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2. K12> October bigchalk Library Product Bulletin (2)
3. K12> [DIG_REF] Plagiarism resource
4. K12> Operation RubyThroat for K-12
5. SCOUT>< The Scout Report -- October 4, 2002
6. MISC> [DIGITALDIVIDE] Cable to Stretch Net Connection to Islands (fwd)
7. MISC> NOT JUST ANOTHER MISSION: NASA HELPS LAUNCH NEW EDUCATION CENTER IN
PHOENIX
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 07:37:34 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: CNN STUDENT NEWS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 3:56 PM
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Subject: CNN's Educational Resources - October 3, 2002
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CNN Presents: Classroom Edition
"Scheduled To Die"
This week's CNN Presents: Classroom Edition is "Scheduled To Die,"
focusing on the death penalty. Be sure to set your VCRs - the program
will air commercial-free on the CNN network Monday, October 7, from
4:00-5:00 a.m. ET.
SPECIAL NOTE: This program focuses on a controversial topic, the death
penalty. The program contains scenes and accounts that some individuals
may find disturbing. Teachers, please preview the program to determine
whether it is appropriate for your students.
In "Scheduled to Die," CNN's Christiane Amanpour looks at the pending
execution of a young man convicted of murder from several perspectives,
including that of the accused, the victim's family, the defense and
prosecuting attorneys, a local reporter, and the townspeople of
Huntsville, Texas, site of the Texas death chamber.
Extensive free educational materials for CNN Presents: Classroom Edition
are available online at http://CNNstudentnews.com. The materials for
"Scheduled to Die" will be posted on Friday, October 4.
CNN Presents: Classroom Edition is a commercial-free airing of the
award-winning CNN Presents documentary series. Educationally
appropriate episodes of CNN Presents are made available for a one-time
commercial-free airing on CNN, and teachers may record the program for
classroom use for one year.
New episodes of CNN Presents premiere each week on CNN - check your
local listings for time and subject information.
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Not Again! Hurricane Resources
First Isidore, now Lili! As the second storm in two weeks bears down on
the Gulf Coast, hurricanes and tropical weather patterns remain big
news. CNN is here to help! Teachers, be sure to check out the free,
extensive educational resources from the CNN Presents: Classroom Edition
"Hurricane: When the Big One Hits!" The resources are available online
at http://CNNstudentnews.com
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 07:45:53 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> October bigchalk Library Product Bulletin
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of bigchalk
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 11:55 PM
Subject: October bigchalk Library Product Bulletin
Dear bigchalk Library Subscriber,
POWER SEARCH TIP
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Here's your October power search tip for bigchalk Library
-- a great way to help motivate and engage your students in
research activities!
The United States celebrates Columbus Day on the second
Monday of October. Most people recognize Christopher Columbus
as a great explorer who set out to find a shorter route to the
Indies. How did this famous voyage change the world forever?
Challenge your students to explore bigchalk Library and discover
the answer! They're sure to discover some interesting insights
about Columbus and the day that honors him.
Click the bigchalk Library home page, enter the search query:
Christopher Columbus. The results list includes numerous titles
describing the history of Christopher Columbus, as well as modern
day discoveries about his voyages!
BACK TO SCHOOL WITH BIGCHALK
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Library Media Specialists are raving about bigchalk's
back to school web resources! Back to School with bigchalk
has recently been launched to help you promote your library
and develop effective researchers. Posters, Quick Start Guides,
teacher and student resource notices with log in instructions,
PowerPoint demos you can edit, logos and launcher icons, how
to access your usage statistics, and more are available to you
now at:
http://www.bigchalk.com/bc/backtoschool
IN THE NEWS...
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Check out the latest review of bigchalk Multimedia in the
September/October issue of "The Book Report," pages 81-82.
SPREAD THE WORD
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Please feel free to forward this product bulletin
to other educators in your subscribing institution.
Encourage them to sign up for our ProQuest, bigchalk
Library, and eLibrary bulletins as appropriate.
To subscribe, please visit:
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(You may unsubscribe via this page as well.)
Cordially,
Your bigchalk Team
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 07:42:48 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> October bigchalk Library Product Bulletin
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of bigchalk
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 12:55 PM
Subject: October bigchalk Library Product Bulletin
Dear bigchalk Library Subscriber,
POWER SEARCH TIP
----------------
Here's your October power search tip for bigchalk Library
-- a great way to help motivate and engage your students in
research activities!
The United States celebrates Columbus Day on the second
Monday of October. Most people recognize Christopher Columbus
as a great explorer who set out to find a shorter route to the
Indies. How did this famous voyage change the world forever?
