Infonews n°228 du 07/11/2004
ReadWriteThink Student Materials (from NetHappenings Newsletter October 20)
Why they voted for Bush
Native Tech
Maps of Native nations (from Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer, Friday, November
5th)
Teaching your students about Native Americans (from Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer,
Friday, November 5th)
Activities to discover native Americans
Register for Think Quest 2004-2005, International (from EUN Newsletter to
teachers #95)
Join the discussion in Voice of Youth, UNICEF (from EUN Newsletter to teachers
#95)
Spring Day 2005
E-twinning
*** Read and hear poems
Crime in the United States: 2003 (from The Scout Report -- November 5)
Broadway: The American Musical (from The Scout Report -- November 5)
Free Printables
Printable Booklets
Woodland Park Zoo (from The Scout Report -- November 5)
Concours des écoles
Changing Minds
What Works Clearinghouse (from NetHappenings Newsletter October 20)
Des collègues d'anglais, allemand et espagnol de l'association Cyber-Langues
seront présents à Educatec:
du mercredi 17 au vendredi 19 novembre 2004
chaque jour de 9h30 à 18h00
Hall 7.1
Paris expo - Porte de Versailles - Paris 15ème
Métro : Ligne 12, station Porte de Versailles
--> Vous pouvez dès maintenant recevoir votre badge par internet, et un
coupon de réduction pour la SNCF au:
http://www.gldatasystems.fr/educatec2004/
Vous pourrez rencontrer les collègues de Cyber-langues sur le stand et bavarder
avec eux. Ils vous présenteront ce qu'ils font dans leurs classes. Téléchargez
la plaquette de l'asso avec le programme à partir de la page animations:
http://www.educatec.com/scripts/publish/information.asp?code=1_ANI&language=fr
Sur le stand, vous pourrez rencontrer les collègues suivant:
mercredi :
- Olivier Colas, anglais, Versailles
- Claude Covo farchi,anglais, Paris
- Jeanne-Marie Côme, espagnol, Laval
- Helmut Brammerts, langues, Bochum (de)
jeudi:
Josiane Laval, anglais, nancy-Metz,
- Christine Reymond, anglais, Rouen,
- Domingo Bayon-Lopez, espagnol, Bordeaux
- Helmut Brammerts, langues, Bochum (de)
vendredi:
- Nathalie Magin, espagnol, Bordeaux
- Danielle Lavollée, allemand, Versailles
- Annie Gwynn, anglais, Nevers
- Guy Mazurais, anglais, Rennes
- Helmut Brammerts, langues, Bochum (de)
Vous pourrez aussi assister aux conférences:
mercredi :
- matin : http://cyberlangues.online.fr/2004/cyborls-dbayonlopez.htm Le
projet Audio Nom@de, Domingo Bayon-Lopez, professeur d'espagnol, Académie de
Bordeaux
- après-midi : Utiliser l’internet pour apprendre l’anglais en classe de BTSI,
Christine Reymond, anglais, lycée Blaise Pascal, Rouen
jeudi:
- matin : http://cyberlangues.online.fr/2004/cyborls-jc.breton.html Utilisation
du tableau numérique Promethean en cours d'espagnol au collège, Jean-Richard
BROUSSE, professeur d’espagnol, Académie de Bordeaux
- après-midi : Apprentissage des langues en Tandem, Helmut Brammerts, Université de
Bochum ; Allemagne
vendredi
- matin : "La formation des interprètes/traducteurs à l'heure des NTIC", http://cyberlangues.online.fr/2003/intervenants/bihan.htm BIHAN
Xavier, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Allemagne
- après-midi : Projet WKTO mobile, collaborative learning du Lycée l'Oiselet,
grenoble par Mary Vernet et Murielle Rialt
J'espère vous rencontrer nombreux à cette occasion!
ReadWriteThink Student Materials (from NetHappenings Newsletter October 20)
This is an exceptionally great resource that brings together technology and
Bloom's taxonomy. The interactive tools can be used to introduce technology
in motivating students to produce more interesting literacy related work.
http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp
[ lots of excellent ideas to encourage students to write and get them started,
or to organise their thoughts. You can do those activites at all levels, including
primary school. You'll find there examples of diagrams, mapping and webbing
suggestions, comparison exercises, ideas to create comics, poems or news articles,
or present reports about animals, etc....
