Dans l'actualité du moment, voyez Groundhog Day, Valentine Day, Presidents day, School Counseling week et Black History Month des sites à visiter, des leçons et des webquests. En plus des ressources pour vos cours, sur la didactique et la psychologie, et des sites pour les techniciens.
Bon courage à ceux qui travaillent encore, et bonnes vacances aux autres!

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SOMMAIRE
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Groundhog day (february 2nd)
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Découvrez cette fête américaine (Education World Newsletter Vol.4 Issue 05 February 10, 2000)
histoire
des photos du héro du jour
groundhog day song (on 'Clementine's tune)
des liens, des leçons
des cartes animées

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Valentine’s Day (february 14th)
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History of Valentine’s Day (STUFF TeacherStuff - February 11, 2000)
Romantic Recipes
Valentine Fun
Judy’s Valentine Day Recipes
Vegetarian Valentine’s Day Recipes

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presidents day (february 21st)
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un point de départ (Education World Newsletter Vol.4 Issue 05 February 10, 2000)
webquest

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School counseling week
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ideas (Education World Newsletter Vol.4 Issue 05 February 10, 2000)
webquest
getting a job

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Black History month
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Black History Month A Celebration (HOT Library Hot Five #25 February 11, 2000 )
Black History Timeline (HOT Library Hot Five #25 February 11, 2000 )
Philadelphia Online Celebrating Black History(HOT Library Hot Five #25 February 11, 2000 )
Afro-Americ@ The Black History Museum(HOT Library Hot Five #25 February 11, 2000 )
Black History Exploring African-American Issues on the Web(HOT Library Hot Five #25 February 11, 2000 )
Celebrating African-American History @ HomeworkCentral.com (W.O.W. List for Friday, February 11, 2000)
Black History Month (The Scout Report --> February 11, 2000)
100 years of African-American art and culture (PBS PBS Teacher Previews February 14-20, 2000)
history of America's black newspapers (PBS PBS Teacher Previews February 14-20, 2000)
"What is Africa to Me?" (PBS PBS Teacher Previews February 14-20, 2000)

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Resources for teachers
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Wired@School 20 Teaching Units at Your Fingertips! (Education World Newsletter Vol.4 Issue 05 February 10, 2000)
A Mock Constitutional Convention (CONGRESS CongressLink Communicator-February 11, 2000-Volume 1)
DoHistory.org (The Scout Report --> February 11, 2000)
famous gunfight duel (PBS PBS Teacher Previews February 14-20, 2000)
A Compact for Reading & School-Home Links (The Scout Report --> February 11, 2000)

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Teaching practice
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Electronic Portfolios (PBS PBS Teacher Previews February 14-20, 2000)
Complément en ligne de 'la lettre des profs d'anglais'
School Psychology Resources Online (Education World Newsletter Vol.4 Issue 05 February 10, 2000)

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Engineering and technology
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Construire un projet par email
Maintenance tips (signalé par Jean Sahai)
The Civil Engineer's Mega Bookmark (The Scout Report --> February 11, 2000)
Language Functions in the Lecture Room (signalé par Jean-Claude Viel)

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Groundhog day (february 2nd)
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Découvrez cette fête américaine (Education World Newsletter Vol.4 Issue 05 February 10, 2000)
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des documents pour tous niveaux
--> http://www.education-world.com/holidays/
--> http://www.education-world.com/holidays/#groundhog

histoire
--> http://www.groundhog.org/history/tradition.shtml

des photos du héro du jour
--> http://www.groundhog.org/photos/phil/
--> http://www.groundhog.org/photos/phil/s7.shtml

groundhog day song (on 'Clementine's tune)
--> http://ourworld.cs.com/DonaldRHalley/ghdsongs.htm#FAVORITE

des liens, des leçons
--> http://www.groundhogsday.com/links.html
--> http://www.groundhogsday.com/links.forkids.html

des cartes animées
--> http://www1.bluemountain.com/cgi-bin/bannerfwd?/eng3/groundhogday/?ref=alsogndhogsucpg
[ une fête sympatique à faire découvrir à vos élèves de tous âges]

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Valentine’s Day (february 14th)
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History of Valentine’s Day (STUFF TeacherStuff - February 11, 2000)
--> http://tsp.virtualave.net/valproj/history.html

History of St. Valentine’s Day
--> http://www5.interaccess.com/chronicle/back/feb1097/article13.html

