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July 13, 2001

More Pictures of WIT

Banner Generators
When you finish making your banner, right click on it and save image as.
http://www.linuxenvy.com/bprentice/Banners/Banners.html
http://www.wealthworld.com/bannertools.htm
http://www.crecon.com/banners/

7/12/01
Click on these links to get ideas for activites.

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/interculture/learnact4.htm#top
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/nflrc.html#heads
http://www.nd.edu/~gtu/resource/hstheo_teachng/lrn-activits.html

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7/11/01

This Friday and next, lunch will start at 12:30 instead of 12:00. This gives the morning sections another half an hour to work on their projects. Afternoon people should still try to arrive by 1. The talk will start at 1:10 pm. -Craig

Afternoon people are welcome to arrive earlier than 1 (as early as 12:30) in order to have a more leisurely lunch. -craig

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7/10/01

You can change the background in your pages. Click here and scroll down to the "Copying Backgrounds" section.

Essential Components of WIT Web Based Lesson

Gamma's Reminder Page

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7/9/01

The "higher order thinking skills" that are supposed to be a major focus of our webquests. Briefly Browse, and Bookmark those you want to revisit.

Gamma's Page on HOTS

Covington, Tennessee Schools Site

CPS - Higher Order Thinking Skills

Questioning Toolkit

Essential Questions

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7/6/01

Matrix of WebQuests

7/5/01Policies
This page is designed to communicate to WIT participants certain policies regarding attendance, lane credit, recertification credit, and the CUIP stipend.

Pictures of Epsilon Participants

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Plenary Details:

Friday (tomorrow) (7/6) is our first plenary/lunch session. Here are the details:

NOTE: BSLC is the building we had our orientation session in. Room 001 is the same room that we used for the orientation.

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

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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.

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6/28/01

1. Grace and Earlene, please see Edie or Terry.

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

 

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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 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.

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Examples

Homepages
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~djoyner/index.html (Kindergarten)
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~jward/index.html (4th grade)
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~twasik/index.html (2nd grade)
Lessons
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~djoyner/weblesson.html (Kindergarten)
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~nqwaisini/lesson.html (1st grade)
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~jward/states.html (4th grade)
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~twasik/rfhome.html (2nd grade)

All of WIT Products: 1997 to 2000

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Note received by mentors about Attendance:

lane credit course roster and attendance sheet

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.

Second Note:

WIT mentors:

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

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Graphics Pages

Free Graphics
 http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Graphics/

Animations
 http://www.animationlibrary.com/

School Image Gallery
 http://www.hoxie.org/clipart/clip00.htm

Cultural, Ethnic and Spiritual Graphics
 http://graphics.fortunecity.com/

More
Background sets
Celtic Web Art
Animation Factory - Free animated gifs, clip art, and graphics
The Free Site: Free Graphics, free stuff, freeware, icons, backgrounds, patterns, buttons
Animation Library - Over 3500 free animations
IconBAZAAR
MediaBuilder
http://www.pics4learning.com/
Clipart Castle
Clipart.com
Dan's House Collection - House Graphics Galore!
http://members.aol.com/Grumpy2nAM/graphics.htm
Graphics
Twilight Design
graphindex
CatStuff--Cat Graphics, Information, and More
Cat Graphic Links
bellsnwhistles.com - Animated Graphics - Animated Graphics Index -

http://www.freegraphics.com/

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This was just in time for our Searching Module:

6/20/01 (opinions expressed are the newsletter's)

T h e I n t e r n e t T o u r B u s \___/
http://www.TOURBUS.com

TODAY'S TOURBUS TOPIC: Online Safety for Kids

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

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Typing Practice:

for a list of downloadables for PCs, see

http://www.easytype.com/

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

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Resources:

Teaching Guide

Teaching Guide Template

Managing Bookmarks

Using Existing Web Quests

Composer Module

Composer Buttons, Menus, and Bars

Graphics sites.

Making Folders and Planning

homepage suggestions

Homepage Rubric

Mac to PC and PC to Mac

Computer Basics

Curriculum Terms & Concepts

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Edie & Terry