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	March 29, 2004 Educator’s Reference Desk http://www.eduref.org The people who created AskERIC have announced a new service and name to access the resources educators have come to depend on for over a decade. While the U.S. Department of Education discontinued the AskERIC service December 19th, educators will still have access to those resources. Through The Educator's Reference Desk teachers can access AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses. While the question answer service will no longer be active, The Educator's Reference Desk provides a search interface to the ERIC Database, providing access to over one million bibliographic records on educational research, theory, and practice. Although educators can no longer ask ERIC, this website gives access to all of ERIC’s resources. March 22, 2004 NetSafeKids.Org http://NetSafeKids.org This website helps parents keep their children safe while online. This site provides practical information and tips to help parents identify and combat the different types and sources of explicit online content. The site discusses the various ways inappropriate material can reach children, the threat of “cyberstalking,” the pros and cons of filtering and monitoring software, and other issues involving Internet safety. The site helps parents become “Internet savvy” by developing skills to make informed decisions and to plan effective strategies that promote safe and enjoyable Internet experiences for children. This site was developed by the National Academy of Science. March 15, 2004 Project Vote Smart http://www.vote-smart.org Election season has already started. There are thousands of candidates and elected officials. Who works for you? Who is seeking your vote? Project Vote Smart, a citizen's organization, has developed a Voter's Self-Defense system to provide you with the necessary tools to self-govern effectively: abundant, accurate, unbiased and relevant information. As a national library of factual information, Project Vote Smart covers your candidates and elected officials in five basic categories: biographical information, issue positions, voting records, campaign finances, and interest group ratings. What would you like to know? This website provides the information for teachers and students to use for social studies classes. Parents and other citizens can use this site to keep track of candidates at all levels – federal, state, and local. March 8, 2004 Read, Write, Think http://www.readwritethink.org The ReadWriteThink website provides K-12 educators with research-based lesson plans and web resources for teaching language arts in their classrooms. The site was developed by the National Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English and is part of the MarcoPolo network. Resources include inquiry-based research projects, short story planning and writing assignments using circle plot diagrams, comic strip writing, writing poetry and riddles, and more. Secondary school teachers will find resources for adult literature, censorship, modernist poetry, critical reading, characterization, creative and business writing, and more. The site also includes links to other language arts and English websites. The site includes student resources and activities as well as teacher lesson plans. March 1, 2004 CraneCam http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/cranecam/cam.html Swirling gray masses of sandhill cranes descend on south-central Nebraska each year, heralding the arrival of spring and the largest gathering of cranes in the world. The Platte River Valley becomes a six-week pit stop from late February to early April for a half million sandhill cranes journeying north to their Arctic breeding grounds. National Geographic and the Audubon Society provide live webcams along the Platte River Valley so you can see this avian spectacle. From the last week of February each year until mid-April, prime viewing time for the CraneCam is an hour before sunrise and an hour before sunset – that’s 7:30 am until 8:30 am and 7:30 pm until 8:30 pm in South Carolina. The site includes video from every day in the migration season; so, if you miss the live spectacle, you can see it on video later. The site also includes information about the cranes and their migratory routes. The CraneCam provides both video and audio, so you can hear the cranes compete for food and space as well as see them. This is a great life science and earth science site – or, it’s just fun to watch the birds. Real Player is required.
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