Education on the Internet
Number 50: 24th December 2002
Introduction
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 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 30,380 subscribers to the newsletter.
All reviews are added to our web directory. There are sections on Primary Education, English, Mathematics, Science, Modern Languages, History, Geography, Design & Technology, Business Studies, Media Studies, ICT, Sociology, Music, Politics, Economics, Photography, Art & Design, Theatre Studies, Physical Education and Religious Studies.
John Simkin
BETT: The BETT show, the annual international event that encourages and extends effective use of ICT in education, is being held at Olympia on 8th to 11th January, 2003. At the show there are numerous opportunities for professional development including the seminar programme and the Policy in Practice area offering practical advice on implementing education policy and funding. With thousands of educational software, hardware, online, multimedia and IT support products and services on display, this event has become the only opportunity in the education calendar where you can establish the best products for your institution from the entire range of leading educational suppliers.
Spring Day Plaza: The Plaza is where visitors to the website can find teachers from Europe and beyond. It is the place where you to talk about life, family, the past, present and future of Europe. The plaza includes a lobby for everybody to meet, a special area for scheduled chats, and chat rooms for topical talks. People can open their own chat rooms to get some peace and quiet for a conversation.
Windows Protection Errors can occur due to many different causes, including: virtual driver (VxD) problems, conflicts between real-mode and protected-mode drivers, a damaged Registry; a virus; Plug-and-Play malfunction; and hardware problems, including a malfunctioning cache, malfunctioning RAM, or a damaged motherboard. The articles on this website should be quite helpful in identifying and resolving these problems.
European Directory: A directory of 280 Internet links on Europe. The material is organized under the headings: Enlargement, Economy, Newspapers, Politics, History, Citizen & Culture, European Union Institutions, Statistics, Atlas, European Countries, Pedagogy and Miscellaneous.
History
GCSE History Pages: A website produced by history teachers at the Dartford Technology College. A revision site for GCSE Schools History project students it has been online for 18 months and is steadily growing. It's main features include interactive tests and quizzes, revision tips, practice exam papers with mark-schemes for self assessment, revision notes and structured lessons. It also has an ask a teacher facility which is open for anyone to use.
The Alger Hiss Story: This website recreates one of the most important legal cases in this country's history, often cited as a turning point in 20th century American thinking. The website is an authoritative portal for access to primary information about Alger Hiss, the Hiss case and the early Cold War years - including new scholarship, newly released official documents from various governments and government agencies, and the archival material, such as trial testimony, court and government records and commentary, collected in many libraries and online repositories.
English
LibrarySpot: Published by StartSpot Mediaworks in the Northwestern University, LibrarySpot is the first in a family of vertical information portals designed to make finding the best topical information on the Internet a quick, easy and enjoyable experience. LibrarySpot is a free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information. To date, LibrarySpot has received more than 30 awards and honors.
Roget's Thesaurus: Peter Roget was a physician at the Manchester Infirmary. As a young man he began to compile a simple wordlist for his own use and during his lifetime he continued to improve and add to it. In 1852 he published his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a collection of words and phrases arranged according to ideas rather than alphabetically. This website provides a free online version of this amazing work.
Geography
European WebQuest: A collection of WebQuests on European issues. Subjects include Europa (Janet Spalding), Western Europe Geography (Debbie Joy & Brenda Tomlinson), Travelling in Europe (Gayle Mitchell & Sandra Ellis), Travelling in Western Europe (Reanne Gruhn), The Best Way to See Europe (Patricia Dube) and EuroQuest (Shannon Hemmingson).
Geography Virtual School: David Robinson's website provides thirteen geography lessons. Titles include: The Structure of the Earth, Plate Tectonics, Causes of Earthquakes, Predicting Earthquakes, Earthquake Case Study: Klobe, Volcanoes and Volcanics, Volcanoes Case Study: Mt. St Helens, Rock Groups, Types of Glaciers, Erosional Glacial Features, Depositional Glacial Features and Glacier Case Study: Mer de Glace.
Music
Silent Night Museum: Silent Night has become an anchor for Christmas celebrations throughout the world. Its lullaby-like melody and simple message of heavenly peace can be heard from small town street corners in mid-America to magnificent cathedrals in Europe and from outdoor candlelight concerts in Australia to palm thatched huts in northern Peru. This cyber-museum was created by historian Bill Egan to provide a world wide audience with the true story behind the composition of "Silent Night" by Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber.
Pure Eighties Pop: Relive your memories of the decade that gave the world the sound of pop, the unforgettable 80s! Try the quick quizzes, search for that certain song through our sound files, tell us your top tens or look at our links to find out about those eighties icons. All this and loads more at the ultimate UK tribute to the decade of pop. This site is regularly updated, so always check out the noticeboard and the what's new section for latest additions.
Media Studies
Slip-Ups: The term "Slip-Up" means any amusing accidental blooper or mistake that wasn't caught, and made its way to the viewing public. They can be inconsistencies in movies, like an actor wearing something in one shot, and it's missing in the next shot. Or they can be funny errors in books. The website includes sections on Movies (9,052), TV (2,148), Books (266) and Quotes (181).
Internet Movie Database: The Internet Movie Database is the ultimate online movie database covering over 325,000 titles and over 1,000,000 people with facts, trivia, reviews plus multimedia links from the earliest films to the latest releases. The Movie database can be searched by Movie/TV Title, Cast/Crew Name, Character Name and Word Search.
Advertising
Times Literary Supplement: Subscribe online today and enjoy a reduced subscription rate, free access to the TLS Subscriber Archive. Subscribers can search every issue of the paper back to October 1994.
Scholarship Experts: Fill out the form on the website and with some basic information about yourself to see how many current scholarships you are potentially eligible for. Once the nine-step profile is complete, you can see how many scholarships match your profile and then decide whether or not to subscribe to the time-saving Scholarship Experts service.
Teacher 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." You can search by item number, title, keyword, topic, subject area, or age/grade.
