============================================================= TeAch-nology.com's- Weekly Tips For Teachers **Issue #48** "The Web Portal For Educators!" We're up to 4474 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. ============================================================= Get Ready for the TeAch-nology Experience! Our staff is busy at work preparing an incredible resource for teachers to use. You'll have to wait and see...look for it in the next four weeks! **New Additions!!** *Work Sheets* 25 new work sheets added! Just click on: http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/ and see for yourself. *New Game for Key Boarding* You and your students will love learning key boarding skills with this game. 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Click below, to visit them: http://by.advertising.com/1/c/22592/15061//26713 ============================================================= AOL users click here ============================================================= 5. Jokes You Can Tell In Class- "First Day of School (a true story)" On the way home from the first day of school, the father asked his son, "What did you do at school today?" The little boy shrugged his shoulders and said, "Nothing". Hoping to draw his son into conversation, the father persisted and said, "Well, did you learn about any numbers, study certain letters, or maybe a particular color?" The perplexed child looked at his father and said, "Daddy, didn't you go to school when you were a little boy?" ------------------------------------------------------------- Like Jokes?? Check Out Our Cartoon Of the Day, Click Below: http://www.teach-nology.com/news/ ============================================================= 6. Start Fighting Global Warming With Just One Click! Ask President Bush to Fight Global Warming. Take Action Now! Join Environmental Defense Action Network today FREE. Click below, to visit this great site!: http://by.advertising.com/1/c/22592/15144//26713 ============================================================= AOL users click here ============================================================= 7. Download of the Week- PC Download: Kimao Economics- "Kimao is a thematic web browser, which allows you to reach all the economics resources of the World WideWeb. The purpose is to find information which interest you in the profusion of Internet sites. This web browser was developed by french economics student and contains more than 20,000 economics links. The databases are updated automatically on a weekly basis. However, the objective being to create an intranet for the promotion of economics research, we invite you to inform us of new sites in economics that you might find useful for Kimao." ------------------------------------------------------------- Mac Download: Poems of William Blake- "Poems of William Blake contains his books Songs of Innocence and of Experience and The Book of Thel. William Blake was a poet, painter, and engraver who was born in London, England, November 28, 1757, and died there on August 12, 1827. Blake was among the first of the Romantics, and his influence on poetry should not be underestimated." ------------------------------------------------------------- Click Below, To Download These Applications & Others For FREE: http://www.teach-nology.com/downloads/ ============================================================= 8. Lesson Plan Of The Week- Foreign Policy News Show- http://www.americanpresident.org/lp_world_stage.htm A creative activity where students develop news shows based on four presidents' foreign policy initiatives. ============================================================= To View 17,000+ Lesson Plans, Ideas, And Worksheets Visit: http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/ ============================================================= 9. Ask Our Experts- ************************************************************* A question from Anonymous: "How can I prepare my 2nd graders for the terra nova?" ************************************************************* TeAch-nology.com's Staff Response: A good way to prepare students for any kind of standardized test is to become familiar with the structure of the test and what the test actually "measures." Try to get a sample copy of a terra nova and review the test item structure with your students way in advance. It is also important to know what content and skills the test is measuring and to make sure you align your curriculum to the those objectives that the test targets. It is okay to test "for" the test and not necessarily "to" the test. Teaching "to" the test takes away the true quality of teaching and learning! Good luck! ************************************************************* A question from Anonymous: "Hello. I'm a Marketing and Business Education teacher at my local high school, here, and am always in search of new and interesting (as well as preferrably free) pre-existing teaching materials and lesson plans. Are there any links that you can tell me about, which I can explore for potential use in my classroom?" ************************************************************* TeAch-nology.com's Staff Response: A good place to start is by using our lesson plan search area. We have an extensive Economics section. Just click on: http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/ Good luck! ************************************************************* A question from Anonymous: "What is a 3 point lesson plan???" ************************************************************* TeAch-nology.com's Staff Response: From the title, it sound like the three most important components