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| Teachers.Net Gazette Vol.6 No.5 |
May 2009 |
| Cover Story by Matt Levinson |
| Schools and Facebook: Moving Too Fast,
or Not Fast Enough?
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| Schools can draw a line in the sand, with zero tolerance rules written into school handbooks, or they can shift with the changing sands of social networking and utilize social networking and Facebook to enhance teaching and learning. |
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| Harry & Rosemary Wong: Effective Teaching |
| Teachers Are the Greatest Assets |
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On the first day of school, the teacher across the hall commented to me that my students are "always so good!" It's not the students; it's the procedures that have proven to work. The First Days of School helps me to manage my class, so that I can be an effective teacher. |
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| Columns |
| » | Comedy Highlights from Room K-1! Sue Gruber |
| » | What Will Your Students Remember? Leah Davies |
| » | My Mrs. Krikorian Todd R. Nelson |
| » | Discipline Is a Liberating Word Marvin Marshall |
| » | The Busy Educator's Monthly Five Marjan Glavac |
| » | Help! Too Much Talk! Not Enough Work! Barbara Pressman |
| » | Mayan Sites and Paris Easy on the Purse Josette Bonafino |
| » | The Little Things that Count in Our Schools: Doing Something Different, Simple and Powerful Cheryl Sigmon |
| » | Teacher Morale Matters Dorothy Rich |
| » | Team Management - It’s in the Cards Rick Morris |
| » | Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century Hal Portner |
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| Articles |
| » | The Document Camera: A Better Way to Present! Joe Frisk |
| » | Need a Teaching Job? Here’s Where to Find One Alan Haskvitz |
| » | Make Twitter an Ally in the Classroom! Alan Haskvitz |
| » | Teaching Is... Bill Page |
| » | Celebrating True Heroes Graysen Walles |
| » | Digital Pens & Touch-Screens Tim Newlin |
| » | 12 Ways to Improve and Enhance Your Paraprofessional- Teacher Experience Susan Fitzell |
| » | May 2009 Writing Prompts James Wayne |
| » | Using Photographs To Inspire Writing VII Hank Kellner |
| » | How to Increase the Number of Physics and Chemistry Majors Stewart E. Brekke |
| » | Bibliotherapy Booklist for Elementary Students Lisa Bundrick |
| » | 8 Ways to Make Math Magical at School Steve Sherman |
| » | 5 Brainteasers Steve Sherman |
| » | What Will You Do For Shy Kids? Marjie Braun Knudsen |
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| Features |
| » | Apple Seeds: Inspiring Quotes Barb Stutesman |
| » | Today Is... Daily Commemoration Ron Victoria |
| » | The Lighter Side of Teaching |
| » | Photo Tour: 3rd Grade Classroom |
| » | Teacher Blogs Showcase |
| » | Carol Goodrow's Kids Running Printables |
| » | Dolch word activities, end of first grade test, first grade memory book, map and geography lessons for all levels, IEP progress, and graduation ceremonies songs |
| » | Video Bytes; Are You Going to Finish Strong?, Antarctica, Ted Talks - Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?, How Big Is Will?, The Sling Shot Man, Styrofoam Cup vs. Deep Sea |
| » | Live on Teachers.Net: May 2009 |
| » | New Teacher Induction Programs |
| » | Newsdesk: Events & Opportunities for Teachers |
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Marjan Glavac
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The Busy Educator's Monthly Five: May 2009
This month Marjan offers exemplary sites dedicated to advanced and AP physics lessons, the fine arts, world history and annotated Thoreau supporting the study of Walden, In the Maine Woods, Civil Disobedience, and other works.
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by Marjan Glavac
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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:
COLLEGE PREP PHYSICS
cpphysics.homestead.com
Contains: College Prep Physics level syllabus, lesson plans, physics projects, PhysicsQuests, tutorials and 200+ annotated physics resources
AP PHYSICS B
apphysicsb.homestead.com
Contains: Advanced Placement Physics level syllabus, lesson plans, step-by-step problem solving strategies, 111 physics facts for the AP Physics B exam, physics projects, PhysicsQuests, tutorials and 200+ annotated physics resources.
THE ART WINDOW (GR. 4-12)
www.mmwindowtoart.com
The Art Window presents Fine Art concepts with student work as teaching displays. These exemplify a stated art curriculum offering sample links as topic examples. A separate directory offers explorations in Art Fundamentals, Drawing, Graphic, Painting, 3D, Mixed Media and Word art. It is intended for teachers, students, and all who many never had opportunities to enjoy the "doing" of art. Pages explore basics in art experiences and techniques at various levels of competence with light, friendly content. It is an open invitation to succeed.
WORLD HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY (GR. 9-12)
www.studentsfriend.com
It is the goal of this website to benefit students by offering teachers a useful guide to teaching world history and geography. Materials available on this website range from a teaching rationale to classroom activities to a textbook - or, more accurately, a concise textbook alternative. These materials should be considered working drafts to be improved upon or replaced with better materials through a dialogue among teachers. In this way, every teacher need not reinvent the wheel. Education can become more effective if we build on experience and develop an institutional memory.
THE THOREAU READER (TEACHERS)
eserver.org/thoreau/thoreau.html
The Thoreau Reader includes annotated versions of Walden, "Civil Disobedience," "Walking," and the Ktaadn section of The Maine Woods. Some of Thoreau's references can be obscure, and the annotations can help. The website format allows teachers to print separate chapters, and assign them to different students or groups, so that students can learn from each other.
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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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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