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| Teachers.Net Gazette Vol.6 No.6 |
June 2009 |
| Cover Story by Graysen Walles |
| Teaching – The Power of Influence
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| The impact of teaching is clear, and the influence of the profession is immeasurable. All it takes is one moment, one situation, one discussion to turn the life of a young learner. |
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| Harry & Rosemary Wong: Effective Teaching |
| Nine Year Summary of Articles, 2000 to 2009 |
| On April 26, 2009, President Obama hosted the four 2009 finalists for America’s top national teaching honor, the National Teacher of the Year award. Alex Kajitani, who teaches mathematics at Mission Middle School in the Escondido Union (Elementary) School District in San Diego County was one of the four finalists. |
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| Columns |
| » | The Three R’s for Summer— Rest, Relax and Recharge! Sue Gruber |
| » | Buddy Programs for Elementary Schools Leah Davies |
| » | Moving to September Todd R. Nelson |
| » | Ronald Reagan and the Art of Influence Marvin Marshall |
| » | The Busy Educator's Monthly Five Marjan Glavac |
| » | Substitute issues: Bathroom Passes & Anger Management Barbara Pressman |
| » | Preparing Students for Travel: Films and Immunizations Josette Bonafino |
| » | A Message to Share with Parents about Summer Learning Dorothy Rich |
| » | Classroom Clean-Up and Clay in a Can Rick Morris |
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| Articles |
| » | Schools and Filters: Ice Age, the Meltdown Matt Levinson |
| » | Effort: It Can be Taught! Deborah Granger |
| » | Homework: Damned if you do, and if you don’t Alan Haskvitz |
| » | Parents Are Recruits, Teachers Are Responsible, Kids Are Victims, and Schools Are Culpable For At-Risk Problems Bill Page |
| » | 12 Ways to Stop Conflict in its Tracks! Susan Fitzell |
| » | Using Photographs To Inspire Writing VIII Hank Kellner |
| » | The Writing on the Wall Tim Newlin |
| » | More Brain Teasers Steve Sherman |
| » | Teacher of Facts - and of Life Rachelle Ann A. Abad |
| » | Grant Writing Tips Kimberly McCloud |
| » | Bald is Beautiful! Teachers, Students Lose Locks to Fight Childhood Cancer David Peter Marchesseault |
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| Features |
| » | Apple Seeds: Inspiring Quotes Barb Stutesman |
| » | Today Is... Daily Commemoration Ron Victoria |
| » | The Lighter Side of Teaching |
| » | Video Bytes; Literacy Empowers (Illiteracy Awareness), The Underground Railroad, Wikis in Plain English - CommonCraft tutorial, Twitter in Plain English – a CommonCraft tutorial, Naturally 7 music group on Tavis Smiley Show, Tour the International Space Station!
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| » | Teacher Blogs Showcase |
| » | Printable - Ice Cream in a Baggie Recipe |
| » | Featured Lessons, Wisdom from the Chat Achives, and Timely Printables Especially for June! |
| » | What Is A Document Camera? What Does It Do? |
| » | Newsdesk: Events & Opportunities for Teachers |
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Marjan Glavac
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The Busy Educator's Monthly Five: June 2009
Marjan pulls 5 more not-to-miss web sites out of his hat for teachers everywhere! Tech tips and sites, help for foreign language teachers, Deaf-Blind resources, Art online. Check it out!
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by Marjan Glavac
Regular contributor to the Gazette
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Each month Marjan Glavac, professional speaker, teacher and co-author of "How To Thrive And Survive In Your Classroom", presents The Busy Educator's Monthly Five -- five websites for educators that are easy to read, simple to use and worthwhile to know about.
Sign up for his free monthly Busy Educator’s Newsletter at:
www.thebusyeducator.com
Here they are,
Marjan's Monthly Five picks:
MARILYN WESTERN'S TECHNOLOGY TIPS FOR CLASSROOM TEACHERS
http://www.edzone.net/~mwestern
Marilyn Western's Technology Tips for Classroom Teachers is a practical, easy to use website designed for the new and experienced teacher. Spend some time browsing through Marilyn’s site and you’ll quickly learn why Marilyn Western is one of Michigan's finest resources for technology professional development.
INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES FOR FRENCH/SPANISH/GERMAN/WELSH TEACHERS AND LEARNERS
(GR. 4-12)
http://www.zut.org.uk
Zut! provides a comprehensive set of interactive activities for French/Spanish German and Welsh teachers and learners, featuring more than 500 exercises, over 100 of which have audio samples of native speakers. It is an easily navigated resource, organized for each year of study, and also includes exercises for the interactive whiteboard.
DEAFBLIND INFO: MINNESOTA'S DEAFBLINDNESS RESOURCE
www.deafblindinfo.org
Helen Keller is a household name. But do you know about… Laura Bridgman, Danny Delcambre, or your elderly neighbor? …the modern technology and communication methods deafblind people use in daily life? …where to find information and assistance if you experience vision and hearing loss?
DeafBlindinfo.org showcases a vast collection of deafblindness information and resources in Minnesota and from around the world.
THINKPORT (TEACHERS AND PARENTS)
www.thinkport.org
Thinkport has loads of digital classroom resources (from PBS and other high-quality sources), lesson plans, activities, and interactive electronic field trips. It also offers professional development courses for teachers, technology tutorials and some great tools for building classroom websites and customizing projects on the web.
THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART "COLLECTIONS ONLINE"
collectionsonline.lacma.org
"Collections Online" is a fully-searchable database featuring the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. With access to almost 70,000 works of art, it is one of the largest databases developed by an art museum in the U.S.
