Infonews n°173 du 19/01/2003

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A la Une today, Spring day, and what you can do on that day and
before (and don't forget to register your school!!!). I'm on Plaza every
Sunday morning from 9 to 11 if you want to chat about it! Then a few
resources for secondary school (a web hunt, an exercise bank, an official
report about Australia, detective cartoons and a surprising visual
thesaurus) and the very precious "ask a linguist" site!!!! ; one about
Bernstein for the musicians and two about health (tobacco, food and
nutrition), then sites to learn how to use Power Point in class and with
the students, and three important events:
- Bernie Dodge on Tappedin ( tonight : don't miss it!)
- Expolangues 2003 ( 29th january, 1st february)
- The launching of the 2003 Romans Virtuels (there is also one in german
and in other languages, so pass this info on to your colleagues!)

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A la Une
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Spring Day
MLK Day
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Resources for secondary school
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Ask A Linguist (The Scout Report -- January 10)
New Energies knowledge hunt (from Frédéric Chotard on e-teach)
Exercises Bank (from Francis Mayet on e-teach)
Australian Bureau of Statistics (from The Scout Report -- January 17)
Detective cartoons (from Sandra Howard on e-teach)
Visual thesaurus
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Music
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The Official Leonard Bernstein Site (from The Scout Report -- January 17)
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Health
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American Lung Association: State of Tobacco Control 2002 (from The Scout
Report -- January 10,)
British Food (from Darren Rigby on e-teach)
The Nutrition Source: Knowledge for Healthy Eating (from The Scout Report
-- January 10,)
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teaching tools
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Power Point (from Library Hot Five #165: Using PowerPoint)
Power Point In the Classroom
Geography and History PowerPoint Lessons
Computer-Based Lectures Using PowerPoint
PowerPoint FAQ
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Events
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Euro Language Teachers Forum, 19 January - Hot Potatoes (from Phil Benz)
Expolangues 2003
Participez aux Romans virtuels

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A la Une
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Spring Day
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The Spring teachers had their second meeting in Paris last week-end, and we
talked a lot about activities that can be organised on Spring Day, March
21st. Those activities are of two types:
- either you have time to deal with Europe at length (because it is part of
your curriculum or the themes you have decided to deal with this year) :
then you can organise activities over several teaching periods. You can
first help your students to discover what Europe is and what it's going to
be in the years to come, through quizzes, questionnaires, interviews, or
through working from their own experience or from the present texts of the
European union. Then they can discuss their findings with students form
another or other countries, by email or chat, and then write a text about
what they think the future of Europe will be, that will be published on the
EUN (EUropean SchoolNet ) website.
- or Europe is not part of what you plan to do in your classes, but you
still want to take part and organise something on Spring Day because you
think reflecting on the future of Europe is important.
Then you can choose to do short activities and a quick discussion or
writing contest. Again, you can use the resources on the EUN site, or do a
short awareness raising activity followed by a group report about what the
future of Europe will be.
A German colleague has put online some ideas of activities that can be
practiced at all levels:
http://www.menzel.be.schule.de/myeurope/sie/class/index.html
For the youngest, you can understand and discuss the stereotypes in this
picture (from Josiane Laval)
http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~eurydice/european.htm
--> to find lots of useful resources, see Jean-Philippe Raud Dugal's page,
and especially his choice od "material" (bottom left)
http://apella.ac-limoges.fr/lyc-perrier-tulle/europ/whatsup/springday.htm
and of course, you can find resources in the resource area of the official
Spring Day website
http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/SpringSite_Resources/entry_page.cfm?id_area=572

To find more ideas or discuss them, go and chat with the Spring Teachers in
the "Plaza" area. I'll be there on Sundays 9 to 11 am, and there will also
be chats in all languages at different times:
http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/index_spring.cfm (choose Plaza in the
menu at the top of the page)

and of course, don't forget to register your school : there are only 91
French schools registered so far, against 205 in Italy!!!! (and only 40 in
Germany, 12 in the Netherlands and 2 in Switzerland...if there are any
people from these countries reading Infonews, do encourage other schools
from your country to register!)

