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1. K12> SHARE: "Plagiarizers Beware" article in SF GATE newspaper
2. MISC> [WWWEDU] Ozone Over the Canadian Arctic Expedition
3. K12> What you'll find in the May 2002 issue of the Classroom Connect
Newsletter
4. K12> Kidlink: INTERNET IN SAAMI FOR YOUTH
5. K12> [Innovative-Teachers] Last Minute Cinco de Mayo Lessons and
Springtime Lesson Planning Online
6. RESOUR> [netsites] Article: How to Easily Get Rid of E-Mail Spam (4/28/02
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7. K12> Re: GEN: Free Paper Greeting Cards
8. K12> Evaluating health websites
9. Last: posting for Monday, April 29, 2002
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 13:57:55 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> SHARE: "Plagiarizers Beware" article in SF GATE newspaper
From: "Alice Yucht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 13:46:38 -0400
Subject: SHARE: "Plagiarizers Beware" article in SF GATE newspaper
Share this with your teachers!
Monday, April 29, 2002 (San Francisco Gate)
Plagiarizers Beware/Turnitin.com is here to stop your cheating ways
Joyce Slaton, Special to SF Gate
"San Francisco, California, USA -- Take it from an ex-student who wrote term papers
aplenty:
Plagiarism is terribly tempting. Rather than sweating and struggling to present
complicated ideas
in your own words, why not nip and tuck a paragraph from the Encyclopaedia Britannica
or from
another student's paper? It's so very easy, and until now judicious plagiarists were
virtually certain
not to get caught. [snip]"
The full text of the article can be found at:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/04/29/plagiar.DTL
Alice Yucht, Resourcerer,
Heritage Middle School, Livingston NJ
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 13:59:29 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [WWWEDU] Ozone Over the Canadian Arctic Expedition
From: "Diane Hammond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: WWWEDU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 21:51:09 -0400
Subject: [WWWEDU] Ozone Over the Canadian Arctic Expedition
The Ozone Over the Canadian Arctic site has been updated with expedition
photos and UV data. We met with the expedition team this weekend to do
preliminary data analysis. What an incredible experience they had!
You've got to admire that "anything is possible" mindset. Visit YES I
Can! Science for photos, expedition reports and curriculum guide:
http://www.yesican.yorku.ca
Diane
Diane Hammond
Curriculum Consultant
YES I Can! Science
York University, Toronto, Ontario
http://www.yesican.yorku.ca
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 14:00:35 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> What you'll find in the May 2002 issue of the Classroom Connect
Newsletter
From: "Hofer, Chris " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:05:50 -0700
In the May 2002 issue of the Classroom Connect Newsletter, you'll find
your old favorites such as the Connected Calendar, Lesson Plan
Goldmines, Internet Tip, School Webmaster, the A+ Web Gallery, Wired
Success Story, Kids' Corner, Teacher-to-Teacher, Beyond the Web, Global
Projects, and Internet Activities. You'll also find these great features
and articles:
* Lynn Clark has written a thoughtful and timely cover story:
"Girls and Technology." (pages 4-6)
* Jim Cornish's Destinations feature is all about Deserts. (pages 8-9)
* Guest Expert Jamie McKenzie talks about "Leading by Example:
The High-Touch, High-Tech Principal." (page 10)
* Deirdre Kelly has written a very informative article called "The Digital Divide."
(pages 20-21)
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 14:01:49 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Kidlink: INTERNET IN SAAMI FOR YOUTH
From: "Odd de Presno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 20:08:08 +0200
INTERNET IN SAAMI FOR YOUTH
Youth clubs in Karasjok, Lakselv, and Kautokeino in northern Norway want to
help Saami youth make contacts with peers in other countries through the
Internet. According to The Ethnologue (14th Edition), there are about
31,600 to 42,600 ethnic Saami in Norway (1995).
A pre-feasibility study has now started with funding from the Norwegian
Ministry of Education and Research. Work will be coordinated by Mr. Odd de
Presno, Kidlink's Executive Director, supported by the Saami Council.
Kidlink is a global organization of volunteers helping kids and youth get
control over their lives and communicate with peers.
Many young persons find it more fun and challenging to get new friends than
to fill their evenings with violence, pornography, and games. However, they
do not always find it easy to answer questions from new friends about who
they are, where they live, rights, roots, friends, and family. To support
them with this, the youth clubs therefore also want to put Saami language
and culture on the agenda.