Challenge your students to explore bigchalk Library and discover
the answer! They're sure to discover some interesting insights
about Columbus and the day that honors him.
Click the bigchalk Library home page, enter the search query:
Christopher Columbus. The results list includes numerous titles
describing the history of Christopher Columbus, as well as modern
day discoveries about his voyages!
BACK TO SCHOOL WITH BIGCHALK
----------------------------
Library Media Specialists are raving about bigchalk's
back to school web resources! Back to School with bigchalk
has recently been launched to help you promote your library
and develop effective researchers. Posters, Quick Start Guides,
teacher and student resource notices with log in instructions,
PowerPoint demos you can edit, logos and launcher icons, how
to access your usage statistics, and more are available to you
now at:
http://www.bigchalk.com/bc/backtoschool
IN THE NEWS...
--------------
Check out the latest review of bigchalk Multimedia in the
September/October issue of "The Book Report," pages 81-82.
SPREAD THE WORD
---------------
Please feel free to forward this product bulletin
to other educators in your subscribing institution.
Encourage them to sign up for our ProQuest, bigchalk
Library, and eLibrary bulletins as appropriate.
To subscribe, please visit:
http://www.bigchalk.com/newsletter/signup
(You may unsubscribe via this page as well.)
Cordially,
Your bigchalk Team
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:14:13 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> [DIG_REF] Plagiarism resource
From: Dig_Ref [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sloan,
Bernie
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 8:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [DIG_REF] Plagiarism resource
A new resource on a popular topic: plagiarism.
It's a pretty comprehensive Web page on plagiarism. It was created by
Sharon Stoerger, and is an adaptation of Web pages she created for the
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Illinois
at
Urbana-Champaign. All of the entries are annotated, and are available
via
the Web:
http://www.web-miner.com/plagiarism
<http://www.web-miner.com/plagiarism>
It lists articles about plagiarism, has a section on copyright &
intellectual freedom, a section for instructors, a section for students,
plagiarism case studies, plagiarism detection tools, and more.
Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
338 Henry Administration Building
506 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 333-4895
Fax: (217) 265-0454
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:19:36 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Operation RubyThroat for K-12
From: Kathleen Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 11:16 AM
Submitted by Kathleen Carpenter
Editor-Teachers.Net Gazette
Read about Operation RubyThroat and how you and your students can become
involved in this multi-disciplinary project integrating science, social
studies, language arts, and technology in an enjoyable and worthwhile
effort. Click on http://teachers.net/gazette/OCT02/ .
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:32:42 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCOUT>< The Scout Report -- October 4, 2002
The full Scout Report can be read at Net Newsletters:
http://www1.classroom.com/community/email/archives.jhtml?A0=NEWSLTR
From: The Scout Report [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
Behalf Of Internet Scout Project
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 12:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Scout Report -- October 4, 2002
======== The Scout Report ==
======== October 4, 2002 ====
======== Volume 8, Number 39 ======
====== Internet Scout Project ========
==== University of Wisconsin ========
== Department of Computer Sciences ========
== I N T H E S C O U T R E P O R T T H I S W E E K ========
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== Index for October 4, 2002 ==
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1. NSDL Scout Reports for the Life Sciences and Physical Sciences
The nineteenth issues of the first volumes of the Life Sciences Report
and
Physical Sciences Report are available. The Topic in Depth section of
Life
Sciences Report annotates sites on restoration ecology. The Physical
Sciences Report's Topic in Depth section offers Web sites and comments
about the speed of light.
2. The Effectiveness of "Teach for America" and Other Under-certified
Teachers on Student Academic Achievement: A Case of Harmful Public
Policy
http://olam.ed.asu.edu/epaa/v10n37/
3. Philanthropy Journal
http://www.philanthropyjournal.org/front.asp
4. History of the Workhouse
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/
5. Sprawl City
http://www.sprawlcity.org/index.html
6. Welfare Reform and New York City's Low-Income Population [.pdf]
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/pubs/dp125602.pdf
7. University of Wisconsin Center for Limnology
http://limnology.wisc.edu/
8. Center for Rural Affairs
http://www.cfra.org/
9. Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 1994 [.pdf]
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/rpr94.pdf
10. National Transportation Statistics 2001 [.pdf]
http://www.bts.gov/publications/nts/pdf/entire.pdf
11. Our Documents
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/
12. Official Salvador Dali Museum Web Site
http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/index.html?E+dali
13. Richard Avedon: Portraits
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={36C7411F-EEF
8-
11D5-9414-00902786BF44}
14. Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History,
1884-1934
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/fmuhtml/everhome.html
15. Education Index
http://www.educationindex.com/
16. InfoNatura: Birds and Mammals of Latin America
http://www.natureserve.org/infonatura/
17. Web Ferret 5.0
http://www.zdnet.com/ferret/download.htm
18. POP Peeper 2.0
http://www.poppeeper.com/
19. British Research Leads to World's Funniest Joke
The World's Funniest Joke-Official
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/200210
03/od_nm/life_joke_dc
The British Association for the Advancement of Science
http://www.britassoc.org.uk/the-ba/page.asp
LaughLab
http://www.laughlab.co.uk/
Dr. Richard Wiseman
http://phoenix.herts.ac.uk/PWRU/RWhomepage.html
Philosophical Humor
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/phil-humor.html
The New York Friars Club
http://www.friarsclub.org/
20. Correction: Arizona State Museum
Last week's annotation about the Arizona State Museum was incorrect.
