============================================================= TeAch-nology.com's- Weekly Tips For Teachers **Issue #33** "The Web Portal For Educators!" We're up to 3228 subscribers http://www.teach-nology.com ============================================================= This newsletter is only sent to the users of TeAch-nology.com, but feel free to forward it to all your friends. ============================================================= NEW Tutorial !!! The "Digital Revolution" is causing a stir! Not just in the workplace, but also in our schools. Educators are challenged to provide unique educational opportunities that offer distance learning within a limited, and sometimes straining budget. As a result, many schools are beginning to establish distance education programs. To learn more, go to: http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/distlearnk12/ -------------------------------------------------------------- NEW Rubric Generator !!! Monitoring student behaviors during activities can provide structure and feedback for students to act appropriately during assigned activities. We created a rubric generator to help you do just that! Visit our newest addition at: http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/changing/ -------------------------------------------------------------- NEW Worksheets! We added new worksheets in the areas of mathematics, language arts, and critical thinking. Visit our FREE Worksheet Center at: http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/ -------------------------------------------------------------- We Need Your Input! Take our "Technology Survey" and give us your impressions. There are two sections, one for teachers and one for students. We would really appreciate your participation in our effort provide quality services and resources for educators! To participate, go to: http://www.teach-nology.com/ and click on "Take Our Technology Survey." Be a part of the future; results will be published! -------------------------------------------------------------- Stay Tuned!!! You can now have your own copy of our monthly motivators! We will be releasing our first CD within the next few weeks. The CD will include our most popular six motivators accompanied by directions for use during presentations and staff development workshops. ************************************************************* Teachers: Check out great holiday lesson plans, or try our new Lesson Plan Finder to search by grade, curriculum and theme at teachervision.com. Looking for more tools for success? Check out our free classroom tools and professional development areas. For Holiday Lesson Plans Visit: http://redir.webclk.com/redir/teachnology_1210_holiday lesson plans.htm For teachervision.com's Lesson Plan Finder Visit: http://redir.webclk.com/redir/teachnology_1210_lesson plan finder.htm ************************************************************* ============================================================= 1. Site of the week- AuctionWatch.com- http://www.auctionwatch.com/ Based on the mass amount of e-mails our experts have received on the topic of online auctions, we thought we would share AuctionWatch.com with you this week. AuctionWatch.com originated in July 1998 as a message board on the home page of co-founder and avid auction enthusiast Mark Dodd. An experienced collector himself, Dodd felt that auction users would benefit from a central Internet destination where they could discuss their experiences and learn from each other. Although many auction sites encouraged user communication, Dodd was frustrated by their failure to provide a well-organized, unbiased discussion forum for their members. Within a few months, Dodd's message board had grown into a movement with great potential, attracting thousands of online auction users who shared their experiences and looked to the site for guidance. At this point, Dodd teamed up with Rodrigo Sales, a fellow auction enthusiast and graduate of Stanford Business School. In January 1999, they incorporated AuctionWatch.com with the mission of providing information and services to help people use online auctions intelligently and efficiently. Today, AuctionWatch.com not only allows you to search over 300 auction sites at once, but they also let you manager your bids at one site. It's not an auction site, rather an auction community. This site allows you to ask other users their opinions on your bids and if you're really lost you can always get a free appraisal at the appraisal center. ============================================================= 2. Want To Learn More About The College Admissions Process?? Is your teen headed for college? Review.com is your key to surviving the college admissions process. Sign up for FREE now and take advantage of all our exciting features designed exclusively for parents. Get advice on paying for college and helping your teen find the right school. Click below, To Get Some FREE Advice: http://by.advertising.com/1/c/22592/9771//6436 ------------------------------------------------------------- AOL users click here ============================================================= 3. Quote of the week- Education is what you get from reading the fine print. 