge Brief, developed by WestEd's Regional Technology in
Education Consortium, is for educators and policymakers who want to know
how to make the most of their investments in computer-based technology for
schools. The brief draws on recent reviews of research on technology use
in schools and addresses the question, "Under what conditions does this
technology have the most benefits for students?" Based on this review, the
brief summarizes lessons for developing effective school or district
technology plans.
http://www.wested.org/cs/wew/view/rs/665
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:30:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> FREE Educational Software Available Now
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:40:43 -0400
From: "Tina Koenig - Xpress Press(tm)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
FREE Educational Software Available Now
LearningWare Gives Top Game Show Program to K-12 Teachers
Minneapolis, Minn. - October 1, 2002 - /Xpress Press/ - LearningWare, a leading
provider of training software, announced today that it plans to offer a free
extended-trial version of Gameshow Pro 3 to all U.S. K-12 teachers. The free
trial license period for this top-selling game show program expires January 31,
2003.
Gameshow Pro 3 allows teachers to easily build classroom and self-directed game
shows using their own content. Featuring three familiar television-style game
formats, Gameshow Pro 3 creates a fun, interactive learning environment, which
is ideal for holding the attention of today's youth. "We have the best-selling
game software among corporate trainers," says Dan Yaman, co-founder and
president of LearningWare. "Now we want to integrate it into schools for the
benefit of students everywhere."
K-12 teachers are able to download their free Education Version of Gameshow Pro
3 from the LearningWare K-12 Educator Community website at
http://quiz.learningware.com/k12. After providing contact information, teachers
will be supplied a product registration code via e-mail to activate their
Gameshow Pro 3 licenses. The only requirement of K-12 teachers is that they
share the games they develop with LearningWare, so that the company can make
them available to other teachers. LearningWare will also offer web hosting
services at a nominal fee for those who wish to make their games available to
students to play over the Internet, using Gameshow Pro Web.
LearningWare, founded in 1995, develops and markets educational computerized
gameshow, quiz, and survey programs. Its products are designed to improve
retention, enliven presentations and create a fun, risk-free learning
environment. The company's products are used by more than 4,000 organizations
around the world. For further information, contact LearningWare's general
manager, Victor Kluck, at 800-457-5661, extension 15.
CONTACT: Amber Finke
LearningWare, Inc.
(800) 457-5661
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.learningware.com
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:30:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> [WWWEDU] ThinkQuest Quiz Cup started @ StudentFactory.org
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Studentfactory.org Team" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 18:59:38 +0300
Subject: [WWWEDU] ThinkQuest Quiz Cup started @ StudentFactory.org
Hi,
It's just a small step to bring different parts of the world closer together.
ThinkQuest Quiz Cup http://studentfactory.org/quiz/
First competition is open Oct 1 - 15, 2002.
TAKE THE QUIZ NOW!
http://studentfactory.org/quiz/fallcomp1.htm
.and win presents from
AOL Time Warner Foundation (US)
Stockholm Challenge Award (Sweden)
Zahara (Pakistan)
Dominik Landwehr (Switzerland)
TQ Quiz Cup Fall΄02 contest is dedicated to the memory of Grant
Beglarian - a wonderful man who served as a ThinkQuest International
Partnerships director. Special thanks to people and organizations
who helped to organize TQ Quiz Cup and donated prizes. More prize contributions
welcomed :).
Question submitters! Please send us - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - your
postal address. So we know where to send the promised prize!
Thanks for your time and sunshine,
Mikhel Pilv and the StudentFactory.org team
http://studentfactory.org
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:30:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NEWSLTR> "Path to Success" eCourse and Newsletter!
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 09:07:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Arthur Gueli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sign up for the "Path to Success" eCourse and Newsletter!
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:30:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> Space Medicine
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:12:02 -0500
Subject: Space Medicine
To: "NASA Science News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: NASA Science News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
NASA Science News for September 30, 2002
So you think a 6-hour car trip is tough on your body? How about a
six-month trip to Mars? In this story, researchers discuss how to keep
astronauts safe and healthy during long trips through the solar system.
FULL STORY at
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/30sept_spacemedicine.htm?list63210
You are currently subscribed to snglist as: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is a free service.
Tell a kid you know about NASA Kids Club -- they collect virtual trading cards,
trade them online, have their own e-mail account, and participate in great
learning activities for extra club points. Go to
http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/Club/Login/SignUp.asp?sng for more info.
If you need to get in touch with us directly, please go to
http://science.nasa.gov/comments
Home page: http://science.nasa.gov
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:30:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Moving Every Child Ahead: The Quest for Evidence
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 04:24:58 -0600
From: Ferdi Serim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Moving Every Child Ahead: The Quest for Evidence
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HI folks,
I want to share with you my Direct Connect editorial for October.
Enjoy!
Ferdi
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Moving Every Child Ahead: the Quest for Evidence
By Ferdi Serim
In Seattle, at ThinkQuest Live! Experience the Future of Learning, Terry
Rogers issued the following challenge:
"By the year 2010 children will have access to a working and cost
effective learning environment adapted to their individual learning
aptitudes and goals, which is as compelling as other parts of their
environment, and which helps them achieve their full potential in the
world and which is capable of being adapted and used worldwide."
