Cette semaine, à la une un nouveau site pédagogique qui présente le
gouvernement américain aux enfants : lisez ce qu'en pensent les 3 lettres
d'information qui le commentent! Des adresses pour Noël et l'an 2000, avec
un excellent shéma de cours du New York Times***. Pour vos cours, une image
'choc' découverte par Jean Sahai, pour dégouter vos élèves du tabac, et de
nombreux exercices en ligne.
Bonne lecture à tous!

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Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids (revue dans 3 newsletters)
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Christmas
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Christmas99 (submitted by Eric Ward) (COOL> Cool Web Sightings - Issue #52)
Abigail’s Christmas Stuff (STUFF> Teacher Stuff - December 10, 1999)
Christmas Music Box (STUFF> Teacher Stuff - December 10, 1999)
Christmas cards (STUFF> Teacher Stuff - December 10, 1999)
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Y2K
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Ed Hits: The MILLENNIUM! 8 adresses (LESSONS> Lesson Stop * December 6, 1999)
APOCALYPSE! (TOP> [students] HomeworkCentral.com December 6th)
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resources for teachers
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Tobacco and your body (site recommandé par Jean Sahai)
Quest for a Pirate (TOP> [students] HomeworkCentral.com December 6th)
Ask ERIC (INNOV> [I.T.] December 4, 1999)
English Exercises Online (INNOV> [I.T.] December 4, 1999)
Exploring the Web (INNOV> [I.T.] December 4, 1999)
For Teachers of English (INNOV> [I.T.] December 4, 1999)
Pop-Up Grammar (INNOV> [I.T.] December 4, 1999)
FunBrain.com (COOL> Cool Web Sightings - Issue #52)
Information Literacy Tutorial (TEACHER> TeachersFirst Update - December 6, 1999)
TV and Audio on the satellite (message from Lutz Szemkus)
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Writers' help
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Elements of Style (revue dans deux newsletters)
Principles of Composition (TOP> [students] HomeworkCentral.com December 6th)
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Projects
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Participez à 2 romans interactifs internationaux (message de Monique Perdrillat)


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Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
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(COOL> Cool Web Sightings - Issue #52)
In a past issue, we provide a link to the Justice Department's Kid Site.
Now their is a site that provides a fun and educational introduction to
how the U.S. Government works, and the guide is none other than Benjamin
Franklin. This site is broken down by four specific age levels. The topics
you will find on this site includes the U.S. Constitution, how laws are
made, the various branches of the Federal government. Additionally the
site includes several games and links to other government websites created just for kids.
(PBS> PBS Teacher Previews: December 13-19, 1999)
Get a fun and educational introduction to how the U.S. Government works
with Benjamin Franklin as your guide. Access resources, games and
activities organized by age level on topics such as the U.S.
Constitution, how laws are made and the various branches of the Federal government.
(LII> [LIIWEEK] December 6, 1999)
Created by the Government Printing Office, this well-designed site
introduces children to how the government works. It covers the U.S.
Constitution, how laws are made, the branches of government, and
citizenship. The site is divided into sections aimed at age groups K-2,
3-5, 6-8, and 9-12, with a separate section for parents and educators. The
site includes games and activities, has an e-mail function for kids to ask
questions of Ben Franklin (the first public librarian) and provides
extensive links to other government related sites. - nh
--> http://bensguide.gpo.gov/
[ le gouvernement américain expliqué en termes simples, et une précieuse page de sites 'for kids':
--> http://bensguide.gpo.gov/subject.html
avec des sites interactifs et éducatifs comme ceux de l'EPA :
--> http://www.epa.gov/students/fun.htm   ]

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Christmas
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Christmas99 (submitted by Eric Ward) (COOL> Cool Web Sightings - Issue #52)
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Christmas99 is the total resource for Christmas as well as Chanukah and
Kwanzaa. The site provides information on recipes, decorating,
entertainment and events and tools for sending ecards, emails from Santa,
as well as bulletin boards for posting holiday messages and New Years resolutions.
--> http://www.christmas99.com
[ pour comparer les menus et les recettes de Noël (goose, pumpkin) ,
Chanukah (gefilte, Matzah balls) and Kwanzaa (black eyed beans, yam)....]