Romantic Recipes
--> http://techdirect.com/valentine/vrecipes.html

Valentine Fun
--> http://www.ok.bc.ca/TEN/valentine/valentine.html

Judy’s Valentine Day Recipes
--> http://members.aol.com/gypsydoodl/valrec.htm

Valentine Recipes from Family.com
--> http://family.go.com/Features/family_1997_02/famf/famf199702_ff95valentine1/famf199702_ff95valentine3.html

Vegetarian Valentine’s Day Recipes
--> http://www.goodkarmacafe.com/articles/Feb97/menu.shtml

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presidents day (february 21st)
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un point de départ (Education World Newsletter Vol.4 Issue 05 February 10, 2000)
--> http://www.education-world.com/holidays/#president

webquest
--> http://www3.guilford.k12.nc.us/webquests/presidents/pres.htm
[ des activités pour tous niveaux]

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School counseling week
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ideas (Education World Newsletter Vol.4 Issue 05 February 10, 2000)
--> http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr196.shtml

webquest
--> http://library.thinkquest.org/11720/

getting a job
--> http://www.adventuresineducation.org/planning/pc_job.shtml
[ pour aider vos élèves à choisir une orientation, mais aussi à considérer les qualifications que l'on peut développer à l'école et qui seront utiles tout au long de la vie. J'ai sensibilisé mes élèves à ce sujet grâce à un petit texte 'job skills, life skills' du manuel de troisième 'Channel 3' (p62). Ce texte peut aussi être utilisé en lycée. Mes élèves de seconde vont ensuite naviguer sur les sites ci-dessus, puis finir par une discussion collective sur ce que l'on acquiert à l'école qui sera utile dans la vie future. Une bonne occasion de leur montrer que l'école n'est pas seulement apprendre pour apprendre ou pour passer des examens!]

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Black History month
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***Library Hot Five #25 Black History Month*** (HOT Library Hot Five #25 February 11, 2000 )
In 1976, February was designated as Black History Month, a time to reflect  on the contributions of African-Americans throughout history. These Web  sites may be used as a springboard for a discussion of human rights around  the world.

Black History Month A Celebration (HOT Library Hot Five #25 February 11, 2000 )
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--> http://www.kron.com/specials/blackhistory/home.html
This site features the accomplishments of Althea Gibson, Wilma Rudolph,  George Washington Carver, Mary McLeod Bethune, Sojourner Truth, Harriet  Tubman, Benjamin Banneker, Thurgood Marshall, Marion Anderson, Paul  Robeson, and W.E.B. Dubois.

Black History Timeline (HOT Library Hot Five #25 February 11, 2000 )
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--> http://www.att.com/black_history_month/timeline.html
From the 1600s through the 1900s, study significant events in the history  of Black America.

Philadelphia Online Celebrating Black History(HOT Library Hot Five #25 February 11, 2000 )
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--> http://www.philly.com/packages/history/
This site celebrates Black history. Learn about the men and women who have  made a difference. There is information here from the Civil War to Civil Rights.

Afro-Americ@ The Black History Museum(HOT Library Hot Five #25 February 11, 2000 )
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--> http://www.afroam.org/history/history.html
Explore interactive historical exhibits or visit the Kids Zone to learn  about Africa's geography and to read myths and fables.

Black History Exploring African-American Issues on the Web(HOT Library Hot Five #25 February 11, 2000 )
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--> http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/AfroAm.html
Click on Black History Hotlist for resources on slavery, buffalo soldiers,  civil rights movement, the Million Man march, and African-American  leaders. Try an interactive treasure hunt and test your knowledge of  African-American history. Sampling African America links to Web sites with  images, songs, folklore, and inspiring speeches.

Celebrating African-American History @ HomeworkCentral.com (W.O.W. List for Friday, February 11, 2000)
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Rosa Parks. Toni Morrison. Rubin "Hurricane"Carter. American heroes. Learn how African-Americans have helped shape the American experience, and continue to be leaders in all fields from literature to legislation. From the painful past of slavery to the uncompromising spirit of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, to the message of true brotherhood from the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and the magic of Toni Morrison's poetry, explore www.HomeworkCentral.com's Spotlight on Black History at
--> http://www.homeworkcentral.com/spotlight/blackhistory/vsl_index.htp
[ voyez les pages sur Tony Morrison]

Black History Month (The Scout Report --> February 11, 2000)
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Infoplease.com has assembled this collection of resources and features to honor Black History Month. Each day in February the site will post a biography of a distinguished individual and a special feature. In addition, the site offers statistics and figures, a Civil Rights Timeline, a reading list of black literature, information about black personalities of note (politics, arts, and sports), quizzes, and a crossword puzzle. While certainly not as scholarly as some other online resources on African-American history, the site has nice breadth and will interest a wide variety of users. [MD]
--> http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html