of lesson planning: Planning, implementation and evaluation. To learn more about lesson planning, visit our lesson plan tutorial at: http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/teaching/lesson_plan/ Hope this helps! ************************************************************* A question from Lynne: "I teach grades 1-8 Computers. Unfortunately I started in the middle of the year and I was not given any text books or software. My question is do they have text books that deal with teaching computers to children? Where can I get them? Are there any sites out there that can help me teach these children? Help I'm running out of ideas." ************************************************************* TeAch-nology.com's Staff Response: There is so much on the Internet that is available to you for FREE. Our site, www.teach-nology.com offers so many resources that you can use with your students. Textbooks are sometimes limited in their scope as to what needs to be taught and as to tailoring the content to younger children. Because most children today come to school computer literate, it is better to teach them how to use technology to their advantage, i.e., accessing information and evaluating whether it is "good" information. Also, teaching children how to make technology work for them is a life long skill. A good project that can be used to motivate as well as teach children to use technology responsibly is 'creating a web page.' As for specific resources, we have the following available: If you have Internet ready computers, our Internet in the classroom section will provide you with over a hundred quality sites: http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/educational_technology/internet_in_class/ If your looking for computing lesson plans, check here: http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/computing/ Good luck! ************************************************************* A question from Anonymous: "My PC takes about 3-4 minutes to shut down after I give it the shut down command. How do I correct this. Please be specific. Thanks." ************************************************************* TeAch-nology.com's Staff Response: We're sorry, but there is really no way to be specific for this question. What is happening is that your computer is taking a long time to shut down certain programs that are running in the background. To answer the question we really need to know what operating system you are using. Here are the four most common quick fixes for this problem regardless of the operating system you are using. 1. Make sure that you shut down all programs before you shut down the computer. Lots of people forget to do this. 2. Remove programs from your system tray. These are programs that run in the background; they automatically load when you boot your computer. Again we can't be specific on how to do this, we don't know what operating system you're using. Refer to the documentation that came with the operating system. 3. If you have installed a disk management system of any kind, make sure it's disabled before you shut down. 4. Have you defragmented your hard drive lately? That will speed the performance of your whole system. Again, refer to your Operating System's documentation. As a last resort we would recommenced that you back up all your important files and reformat your hard drive. This will speed up the performance of your computer as well. ************************************************************* A question from Anonymous: "Do you take questions about Macintosh computers?" ************************************************************* TeAch-nology.com's Staff Response: Yes, we take Mac questions. ************************************************************* A question from DRW: "I would like to get teacher calendar. Where to I go to register for my name and password. Thank you DRW" ************************************************************* TeAch-nology.com's Staff Response: You can sign-up for our free on-line printable calendar at: http://www.localendar.com/cobrand/teachnology ************************************************************* A question from Anonymous: "Can i get a cd to teach me to build an on-line shop ,from wow to go?" ************************************************************* TeAch-nology.com's Staff Response: There are several CDs out there that can help you learn the ins and outs of on-line stores. We find that no CD can compare to the value of opening an on-line store through Yahoo! It will cost you $100 a month to open a small store with up to 50 items. They take care of the web development, store appearance, technical support, and best of all, credit card transactions. They don't squeeze a fee from you for every credit card transaction, which means that the shop can eventually pay for itself if you're dealing in volume sales. http://store.yahoo.com/ Good Luck! ============================================================= 10. "Our Latest Idea That Worked!" "Recipes Are Not Just for Cooking" There are a number of things you can accomplish by using recipes. Kids could learn about foods from all over the world and gain an appreciation for different customs and traditions. Skills such as measuring quantities or amounts of ingredients, the mixing of ingredients and chemical changes that occur, or the content of food and the caloric index. Kids love to eat what they prepare. It is easy enough to obtain a cooking element to heat food or you can prepare the food ahead of time and tell the students what you had to do to get to that final product that they can enjoy eating. 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