Infonews n°219 du 13/06/2004 

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A la Une this week, sites about Ray Charles, who died last week.
In the News, discover the new European Health Insurance Card, and sites
about Ronald Reagan. Then several sites to teach differently and start
original activities for the end of the year, especially in primary and
lower secondary school and three sites for secondary school. Then a special
report about cooking and recipes, including nice picture recipes and
videos. To finish, two sites for teachers, an online book about new
teaching trends, and a site to help you detect when your students give you
a ready made homework.
This is the last Infonews for this school year. Your next Infonews will
come out at the beginning of September.
And maybe we will meet at Cyber-langues this summer!
to register and see the program, go to:
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Until then, enjoy your holidays!!!!

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A la Une : Ray Charles
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Biography
Lyrics
Songs and music to download
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In the News
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The European Health Insurance Card (from [LII New This Week] June 10)
Reagan (from [LII New This Week] June 10)
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End of the Year Activities
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Make awards for children
End of year poem
ABC end of the year poem
The best things about my classroom this year
Memories and intentions
Bookmarks to print
Crossword puzzles
On-Line Scavenger Hunt
Tell It Like It Was
Students year Book
Learning up to the last minute
The great games
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Resources for Secondary School
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Online Story book (from Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer, Monday, June 7th)
After School
Poetry, the essence of life
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Cooking
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Conversion tables
Kitchen safety
Cookbooks and recipes
Videos
Business
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Teaching Practice
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Enjeux et défis de l'éducation au 21e siècle
Plagiarism (from [LII New This Week] June 10)

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A la Une : Ray Charles
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Here are some addresses to remember this great musician:
Biography
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/charles_r.html
http://www.raycharles.com (not updated, but an interesting quiz)
http://afgen.com/ray_charles.html (with a time line)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3796085.stm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5182959/ (with quotes)

Lyrics
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http://www.thepeaches.com/music/raycharles/ (with lyrics)
http://www.lyricsdownload.com/ray-charles-lyrics.html (lyrics)

Songs and music to download
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http://www.artistdirect.com/music/artist/card/0,,413939,00.html
http://www.artistdirect.com/store/artist/album/0,,63420,00.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004R5ZP/102-4425609-5395369?v=glance
( free samples)

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In the News
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The European Health Insurance Card (from [LII New This Week] June 10)
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Official information about the June 2004 implementation of the European
Health Insurance Card, which will be given to "European citizens who are
travelling within the European Economic Area, i.e. the European Union,
Switzerland, and the EFTA [European Free Trade Association] countries ...
[to] simplify the procedure when receiving medical assistance during their
stay in a Member State."
Features news, legislation, and related materials. Institution database
only available in French.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/healthcard/
[ For teachers. Interesting, isn't it? I must say that I haven't heard
anything about that in the French news!!!!!]

Reagan (from [LII New This Week] June 10)
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Companion site to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) American Experience
features interviews, text of some of Reagan's speeches, video clips, book
excerpts, photos, a timeline, a teacher's guide, etc.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/
News, analysis, photos, and video clips. From the British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3782423.stm
A website is dedicated to remembering the extraordinary life of Ronald
Reagan through the eyes of people he touched. We invite you to explore the
personal memories shared on this website and
submit your own Ronald Reagan memories." [ to read what people wrote about
him...]
http://rememberronaldreagan.com/
Provides an overview of the events in the life of former President Ronald
Reagan, covering both his acting and political careers. Features several
audio clips of Reagan's speeches, including his
denial of the arms-for-hostages deal with Iran and his acknowledgement of
his "'mistake' in the Iran-Contra affair." Includes a timeline, photos, and
related links. Also includes an overview of funeral plans. From National
Public Radio (NPR).
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/obits/reagan/
A cover story from Time Magazine. You can read it online, but only for a
week...
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101040614/rlegacy.html

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End-of-the-year Activities
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here are some end of the year activities. Most of them are designed for
primary school and young children, but you can easily adapt them to
secondary school and use them to make those last lessons "cooler" ;)

Make awards for children
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In France, we don't use this notion of awards as much as they do in
English-speaking countries, but the end of theyear can be the right moment
to set a different atmosphere. The main thing is to find something for each
students, and this may also help the child who think he is "hopeless"
because he had bad marks for his tests during the year to discover that
you do value him for something ( attentive listener, creative problem
solver, handy helper, good friend....)
http://www.kidbibs.com/awards/card.html