100 years of African-American art and culture (PBS PBS Teacher Previews February 14-20, 2000)
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journey through 100 years of African-American  art and culture. Access a database of the artists featured in the television program, view video clips, download classroom materials and trace a chronology of African-American art and protest.
--> http://pbs.org/immaw/ 

history of America's black newspapers (PBS PBS Teacher Previews February 14-20, 2000)
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discover the history of America's black newspapers with profiles of the top papers, publishers, editors and writers. Test your knowledge with a black press quiz, create your own newspaper with "Hot Off the Presses," and access a classroom study guide.
--> http://pbs.org/blackpress/

"What is Africa to Me?" (PBS PBS Teacher Previews February 14-20, 2000)
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examine Africa's rich cultures and ancient civilizations. Access overviews of geographical areas visited in the series, read in-depth articles on African culture and history, colonialism, and the slave trade, and share your visions of Africa in the "What is Africa to Me?" section of the site.
--> http://pbs.org/wonders/

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Resources for teachers
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Wired@School 20 Teaching Units at Your Fingertips! (Education World Newsletter Vol.4 Issue 05 February 10, 2000)
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The Wired@School Web page -->-part of a terrific on-line resource from The Franklin Institute of Science-->- grows each year, thanks to the efforts of the institute's special fellowship program. This week, Franklin Fellow and Education World writer Hazel Jobe introduces her fellow Fellows and the great on-line teaching units that each has created. Included More than 20 units -->-full of great lessons and activities-->- that every teacher should know about! Units about the ocean, rocks, Native Americans, sound, and much more!
By Hazel Jobe
--> http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech006.shtml
[ voyez en particulier ce compte rendu d'une visioconférence en primaire
--> http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow6/nov98/videomain.html   ]

A Mock Constitutional Convention (CONGRESS CongressLink Communicator-February 11, 2000-Volume 1)
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The purpose of this lesson plan is to provide students with an opportunity to step into the shoes of the framers of the United States Constitution. This opportunity will allow them to analyze and evaluate the social, political, economic, and geographical forces that shaped the United States Constitution. Students will conduct research in the role of a delegate at the Philadelphia Convention. They will participate in civil discourse as the delegates might have more than 200 years ago using the principles of parliamentary procedure. Students will have "reality checks" throughout the experience to compare their convention results with the actual U.S. Constitution.
The author of this lesson plan, Ms. Mary Ellen Daneels, Community High School, West Chicago, IL, has used this lesson in her class. Many of her colleagues use it in the United States history curriculum. Ms. Daneels has found that first year teachers especially enjoy the simulation. Researching and executing it is easy, allowing them, in the role of George Washington, to relate with the children in a new way.
Ms. Daneels states, "The simulation allows the kids to personalize the material and take an active role in learning the major provisions of the Constitution. I think another attribute that makes the Convention unique is the use of parliamentary procedure. The issues involved in civic education often lend themselves to debate and controversy. Parliamentary procedure gives the parameters to discuss issues in a safe environment.
Parliamentary procedure facilitates civil discourse which is an essential element to our democratic republic." Ms. Daneels uses the framework provided by parliamentary procedure in this lesson to discuss various current event issues related to the curriculum throughout the semester.
This lesson plan can be found on the CongressLink web site - under "Lesson Plans and Student Activities."
--> http://www.congresslink.org/lessonplanstuact.html
[ pour lycée, une façon de voir le congrès 'comme si on y était!' ]

DoHistory.org (The Scout Report --> February 11, 2000)
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Launched by the Harvard Film Study Center on February 4, DoHistory.org is an experimental interactive site that invites users to piece together the life and world of an "ordinary" person in the past. The person in question is eighteenth-century midwife and healer Martha Ballard, whose diary was the basis for both a Pulitzer Prize winning book and the PBS film _A Midwife's Tale_. The site features thousands of pages of original documents --> including diaries, letters, maps, court records, town records, account books, and medical texts --> offered as both page images in their original format and in transcription. Also included is a searchable online version of Ballard's entire 27-year diary. Two interactive and in-depth examples ("Martha Ballard and 'Man-Midwife'" and "One Rape. Two Stories.") demonstrate how to "do history," making sense of original documents, building a tale around them, and answering the questions that they raise. Students and other users motivated by these interesting examples can then consult the On Your Own section for some tools, tips, and other resources for their own historical research. Finally, the site offers behind the scenes looks at the book and movie, _A Midwife's Tale_. While DoHistory is especially useful for students, anyone with an interest in history and the research process will be both entertained and educated by the site. [MD]
--> http://www.dohistory.org/
[ pour élèves de lycée. pourrait être particulièrement utile dans le cadre de TPE anglais/histoire]

famous gunfight duel (PBS PBS Teacher Previews February 14-20, 2000)
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look back on the most famous gunfight duel in American history --> Hamilton versus Burr. Read the history of American dueling, peruse a Burr-Hamilton timeline, access a teacher's guide and more.
--> http://pbs.org/amex/duel/