"Youth of Saami descent is special, also because there are so few of them,"
says Odd de Presno, "When they come out in the world, they discover that
others consider them as exotic, both in terms of where they live, their
culture, way of life, society, and language. This gives Saami youth
interesting advantages and opportunities. "
Strengthening Saami youth's knowledge of and feelings about their own
background will help them at school. Discussions about important aspects of
life with peers in other places might help reduce violence, mobbing,
racism, drug abuse, and criminality.
Karasjok Ungdomsklubb, Kautokeino I.L.'s "Møteplassen", and Kiowato
Ungdomsklubb at Lakselv want to serve youth with computers and Internet in
their premises. The young persons will communicate in Saami with other
Saami speaking kids and youth living in the northern part of Europe, and
peers elsewhere in Norwegian, English, or whatever language that might be
most practical.
Kidlink organizes discussions about life between kids and youth around the
world, and have a Saami language version of the multi-lingual Who-am-I?
program. They offer a free Saami language web site for youth-published web
pages about their language and culture in support of their international
dialog. All Saami adults are invited to contact Odd de Presno if they want
to participate in a volunteer effort to make Saami language and culture
more visible in the global society.
Organizations in several countries work with Kidlink to serve youth and
children on their free time. In Brazil, Kidlink works with another
indigenous community called Fulni-o. The results of the pre-feasibility
study will be presented to the Ministry of Education and Research this fall.
LINKS:
The Ethnologue: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Norway
Gii Lean Mun? (Who-Am-I? in Saami): http://www.kidlink.org/kie/nls/saami.html
Who-Am-I?: http://www.kidlink.org/kie/nls/index.html
Kidlink's model for partnerships: http://www.kidlink.org/kie/ngo/index.html
The World Bank's infoDev eXchange Newsletter on Kidlink's work
and model: http://www.infodev.org/exchange/exch9/6exch9.htm
More information:
http://www.kidlink.org/english/general/press/index.html
Press contact: http://www.kidlink.org/english/general/press/contact.html
April 11, 2002: KHouse Farol do Mucuripe opens in Fortaleza/CE, Brazil
Yours sincerely,
Odd de Presno
Kidlink Executive Director
http://www.kidlink.org/kie/odd.html
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 14:02:35 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> [Innovative-Teachers] Last Minute Cinco de Mayo Lessons and
Springtime Lesson Planning Online
From: "home4teacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 18:36:07 -0000
Subject: [Innovative-Teachers] Last Minute Cinco de Mayo Lessons and Springtime Lesson
Planning Online
This was recently sent to me. Enjoy:
Ana
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SUBJECT: Last Minute Cinco de Mayo Lessons and Springtime
Lesson Planning Online
If you haven't already done so, you will want to visit
http://members.aol.com/amonco/amonco.html
Click on the Springtime Lesson Planning icon
where you will find our updated Springtime Lesson Planning
Ideas page.
(We recently added information to this web page.)
Here is just a sampling of what you will find there.
Fun Felt Newsletter Article Loaded with Free Butterfly Lesson
Planning Ideas
Fun Felt - Science Theme Lesson Planning with Felt
Free FAMILY PROJECT: A Birdhouse the Kid's Can Make
Free Gardening Tips for those in U.S., Canada, Australia, New
Zealand and
Europe.
Free Lesson Planning Butterfly Links
Free Information Source - Seashells for Classified Reading
Exercises
Sign Up for Free Kids Garden In a Box Newsletter
Spring Gardening with Children - Make a Tepee (Free
Instructions)
Free Lesson Planning Information about Wildflowers
Springtime Art Activities
Cinco de Mayo Lesson Plans - Just Updated!
Free Making Art from Seashells Activity
Free Seashell Painting
Free Mother's Day History and Activities
Free Mother's Day Bath Basket Project
Memorial Day Lesson Planning
Free Father's Day Projects
Frances Henderson, Manager
American Montessori Consulting
Serving School and Home Educators Since 1988
http://www.amonco.org
Resource Center - Everything from A to Z
http://members.aol.com/AMCNEWS3/directory.html
Messageboard
http://members.aol.com/amonco/messageboard/post.htm
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 14:37:14 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RESOUR> [netsites] Article: How to Easily Get Rid of E-Mail Spam
(4/28/02 )
From: "Robin Nobles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 07:29:54 -0700
Subject: [netsites] Article: How to Easily Get Rid of E-Mail Spam (4/28/02 )
How to Easily Get Rid of E-Mail Spam
by Robin Nobles
Picture this scenario. You rush to your computer, hoping to find
e-mail from friends or family members, orders from clients, or
questions about your products and services.
