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Edited by award winning teacher, author and International speaker, Marjan Glavac, The Busy Educator's Newsletter provides a wealth of ideas, tips and sites to transform wasted hours into hours of real educational value |
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| Every day in schools
and homes across the country, hours of valuable time are wasted surfing
the Internet. Students bounce around aimlessly like pinballs. Parents and
teachers, struggle to keep up. How can students, parents and teachers make
better use of their Internet time? How can teachers find the best
educational sites for their students? How can parents ensure their children's safety when they're out surfing?
The Busy Educator's Newsletter is a free monthly newsletter e-mailed to over 1800 teachers, librarians, homeschoolers and parents. Edited by award winning teacher, author and International speaker, Marjan Glavac, the newsletter provides a wealth of ideas, tips and sites to transform wasted hours into hours of real educational value. Once a month, read about educational resources such as book , software and educational game reviews and the latest news on Internet projects and tips on how to integrate the Internet into the curriculum. Back issues are available at http://www.glavac.com To subscribe: send an email message with "SUBSCRIBE BUSY EDUCATOR" in the subject header to marjan@glavac.com or go to our web site and subscribe at: http://www.glavac.com Here are just a few of the invaluable tips for every educator: Three "must see" educational sites : Global SchoolNet Foundation http://www.gsn.org/ offers projects that really work, with a lot of supporting lesson plans and a moderator to help you out; mailing lists and archives that you can subscribe to right from their page and lots of great contests to motivate students and teachers. Digital Education Network http://www.actden.com/ delivers gr. 7-12 reading, writing, math lessons and marks tests for you; shows students and teachers how to create cool digital art; presents an introduction to using the Internet and much more. Teachers Net http://teachers.net/ features teacher chat boards, real time chat rooms, job boards for teaching positions, lesson plans, mailrings and an archive of past live meetings. The one mailing list every librarian should join: LM_NET: (Library Media
Networking) http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net
boasts over 10,000 librarians world wide exchanging great tips and strategies
Keeping kids safe in the world of technology: This fantastic site contains
online safety guides, filtering
The World Wide Web is a veritable goldmine for teachers and students. For teachers, there are web sites that offer hundreds of free lesson plans only clicks away. There are even specialized search engines that have been handpicked as the best resources geared for educators and students who need to find it fast. And when your students or children ask you questions that you can't answer, there's a list of "expert" sites, where answers and tips on where to go for additional information are freely available. To get a free report titled Eleven Great Tips for Making The Most Of
Your Time On The Internet send an e-mail message to 11tips@sendfree.com
with 11 tips in the subject line.
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