Abigail’s Christmas Stuff (STUFF> Teacher Stuff - December 10, 1999)
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Email Greeting Cards, Arts and Crafts, Christmas Stories and More
--> http://home.amaonline.com/greetingcards/christmas.htm
[ des histoires de Noël en ligne :
--> http://home.amaonline.com/greetingcards/christmas.htm#Books/Stories/Poems-Christmas   ]

Christmas Music Box (STUFF> Teacher Stuff - December 10, 1999)
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--> http://christmas.com/carols/
[ paroles et musique de Christmas carols]

Christmas cards (STUFF> Teacher Stuff - December 10, 1999)
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Blue Mountain Christmas Cards (STUFF> Teacher Stuff - December 10, 1999)
--> http://www.bluemountain.com/eng3/christmas/index.html
BlackDog’s Christmas Cards
--> http://blackdog.net/postcards/cardrack15.html
[ deux adresses parmi beaucoup pour envoyer des cartes de Noël ]

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Y2K
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Ed Hits: The MILLENNIUM! (LESSONS> Lesson Stop * December 6, 1999)
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Here's a list of Millennium lessons and resources I've recently found:
Manifesto for the New Millennium -
--> http://www.granite.k12.ut.us/manifesto/page5.htm
[ dès la 3ème. Un plan de cours pour proposer des solutions aux grands problèmes de notre siècle.]
Our Generation, for the Millenium -
--> http://www.microsoft.com/education/mctn/classroom/9-12_capsule.asp
[ un shéma de cours complet, utilisant Encarta pour des recherches sur les
élements importants de notre siècle, puis Word, PowerPoint ou Front Page
pour la publication des résultats. Démarche intéressante, transférable à
d'autres supports. Pour élèves de lycée]
The New Year Lesson Plan -
--> http://members.aol.com/Donnpages/Holidays.html#NEW
[ le nouvel an à travers le monde]
Y2K and the millenium bug
--> http://members.aol.com/DonnAnCiv/Y2K.html
[voir en particulier l'impressionnante collection de leçons.]
Y2K Youth Education Web Site
--> http://www.y2k.gov/youth/
[déjà commenté sur la page Y2k d'infonews]
Millennium/Y2K Issue of Lesson Stop Newsletter -
--> http://www.lessonstop.org/v01n22.html
[des cartoons, déclencheurs de parole dès le collège]
***New York Times Millennium Lesson (may require free registration)
--> http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/981231thursday.html
[un excellent shéma de cours basé sur des articles et graphiques du journal, pour lycée]
[ ces liens ont été rajoutés à la page d'infonews sur Y2k, où vous trouverez aussi un devoir à partir d'un article de Time magazine:
--> http://perso.wanadoo.fr/infonews/themes/y2k.htm   ]

APOCALYPSE! (TOP> [students] HomeworkCentral.com December 6th)
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The Public Broadcasting System describes this timely Web site with these words of introduction:
"As the third millennium nears, APOCALYPSE! traces the evolution
of apocalyptic belief throughout the ages-from its origin in the Jewish
experience after the Babylonian exile to its diverse and often
tumultuous expression in modern times."
The Internet and PBS provide an opportunity here to learn the
origins of apocalyptic thought, its influences on Western thought and
art, and the opinions of knowledgeable contemporaries on millennial
beliefs and events. Views and perspectives from historians and Biblical
scholars are included in this rich and fascinating example of the
Frontline series from PBS.
--> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/
[ pour lycée, des ancrages historiques et bibliques qui font souvent défaut à nos élèves]

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resources for teachers
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Tobacco and your body (site recommandé par Jean Sahai)
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[un poster à lire, imprimer, afficher dans la classe. Très efficace pour dissuader les élèves de fumer!
--> http://www.tobaccofacts.org/posters.html
Pour enrichir le sujet, vous pouvez d'abord leur présenter ce shéma de la respiration:
--> http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/baylor/air.htm
Ces deux documents peuvent aussi être imprimés sur des transparents]

Quest for a Pirate (TOP> [students] HomeworkCentral.com December 6th)
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Information on some famous pirates and their lifestyle, treasure, maps,
weapons. An historical time line is included. (See also the CLN Pirates,
Privateers, and Buccaneers Theme Page at
--> http://www.cln.org/themes/pirates.html )
--> http://www.ebs.hw.ac.uk/EDC/CAC/pirates/pirates.htm
[ ces adresses ont été ajoutées à la 'Pirates' webquest:
--> http://perso.wanadoo.fr/infonews/cours/piratewebqt.htm
Ces adresses permettent d'enrichir ce thème que vous pouvez démarrer avec
le jeu vidéo 'Monkey Island' de Lucas Art, un jeu dont les élèves disent
qu'il leur a appris beaucoup d'anglais.]