Official contacts will also soon reach you:
- the Ministry will send a letter to all rectorats in France to encourage
them to inform all schools and organise actions locally on the 21st and it
will soon appear in the B.O.
- the Members of the European Parliament have also been invited to visit
schools and discuss the future of Europe with students. So if you contact
your local representative, you will certainly be welcome, and able to
organise this meeting, and you may even be contacted by him (or her),
asking to come to your school!

MLK Day
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MLK Day is tomorrow. You already had resources in Infonews n°172, here are
some more:

from Versaille:
dossier Martin Luther King
du site d'anglais de l'académie de Versailles
http://www.ac-versailles.fr/pedagogi/anglais/civi/mlk.htm

complements from olivier Colas:
Martin Luther King, Mark Oliver
The story in links
He had a dream - and the US remembers it today on Martin Luther King Day.
Read our guide to the best sites on America's most famous civil rights
campaigner
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4340025,00.html

Martin Luther King Day 2003
January 20th is Martin Luther King Day. We have articles, lesson ideas,
books, activities, and much more -- all to help you meet your holiday needs
- in this updated archive page!
http://www.educationworld.com/holidays/archives/mlking_2000.shtml

from Infonews:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/infonews/themes/martinlutherking.htm
from about.com:
http://k-6educators.about.com/library/bldrking2.htm

To go on with the theme and enlarge it, you can also use this more
comprehensive site from PBS about Freedom in the US:

Freedom: A History of US (The Scout Report -- January 10)
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/
Collaborating with WNET New York, PBS has created this Web site as the
online analogue to the 16-part television series. Based on the books by Joy
Hakim, the series (and the Web site) are dedicated to exploring the theme of
freedom throughout the history of the United States, noting that "Freedom is
what has drawn to America countless human beings from around the world; it
is what generations of men and women have lived and died for; it is, in a
profound sense, our nation's highest calling." While anyone with an inkling
to learn more about the notion of "freedom" will benefit by perusing the
site, it is especially well-honed to serve the needs of educators and
students. The site contains 16 "Webisodes," which are both visually and
textually rich repositories of information, chronologically ordered,
beginning with the American Revolution and concluding with the presidency of
Richard Nixon. Additionally, each Webisode contains essays that contain
hyperlinks to word definitions, photographs, and brief biographical
profiles. Also, each Webisode contains standards-based teacher guides and
lesson plans prepared by the Talent Development Middle Schools Programs at
Johns Hopkins University. Overall, this site is a fine example of utilizing
the Web for educational purposes, both for young students and those looking
for general edification. [KMG]

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Resources for secondary school
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Ask A Linguist (The Scout Report -- January 10)
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http://linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/
The Ask A Linguist Web site is a service provided by The Linguist List, an
Internet network for professional linguists. The site allows students,
educators, or other interested parties to submit a question dealing with
language or linguistics to a panel of linguists that includes faculty
members from Oxford University, the University of Arizona, and the
University of Michigan. While users can submit any type of question dealing
with language they choose, a section of the site provides answers to
frequently asked questions, with a particularly thorough section devoted to
Arabic. Previous questions are archived on the site, with message threads
dating back to May 1997. Recent message threads on the Ask A Linguist Web
site include "Origin of the Norwegian Language," "Is language innate?" and
"Linguistics and literature." Equally helpful is the ability to search the
entire message archive in a variety of fashions, including complex queries.
[KMG]
[ don't miss this opportunity to contact real specialists!!!!]

