Education
on the Internet
is published by Spartacus
Educational every week. The newsletter includes news, reviews
of websites and articles on using ICT in the classroom. Members of
the mailing list are invited to submit information for inclusion in
future newsletters. In this way we hope to create a community of people
involved in using the Internet in education. Currently there are 26,600
subscribers to the newsletter.
Think
Report: In his Think Report, Professor David Wood points out that
although ICT will enable us to learn and to teach in radically different
ways, innovation with ICT is inhibited and stifled by a failure to
rethink the curriculum. Wood argues that we have to redefine what
is worth knowing and re-examine what skills and tools are necessary
in order to be knowledgeable as technology makes an impact on all
aspects of professional, vocational and private life. Copies of the
report can be obtained from David Wood at: djw@psychology.nottingham.ac.uk
Schooling
For Tomorrow: How can you improve your school for tomorrow's generation
of pupils? Working with innovative schools educationalists have discovered
that although teachers and headteachers cannot change the national
curricula, they can change their schools. Find out more about this
subject in an article from the expert Research Analyst, Annamaria
Fichera.
To
Punish or Not To Punish?: Children are always trying to find out
how far they can go without being punished. To avoid this kind of
behaviour, a teacher makes clear agreements and sets out the limits
of what is tolerated and what is not. In this article Thomas Lindemans,
Dutch Language Editor for European Schoolnet, examines the Flemish
psychiatrist Peter Adriaenssens' views on this issue.
Internet
Services
Question
Tools: Marking questions by hand is a time-consuming, expensive
and sometimes inaccurate process. Question Tools allows anyone to
easily create and deliver assessments, tests, quizzes, exams and surveys
using PCs, local area networks, the Internet as well as intranets.
Questions and tests can be easily reused, amended and adapted. A formal
exam can be easily changed into an informal knowledge check with feedback.
The questions, and feedbacks can include text, drawings, photographs,
sound, speech and video.
Comenius
Expert Networks: Ever needed to find experts in Europe for a particular
education-related topic? The European Commission's Comenius program
gives funds to groups of teachers forming expert networks around different
themes. Find out about the networks for cultural diversity, technology,
museums and more at the Comenius website.
European
Treasury Browser: Finding educational resources on the Internet
is still a difficult process. The European Treasury Browser (ETB)
is trying to address this problem by creating a search tool that looks
for resources in databases all over Europe. On this website you can
test out the first version of the European Treasury Browser and give
feedback to make it even better.
Geography
Ordnance
Survey: Get-a-map, a free service from Ordnance Survey, allows
you to print out maps. You can search for maps of all parts of the
UK at various scales simply by entering your place name, postcode
or National Grid reference. Get-a-map also includes links to a free
historical map service, allowing you to see what your neighbourhood
looked like in the 19th century.
Welcome
to Geography: The Hampstead School Geography Department fully
deserved its BECTa website award last year. This attractively designed
website contains the work of students , advice of field trips and
several geography lessons. Subjects covered include Rainforest Destruction,
Population, Weather & Climate, Tourism in Kenya, Land Reclamation,
Bhopal, Banana Trade, Plate Tectonics and Biomes.
Maths
MathWorld:
Eric Weisstein claims that MathWorld is the web's most complete mathematical
resource. Assembled over more than a decade by Internet encyclopedist
Eric W. Weisstein, MathWorld is a comprehensive and interactive mathematics
encyclopedia intended for students, educators, math enthusiasts, and
researchers. The site is continuously updated to include new material
and incorporate new discoveries. MathWorld is hosted and sponsored
by Wolfram Research, Inc., makers of Mathematica, the world's most
powerful and flexible software package for doing mathematics.
Mathematics
Community Website: Maggie Verster runs a community mathematics
website for high school students, their parents and teachers in South
Africa. The material is produced by volunteer teachers and provides
lessons, tests, exams, worksheets with answers, study skills and much
more.
Science
Atlas
of the Universe: This website is designed to give everyone an
idea of what our universe actually looks like. There are nine main
maps, each one approximately ten times the scale of the previous one.
The first map shows the nearest stars and then the other maps slowly
expand out until we have reached the scale of the entire visible universe.
Evolutionary
Journey: Produced
by the Institute of Human Origins and Terra Incognita Interactive
Media, this website won a Webby Award this year. Although it takes
a long time to load it is worth persevering. Evolutionary Journey
also has a Learning Center with a collection of suggested activities
and lesson plans.
Book
Section
ISBN
0 521 00252 4
Against the backdrop
of an unprecedented concern for health today, The Cambridge
Illustrated History of Medicine not only surveys the rise
of medicine in the West from earliest times to the present
day, but also glimpses into the future. It is written by a
team of experts co-ordinated by one of the most distinguished
and prolific writers and researchers into the history of medicine.
Written with style,
imagination and insight, and packed with interesting illustrations,
this authoritative book traces the development through the
ages of plays and playwriting, forms of staging, the acting
profession and the role of the actor. From satire and burlesque
to melodrama and pantomime, this is a major history of British
theatre from the earliest times to the present day.
The Cambridge Illustrated
History of Germany presents a richly illustrated, integrated,
chronological account of German history from Charlemagne to
the modern era. Martin Kitchen focuses particularly on the
German people. In this way he illuminates and puts into perspective
the country's political history, from its origins as a collection
of small, German-speaking states to its present-day status
as a major European and world power.
Do you
want to have your website listed in our web directory? If so, send
a brief description (about 150 words) and the URL to spartacus@pavilion.co.uk.