Meanwhile, across the country in Washington, DC, the US Department of
Education clarified the regulations that states will follow to make sure
that no child is left behind. These noble and inspiring goals add
dimensions to our work in real classrooms, in real schools that go
beyond anything we've known before. While much remains to be determined
relative to which pathways will prove most effective, it is not too
early to say that the answers will emerge from the local level, rather
than as pronouncements from inside the Beltway. In the quest for
evidence based practice, our classrooms become the living laboratories
for studied interventions. Our skills in facilitating research and
project based learning are often overlooked by decision-makers at all
levels, but are critical to the success of any response to the
challenges of No Child Left Behind.
Schools face a set of significant challenges in bringing "the power of
rigorous, objective, scientific understanding to bear on improving
decisions about educational programming and thus student achievement."
These decisions shape fundamental questions about how schools design,
implement and assess instruction to meet the needs of all children. The
district and school leaders we work with require robust information to
about how they compare to similar districts across the country as well
as a means for communicating with their peers in their cohort about what
has worked in meeting the specific educational challenges. The readers
of MultiMedia Schools magazine, as members of the IT Team, are the
professionals best equipped to lead in the transformation to evidence
based practice.
So that we are not distracted by the baggage of hyperfocus on
annualized, high stakes testing, or the merits of improving education by
eliminating "failing schools" let's consider the characteristics shared
by approaches that focus on growth rather than punishment. Let's call
such an approach Moving Every Child Ahead, so as not to confuse such
efforts with the legislated requirements of No Child Left Behind.
As schools across the nation grapple with the challenge to Move Every
Child Ahead, the importance of research-based approaches highlights two
critical needs:
our need to find and apply the most relevant research to classroom
practice
our need to gather valid evidence through these practices, as a basis
for decisions
Schools need help to accomplish the task of bridging research and
practice within a context that reflects the scientific processes of
inquiry. By developing district capacity for information based problem
solving, we become generators of educational evidence for
decision-making at the school and classroom level, allowing our schools
to move beyond the practice of education as an "evidence-free zone."
The Education Department's recent award of a contract to establish the
What Works Clearinghouse will ultimately provide a series of online,
searchable databases comprising registries of educational interventions,
evaluation studies, approaches and policies, testing instruments and
qualified evaluators. The What Works Clearinghouse will summarize
evidence on the effectiveness of different programs, products, and
strategies intended to enhance academic achievement and other important
educational outcomes.
However, long before the Clearinghouse is up and running, schools and
districts will require information they can act upon. By January 2003,
school districts require reliable, research based information to decide:
how to achieve and document Adequate Yearly Progress
how to apply the lessons of research to classroom practice in key
curriculum areas
which efforts will result in the largest gains for at-risk and special
populations
how to manage student data so that it can drive student improvement
what criteria to use in selecting both technology and traditional
interventions
Meeting the research challenges of No Child Left Behind is best
understood as a Knowledge Management problem. It's not that individuals
in the system don't have access to information; it's that the system is
not structured to apply the knowledge it "owns" in the form of the
Intellectual Capital of its constituents. Even with access to the best
research, and the best designed processes for collecting student/program
performance data, schools would still need to learn how to transfer this
knowledge into the real-world classroom settings where improved student
achievement actually occurs. The Moving Every Child Ahead provides
schools with an alternative method for gathering, interpreting and
sharing educational evidence, by building a peer-review community of
school based learning laboratories and educational researchers.
Information Literacy: The Key to Evidence Based Practice
To assist school leaders in meeting this Knowledge Management problem,
Moving Every Child Ahead employs the Big6 Approach to Information
Problem Solving, the most widely known and used approach to teaching
information and technology skills. The Big6 is used in thousands of K-12
schools and higher education institutions, as well as in corporate and
adult training programs. An estimated 84,000 teachers have been trained
in the Big6 program. The Bertelsmann Foundation and the AOL Time Warner
Foundation have joined with experts from education, business and
government, recently convening an international 21st Century Literacy
Summit. Cited as an exemplary practice in the Summit whitepaper , the
Big6 (first developed in 1988) provides a systematic process based on
six broad skill areas necessary for successful information
problem-solving. This approach builds a set of skills and an organized
strategy for effectively meeting information needs while developing
critical thinking skills.
The research basis for this approach is extensive. In her recent
literature review of this research , Carrie Lowe writes "information
literacy is not a set of individual tasks or skills, but rather a way of
thinking that allows individuals to be the flexible thinkers and
lifelong learners who will succeed in the information age." Regarding
the value of information literacy, Lowe notes that the cognitive aspects
and related benefits are key. "Pitts' (1995) examination of the mental
models of students engaged in the information problem-solving process
found that they use different domains of knowledge to complete a task,
including one responsible for information seeking and use, and others
related to the other aspects of the task, including subject knowledge.
Pitts found that a lack of knowledge in one area (including information
problem-solving skills) could limit learning and success overall."
In upcoming Direct Connects, I'll present blueprints to guide our work
as school based IT Teams focused on Moving Every Child Ahead:
Research: Matching Needs with Research-Based Interventions
Design: Bringing Scientific Rigor to Bear Upon Educational Processes
Proof in Practice: Building Learning Labs for Improved Performance
When we apply what we know about how people learn, how they solve
problems through the effective use of information, how technology can
assist in the transformation of education to evidence-based practice, we
will be significantly closer to meeting the challenge Terry Rogers
articulated for global learners. Indeed, it may make all the difference!
Ferdi
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