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Covington, Tennessee Schools Site
CPS - Higher Order Thinking Skills
7/5/01 Policies
This page is designed to communicate to WIT participants certain policies
regarding attendance, lane credit, recertification credit, and the CUIP
stipend.
Morning people will leave their sessions in time to arrive at BSLC at 12:00 (noon). Lunch will be available then. People should grab their lunch and eat either in the lobby area of BSLC, in room 001, or outside (if the weather is nice). Then by 1:10 they should be seated in 001.
Afternoon people need to arrive by 1 pm at the latest. They will grab their lunch and by 1:10 be seated in 001 for the plenary address.
Robin Burke, co-founder of WIT, will speak from about 1:10 to 2:00 on the future of the Internet. There will be an opportunity after 2 to ask questions and have discussion. We will wrap up by about 2:30, when morning participants may go home and afternoon participants will go to their afternoon WIT sessions.
7/3/01 -none
7/2/01 -none
6/29/01
Sheila, please see Edie/Terry.
Links to Standards sites:
http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/lstandards.html
Illinois State Learning Goals page
http://www.cps.k12.il.us/Instruction/CAS/
The Chicago Public Schools Academic Standards and Frameworks and an
introduction to them. http://www.aft.org/edissues/standards/index.htm
American Federation of Teachers Academic Standards page includes documents
like "Making
Standards Matter" report of November 1999.
2. You might try including a quiz in your web activity (see below).
"Craig A. Cunningham" wrote:
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There are some really good tools available on the web, however, including at http://quizbuilder.com, http://www.quia.com/
and http://www.funbrain.com/
.
=Craig
6/22/01
1. Next Thursday, there is no mentor meeting. We start at 1:00 PM.
2. Table of Contents for the handout pages are are available in HTML at http://webinstituteforteachers.org/2001/about/handouts.htm or in PDF at http://webinstituteforteachers.org/2001/about/handouts.pdf.
Please have participants print these out and insert into the handout
books.
The attendance sheet should be used BY YOU (not the participants) every day to take attendance. Mark if someone leaves more than 30 minutes early or arrives more than 30 minutes late. The course roster is to be turned in at the end.
I just spoke to Dr. Albritton and he said he'll make sure security understands WIT can stay until 5. (It would be good to really be out AT 5 rather than start wrapping up then.)
Let me know what happens tomorrow.
-craig
Animations
http://www.animationlibrary.com/
School Image Gallery
http://www.hoxie.org/clipart/clip00.htm
Cultural, Ethnic and Spiritual Graphics
http://graphics.fortunecity.com/
Today I read a Reuters news story with a sobering statistic: 1 in 5 U.S. teenagers who regularly log on to the Internet say they have received an unwanted sexual solicitation. That's disturbing, but it's not cause for despair. Today's TOURBUS will offer helpful tips on how to protect your kids in cyberspace, and some great sites where kids can find safe and fun online activities.
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SAFEKIDS
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Larry Magid is a syndicated columnist and technology consultant for CBS News. His SafeKids website is the first place concerned parents should go to learn about the issues and equip themselves to protect the safety and privacy of their kids online. I especially recommend "Child Safety on the Information Highway" and "Kids' Rules for Online Safety" at this site.
The Directory of Parental Control Software and Filtered Internet service
providers is a helpful resource, and you may also want to read Magid's
article "Is it Spying or Parenting?" which discusses the pros and cons
of software to monitor your child's use of the computer
http://www.safekids.com
A lot of people ask me about Internet filtering software, but I'm not sold on the idea. There are so many ways for clever kids to get around the filters. Maybe they're a good idea for younger children, but for older teens you might consider monitoring instead of filtering. If you tell your kids that you will be checking up on their online whereabouts, and they know that's a condition of getting online, then (1) you don't have to worry about them defeating the filters and (2) the choice to act responsibly becomes theirs.
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CHAT DANGER
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Childnet International launched the ChatDanger site at the urging of
a family whose 13 year old child had been contacted and sexually abused
by an adult who met her through a chat room. The site seeks to educate
parents about the dangers of online chat and also gives helpful tips on
how kids can keep safe in chat rooms.
http://www.chatdanger.com
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YAHOOLIGANS
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From the Yahoo people, Yahooligans is a web guide just for kids, and
has the same basic look & feel. Categories include Around the World,
School Bell, Art & Entertainment , Science & Nature, Computers
& Games, Sports and News. The Parents & Teachers links offer tips
for online safety a guide to teaching with Yahooligans, and other useful
information for grown-ups.
http://www.yahooligans.com
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THE KIDS ON THE WEB
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This is an excellent site maintained as a labor of love by Internet
luminary Brendan Kehoe. Kids on the Web has links for Fun Stuff, Pen Pals,
Homework Tools, Children's Books & Stories, and Things for Teens. You
could spend days exploring all these links, and Brendan adds about 100
new ones every month.
http://www.zen.org/~brendan/kids.html
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Search?q=typing&x=0
http://freeware-search.com/freeware/kp-typing-tutor.htmlhtml
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000033901
http://freeware-search.com/freeware/typingtutor.html
for the Mac:
http://ssi.mac.tucows.com/preview/2523.html
http://ssi.mac.tucows.com/preview/56479.html