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She was unfailingly intrigued by the various appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers and wheelchairs. One day I found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered, "The tooth fairy will never believe this!" ------------------------------------------------------------- Want More Free Jokes & Humor? Click Below: http://www.commission-junction.com/track/track.dll?AID=56652&PID=400293&URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efunnymail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Frd%2Ecgi%3Fu%3Dcj ============================================================= 6. Involved In Education At Any Level? This Is A Must See!- Imagine a place where students can get timely, smart help with their schoolwork, parents can get real-time information on their children's progress, and teachers can ensure that their students perform well on important state exams. 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The simple answer is yes, Netscape Composer will help you create web pages that work in recent versions of Internet Explorer. In our staffs cumulative experience, Composer will create full functional web pages for Internet Explorer version 4.0 and up. We do notice a slight problem when using tables created in Netscape Composer. It seems that if you set a table within a table or set an alignment (i.e. right, center, left) within a table, those tables do not appear the same way in Internet Explorer. For most simple web pages, this will not pose a problem. But if you are creating a intricate graphical layout, this may cause a major problem. Remember to consider your audience. If they primarily use Netscape, then develop your pages accordingly. Of TeAch-nology.com's 56,000+ users, 93% use Internet Explorer. As a result, we develop our site with that in mind. If you want to check the compatibility of a web page or your entire web site for that matter, Web Trends offers a great free tool for testing browser compatibility. It will tell you how it appears in all types of browsers. You can find it at: http://www.webtrends.net/tools/mechanic/browser.htm Good Luck!!" ************************************************************* To ask the TeAch-nology.com staff a technology question go to: http://www.teach-nology.com/help/ask_a_tech_expert/ ************************************************************* ============================================================= 8. Bored? Think There is Nothing To Do? Check This Out! Got plans tonight? When you sign up for a FREE Cityspree.com membership, you'll always have exciting things to do in your hometown. We fill you in on up-to-the-minute local auctions, bargains and specials offered by your favorite local restaurants, retailers, entertainment spots and MORE! 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In this demo, you can make one game for classroom use at a time. The full version can collect a database of games. ------------------------------------------------------------- Click Below, To Download These Applications & Others For FREE: http://www.teach-nology.com/downloads/ ============================================================= 10. A Great Site For Environmental Updates To Use w/Students! You've got 6,000,000,000 neighbors...and counting! Stop environmental destruction due to population growth. Click here to join the Population Action Network (PAN). Receive alerts on population and family planning issues. Click Below, To Get Your FREE Environmental Updates: http://by.advertising.com/1/c/22592/9680//6436 ------------------------------------------------------------- AOL users click here ============================================================= 11. "Our Newest Idea That Worked!" By: Lisa Correia, 4th Grade Teacher: Croton-on Huduson, NY Building Decision Making Skills "Developing the concept of "change" and getting students to accept what can be changed and what cannot be changed can sometimes be a challenge for teachers. This exercise gets students to use thinking and reasoning skills to make decisions on what they have control over and what they do not and to know the difference between the two. Start out with a list of various phrases describing situations such as: the temperature outside, how old you are, how you treat other people, how well you do in school, etc. Ask students to identify what can be changed and what cannot; ask them to tell why, and why not. This can be done in small groups or as a partner activity. As a follow-up, students can write their own list and share it with others. For younger students, the teacher can read the list and the children can indicate the differences with a raise of the hand." ------------------------------------------------------------- Click Below, To Visit Our "Ideas That Worked!" Section: http://www.teach-nology.com/ideas/ ------------------------------------------------------------- To Submit An Idea That Worked For You, Click Below: http://www.teach-nology.com/ideas/tell_us/ ============================================================= 12. Need Some Ideas For Those Holiday Parties? Having some people over and need some party ideas? Let us provide the fun! Get close, get crazy, and get into it with Get Together Games. Pictionary®, Ultimate Outburst®, Scattergories, Taboo®, Beyond Balderdash®, Guesstures®, and Jenga®. Click here to learn more. 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