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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/learningONLINE 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.orgTEACHNET 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.comLIBRARY 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.comINFOPLEASE 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/homeworkTHE 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.comJon's Homeschool Resources - http://www.midnightbeach.com/hsHomeschool Legal Defense Assocation - http://www.hslda.org @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@The Internet Tourbus - U.S. Library of Congress ISSN #1094-2238 Copyright 1995-2004, Rankin & Crispen - All rights reserved Subscribe, Signoff, Archives, Free Stuff and More at the Tourbus Website - http://www.TOURBUS.comLinks
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/ Internet
Glossary plus About the Internet | About The Web | Getting Started | Online Safety | How To
Search |
Chatting Using Email | Web Browsers | Filesharing | Newsgroups | Locating Software | Viruses | Finding ISPs Play
Games | Shopping | Terminology | Help With This Site | Goodies
& Freebies | Contact Us 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 Ed
Week | Education World | Electronic School | Instructor magazine | Scholastic
Resources | T.H.E. Journal Online | Technology & Learning | US DOE News Fellowships
and Grants | Eleanor Roosevelt Teacher Fellowships | ERIC grants page
| Federal Funding List | GPS Net | Grants Center | MCS
Grant Express - large list | NASA LTP | NEA FIE Grants | NEH
Grants and Deadlines | Schoolgrants.org | Toshiba America
Foundation | Toshiba ExploraVision | Toyota TAPESTRY | Other
Grant Links 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
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