New Energies knowledge hunt (from Frédéric Chotard on e-teach)
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Frédéric Chotard has created a knowledge hunt (simplified webquest) with a
very interesting process. The sources are in pdf, and intentionallly
limited, but the required level is (according to him) not too high, and can
be used from the last year of lower secondary school onward.
Les collègues qui cherchent des sujets pour TPE et autres travaux croisés
ou interdisciplinaires (anglais-sc physiques ou anglais-géographie)
pourront peut-être y trouver une idée exploitable.
Don't hesitate to contact him to react on this webquest!
Frédéric Chotard: bulle44@wanadoo.fr
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/prof.danglais/Webquests/Energy%20Knowledge%20Hunt/index.htm

Exercises Bank (from Francis Mayet on e-teach)
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our colleagues from Poitiers offer a bank of exercises for secondary
school, which can be useful to those who want their pupils (or students) to
practice some grammatical points:
http://www.ac-poitiers.fr/anglais/bexi/index.htm
http://www.ac-poitiers.fr/anglais/bexi/index.htm

Australian Bureau of Statistics (from The Scout Report -- January 17)
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http://www.abs.gov.au/
For those looking for statistical information on a broad set of themes and
geographical areas within Australia, they should visit the Australian Bureau
of Statistics Web site. From the main page, visitors can view recent
statistical reports, such as the Australian Consumer Price Index,
information about the labor force (e.g., employment rates), and a series of
occasional papers. Particularly helpful to the casual user will be the
Themes section, which provides summary statistics about the environment,
tourism, transportation, economic well-being, and education. Additionally,
the Bureau publishes reports organized by administrative and regional
divisions of the country, a feature that will be helpful to students doing
research on a particular area of the country. If users are seeking to learn
more about the organization, history, and mission of the Australian Bureau
of Statistics, they will find this material located under the About the ABS
section of the site.

Detective cartoons (from Sandra Howard on e-teach)
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Dick Tracy is a famous american detective in a cartoon series. Try these
links:
http://www.nvo.com/corinthfilms/movieserialsdicktracy/
http://www.ucomics.com/dicktracy/
http://www.gographics.com/funnies/dick.htm
http://www.comicspage.com/dicktracy/index.html
Sandra sends us these very useful addresses.....for those who want to work
on cartoons, à partir de la 4ème.

Visual thesaurus
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a very special presentation for this useful, but slightly complicated
thesaurus. Once you get used to its logic, it will be a very useful tool
for your upper secondary school students.
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp
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Music
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The Official Leonard Bernstein Site (from The Scout Report -- January 17)
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http://www.leonardbernstein.com/
Leonard Bernstein was one of America's foremost conductors and champions of
classical music in the 20th century, along with composing such works as
_West Side Story_, _Candide_, and his _Mass_. Developed and maintained by
the Leonard Bernstein Society, this site contains a wealth of printed
interviews, musical excerpts, and other ephemera that will be of great
interest to those with a passion for American music. Visitors to the site
can explore the sections through a pull-down menu located on the homepage,
or search for a specific media type under the Browse Site section. A message
board allows users to post and respond to questions about Leonard Bernstein,
and the left side of the main page contains news updates about upcoming
performances of his different works. Under the Life's Works section, users
can access the Red Book, which is a comprehensive and detailed catalog of
Bernsteins compositions, speeches, and honors, along with a discography and
selection of recommended recordings. The site is rounded out with a nice
collection of audio clips such as highlights of Mr. Bernstein's auspicious
debut with the New York Philarmonic, the famed Norton Lectures at Harvard,
and selections from the Young Peoples Concerts. [KMG]

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Health
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American Lung Association: State of Tobacco Control 2002 (from The Scout
Report -- January 10,)

http://lungaction.org/reports/tobacco-control.html
Released on January 7, 2003, the American Lung Association's Report on the
state of tobacco control contains some rather ominous findings. The Report
analyzes individuals states' action four years after the 1998 Master
Settlement Agreement in which the tobacco industry committed to paying 46
states approximately $206 billion over 25 years. The report, which uses a
letter-grade system to assess statewide efforts, reports that 43 states and
the District of Columbia received an "F" in smokefree air laws and 28
received an "F" in laws limiting youth access to tobacco. From this page,
users can utilize the map of the United States to click on the state of
their choice to obtain the results of the State of Tobacco Control summary
results. Also, users may utilized the four icons on the right-hand side of
the page to obtain summary results on four categories (smokefree air, youth
access to tobacco, etc.) for the entire United States. A methodology section
details the process by which each state's tobacco control efforts were
assessed, and a press center offers detailed news releases from the American
Lung Association on the report. [KMG]