Ask ERIC (INNOV> [I.T.] December 4, 1999)
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Lesson plans on various topics in the Language Arts brought to you here in easy to navigate categories.
--> http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Lang_arts/
[ des idées d'activités pour collège et secondes. Voir 'listening' :
--> http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Lang_arts/Listening/index.html   ]

English Exercises Online (INNOV> [I.T.] December 4, 1999)
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Over 70 resources covering activities and ready to use hand-outs on vocabulary, reading, writing and more.
--> http://www.smic.be/smic5022/
[ un site orienté 'business', mais avec des exercices utilisables par des élèves de lycée:
fiches d'exercices:
--> http://www.smic.be/smic5022/teacherhandouts.htm
exercices en ligne:
--> http://www.smic.be/smic5022/Onlineexercises.htm
note: le site n'est pas encore au point en ce qui concerne les fichiers audio]

Exploring the Web (INNOV> [I.T.] December 4, 1999)
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Set up to offer guidance in using the WWW in the English classroom;
appropriate for new users of the Internet.
--> http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/stage/index.html
[ le remarquable travail de notre collègue Lucy Georges est aussi apprécié outre-atlantique!
Voyez aussi le site 'innovative teaching' qu'elle recommande:
--> http://www.interserf.net/mcken/teacher.htm
et en particulier la page sur les webquests:
--> http://www.interserf.net/mcken/webquest.htm   ]

For Teachers of English (INNOV> [I.T.] December 4, 1999)
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--> http://www.ctv.es/USERS/carmen/profesen.htm
Links, classroom activities, Computer Aided Language Learning, publishers,
online dictionaries; all related to English.
[une page de ressources proposée par une collègue espagnole]

Pop-Up Grammar (INNOV> [I.T.] December 4, 1999)
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Online English quiz site where students can test their mastery of the
English language through JAVA script interaction; developed by Durk Elliot
Brownlee, the site requires participants to login for free to practice
topics such as diction, mechanics, phrases...
--> http://www.brownlee.org/durk/grammar/
[ des exercices intéressants avec une bonne gestion des erreurs, mais le site est trop chargé de pubs!]

FunBrain.com (COOL> Cool Web Sightings - Issue #52)
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The FunBrain website calls itself the Internet's #1 education site for K-8
teachers and kids. The site has approximately 30 educational games that
kids will enjoy playing. Each combines educational content such as
counting, spelling, and creative writing with fun-to-play games. All games
are online and accessible. Subject areas include: math, grammar, science,
spelling, history, logic, and other.
--> http://www.funbrain.com/
[ pour collège, voyez ce petit exercice sur 'be' :
--> http://www.funbrain.com/verb/index.html   ]

Information Literacy Tutorial (TEACHER> TeachersFirst Update - December 6, 1999)
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We're always on the lookout for Internet tutorials, and the Texas
Information Literacy Tutorial is a great resource for both teachers and
students. Designed to improve students' use of the web for academic
purposes, the tutorial can also provide hesitant teachers with a good
Internet introduction while teaching students the finer points of citing
Internet resources in their work. The narration and animation will hold
students' attention. The tutorial is listed on TeachersFirst's TechTopics page:
--> http://www.teachersfirst.com/techtopics-f.htm
[Parmi les ressources, j'ai trouvé Quia (déjà recommandé dans Infonews l'an
dernier) , un site pour fabriquer de petits exercices interactifs en ligne.
Idéal pour primaire et collège, facile à utiliser.]

TV and Audio on the satellite (message from Lutz Szemkus)
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WORLDNET TV has 24 hours of programming on American culture, politics etc
on the Hotbird satellite at this frequency: 11.422 GHz, vertical, SR 5632.
To receive Worldnet one needs a digital 'Free to air' receiver and a
1m/1,20m dish directed to Eutelsat's Hotbird satellite at 13 degrees east.
Here's next week's program:
--> gopher://gopher.voa.gov:70/00/worldnet-sked/weekly_schedule_eutelsat2
One of the audio subcarriers has VOA's 'News Now' programs.
[ pour ceux qui sont équipés...]

