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Heather Newman has a good column in the Detroit Free
Press, News
for kids, advice for parents. Ms. Newman links to some
sites that provide timely advice about kids and terrorism.
Some of the links are good ones to just have on file for
counseling purposes and others are just good general kids'
sites.
With national attention here in the United States justifiably focused on the continuing story of the World Trade Center and Pentagon terrorist attacks, there's an understandable lull in education news. A week or so ago, I used a similar lull in daily news of interest to educators to highlight the Macintosh freeware TomeViewer. One of the reasons that I chose TomeViewer, beyond its obvious usefulness, is that it is only available now on a couple of sites ("endangered freeware?"). With the demise of Newer Technology last December and the subsequent removal of their site, it appeared some excellent freewares and device drivers maintained by Newer might also slip away. Fortunately, Bernie Case was able to establish a Newer Technology mirror site which now appears on his new domain, technojunkie.org. Besides carrying the Newer mirror archive and support forum, technojunkie.org carries a number of other items, including a great Funnies Archive with a specific Education and School section.
(Update 6/29/2002) With Newer Technology returning from bankruptcy, Bernie's mirror site is no longer active and the Newer urls above have been changed to reflect that.) Having reviewed three Mac freewares, let me quickly add that 1st Class Software has upgraded 1st Class Gradebook to version 7.0. While once a dual platform application, the Mac version has disappeared from the web since I reviewed it in View from the Classroom. Version 7.0 supports Windows 3.1/95/98/ME/NT/2000. Ruth Ann Baker, writing for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
asks, How
many teachers would $2 million hire? She's referring to
the Quaker Valley School District's giving every teacher and
student in grades 3-12 a wireless laptop. Baker writes,
"This experimental project is clearly a massive undertaking.
It's exciting, it's whizbang, and it's not a very wise
idea...Until the student-to-teacher ratio drops to
10-to-one, I'd vote to spend money on more teachers every
single time -- to choose messenger over
medium."
Education Week's daily education news clips page for today is a Special Edition: Terror Touches Schools. All else pretty much pales in importance in comparison to the national tragedy in New York and Washington, D.C.. Our prayers go out to those injured and to the families who have lost loved ones. The SchwabLearning.org's new offerings for for parents and educators this week include:
It's the first Monday after Labor Day in the United States and the flood of Sunday education supplements has abated. That makes it a good time to peek at some of the standing educational resources available on the web from some traditional news sources. The Washington Post maintains an extensive Education: Schools, & Parenting section online. Being a K-12 type, I immediately found a story of interest in that section about Saxon Math. In the Kids Post Brainfood section, I found 9 year old Kara Godbout's mnemonic for remembering the parts of a good map, "Green and blue kissing toads." The Trends & Debates page carried links to issues such as Creationism vs. Evolution, Gifted & Talented Education, and Phonics & Whole Language. I've mentioned the New York Times Learning Network previously in Busman's Holiday and View from the Classroom columns, but the section bears re-listing as another potential source of learning materials. The Learning Network features student news summaries that are updated Monday through Friday and a lesson plan archive for teachers. Starting points besides the base URL are Student Connections and Teacher Connections. CNN also maintains a teacher resources page. If you have some suggestions, news ideas, etc., please . |
The
old Gauge Utilities have now been rolled into one
application, 
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