Accessible on the site are costumes, textiles paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs and decorative arts from the following areas: Africa, Japan, China, Korea, Southeast Asia, Europe, the U.S. and the Islamic world. Thousands of these artworks have never been published or exhibited before. This site offers a rare opportunity to see artworks normally in storage and available only to curators. It is a very helpful resource to instructors or students of all ages looking for information about art or illustrations.
P.S. To learn more about Marjan Glavac's
The Busy Educator's Newsletter, go to:
www.thebusyeducator.com OR e-mail at:
marjan@glavac.com
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The Busy Educator's Monthly Five/June 2009
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About Marjan Glavac...
Marjan Glavac (BA, BEd, MA) is a professional speaker, teacher and author. He is a full time classroom teacher with 25 years teaching experience. He has taught and continues to teach students from the inner city, students with emotional/behavioral disorders, ESL, and IEP students. He is an international speaker and workshop presenter.
Marjan is the author of 3 books: The Busy Educator’s Guide To The World Wide Web 1st Edition, and 2nd Edition, and How To Make A Difference: Inspiring Students To Do Their Best, the creator of one of the Internet’s longest running free teacher monthly newsletters: The Busy Educator’s Newsletter (1998) and co-author of "How To Thrive And Survive In Your Classroom".
Since 1993, Marjan has been involved in dozens of telecommunications projects involving students from K-University on every continent of the world. His K-8 students have also participated in e-mail, travel buddy, research projects and polishing mirrors for the NASA Starshine project. He and his classes have been filmed by TVO and Global's Kids-TV; featured in all local media - newspapers, TV, radio, as well as nationally in Reader's Digest, Toronto Star, Globe & Mail, Today's Parent, Home and Educational Computing and internationally on WGN and NPR radio, websites and dozens of student newspapers worldwide.
Marjan is currently a gr.6 home room teacher at Wilfrid Jury Public School in London, Ontario, Canada where he resides with his wife and two children. For more information about Marjan Glavac, his books, keynotes, training and seminars, visit him at his site at http://www.thebusyeducator.com
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Marjan Glavac Columns on Teachers.Net...
- Marilyn Western's Technology Tips For Classroom Teachers, Interactive Activities For French/Spanish/German/Welsh Teachers And Learners, Deafblind Info: Minnesota's Deafblindness Resource, Thinkport (Teachers And Parents), and The Los Angeles County Museum Of Art "Collections Online" (June 09)
- College Prep Physics, Ap Physics B, The Art Window (Gr. 4-12), World History And Geography (Gr. 9-12), and The Thoreau Reader (Teachers) (May 09)
- Iloveschools.Com, Real English Online, Classroom Displays And Bulletin Boards K-8, Pbs Parents: Struggling To Learn (Parents And Teachers), Reach Every Child (K-12) (Apr. 09)
- Ultrabug Cliposcope, World Myths & Legends In Art Minneapolis Institute Of Arts, The Tree: A Graphic Organizer For Expository Paragraphs And Summaries, Trading Around The World, and Where In The World And What In The World Is Money? (Mar. 09)
- The Artist's Toolkit: Visual Elements And Principles, The Fin, Fur And Feather Bureau Of Investigation, Calliope, Muse Of Eloquence, Teachers Without Borders, Shedd Educational Adventures (Sea) John G. Shedd Aquarium (Feb. 09)
- Brainsarefun, Ariel's Homepage, Scott L. Waldman's Technology Workshop, Learn To Write...Free Tracing Paper, Marie's Free Spelling Course (Jan. 09)
- Make hand washing fun & effectiveness; Native American arts exhibit online; The Teacher List; English for Spanish speakers; Test your brain with an online police artist drawing device (Dec. 08)
- Literacy Volunteer Connection, Computer Science & Business Education Site, How Stuff Works, Postcards From America, Monetary Mania Social Studies Web Adventure (Nov. 08)
- www Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources, Biomedia, Schoolweb.se, Anacleta's Spanish & World Language/Culture Links, Behind The Name (Oct. 08)
- Addressing learning difficulties; Teacher resource; All things Science; Games and writing skills help; Secondary level English lesson plans (Sept. 08)
- Speaking Of Speech.Com, Flying Turtle Science And Technology Exploring, and more (Aug. 08)
- Human Space Flight, Genetic Science Learning Center, and more (July 08)
- web-based Ghost Towns, games, topical tutorials, and more (May 08)
- Writing, Genealogy, Soil, and more (April 08)
- Miscellaneous Sites (Mar. 08)
- Art Sites (Feb. 08)
- Miscellaneous Sites (Jan. 08)
- Back to School Sites (Aug. 03)
- Language Arts Sites Part 3 (July 03)
- Language Arts Sites Part 2 (June 03)
- Language Arts Sites Part 1 (May 03)
- English As a Second Language (ESL) Sites (Apr. 03)
- Art Sites (Mar. 03)
- College and University Sites (Feb. 03)
- Sites for School Principals and High School Teachers (Jan. 03)
- Sites For Grades 7 to 8 (Dec. 02)
- Sites For Grades 4 to 8 (Nov. 02)
- Primary Sites Grades Pre-K to 3 (Oct. 02)
- Primary Sites Grades Pre-K to 3 (Sept. 02)
- Back to School (Aug. 02)
- Sites For Beginning Teachers Part 2 (Jult 02)
- Sites For Beginning Teachers Part 1 (June 02)
- Theme Sites Part 2 (May 02)
- Theme Sites Part 1 (Apr. 02)
- Lesson Planning Sites Part 6 (Mar. 02)
- Lesson Planning Sites Part 5 (Feb. 02)
- Lesson Planning Sites Part 4 (Jan. 02)
- Lesson Planning Sites Part 3 (Dec. 01)
- Five For Lesson Planning (pt 2) (Nov. 01)
- Five For Lesson Planning (Sept. 01)
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