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Updates 8 Oct 2004
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KNE Project Manager
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Oct 14, 2004 13:26 PDT
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HOT NEWS
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Space Day May 5, 2005. 2005 Theme - Return to the Moon.
http://www.spaceday.org/index.html
Are your students looking for a project that’s exciting, lets them work
with friends, let’s them use their creativity and imagination, and build
and design something really cool? Then you’ve found it. The Space Day
2005 Design Challenges let your students become scientists, engineers,
and explorers working on the space frontier to design a totally unique
solution to some “out-of-this-world” challenges. Using the Moon or any
planet, moon, comet, or asteroid in our Solar System as the launching
point for exploration, students can choose from among designing a unique
device to make living or working on the Moon easier; planning a space
mission and build a rover to successfully accomplish the mission; or
exploring the Moon and creating an electronic newspaper to tell everyone
back on Earth what it's like to live there.
The Space Day Design Challenges are open to students in grades 4-8.
Space Day Star and Mission: Explore will be evaluated in two categories:
grades 4-5 and grades 6-8. Inventors Wanted will be evaluated in three
categories: grades 4-5, grades 6-8, and youth organization/clubs (grades
4-8). Teams that submit solutions by February 15, 2005, will be
considered for national recognition and receive a certificate of
appreciation. Stellar Design Challenge teams will be selected by the
Space Day Educational Advisory Committee and recognized at the Space Day
Opening Ceremony on May 5, 2005, in Washington, D.C.
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HOT SITE OF THE WEEK
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Living Room Candidate (American Museum of the Moving Image)
http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/index.php
The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004
is an innovative online exhibition presenting more than 250 television
commercials from every election year beginning in 1952, when the first
campaign ads aired, and including ads from this year’s campaign. Users
can watch nearly four hours of TV commercials and explore the expanding
world of Web-based political advertising. The site includes a searchable
database and features commentary, historical background, election
results, and navigation organized by both year and theme. Each
commercial selected is accompanied by a list of related commercials in
order to help guide the viewer through the collection. The exhibition
also features a sidebar section, “The Desktop Candidate,” about the
growing role of the Internet in presidential campaigns. Requires Windows
Media Player 9 or RealPlayer G2 and above.
Grade Level: Elementary, Middle School, High School
Content Area: Business (Marketing), Community Interest (Current
Events/News), Community Interest (Government/Politics), History & Social
Studies (Current Events), History & Social Studies (Government), History
& Social Studies (United States History) [Dewey #320]
Application type: Information Resources
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NEW SITES THIS WEEK
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Alexander Hamilton (New York Historical Society)
http://www.alexanderhamiltonexhibition.org/index.html
Alexander Hamilton: The man who made modern America. The virtual
exhibition complements the physical exhibition and includes a virtual
tour, information about New York and New Jersey during Hamilton's life,
a document viewer for examining historic materials, Hamilton log - a
month by month personal diary, a timeline, and information about his
peers. There are photos, audio, interactive maps, and primary source
materials. Requires Flash.
Grade Level: Middle School, High School
Content Area: History & Social Studies (Biography), History & Social
Studies (United States History) [Dewey #973]
Application type: Information Resources
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Drink it Up??
http://www.millennium.scps.k12.fl.us/staffpages/ShawR/drinkitup/index.html
What's in your water? Do you really know? Do you want to know? You
should know, because without water, life as we know it could not exist
on earth. This educational project encourages global school
participation to learn about local drinking water. Classes are
encouraged to test their drinking water and to post their results to the
database for others to use as real data. At the end of the project,
classes are also encouraged to post web pages detailing what they have
done to research their drinking water, and talk about what their plans
are to protect this natural resource. This project was created by
Rosemary Shaw of Millennium Middle School in Sanford, FL, part of
Semionole County Public Schools.
Grade Level: Elementary, Middle School, High School
Content Area: Education (Alternatives), Education (Curriculum), Science
(Earth Science), Science (Environmental Studies) [Dewey #550]
Application type: Lesson Plans, Projects
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Microsoft Office Clip Art and Media
http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us
This has been around for a long time and somehow escaped being added to
Blue Web'n. Well here it is...a huge assortment of clip art and media
(sounds, clip art, photos, and animation). Use the broad subject area or
search by key word. Once you find the media you want, simply copy and
paste the clip wherever you want it, or drag it into your Microsoft
document. Or, click the thumbnail of the clip and drag it to the place
in your document where you want it. If you think you may want to use the
clip again, you can download it and add it to Microsoft Clip Gallery or
Microsoft Clip Organizer. Tons and tons of clip art on a wide variety of
topics make this a winner.
Grade Level: Elementary, Middle School, High School, College,
Adult/Professional
Content Area: Arts (Visual Arts), Community Interest (Leisure) [Dewey
#750]
Application type: Information Resources
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Storyline Online (BookPALS)
http://www.bookpals.net/storyline/index.html
The Screen Actors Guild Foundation is proud to bring you Storyline
Online, an on-line streaming video program featuring SAG members reading
childrens books aloud. As of 2004, there were 10 stories available.
Additional programs from BookPALS include Storyline
(http://www.bookpals.net/storyline.html - children can dial a
toll-free-number to hear a book read by an actor anytime, twenty-four
hours a day, seven days a week); PencilPals (
http://www.bookpals.net/pencilpals.html - designed to make reading and
writing a first person experience for children in elementary and middle
schools by setting up "pen pals"); and BookFinder
(http://www.bookpals.net/cgi-bin/bookfinder/index.pl - a searchable
database of read-aloud picture books on a wide range of topics).
Additional programs are available in different parts of the U.S.
Grade Level: Early Childhood (K-2), Elementary, Middle School
Content Area: Arts (Literature), Community Interest (Leisure), English
(Literature), English (Reading) [Dewey #028]
Application type: Information Resources
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AOL USERS
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<A HREF=http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/index.php>Living Room
Candidate</A>
<A HREF=http://www.alexanderhamiltonexhibition.org/index.html>Alexander
Hamilton</A>
<A
ww.millennium.scps.k12.fl.us/staffpages/ShawR/drinkitup/index.html>Drink
it Up??</A>
<A
HREF=http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us>Microsoft
Office Clip Art and Media</A>
<A HREF=http://www.bookpals.net/storyline/index.html>Storyline
Online</A>
Linda L. Woods, MLS. MA.,
Project Manager,
SBC Knowledge Network Explorer
http://www.kn.sbc.com/
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