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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 ) 7. K12> Re: GEN: Free Paper Greeting Cards 8. K12> Evaluating health websites 9. Last: posting for Monday, April 29, 2002 ***************************************** For individual postings, send the message: set net-happenings mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, click and send (no body or subject: required) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Net-happenings mailing list is a service of Classroom Connect - http://www.classroom.com Archives for Net-happenings can be found at: http://www.classroom.com/community/email/archives.jhtml?A0=NET-HAPPENINGS Newsgroups: news:comp.internet.net-happenings http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&GROUP;=comp.internet.net-happenings ******************************************* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST, etc.) send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archives: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.shtml See also EL-Announce for announcements from library media vendors: http://www.mindspring.com/~el-announce/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-= ------------------------------ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ 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) ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO: <undisclosed-recipients:;> 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 ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geebungss.qld.edu.au =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST, etc.) send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archives: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.shtml See also EL-Announce for announcements from library media vendors: http://www.mindspring.com/~el-announce/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 14:50:14 -0500 From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: K12> Evaluating health websites From: "Jacquie Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gananda.org/library/mshslibrary/indexgcl.htm =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST, etc.) send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. 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