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Virtual Teacher 108 May 14th 2005 – MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU Free Online Fortnightly Newsletter =========================================== CONTENTS 1. Welcome 2. Mind Candy 3. WWWinfo – Hyper History 4. New Printables - A ROUND TUIT 5. Technical Stuff – CS- 2 6. Web Site Focus – STAR WARS 7. WHAT IS WRONG WITH EXAMS 8. Great Sites 9. Readers' Requests/Comments 10 Next Issue 11. Code of 'Netizens' 12. Tips ============================================== WELCOME EVERYONE. Take a look at the Star Wars phenomena a great motivating topic. The new CS2 package promises to be fantastic, don’t miss out on the free seminar. Take another look at how exams work and whether they are working for you or your students. Have a great fortnight and let me know some of your evaluation Strategies for next time. ============================================== 2. MIND CANDY Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids! --Jim Rohn ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. --Cokie Roberts ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them. --Pablo Picasso ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. --William Arthur Ward ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our earth is degenerate in these latter days; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; and the end of the world is evidently approaching. --Assyrian clay tablet 2800 B.C. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If I were asked to enumerate ten educational stupidities, the giving of grades would head the list... If I can't give a child a better reason for studying than a grade on a report card, I ought to lock my desk and go home and stay there. --Dorothy De Zouche ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once --Albert Einstein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. --Albert Einstein ============================================== 3. WWWinfo HYPERHISTORY HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps. http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html .===================================== 4. NEW PRINTABLES A ROUND TUIT http://www.virtualteacher.com.au/tuit.pdf ============================================== Technical Stuff
Adobe CS2 released WOW Adobe Creative Suite Full new versions of Adobe Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, GoLive CS2, and Acrobat 7.0 Professional software with new Version Cue CS2, Adobe Bridge, and Adobe Stock Photos. Delivering the next level of integration in creative software, Adobe Creative Suite 2 enables you to realize your ideas anywhere — in print, on the Web, or on mobile devices.Adobe Photoshop CS2 breaks new ground as the benchmark for digital imaging excellence. New Vanishing Point lets you define perspective planes visually, then paint, clone and drag objects around corners and into the distance. Use Image Warp to effortlessly twist and wrap flat images directly onto any shaped canvas or object, while remaining fully editable. Adobe CS Free Seminar http://events.adobe.co.uk/events/cgi/event.cgi?country=pa&eventid=2252 ============================================== 6. WEBSITE FOCUS STAR WARS Star wars is one of the great stories of our time told in the medium of our time, using the most advanced technological tools of our time. It’s themes and ideas are worthy of study, and it has as much relevance or perhaps more than the studies of written literature. Get your students motivated by viewing this great epic. Watch the movie, watch the behind the scenes, find out how it was all done. What is HDV? What new technologies did Lucas use? Who is George Lucas? What universal themes play out in this movie? Are there any parallels to Shakespeare, Homer etc? THE OFFICIAL SITE Internet Movie Data Base http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/ The Force ============================================== 7. WHAT IS WRONG WITH EXAMS?? They don’t test what the kids know. Kids hate them, teachers hate them. Why do we have them? For evaluation? What are we trying to evaluate? What kids know? The world has moved on. We need to evaluate – WHAT KIDS CAN DISCOVER. Send them on missions of discovery and evaluate that. Mathematics grew out of building pyramids and sailing the oceans (I love the story of Longitude by Dava Sobel) http://www.sailtexas.com/long.html http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140258795/103-4752011-4300644?v=glance similarly science, geography and any subject you care to name grew from voyages into the unknown. Now we can let kids free to sail the internet and make their own discoveries.
What’s wrong with Education For many reasons, students' scores on these tests may not reflect their actual knowledge of the subjects tested http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/2/223151/7895 the Ten Deadly sins of Education http://www.businessbookmall.com/10sinsA.htm ============================================== 8. GREAT SITES PERSPECTIVES Anamorphic Art Check out games and numberland at this site too. http://www.mathsyear2000.co.uk/explorer/anamorphic/perspective.shtml
Vanishing points http://www.art-rageous.net/Perspective.html http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit11/unit11.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ARCHIBALD, WYNNE, SULMAN & PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT PRIZES
Australia's oldest and most prestigious art award is back! The Archibald Portrait Prize was set up in 1921 with aims to foster portraiture, support artists and perpetuate the memory of great Australians. Combined with the Wynne, Sulman and Photographic Portrait prizes, lively debate and controversy is always assured. http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/ed/kits/archibald ============================================== 9. READERS COMMENTS/REQUESTS Hi Cathy, this link (multiplication ) is not available. If this is the one I used to use a lot with my students it is great!