End of year poem
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In the same vein, discover this 'end of year poem'. You also have to
personalize it, but it requires less imagination than the certificates.
From this model, you can also encourage the students to write such poems
to another student or to you.
http://www.geocities.com/smilecdg/endofyearpoem.html

ABC end-of-the-year poem
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A poem with each line starting with a different letter from the alphabet.
Also very useful to study tenses!
http://www.childfun.com/themes/end.shtml

The best things about my classroom this year
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less personal, a text to write as a whole group to remember the best
moments in this school year
http://abcteach.com/MonthtoMonth/May/classfun.htm
[ just turn off the sound so that you won't hear the add!!!!!!]

Memories and intentions
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memories and next year resolutions
http://abcteach.com/MonthtoMonth/June/endofschool.htm

Bookmarks to print
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for the youngest, nice bookmarks to print and colour , to encourage them to
read....
http://janbrett.com/bookmarks/bookmarks_happy_summer.htm

Crossword puzzles
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just make your choice and review vocabulary.
http://kidsdomain.com/holiday/summer/word.html

On-Line Scavenger Hunt
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webquests, to make the students use the capacities they acquired this year.
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson161.shtml

Tell It Like It Was
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Use your students' writing talents to help ease the first-day jitters of
the youngsters who will be in your class next fall. Ask each child to
compose a letter addressed to next year's incoming class. In their letters,
ask the students to describe their year in your classroom, note their
favorite activities and
subjects, and make comments about your teaching style. Store the letters
over the summer; then read them as an opening-day activity in the fall.
These letters are sure to put your new students at ease and start the year
off on a positive note!
http://www.theteachersguide.com/Junelessons.html
(from Carol Constantine, Gr. 2, Hutchinson School; Greensburg, PA)
in the same vein, see these thank-you letters for the youngest:
"At the end of the school year it's a nice time to write thank you notes
and cards to all of your classroom volunteers, and the notes are much more
meaningful when your students get involved and write their own letters.
It's also a good time to practice the format of a letter, as instructed in
this Writing a Thank You Note lesson and template, for K-2.
http://www.education.com/common/resources/lp/lng/980330kl.pdf

Students year Book
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http://www.theteachersguide.com/Junelessons.html
This page offers a long list of activities. I selected this one for you:
- make your students study a biography (or maybe they have already done it
this year, then just recycle this lesson). Then encourage them to write
their own, alone or with a group of friends for peer to peer corrections.
In the end, have them type their text, add a photo if you have a digital
camera at hand, and assemble all the texts into an American style 'year
book' . This activity may keep your students passionately busy during the
last leesons of the school year!
If possible, you may also work with:
- the technology (IT) teacher who will help them organise and edit their work,
- the literature teacher for the content of the texts, or for some extra
texts, poems, and so on
- the art teacher for pictures and drawings...

Learning up to the last minute
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http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor/learningtilllastmin.htm
Make a Big Production out of your last days at school, and keep the
learning happening with the wonderful activities suggested here.

The great games list
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http://www.funattic.com/game_list.htm
Celebrate the end of school with a field day, shared with other classes and
filled with fun games. Find suggestions at this site for carnival games,
learning games, relays, skill games, water games, etc.

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Resources for Secondary School
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Online Story book (from Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer, Monday, June 7th)
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http://www.juliasrainbowcorner.com/html/juliakicked.html
What happened when Julia kicked the red ball into the garden? Find out
here, with this online, audio-enhanced story for preschoolers.

After School
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the US government has put together this useful page of links. And you have
two month to explore them all! ;)
http://afterschool.gov/cgi-binh/home.pl

Poetry, the essence of life
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Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer from June 10th spotted this this 18 page guide
presents a nine lesson unit aimed at 8th graders ( beginning of secondary
school)
http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/lessons/01_8_PoetryEssence%20.pdf
it is based on poems that you can find on Poets' Corner (Dylan Thomas,
Emily Dickinson, etc.)
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/
Through this unit, students will understand that poetry is a way of
expressing one’s innermost feelings and be able to express their own
feelings through this medium. They will also appreciate how memorization
and recitation of poetry can aid in self-expression and self-confidence.
Reading, memorizing and reciting poems can be a way to create a calm,
concentrated atmosphere in those last days of school.
You can also read (and hear) recent poems at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/

