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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 ************************************************************************* NOTE: Gleason Sackmann is the owner and host of this list. All inquiries regarding this list and its contents should be directed to Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. If you want to unsubscribe, click and send (no body or subject: required) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives for Net-happenings can be found at: http://www.classroom.com/community/email/archives.jhtml?A0=NET-HAPPENINGS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ 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- ------------------------------ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ 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. ----- 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. ----- 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. ----- 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 MISINFORMATION. . .The Real Computer Virus Eve G. Datisman, Resourceress voice 360.374.6262 x 207 Forks High School Library fax 360.374.9657 Information Services email [EMAIL PROTECTED] 261 South Spartan Ave http://forks.wednet.edu ==> Forks, WA 98331 Forks High School ==> Library Media Center *#*#*#*#*#*#*#**#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* --- Edtech Archives, posting guidelines and other information are at: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~edweb Please include your name, email address, and school or professional affiliation in each posting. ------------------------------ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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) === 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 ------------------------------ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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]> ------------------------------ 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! <http://www.hammonderesources.com/index.cfm?refer=gs>http://www.hammonderesources.com/index.cfm?refer=gs "Path To Success" eCourse: This course teaches you the strategies that the most successful people use every day of their lives to achieve happiness. The 9-lesson course will teach you how to: 1) Skyrocket Your Self-Esteem 2) Master Communication 3) Think and Act With Purpose 4) Live True to Your Values 5) Maximize Your Energy 6) Accept & Then Conquer Failure 7) Become Goal Oriented 8) Manage Your Time Effectively 9) Continually Improve Your Life >"Path to Success" Newsletter: This newsletter goes out every 2 weeks and includes articles from leaders in the self-improvement and success fields. Don't miss out on this valuable info. <http://www.hammonderesources.com/index.cfm?refer=gs>http<http://www.hammonderesources.com/index.cfm?refer=gs>://www.hammonderesources.com/index.cfm?refer=gs Once you sign up for the eCourse you're automatically subscribed to the newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time. ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 ----------------------- 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 ------------------------------ End of NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 1 Oct 2002 - Special issue (#2002-598) *********************************************************************