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Writers' help
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Elements of Style
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(INNOV> [I.T.] December 4, 1999)
Online clickable version of Strunk’s classic manual for the conventions of
English; lauded as a Bible for writers over the decades, this quick-click
approach to grammar may help keep it popular in the years to come!
(TOP> [students] HomeworkCentral.com December 6th)
In the season of term reports and finals, here is classic assistance
that has guided and rescued students for eight decades. Cornell
University Professor of English William Struck Jr. published
Elements of Style in 1918. The complete version here is a selection
from the Bartleby Library of Great Books Online. In the spirit of the
season, this is Professor Struck's advice:
"It is an old observation that the best writers sometimes disregard
the rules of rhetoric. When they do so, however, the reader will usually
find in the sentence some compensating merit, attained at the cost of
the violation. Unless he is certain of doing as well, he will probably
do best to follow the rules. After he has learned, by their guidance, to
write plain English adequate for everyday uses, let him look, for the
secrets of style, to the study of the masters of literature."
--> http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html
[ une adresse de référence pour la production écrite. ]

Principles of Composition (TOP> [students] HomeworkCentral.com December 6th)
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"An entire Web site for writers in English composition courses featuring
handouts on Getting Started, Structure, Tone, Transitions, Editing, Logic,
Formats, Rhetorical Patterns, Argumentative Essays, Research Papers, and
more - accompanied by an abundance of successful sample essays. "
http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar/composition/composition.html-ssi
[pour lycée et étudiants]

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Projects
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Participez à 2 romans interactifs internationaux (message de Monique Perdrillat)
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Il manque encore une dizaine de classes d'anglais (en France et à l'étranger élèves de 12 à 18 ans).
Il s'agit de réaliser à plusieurs écoles, des 'romans' virtuels
interactifs, écrits en ligne par des élèves de tous pays et de tous niveaux.
Les classes sont guidées par un professeur animateur suivant le procédé
pédagogique des 'simulations globales'. Les élèves imaginent une vie
virtuelle et l'écrivent en suivant un planning précis ( un texte par mois).
Ils pratiquent une langue et les technologies nouvelles tout en s'amusant.
1- Roman "Dream stars" Science fiction: jouez un rôle !
C'est à vous de créer votre planète et ses habitants, leur règlements, les
capacités et les habitudes de vie : les seules limites sont celles de vos   imaginations !
Chaque planète de la galaxie MILVI envoie deux représentants au 'Conseil ' :
le parlement qui gére la galaxie et qui règle les disputes entre les planètes
membres et leurs habitants s'il s'agit de l'espace interplanétaire...
Pour participer :envoyez un mel au professeur animateur: Christine POWIS
--> Roman2000@district-parthenay.fr

Le roman: Salt Lake city VIRTUAL OLYMPICS GAMES
The Winter Olympics Games will proceed into 2002 in Salt Lake City in Utah.
The students write about their virtual life so they pretend to be famous
hockey or ski champion teams. They discover the US and the state of Utah and
James Snowball , the coordinator is acting as the manager of the village. The
classes will distribute roles of an Olympic team and will define their own
nation (real or virtual). For example they choose to play and to be athletes
( skier, skater, hockey player...) or staff members (trainer, masseur,
physiotherapist .. ) or journalist or some strange people around .... Salt Lake
city is the Utah state capital, surrounded by mountains that rise to more
than 10,000 feet and reflects a remarkable combination of history, culture
and recreation. The Mormons community is living there. In the canyons and
resorts around, preparations for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games proceed at a
fast pace. There is also a large and growing lodging base: shopping, museum,
university...Your delegation arrives in Salt Lake City and lives in the University of Utah
for one year. Students imagine their life in the Olympic Village. They meet
the neighbours (the other students) and exchange with them. The characters
practice their sport, with their trainer they can use the competition site
and the training center. Current events occur in their virtual daily life .
Pour participer cette année, envoyez un mel à 
--> moniqueft@aol.com

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