============================================================= TeAch-nology.com's- Weekly Tips For Teachers **Issue #74** "The Web Portal For Educators!" We're up to 9286 subscribers http://www.teach-nology.com ============================================================= This newsletter is only sent to the friends of TeAch-nology.com, but feel free to forward it to all your friends. ============================================================= **In this Issue** -New Additions To TeAch-nology.com- 1. Best On The Web For Teachers 2. Teachers: Do You Like FREE CDs and Low-Cost DVDs? 3. Quote of the week 4. Teachers: You Have To Read This Article! 5. Jokes You Can Tell In Class 6. Downloads of the Week 7. Teachers: Burn Off Body Fat, Hour-By-Hour...Guaranteed! 8. Lesson Plan Of The Week 9. Ask Our Experts 10. Our Latest "Teaching Idea That Worked!" ============================================================= *Check Out Our Teacher T-shirts!* We currently have the following shirt available: --"I'm Proud To Be An American!" --"I Believe In The Future, That Is Why I Teach... " --"Top Ten Hints You Might Be A Teacher" --"I'm Proud To Be An American Teacher!" --"A Teacher's Week" Remember, with each purchase a donation is made to the American Red Cross. To see all of our T-shirts, just visit: http://www.teach-nology.com/tshirts/ **2 New Rubric Makers** Our Timeline and Paragraph Writing rubric makers are available at: http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/ ============================================================= 1. Best On The Web For Teachers- Featured Sites Of The Week: Earth and Sky Online- http://www.earthsky.com/ Freeware Humpherlinks- http://www.humph3.freeserve.co.uk/ Toon Takes- http://www.toontakes.com/ ++++=========================================================== 2. Teachers: Do You Like FREE CDs and Low-Cost DVDs? 12 CDs for FREE (plus s&h)! What are you waiting for? This great deal alone should be music to your ears. With so many titles to choose from, you’re bound to find some essential titles you just can't live without! Click Here To Learn About FREE CDs: http://by.advertising.com/1/c/22592/27998/100887/100887 Click Here To Learn About FREE DVDs: http://by.advertising.com/1/c/22592/29712/100887/100887 ------------------------------------------------------------- AOL users click here:CDs AOL users click here:DVDs ============================================================= 3. Quote of the week- To teach is to learn twice. ~ Joseph Joubert ~ ============================================================= 4. Teachers: You Have To Read This Article! Mind and Body: Turning Connection into Advantage As we all know, the mind and the body are closely linked. Emotions - and factors that cause them, such as stress often produce bodily changes, usually of an unwelcome nature. Dr Shantinath explores the connection behind these links, and advises how you can keep in control. Click below, to Check It Out: http://by.advertising.com/1/c/22592/32877/100887/100887 ============================================================= AOL users click here ============================================================= 5. Jokes You Can Tell In Class- "Telephone Mishap" A woman was at home with her children when the telephone rang. In going to answer it, she tripped on a rug, grabbed for something to hold on to and seized the telephone table. It fell over with a crash, jarring the receiver off the hook. As it fell, it hit the family dog, who leaped up, howling and barking. The woman's three-year-old son, startled by this noise, broke into loud screams. The woman mumbled some colorful words. She finally managed to pick up the receiver and lift it to her ear, just in time to hear her husband's voice on the other end say, "Nobody's said hello yet, but I'm positive I have the right number." ------------------------------------------------------------- Like Jokes?? Check Out Our Cartoons, Click Below: http://teachnology.subportal.com/comics/ ============================================================= 6. Download of the Week- PC Download: *WebCopier* "WebCopier is a powerful offline browser that records websites and stores them locally until you are ready to view them. If you surf the Web, WebCopier can save complete copies of your favorite sites, magazines, or stock quotes. Teachers can download whole sites so their students can view them later." ------------------------------------------------------------- Mac Download: *Son of Weather Grok* "Son of Weather Grok is an application that displays weather conditions for cities from around the world. It taps into NOAA's (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) data center using 4 letter ICAO codes for Airports. Son of Grok will show the temperature, sky conditions, humidity, wind speed, pressure, ceiling, visibility, and much more. Weather data is usually updated hourly from NOAA, and you can set Son of Grok to get this data at specified time intervals. The data is then displayed in an easy to read format using fancy-schmancy sky condition illustrations like you see on the news, along with the details in a small scrolling ticker and drop down list. ------------------------------------------------------------- Click Below, To Download These Applications & Others For FREE: http://www.teach-nology.com/downloads/ ============================================================= 7. Teachers: Burn Off Body Fat, Hour-By-Hour...Guaranteed! How? With our proven NEW fat burning breakthrough product. Fast! Easy! Safe! Take it off and keep it off. Costs less than $35.00. NO Ma Huang, Ephedra, or guarana. (NOTE: offer only valid for United States residents over 18) Click below, for more details: http://by.advertising.com/1/c/22592/32657/100887/100887 ============================================================= AOL users click here ============================================================= 8. Lesson Plan Of The Week- *Poetry Cubes* This lesson can be used during holidays, seasons, or themes to show how diverse and exciting poetry can be. Find it here: http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang50.txt ============================================================= 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: "What is a simple lesson plan to teach 5th graders how to use the internet?" ************************************************************* TeAch-nology.com's Staff Response: Here are two great places to start: Beginners' Central, a Users Guide to the Internet- http://www.northernwebs.com/bc/ LEARN THE NET- http://www.learnthenet.com/ ************************************************************* A question from Anonymous: "I'm looking for a way to do my lesson plans on the computer, so that repeating parts don't have to be written over and over. I've been looking for a while now and can't seem to come up with anything. Do you know of a way, or a program, that could help me make lessonplans on the computer?" ************************************************************* TeAch-nology.com's Staff Response: Try our lesson plan generator at: http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/ Make sure you save your work once you generate your plan so that you can edit anything you wish to change! Good luck! ************************************************************* A question from Anonymous: HOW CAN YOU HELP STUDENTS REMEMBER TO BRING ALL MATERIALS TO CLASS?" ************************************************************* TeAch-nology.com's Staff Response: Getting students to remember everything they need for class is hard to accomplish when students are so easily distracted by "everything else around them" these days. Provide an inventory sheet or a list for them to check off before they come to class. Tell them that it is part of their assignment and that they must present the sheet before they enter your class. Good luck! ============================================================= 10. "Our Latest Idea That Worked!" "A Class Newspaper: Using PrintShop Premier 5 to Promote Creative Writing" By: Miriam Grech, Teacher "Nearly every teacher finds it hard to encourage children to write creatively. The idea of creating a class newspaper with their own creative writings helped children not only to write creatively but to engage fully in the writing process (drafting, editing etc.) and to learn more about newspapers. The children did create themselves a class newspaper and this is available on-line at: http://www.geocities.com/mirmt1/newspaper.html " ============================================================= What Worked For You? Take a minute and get your ideas published Visit: http://www.teach-nology.com/ideas/tell_us/ ============================================================= Teachnology, Inc. makes no warranties, either expressed or implied, about the truth or accuracy of the content of the TeAch-nology.com newsletter. ============================================================= If you are interested in sponsoring this newsletter visit: http://www.teach-nology.com/advertising/ ============================================================= © 2001 Teachnology, Inc. All rights reserved ============================================================= You are currently subscribed to the TeAch-nology.com newsletter. To unsubscribe, log on to www.teach-nology.com and enter your e-mail address in the newsletter center, and click "unsubscribe."