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Cooking
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Conversion tables
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from cups to spoonfuls and grams. Also useful to review numbers, figures
and terms like multiplied by, divided by, equal, etc...)
http://www.botanical.com/botanical/cvcookix.html#coo
http://youthonline.ca/recipes/measurements.shtml
http://www.goodcooking.com/conversions/liq_dry.htm

Kitchen safety
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to make children reflect on what might be dangerous in the kitchen. The
opportunity to make them use modals : should, shouldn't, mustn't.
http://youthonline.ca/recipes/safety.shtml

Cookbooks and recipes
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Pick those you like! You can also introduce children to typical recipes
like brownies, cheesecake, muffins,etc.
Youth online club's cookbook (easy recipes for children to make themselves,
tasted and approved)
http://youthonline.ca/recipes/
Recipe Bazaar (from the US, in cups, a vast choice)
http://www.recipezaar.com
Recipes which appeared on ABC Brisbane TV ( from Australia, no pictures but
quantities in grams!)
http://www.abc.net.au/tropic/recipes/recipesbydate.htm
Recipes on the BBC (British, quantities in grams, see scones and muffins...)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/
Recipes on About.com
http://homecooking.about.com/od/recipes/
For typical English, Welsh or Scottish recipes, see this site (found by
Claude Covo-Farchi)
http://www.recipegoldmine.com/worldgreatbrit/greatbrit.html
[ for advanced students]
For very easy recipes for beginners, Claude Covo-Farchi found this picture
recipe site:
http://www.bry-backmanor.org/picturerecipes.html
see for example the peanut butter sandwich
http://www.bry-backmanor.org/picturerecipes.html
For more addresses, see Annie Gwynn's page of links at:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/annie.gwynn/biscuits_and_cakes.htm

Vidéos
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Techniques from Epicurious
an excellent site to learn how to cut herbs, cut a poultry, make a
mayonnaise...or fold the napkins! the videos are of very good quality,
there is no transcript but they are clear and short.
http://eat.epicurious.com/learn/video/index.ssf/?/learn/video/main.html
you may also find other features interesting at:
http://eat.epicurious.com/

Lessons with master Chefs from PBS
***the best site, with a streaming video (download it once, and it appears
better the second time) but you can read the full transcript as the video
runs, in the pull down menu under the video window (next to "go")
http://www.pbs.org/juliachild/video.html

Cooking demos on Food Network
14 videos, with transcript and pictures and text as an alternative. You can
learn how to butterfly a chicken, ice a cake, or make sushi.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/ck_demos/

Cooking classes on NBC
37 recipe videos on NBC. Short and there is a useful redundancy between the
comment and the pictures, but there is no transcript, the streaming video
is of rather bad quality (at least on my computer) . Beware : there is an
advert at the beginning of the video that would need editing!
http://turnto10.feedroom.com/iframeset.jsp?ord=506776

Business
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The Beijing chippy (from Martine Martin on e-teach)
For advanced students, this interesting article contains lots of business
terms, and can trigger a discussion about the difficulty to start a
restaurant featuring european food in a country where the habits are different.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/3798123.stm

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Enjeux et défis de l'éducation au 21e siècle
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La lettre d'information canadienne Cursus signale dans son n°126 un livre
complet en ligne mis en ligne par l'Université du Québec à trois Rivières,
sur la culture, l'enseignement de la langue, la pédagogie et les compétence
professionnelles.
http://cursus.cursus.edu/hitcounter.asp?on=coursInt&no=20473
Voyez le sommaire et profitez des vacances pour réfléchir sur les enjeux de
l'enseignement:
http://www2.uqtr.ca/hee/site_1/index.php?no_fiche=3201&plan=573

Avoiding Plagiarism (from [LII New This Week] June 10)
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The Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) offers this page on how
students can avoid lagiarism. Provides a brief overview of contradictions
in academic writing, actions that might be seen as plagiarism, and
guidelines for researching, quoting, paraphrasing, and deciding if
something is common knowledge. Includes exercises and a brief bibliography.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html
[ a useful guide to show your students they can't fool you! ]

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