British Food (from Darren Rigby on e-teach)
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Don't miss Darren Rigby's very useful page about British cooking:
http://www.ac-montpellier.fr/Pedagogie/Disciplines/anglais/civi/britcook.htm

The Nutrition Source: Knowledge for Healthy Eating (from The Scout Report
-- January 10,)
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http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/
The Harvard School of Public Health set up this Web site to serve as a
thorough source of scholarly material on the subjects of nutrition and
healthy eating. As the site notes, "we explore the latest science about
healthy eating for adults, answering key questions about what you should
eat." The site is divided into sections such as Carbohydrates, Protein, and
Fiber, each of which features an extended essay providing helpful
information about each topic and debunking certain myths about different
foodstuffs that are often perpetuated by the media or their mere ubiquity.
Some of the subjects addressed by the different sections include the now-
legendary butter versus margarine debate that began several decades ago and
the contention that fiber may significantly reduce the risk of colon cancer.
Perhaps the most helpful section on the site is titled Interpreting News on
Diet, which is devoted to explaining the nature of the multitude of medical
and scientific studies on nutrition and their subsequent coverage in the
media. [KMG]

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Power Point (from Library Hot Five #165: Using PowerPoint)
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Classroom connect newsletter offers you several sites to see examples and
learn how to use Power Point in the classroom:

Power Point In the Classroom
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http://www.actden.com/pp
PowerPoint is a high-powered software tool used for presenting information
in a dynamic slide show format. Learn all the tips on using this
application as well as how to implement it into your classroom by going
through this tutorial.

Geography and History PowerPoint Lessons
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http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=Geo
Look for lessons that integrate PowerPoint into Geography and History
curriculums.

Computer-Based Lectures Using PowerPoint
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http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=503
This article portrays how a teacher has used PowerPoint in her classroom.
PowerPoint usage tips are also included here.

PowerPoint FAQ
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http://www.bitbetter.com/powerfaq.htm
You'll find great PowerPoint tips at this site.

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Euro Language Teachers Forum, 19 January - Hot Potatoes (from Phil Benz)
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Don't miss tonight the exceptional opportunity to chat with the father of
Hot Potatoes!
Here is what Phil says:
"Our special guest for The Euro Language Teachers Forum this Sunday 19
January will be Martin Holmes, designer of the popular Hot Potatoes and
Quandary exercise authoring software suites. Many teachers make
extensive use of "HotPot" exercises with their students, and language
teachers often find them a helpful tool to add specific lexical or
structural support to their lessons. We will discuss innovative ways to
put these traditional sorts of exercises to work for us, as language
teachers.
The forum will begin on Sunday 19 January at 1PM PST, 21 hours GMT, 22h
French time, and will last one hour. To attend, go to the Tapped In
website at www.tappedin.org , log in as a "guest" and follow the
instructions on screen. For further information, please contact me at
Philip.Benz@ac-grenoble.fr"

Expolangues 2003
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Expolangues, the largest national exhibition of products for teaching
languages, is on in paris between January the 29th and February the 1st. Go
to the site and download a free invitation form, find out about reductions
on trains and plane fares, and read the program:
http://www.expolangues2003.com
Remember that Expolangue is the best place to choose new teaching material
and techniques. you can compare the differents books, get specimens, meet
people selling language labs and interactive computer language teaching
systems....

Participez aux Romans virtuels
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Les romans ont été présentés à Nevers et à Artigues, si vous désirez tenter
l'expérience, nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer que les "Histoires
virtuelles 2003" vont bientot commencer, avec le soutien de la Commission
Europeenne.

Ce projet vient d'être selectionne dans l'appel a proposition
eLearning-Innovation 2003. Il compte parmi ses partenaires français :
France5 Television, TV5 International, France Telecom, T3W, les CDDP de
Montpellier et de Perpignan, l'Ambassade de France à Washington ....