The
museum is at the University of Arizona, not Arizona State University.
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 13:37:29 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [DIGITALDIVIDE] Cable to Stretch Net Connection to Islands (fwd)
From: The DIGITALDIVIDE discussion group
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Andy Carvin
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 1:01 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [DIGITALDIVIDE] Cable to Stretch Net Connection to Islands
(fwd)
>From today's Benton headlines... -ac
CABLE TO STRETCH NET CONNECTION TO ISLANDS
The Pacific islands of Palau and Yap will soon receive broadband
Internet
access thanks to a planned underwater fiber optic cable running from
Guam.
The 800-mile cable, to be deployed by the end of 2004, will allow the
emote
islands to implement high-speed telemedicine and distance learning
initiatives. "This project will connect Palau to the world, thus
bridging
the digital divide," Palau president Tommy Remengesau Jr. said in a
written
statement. The Palau National Communication Corporation is coordinating
the
cable deployment, which is expected to cost USD $60 million.
[SOURCE: Guam Pacific Daily News, AUTHOR: Gaynor Dumat-ol Daleno]
(http://www.guampdn.com/news/stories/20021004/localnews/212551.html)
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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: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 14:10:20 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> NOT JUST ANOTHER MISSION: NASA HELPS LAUNCH NEW EDUCATION CENTER
IN PHOENIX
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 1:50 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: NOT JUST ANOTHER MISSION: NASA HELPS LAUNCH NEW EDUCATION
CENTER IN PHOENIX
Renee Juhans
Headquarters, Washington October 4, 2002
(Phone: 202/358-1712)
RELEASE: 02-193
NOT JUST ANOTHER MISSION:
NASA HELPS LAUNCH NEW EDUCATION CENTER IN PHOENIX
Astronaut Carlos Noriega and Estrella Mountain Community
College President Homero Lopez launched a new education era
today with the dedication of the NASA Center for Success in
Math and Science in Phoenix.
The newly dedicated student academic-support center, located
on the Avondale, Ariz., campus of Estrella Mountain Community
College, was established to inspire and support socially and
economically disadvantaged students in their pursuit of
higher education in science, technology, engineering and math
disciplines.
"NASA recognizes our nation has no greater task than
motivating our youth to reach their full potential," said
George E. Reese, Assistant Administrator for Equal
Opportunity Programs, NASA Headquarters, Washington. "Through
our best efforts, we can help build a brighter future for the
next generation by focusing on the needs of children in the
classroom today," Reese said.
In naming the Center, Estrella College recognized NASA's
commitment to inspiring the next generation of leaders and
explorers. The NASA Center for Success in Math and Science is
committed to developing students prepared to take part in
Arizona's knowledge economy. The Center also will serve as a
vital link for underrepresented students as they successfully
prepare for careers in a high-tech tomorrow.
Through the Center, NASA will provide educators with unique
resources to create learning opportunities that support
educational excellence. In addition, the Center will
encourage family involvement and will work to establish links
with business and community groups.
Sponsored by NASA's Office of Equal Opportunity Programs the
partnership between Estrella Mountain and NASA will not only
reach out to local Hispanic students in metropolitan Phoenix,
it will also engage Hispanic Serving Institutions currently
not involved in NASA programs, especially community colleges.
NASA and Estrella Mountain Community College are committed to
strengthening the educational system through pipeline
programs with strategic partnership alliances. NASA is
pleased to assist Estrella Mountain as it stands together
with other regional school systems as part of the solution to
Arizona's most pressing education dilemma -- preparing
Hispanic and other underrepresented students to take their
place in today's knowledge-based economy. Estrella Mountain
is part of the Maricopa Community Colleges, the nation's
largest community college district.
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