A Compact for Reading & School-Home Links (The Scout Report --> February 11, 2000)
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Established by legislation, A Compact for Reading is "a written agreement among families, teachers, principals, and students to work together to help improve the reading skills of kindergarten through third grade children." A joint effort of the Education Department, the Corporation for National Service, the _Los Angeles Times_, and Little Planet Learning, this site offers materials designed to help Compact partners set reading goals and provides 400 learning activities to help children accomplish these goals. The activities are grouped in four "School-Home Links Reading Kits" (one kit for each grade level, kindergarten through third grade) and are designed to be used with the _Compact for Reading Guide_, a detailed handbook (also available at the site) that guides family-school compact teams through the steps of creating and implementing a Compact for Reading.
Each of the four grade-specific kits contains 100 activities, organized by reading and literacy skills appropriate to that grade.
Categories with multiple activities feature a pull-down menu, and all of the activities are offered in .pdf format. [MD]
--> http://www.ed.gov/pubs/CompactforReading
[une mine de ressources pour aborder un texte ou un livre à tous niveaux. Documents en PDF, à charger et lire pendant les vacances....]

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Teaching practice
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Electronic Portfolios (PBS PBS Teacher Previews February 14-20, 2000)
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Read education professor Helen C. Barrett's column to discover why electronic portfolios are one of the most popular forms of assessment currently being used to evaluate student learning. Access links to related resources for further information on the use of technology in alternative assessment.
--> http://pbs.org/teachersource/whats_new/techknow/october98.shtm

Complément en ligne de 'la lettre des profs d'anglais'
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--> http://members.aol.com/antoinviel/lettre/index.htm
[ vous trouverez sur ce site les archives de la rubrique internet, animée par Jean Claude Viel des articles de fond sur l'internet et ses utilisations en classe, des conseils pratiques et des adresses. ]

School Psychology Resources Online (Education World Newsletter Vol.4 Issue 05 February 10, 2000)
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Reviewed by Teacher Hazel Jobe, This site offers resources galore for educators, parents, and school psychologists.
--> http://www.education-world.com/awards/past/2000/r0200-09.shtml
[ pour enseignants et étudiants comment repérer les élèves à problèmes et les aider le plus efficacement ]

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Engineering and technology
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Construire un projet par email
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[ Voyez, sur le site de notre collègue Jean Claude Viel, le compte rendu d'une correspondance email avec un contenu dynamique. Ses élèves de BTS industriel ont élaboré des projets en anglais par email avec des coréens. La démarche est transposable dans d'autres domaines et peut par exemple s'appliquer à des travaux croisés en collège ou des TPE en première. Un excellent exemple de travail collaboratif! ]
site EFL TECH France
--> http://www.multimania.com/jcviel
compte rendu de la correspondance
--> http://www.multimania.com/jcviel/exchange/exchange1.htm

Maintenance tips (signalé par Jean Sahai)
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--> http://www.womanmotorist.com/cntmaint.shtml
[ des textes intéressants pour les BTSI et autres élèves intéressés par la mécanique]

The Civil Engineer's Mega Bookmark (The Scout Report --> February 11, 2000)
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Hosted by the Civil Engineering Library at Lund University (Sweden), this recently updated metasite boasts links to over 1,000 online resources of interest to civil engineers, many of them annotated. Resources are grouped in nine categories, including Research/ Education, Subject-Based Resources, Civil Engineering Journals, Organisations/ Institutes, and Discussion Forums, among others. The site also offers a guide to finding building codes, regulations, and standards in fifteen countries. Surprisingly, there is no internal search engine, but on the whole, the site is a well-organized and very useful resource for civil engineers and engineering librarians.
--> http://www.v-biblioteket.lth.se/civil.htm
[ ressources pour BTSI]

Language Functions in the Lecture Room (signalé par Jean-Claude Viel)
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A comprehensive list of language functions used in Anglo-saxon science / technology college courses. It covers 70 or 80% of the needs of French BTS English teachers. In my opinion, this page is most useful, it should be on everyone's desk!
--> http://www.mpcmcgrath.flyer.co.uk/taxomnew.htm
[ une liste très utile pour les BTS et pour les élèves de terminale]