Pour les classes d'eleves de 8 a 20 ans, de tous les pays, 8 romans
virtuels sont prevus, des maintenant, en français, anglais, allemand,
espagnol et arabe .( voir les scenarii ci-dessous)

Informations et Inscriptions en Janvier
email : moniqueft@aol.com

Duree des projets : fin janvier/Fevrier- Mai/juin 2003

Il s'agit d'une ecriture collective et internationale sur Internet, pour
l'etude des langues et la pratique des technologies nouvelles. Ce projet
est facile a realiser, utile et amusant, deja eprouve par plus de 6000
eleves de 30 pays differents. En classe, les eleves choisissent un role a
jouer, simulent une vie virtuelle dans un immeuble, une ile ou une
planete... Ils imaginent leurs personnages, dessinent, inventent et
illustrent des histoires qu'ils envoient ensuite sur le site specifique des
" romans virtuels ", selon le synopsis, le planning et les consignes
proposes. La coordination de chaque roman virtuel est assuree a distance,
par un professeur de langue qui aide les classes.
C'est l'occasion de proposer aux eleves en ce debut d'annee, un projet
pedagogique innovant, motivant, pour leur donner le gout d'ecrire, le
plaisir d'être lu, de dialoguer en ligne sur l'Internet et de decouvrir
d'autres cultures.( a voir, les romans 2002, sur le site
http://213.56.195.84/dynamic/LaunchCenter/default.asp

Merci de faire connaitre ce projet aux enseignants autour de vous.
A bientot .

Pour l'équipe des " Histoires virtuelles 2003 "
Monique Perdrillat, Coordinatrice
moniqueft@aol.com
Annie gwynn animatrice du roman en anglais
annie.gwynn@wanadoo.fr


Les synopsis des 8 romans virtuels 2003

Roman en français : Imagexpo
Il s'agit de realiser avec des partenaires europeens, une exposition
itinerante virtuelle dont le theme est " dialogues interculturels par
l'image ". Les classes des differents pays vont choisir des illustrations
et les commenter.

Roman en français : La fête a Montpellier
Les eleves font semblant de vivre a Montpellier, au sud de la France. Ces
habitants virtuels racontent leurs activites quotidiennes, commentent
l'actualite en faisant des reportages et organisent une fête virtuelle.

Roman en français : Les Trois Mousquetaires en Amerique au 18eme siecle
A l'occasion du transfert des cendres d'Alexandre Dumas au Pantheon, on
apprend que le romancier a ecrit la suite des " Trois Mousquetaires ". Ils
debarquent en Amerique au 18 eme siecle, dans une periode tres conflictuelle.

Roman en français : La quête du Petit Chaperon Rouge ( pour les ecoles)
Le Petit Chaperon Rouge et le grand mechant loup, Loulou Croquetout sont de
retour en l'an 2003. Chaque classe va constituer un club de soutien " APCR
" et lui faire decouvrir le monde d'aujourd'hui.

Roman en anglais :Camp MacKenzie
Suzan McKenzie vit dans un chateau hante et s'occupe d'un Camp de vacances
en Ecosse, pres de Glasgow. Les eleves simulent leur sejour dans ce village
et racontent tous des histoires bien bizarres.

Roman en espagnol : La máquina infernal de la Puerta del Sol.
Puerta del Sol, 31 decembre 2002. Des milliers de gens sont sur la place,
au 12° coup de minuit, ceux qui ont reussi a avaler leurs 12 grains de
raisin, sans les macher, se trouvent soudain tele portes dans une machine a
remonter le temps. Commence alors l'incroyable periple a travers l'histoire
de l'Espagne…

Roman en allemand : 7 rue Princesse a Berlin
Vous vivez tous au centre-ville dans le quartier "Kreuzberg , tres
international. Dans votre immeuble, il se passe des choses ordinaires et
parfois extraordinaires. Les eleves font simuler et faire des reportages
images et video sur leur ville virtuelle.

Roman en arabe : Aladin et son Ordi magique
En frottant sa lanterne magique, Aladin l'a casse. Il sort bien decu et
s'apercoit que tout a change ! Des magasins partout! Il tombe en admiration
devant un objet "l'Ordi magique". Vous allez inventer l'histoire d'Aladin
et de son nouvel outil ordinateur.

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