And for the theory behind those activities, learn more about Bloom's taxonomy
:
http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learn/program/hndouts/bloom.html
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/bloom.html
http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/guides/bloom.html (
with links and bibliography)]
Why they voted for Bush
My students all asked me this question after the election. here is an article
from the New York Times (a bit long, but interesting) which tries and explain
the people's motivations (the main ones being that you don't change horse in
midstream, and that Bush and his wife seem closer to ordinary people)
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20041105friday.html
the lesson accompanying the article encourages students to "consider and
create collages about the values and morals they believe a political leader
should possess. ". Very interesting for advanced students who have already
worked on the elections. A good way to conclude the theme:
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20041105friday.html
Native Tech
"An internet resource for indigenous ethno-technology focusing on the
arts of Eastern Woodland Indian Peoples, providing historical &
contemporary background with instructional how-to's & references.
...revising use of the term <http://www.nativetech.org/art/ethnotech.html>"primitive"
with respect to <http://www.nativetech.org/art/art.html>Native
American Technology and Art " (from the site)
http://www.nativetech.org/
[ lots of info about native Americans, their costume, their traditions adn
their art, presented by the natives themselves.]
Maps of Native nations (from Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer, Friday, November 5th)
http://groups.msn.com/asinglestandingteepee/mapofnotheasternnations.msnw
There were an amazing number and diversity of Native nations in North America,
and these maps display the various locations of indigenous peoples in the
year 1850. It would be a great project for your students to create a wall
size map delineating the regions of all of these tribes, and then choosing
a few to research further in teams.
Teaching your students about Native Americans (from Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer, Friday, November 5th)
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed394744.html
In order to present a balanced view of Thanksgiving and to be sensitive to
Native American concerns, take a look at this guide to teaching students
about stereotypes and attempting to provide accurate representations. Teaching
suggestions and strategies are included.
[ interesting suggestions, especially because it reviews the stereotypes.]
Activities to discover Native Americans
our colleagues from Paris have created this teaching unit for upper intermediates,
complete with how tos and worksheets.
http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/nativeamericansarticle.php
Register for Think Quest 2004-2005, International (from EUN Newsletter to teachers #95)
Registrations are open since beginning of october, but you can still take
part. You need to organise teams of 3 to 6 students each with an adult responsible
and register in an age group ( from 9 to 19) . Then you chose the theme you
want to work on, find documents and ideas, build a site and send the documents
before march 15th. Lots of schools have already taken part in the contest,
but only a few in France. I'm sure many of you are now ready to take part!
Offer you students the opportunity to make their work known, and the idea of
being evaluated by students and teachers from other countries might be an extra
motivation!
http://www.thinkquest.org/
You can also navigate in the site and see all the fine pages made by the other
teams, and even use them in class to study a theme. They are very interesting
and well made.
Join the discussion in Voice of Youth, UNICEF (from EUN Newsletter to teachers #95)
the European constitution also deal with the protection of children, especially
in articles 34, 35 et 36 of the convention for children's rights. See the convention
at:
http://www.unicef.org/crc/crc.htm
then read the documents at:
http://www.unicef.org/voy/speakout/speakout_627.html
they are organised by themes, and for each, you find a document to download
in several format, which offers ideas to study the problem in the different
countries, provides informations to discuss about it and suggestions as to
how to take action. I found the document about war especilly interesting:
http://www.unicef.org/voy/media/news.2003-10.doc
Spring Day 2005
Spring Day aims at making students across Europe reflect together on the
European Union and its new opportunities, creating links and friendships and
working together. Register, suggest projects and find partners at:
http://futurum2005.eun.org
E-twinning
EUN has created a new portal with the Euroepean Union, to help teachers,
schools and groups to start projects with partners all over Europe and in the
world. You can visit the site, start organising your project and see examples
at:
http://www.etwinning.net
You can also contact correspondents who speak your language and discuss your
project with them, either by mail or through chats which take place 4 times
a week in several languages between 16h00 and 17h00 (CET) at:
http://www.etwinning.net/ww/fr/pub/etwinning/helpdesk/chat_with_your_european_helpde.htm
This is an excellent opportunity for those who want to start a project!
*** Read and hear poems
Claude Covo farchi has found for us this fine site from the BBC, where poets
read their poems.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/index.shtml
I selected two poem for you:
- Miss World by Benjamin Zephaniah : it's almost a rap chant. This rasta poet
will appeal to the students, and the theme, beauty contests, is also something
interesting to discuss.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/zephaniah.shtml
- The Cats' Protection League by Roger McGough : a funny text about cats racketting
the poet. You can study how humor is created by the contrast between the title,
the animals and the situation (to be replaced into its cultural context...)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/mcgough_cat.shtml
Crime in the United States: 2003 (from The Scout Report -- November 5)
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/03cius.htm
Every year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) produces its annual complete
crime report for the United States, and the report for 2003 was recently
made available in a variety of formats on the agency's website.