Hi Cathy, This link, (multiplication)from the site below, is not available. If this is the one I used to use a lot with my students it is great! I hope you can get it working again.
(Online Practice and Games This is an excellent math site! Students can practise addition, subtraction and multiplication as either one or two player(s) and it even has the options of either 'three in a row' (easier) or 'five in a row' (harder). My students from Grades 3 to 10 all love it!) Thanks, Alison Toowoomba ------------------------------------------ Hi Alison, Site looks like it's being upgraded - I will check it in a little while - it may just return. No return has happened – try this one and let me know http://www.multiplication.com/interactive_games.htm ------------------------------------------ RE WEIRDSTOP AND COOLSTOP people love it. Cathy,
Just to let you know that our school has also been using these programs with our under achievers... they absolutely adore them. Certainly a great product Melissa Tetley -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We would like you to use our free Educational Hangman Game. We know you are involved with teaching children so it's free and is a full version! All you have to do is click on the Internet address at the bottom. It's great for Dolch Word Lists! Play these fun interactive hangman games. You can play the regular hangman or a more fun hangman where you throw a bucket of water over a bear. The word lists include: Days of the Week, Months of the Year, Colour words, Dolch Words, Number Words 1-16, Animal Words, Common Words. Please go to http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/hangindex.htm
Let me know what you think of this site… ============================================== 10. NEXT ISSUE – I will be taking a look at blogging and the blogospheres around, let me know what you are doing and if you have any great websites in this area. Ciao Cathy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11. Code of the 'Netizens' This Newsletter is not free, despite the misleading advertising above. The Fee is now due. Each week you must help one colleague on the Internet who has less knowledge than you. Help that person even if you have to visit their classroom or do a little research and get back to them. Trust me, this will help a lot of people get their computer classrooms running better. OK I'm trusting you!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12. TIPS 1. Double click on highlighted URLS to open in browser. 2. Send in your Questions, Questions will be published with Answers, send in your Answers, if you have expertise to share. 3. Nominate a brilliant site for review and inclusion in this newsletter. 4. Nominate a fantastic school site for review and inclusion in this newsletter. 5. Make contact with other schools using fantastic programs. 6. Prepare and innovative article for this newsletter. 7. Tell 2 colleagues about this newsletter. ============================================== The opinions expressed here are purely those of the editor, Cathy Brown. All other small print clauses apply. Such as: Use at your own risk. Nothing in life is guaranteed. If it doesn't work for you send me an email. Editor: cathy brown mailto:cathy@virtualteacher.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Delivered FREE to your e-mail box every fortnight. Online Lesson Plans, Great Sites, Free Stuff, Tips, Time savers, and templates. Computer Solutions for Teachers. Subscribe today! It's totally Free! Just type subscribe in the subject and send it to me. cathy@virtualteacher.com.au ============================================== Reach a growing audience of teachers, by advertising in the Virtual Teacher Newsletter or on the Virtual Teacher site. For more information contact, cathy@virtualteacher.com.au For information about inservice and training contact me at cathy@virtualteacher.com.au ==============================================
10. =========================================== 11. Code of the 'Netizens' This Newsletter is not free, despite the misleading advertising above. The Fee is now due. Each week you must help one colleague on the Internet who has less knowledge than you. Help that person even if you have to visit their classroom or do a little research and get back to them. Trust me, this will help a lot of people get their computer classrooms running better. OK I'm trusting you!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12. TIPS 1. Double click on highlighted URLS to open in browser. 2. Send in your Questions, Questions will be published with Answers, send in your Answers, if you have expertise to share. 3. Nominate a brilliant site for review and inclusion in this newsletter. 4. Nominate a fantastic school site for review and inclusion in this newsletter. 5. Make contact with other schools using fantastic programs. 6. Prepare and innovative article for this newsletter. 7. Tell 2 colleagues about this newsletter. =========================================== The opinions expressed here are purely those of the editor, Cathy Brown. All other small print clauses apply. Such as: Use at your own risk. Nothing in life is guaranteed. If it doesn't work for you send me an email. Editor: cathy brown mailto:cathy@virtualteacher.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Delivered FREE to your e-mail box every fortnight. Online Lesson Plans, Great Sites, Free Stuff, Tips, Time savers, and templates. Computer Solutions for Teachers. Subscribe today! It's totally Free! For information about inservice and training contact me at ===========================================
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