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TOURBUS Volume 10, Number 6 -- 17 August 2004 TODAY'S TOURBUS TOPIC: Back to School

If you're a parent, teacher, home-schooler, grandparent or a student you're gonna love this issue of TOURBUS. It's chock full of great sites with lesson plans, online reference tools and homework helpers!

TEACHING RESOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES LEARNING NETWORK - Created for students and teachers in grades 3 through 12, The Learning Network is a free news service that provides news summaries, quizzes, and even daily lesson plans.

NYT Learning Network - http://www.nytimes.com/learning

ONLINE LESSON PLANS - More than 2000 unique lesson plans which have been written and submitted to AskERIC (now called the Educator's Reference Desk) by teachers. If you have a great lesson plan you would like to share with educators all over the world, send it in.

A wonderful online resource since 1992.

AskEric/EDUREF - http://www.eduref.org

TEACHNET offers lesson plans, teaching tools, a daily teacher-oriented cartoon, and email lists for educators.

TeachNet - http://www.teachnet.com

REFERENCE TOOLS

REFDESK - In a library, if you don't know where to look for a reference book, you go to the Reference Librarian. On the Internet, if you don't know where to look for answers, you go to Refdesk.com. At first glance, the sheer amount of useful links on the Refdesk home page can be overwhelming. But it's really quite well organized and useful.

RefDesk - http://www.refdesk.com

LIBRARY SPOT - Convenient links to popular online Almanacs, Calculators, Dictionaries, Directories, Encyclopedias, Historic Documents, Quotations, Statistics, and Thesauri.

LibrarySpot - http://www.libraryspot.com

HOMEWORK HELPERS

HOMEWORK SPOT - A free homework information portal that features the very best K-12 homework-related sites. With the help of students, parents and teachers, their team of educators, librarians and journalists has scoured the Web to bring you the best resources for English, math, science, history, art, music, technology, foreign language, college prep, health, life skills, extracurricular activities and much more.

Homework Spot - http://www.homeworkspot.com

INFOPLEASE HOMEWORK CENTER - Find useful information by subject area, develop better writing, note-taking and study skills, and search through previous questions and answers from other students.

InfoPlease - http://www.infoplease.com/homework

THE KIDS ON THE WEB - This is an excellent site maintained as a labor of love by Internet luminary Brendan Kehoe. Kids on the Web has links for Homework Tools, Educational Sites and much more. You could spend days exploring all these links, and Brendan adds new ones every month.

Homework Tools - http://www.zen.org/~brendan/kids-homework.html

HOMESCHOOL RESOURCES

According to the National Home Education Research Institute, there are over two million homeschooled children in the USA, and this number is growing by 15% per year. If you are currently homeschooling or consider it, here are some resources that you'll find useful:

Homeschool World - http://www.home-school.com

Jon's Homeschool Resources - http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs

Homeschool Legal Defense Assocation - http://www.hslda.org

The Internet Tourbus - U.S. Library of Congress ISSN #1094-2238

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Tourbus Website - http://www.TOURBUS.com

Links to Teacher Tools – You need to see this page, lots of stuff!

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX011433021033.aspx

Learn how to use and integrate Microsoft software in the classroom with in-depth step-by-step tutorial guides for students, teachers, and staff. You may select grade level, computer program/product, and learning area – or go to some pre-selected tutorials.

http://www.microsoft.com/education/Tutorials.aspx

These tutorials start with the very basic, in Word 2000. Excel 2000, Power Point 2000, Access 2000, and Front Page 2000. Lots of graphics – step-by-step. Afast connection would help.

http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/word/

See at: http://www.internet101.org/terms.html

Links for K-12 Teachers - A good starting point for your web searching. Several large collections of links to help with specific subject areas, or areas of interest to K-12 teachers. Don't miss the Standardized Testing Practice links!

Daily Dose of the Web - Web sites which can be used in your classroom daily. These are sites which change content on a daily or weekly basis.

On-Line Practice Modules - Step-by-step tutorials for learning a variety of applications commonly used in K-12 classrooms. For Mac or PC.Tutorials are found here:

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line.htm

Searching Tips Try a great new search engine List of search engines/directories | Try an activity comparing your favorite search engine to Vivisimo

In School Integration Support (ISIS) - Workshops are available for schools/districts to provide training for teachers to make effective use of technology in their classrooms.

Home Page at: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/index.htm

Technology Tutorials found on the Web: ( Last Updated 06/06/03)

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line2.htm

Links to lots. Check this one out.

http://www.lib.utah.edu/instruction/shortclasstutorial.htm

Want to know more about searching? Got a month or two? Many topics.

http://searchenginewatch.com/resources/article.php/2156611

www.activities guide students to relevant, educational web sites. The activities, built around themes, include links to resources on the Internet. Each resource has a description as well as one or more questions that help focus student attention on important concepts or information at that site. http://www.uen.org/tutorial/html/activities.html

Use the Activities button on the main www.activities page to view the list of published activities. For example, the Daily Internet Activities www.activity has links to 11 Internet sites. When students use a link from the www.activity page, a new browser window opens. Students can move back and forth between the www.activity page and the new browser window. Each site on the www.activity page has a short description and a list of focus questions. Students use the questions on the www.activity page to guide their exploration of the linked Internet site. Registered UEN educators use the Create button to build www.activities. www.activities - Tutorial See http://www.uen.org/activities/html/www_activities.html for a list of activities.

This is a lot to look at. I started to give them a score based on 1-5, with 5 being high, but forget that. Some of the sites down the page were even more impressive. Be your own judge. I attempted to present a brief summary of each page.

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Plagiarism
http://www.csd99.k12.il.us/north/library/plagiarism.htm

...a well-done high school library site which includes why and how students plagiarize, identifies strategies of detection, and provides useful methods of prevention
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