While the report is a bit overwhelming (it is 516 pages in length), novice
users may want to start by looking at page v, which explains how to read and
understand the numbers contained within the report. Section II contains details
on all offenses reported, including violent crime, property crime, and hate
crime. In brief, the report reveals that violent crime in the United States
dropped three percent last year, and that 62 percent of last year's murders
have been solved to date. It is also worth noting that during the past 10 years,
total violent crime in the U.S. has dropped 25 percent. A number of separate
tables are available in the Excel format, including "Murder Victims by
Age, by Weapon" and "Arrests by State". [KMG]
[ interesting for the reading of tables, diagrams a,nd statistics, and also
to complete the work we more or less all do every year around firearms or Bowling
for Columbine.]
Broadway: The American Musical (from The Scout Report -- November 5)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/
Hosted by Julie Andrews, and directed by Michael Kantor, this five-part series
from PBS offers numerous insights into the wide world of the Great White
Way throughout its long and fabled past, all the way up to the present day.
Visitors may want to start by reading some of the fine essays in the "Hello,
Broadway!"
section where they can read about the relationship between Broadway and Hollywood,
the role of political satire on Broadway, and the incorporation of rock music
into Broadway productions. In the "Memorable Musicals" section, visitors
can learn about important groundbreaking and influential musicals, including
La Cage aux Folles and Hair. The Broadway Trivia game should not be missed,
as visitors can answer a host of questions (accompanied by snippets of various
musical numbers) as they try to navigate their way through Times Square to
the theater of their choice. Of course, to get that first-hand experience about
the life and
times of some of Broadway's most storied legends, visitors will want to go
to the "Stars over Broadway" section. Here they can listen to famed
illustrator talk about the late Zero Mostel and watch theater historian Dwight
Bowers talk about that master of the musical, Jerome Kern. [KMG]
[ for students studying music and art, and all those interested in musicals.]
Free Printables
Free, downloadable, uncopyrighted printables are an invaluable resource to
help students learn, to provide more depth or remediation to a topic or just
to have around for in clement weather or quiet time. Most of them are excellent
for beginners.
Enchanted Learning (various easy and ready to use worksheets)
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
ESL Kids Flashcards (lots of funny and useful flashcards, see places and prepositions
for example)
http://bogglesworld.com/cards.htm
Flashcard Exchange Over a million flashcards (some resources require a fee
or registration, but many are free. try the memory games!)
http://www.flashcardexchange.com/index.jsp
Educational Pages from ActivityVillage (lots of easy educational games: cards,
bingo, etc.)
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/educational.htm
Printable Worksheets ( if what is abov is not enough, here is a long list of
links to explore...)
http://www.nvnet.org/nvhs/edresource/hubpages/Worksheets.html
Printable Booklets
Ecole Ferdinand Flocon on e-teach suggested these printable booklets as a
very useful resource to teach simple structures in authentic context:
http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/printable_booklets.html#SightWordBooklets
Woodland Park Zoo (from The Scout Report -- November 5)
http://www.zoo.org/multimedia/index.html
The Woodland Park Zoo, located in Seattle, was one of the first zoos in the
United States to move animals out of traditional barred enclosures into more
naturalistic habitats. Now the zoo has created this multimedia area where
the young and old can view some of these animals in these habitats, and learn
more about them interactively. The interactive features area is a good place
to start, as visitors can watch a video of a komodo dragon baby hatching,
view an interactive map to learn about the decline of the Sumatran tiger,
and explore the world of the jaguar. The video archive offers some short
video clips of animals "in action", including a kea bird, some
Ossabaw pigs, and a snow leopard. The
"Miscellaneous Goodies" area is a real treat as visitors can view
the "Bear Cam" (which features, yes, that's right: live
bears), send a friend an electronic postcard of an endangered animal, and experience
the life cycle of a butterfly. [KMG]
[ the pictures, webcams and videos are really interesting, even if the students
are not studying English but animal life. ]
Concours des écoles
L'académie de Montpellier met à la disposition des collègues de primaire
des enregistrements qui ont été proposés au concours de precrutement des professeurs
des écoles. Profitez-en pour vous entrainer!
http://pedagogie.ac-montpellier.fr/disciplines/anglais/primaire/
Changing Minds
The site includes research on why and how minds are changed. The categories
include disciplines, techniques, principles, explanations, and theories. What
you must see is the list of sites that relate to advertising, brainwashing,cults,
negotiation, romance, and trust.
http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/academic_references.htm
[ this site is rather difficult to explore, but it is worth making the effort.
Start with techniques, and explore the different key words : motivation, understanding
each other and yourself, groups, power, etc. ]
What Works Clearinghouse (from NetHappenings Newsletter October 20)
Gathers studies of the effectiveness of educational interventions and reviews
them.
http://www.w-w-c.org/
[ lots of documents here for students and research, and maybe some interesting
ideas to improve your teaching methods.]
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