You download 52 pieces of e-mail. Wow! Except there's one small
problem. 49 pieces of that e-mail is useless spam.
What is spam? Spam is e-mail that you haven't given permission to
receive or don't want to receive.
For example, let's say that you buy a SonyT camera, and you sign
up for their free newsletter. You've give SonyT permission to
send you that newsletter, so it's not spam.
Instead, spam is when someone steals your e-mail address from a
message board or list, and then sends thousands of e-mail out
advertising a product. You didn't ask for that e-mail to be sent
to you, so it's doing nothing but taking up room in your e-mail
box and time when you have to sort through and delete it.
I recently heard of the neatest e-mail client that helps to
combat spam, MailWasher. http://www.mailwasher.net/
When you first log on to the Net, you start MailWasher, which
downloads the subject lines of your e-mail. You can tell the
program to run your e-mail through the black list of e-mail
spammers to detect which e-mail is legitimate and which isn't.
Then, it categorizes your e-mail, putting it into areas such as
"friends," "normal," "possible spam," and "black list."
If MailWasher thinks that a piece of e-mail might be spam, it
also marks it for "bouncing," which is one of the coolest
features of all. Instead of just deleting the e-mail from your
server, it bounces it back to the spammer, who (we hope) will
eventually remove your e-mail address from their list.
After MailWasher has finished categorizing your e-mail, you look
through the list. If the e-mail is from someone you know, you
mark it as a "friend," and the program will add it to your
"friends'" list. If the e-mail is spam, you can add it to your
black list of spammers.
After you've chosen what to do with the e-mail, you hit the
"Process Mail" button, and MailWasher begins bouncing back the
spam to the original owners and deleting it from your server.
After MailWasher processes the spam e-mail, it automatically
opens your e-mail software program where you can actually
download the remaining e-mail into your program-only the mail
that you really want and need to see.
The more you use the program, the more you "train" it to
recognize friends and spammers, so it categorizes e-mail even
more efficiently.
I've found few programs that are this handy, helpful, and easy to
use. And, the cost is right: free to try! It's a shareware
program, and the creator asks that you pay him a fee if you like
and use it. How much you pay him is up to you.
http://www.mailwasher.net/
Robin Nobles is a freelance writer who can be reached at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] View past articles at
http://www.robinsnest.com.
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 14:49:53 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Re: GEN: Free Paper Greeting Cards
From: "D & P Wade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 05:46:40 +1000
Subject: Re: GEN: Free Paper Greeting Cards
Hi Theresa,
There are some free ones at
http://www.billybear4kids.com/post/you-print/school.html
http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/graduation/mgradcards.html
but they may be a little young for your students.
There are some at
http://www.printfree.com/Holidays/Graduation.htm
http://www.rom101.com/gcard/graduate/gcard.htm
http://ivyjoy.com/printcards/index.html
Good luck,
Trish Wade
Teacher/Librarian
Geebung State School
Brisbane, Australia
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http://www.geebungss.qld.edu.au
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 14:50:14 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Evaluating health websites
From: "Jacquie Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 15:46:11 -0400
Subject: Evaluating health websites
A few weeks ago, I requested help developing an online web evaluating lesson
for 6th grade health students. The teacher and I have created a lesson and
it went over very well. The lesson plan is available on the page for anyone
who is interested. The URL is:
http://www.gananda.org/library/mshslibrary/evalhlth.htm
Here is the biggest change we plan to make for next year. We will not try
to present the information from "How to Evaluate Web Pages" all during one
period. Even though the teacher and I took turns presenting the
information, it was too long for the kids to sit still and listen. Next
time, we plan to present the first 4 parts of the web evaluation teaching
page we used http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm, and then have the students
get on the computers and answer the first 4 questions on their checklists.
Then we will present the last 4 parts of the website. Either that, or
perhaps we will create our own teaching page, that is not quite so involved.
We scheduled the students in for 3 consecutive days - a 40 minute period
each day. It was a push - but we got the whole project done with all the
classes. It was well worth the time and effort involved.
Thanks to all of you who contributed!
Jacquie
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All that is gold does not glitter
Not all those that wander are lost
~~J. R. R. Tolkien~~
Jacquie Henry, Librarian
Gananda Middle-High School
1500 Dayspring Ridge
Walworth, New York 14568
315-986-3521 x121
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http://www.gananda.org/library/mshslibrary/indexgcl.htm
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