Education
on the Internet
Number
49: 18th December 2002
Introduction
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
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involved in using the Internet in education. Currently there are 30,750
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Studies, Media Studies, ICT,
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Politics, Economics,
Photography,
Art & Design, Theatre
Studies, Physical Education and
Religious Studies.
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News
and Articles
Virtual
Magazine for Teachers: Every day the eSchoolnet Virtual Magazine
offers the latest news about eLearning in Europe's classrooms. Whether
you're interested in news about events, training, resources, technology,
or the future of schools, the eSchoolnet magazine is for you and your
school. The current edition includes Technology Training for Head
Teachers, Canada: Virtual Institute for Innovative Schools and Can
We Learn Digitally?
Partner
Schools: Peer
Brok, the international coordinator from a school for vocational education
in the sector healthcare, welfare and services, in Tilburg, The Netherlands,
is looking for partner schools, who are interested in students exchange
(Leonardo da Vinci programme), for placements/practical training periods
for students in education: nursing care, social work (handicapped
people, community work, youth work), sports and movement, fashion
and clothing, haircare, doctors assistant, pharmacist assistant and
dentist assistant. Peer Brok can be contacted by email at pbrok@rocmb.nl.
Broadband:
UK consumers are taking up broadband services at a faster rate than
other key European countries, according to Oftel. Broadband connections
have now reached 28,000 a week in the UK, a higher rate of growth
than in France, Germany. Sweden and the USA. Oftel’s
research also indicates that residential broadband prices in the UK
have fallen substantially in recent months and are now as cheap as
in France Germany or the US. DSL
prices have fallen 27 percent in the UK since February 2002, while
cable modem prices continue to be cheaper than DSL.
Internet
Services
E-mail
Anywhere: This free service lets you check your existing email
account using a standard web browser. You can use it to keep in touch
from anywhere with access to the Internet. You can read any messages
waiting for you, send replies, and delete unwanted items from your
Inbox. The only thing you need to use the service is an active POP3
email account. This includes virtually all email accounts provided
by internet service providers, schools and universities.
Brightmail:
According to Brightmail spam now accounts for 40 percent of all email,
up from eight percent last year. The company’s statistics indicates
that more than 5.5 million unsolicited emails were intercepted during
November, three percent more than in October. The research also reveals
that 15 percent of unsolicited email is of a pornographic nature,
while financial services mail accounts for 32 percent of all spam.
Product advertising accounted for 29 percent of all unsolicited email
sent during November 2002, according to the filtering firm.
Google
Catalogs: Google has made it a lot easier to find the perfect
present from mail-order catalogs that are
not available online anywhere else. Google Catalog Search includes
the full contents of hundreds of catalogs selling everything from
industrial adhesives to clothing and home furnishings. Whether you're
looking to buy for yourself, your business, or that special someone
in your life, Google Catalog Search can help.
Christmas
Resources
Santa
Penalty Shootout: In an update from previous versions, the hugely
popular Santa Penalty Shootout from SchoolHistory is now available
again for the Christmas season. Ideal for something a little different
at the end of term. With either Santa, or one of his helpers (complete
with Santa suit), in goal you are asked 10 random questions about
the history and traditions of Christmas. One and two player versions
add to the fun. However, as before, Santa isn't too generous in goal.
Christmas
in Europe: Did you know that in Spain children wait until January
6th for their Christmas presents. Children put shoes by the front
door to get their gifts which are brought by the Three Wise Men. This
website, created by Núria de Salvador for the Spring Europe
Project, explains the different ways that Christmas is celebrated
in Europe. The website is in English but the activities have been
constructed for modern language students.
Seasonal
Fun: A series of seasonal activities produced by Teaching and
Learning Resources. Includes a Christmas Wordsearch, Christmas Crossword,
Christmas Webquest (find the answers to these Christmas questions
by visiting a variety of Christmas websites) and the Christmas Pelmanism
Challenge.
Citizenship
Speak
Out! This is
a pan-European project that aims to get young people thinking and
talking about European issues in the classroom and online. It is now
in its third year and has proved very popular with teachers and students
across Europe. The website hosts discussion for about nine European
issues. A teacher guide accompanies the project, which gives informative
briefings on the issues as well as ideas for classroom activities
and discussion topics.
Citizenship:
Schemes of Work: The
Standards Site is managed by the Department for Education and Employment's
Standards and Effectiveness Unit (SEU). The main objective of the
site is to supply teachers with "guidance and tools to help schools
improve effectiveness, raise standards and reduce workload".
This part of the website provides guidance about the citizenship aspects
of the non statutory framework for PSHE and citizenship at key stages
1 and 2. It includes: a
Teacher's guide, with practical ideas about whole-school planning,
approaches to and provision of citizenship; exemplar units with learning
objectives based on the citizenship aspects of the PSHE and citizenship
framework, suggested teaching activities to meet those objectives
and defined outcomes of pupils' learning.
Lesson
Plans
Education
Resource Center:
This website is dedicated to helping professional educators, student
teachers, parents, mentors and tutors educate students by providing
access to education resources of the highest quality. The Education
Resource Center provides: (1) Education news published by the most
creditable news sources. (2) Assistance writing lesson plans. (3)
Links to thousands of Lesson Plans. (4) Internet search assistance
that provides access to all available education resources.
In2Edu:
Free educational
resources, lesson plans, integrated themes and thematic units, free
downloads and software, teaching ideas, ICT units, and education links.
All links in a unique downloadable educational database. World wide
education use with a New Zealand sites feature. Unique certificates
and banners for classroom display.
Photography
American
Museum of Photography: An outstanding website for anyone interested
in photography. Current exhibitions include: The Face of Slavery,
Ghosts & Ectoplasm Captured by the Camera, Scot Mutter: A More
Perfect World, The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes, The Outlandish
World of William H. Martin, Masterworks of Photography, At Ease (early
American portrait daguerreotypes), An Eye for the World (photographs
of Shotaro Shimomura) and Of Bricks and Light (architectural photographs
1845-1915).
Through
the Lens of Time: This website allows you to search or browse
nearly 300 images of African Americans dating from the nineteenth
and early twentieth century from the Cook Collection of Photographs.
These digitally scanned images are of prints taken by George S. Cook
(1819-1902) and Huestes P. Cook (1868-1951). The Through the Lens
of Time website is a joint project between VCU Libraries and the Valentine
Richmond History Center.
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Created Materials: Teacher Created Materials is an educational
publishing company founded in 1982 by Rachelle Cracchiolo and Mary
Dupuy Smith, two classroom teachers. All the products available on
the website are "created by teachers for teachers and parents."
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