Tapped In Newsletter: May 1998
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Issue # 10 May, 1998
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...ON THE TAPIS is a monthly letter with updates on TAPPED IN and related events. Check our website to learn more. Contact us
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Quote of the Month:
"Once you have learned how to ask relevant and appropriate questions, you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know." - Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner, Teaching as a Subversive Activity
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[1] TAPPED IN at NECC '98
[2] Summer Activities in TAPPED IN
[3] Online Civil Rights forum
[4] After School Online
[5] Network Upgrade for TAPPED IN (closed 5/29-30)
[6] ED's Oasis MasterSearch Lesson plan contest
[7] TAPPED IN Quick Notes
[8] About ...ON THE TAPIS
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[1] TAPPED IN at NECC '98
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If you are going to be at NECC in San Diego, then stop by and say hi to the TAPPED IN folks and meet your new online colleagues in person! We have three events during NECC.
-a hands on workshop Monday June 22 8:30-11:30am
Tapping into Online Teacher Professional Development
-a paper session on Tuesday June 23 at 12:00
Two NSF-funded Teacher Education Projects - TAPPED IN: A Testbed for New Models of Online Teacher Professional Development and Technology Infrastructure in Teacher Education
-a Gull's of a feather session (co-sponsored by ED's Oasis)
Tuesday June 23 6-7pm UL Room 4 (San Diego Convention Center Upper Level Rooms)
Come by to meet all of the TAPPED IN staff and Terrie Gray of ED's Oasis.
[2] Summer Activities in TAPPED IN
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On May 26 at 3:30pm Pacific (Tuesday) we'll meet online to talk about what kinds of summer activities you want to see happen. Via the MEETME mailing list we've talked about starting research groups for teachers, maybe a book discussion group, an open house for TAPPED IN, making a members page for TAPPED IN, discussing different pedagogical issues over the summer, and pairing up with to work on a collaborative projects for the next school year.
Come to the After School Online Town Hall meeting if you possibly can. Get TAPPED IN over the summer to meet colleagues and plan your own professional development around your own interests. Contact us
if you have ideas, but can't make the Town Hall meeting.
[3] Online Civil Rights Forum
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Have you heard about the student Civil Rights Forum being held in TAPPED IN's Student Activities Center on May 26th? It involves an 11th grade US History class in San Francisco, a 9th grade Introduction to Social Science class in Indiana, and students in a correctional institution in Pennsylvania.
Technology Resource Teacher Hulda Nystrom of Thurgood Marshall HS in San Francisco has conceived, organized and will be facilitating the forum. Joining her as facilitators are, in addition to the classroom teachers, a student teacher, a member of the Kentucky Department of Education, a Special Education teacher in Australia, the Technology Coordinator of the California International Studies Project, and a Project Manager at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. Structuring and coordination of the forum has taken place exclusively electronically - via email and in weekly planning meetings in TAPPED IN.
The forum focus is to get a better understanding of the question, "What are Civil Rights?" In the past 2 weeks, students from all 3 states have worked in teams to come up with their own definitions of civil rights, and then exchanged them with each other electronically. During the forum, the California and Indiana students will discuss this question from the perspectives of 6 social groups: African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, court adjudicated youth, people with AIDS and women. The students in Pennsylvania do not have Internet access, so they are participating through their teacher's email.
Look for more information on the outcome of the Civil Rights Forum in the near future. Be on the lookout for discussions with Hulda Nystrom (hnystrom@delong.org) on the planning process for conferencing and other online student collaboration.
[4] After School Online
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Don't forget that After School Online times changed in May. The schedule is as follows:
Monday 4-5pm PST (sponsored by Math Forum)
Tuesday 3:30-4:30pm PST
Tuesday 6-7pm PST
Thursday 7-8pm PST
The June After School Online schedule will be emailed to you later this week. Don't forget if you have ideas for an After School Online session contact us.
[5] Network Upgrade for TAPPED IN (closed 5/29-30)
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The network for TAPPED IN, will be shut down from 5:00pm PST Friday May 29th to 9:00pm Sat May 30.
The effect of this work is to enhance the operation of the network nodes for SRI so that we can serve you even better in the future. We're sorry about this, and hope it doesn't cause conflicts for anyone.
Contact us if you have any problems.
[6] ED's Oasis MasterSearch Lesson plan contest
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You've still got a little bit of time.....Submit a complete lesson plan, or provide the location of a lesson you have published on the World Wide Web and win cool PRIZES (software and subscriptions to web courses)! Visit ED's Oasis to find out more information.
The deadline for entering the contest is MAY 30, 1998. Winners will be announced and prizes awarded at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in San Diego, June 23.
Submit your entry via a web form located at http://www.edsoasis.org/TGuild/EnterNow.html
Sponsored by: ED's Oasis and teacherzone.com; TAPPED IN, ISTE, OnlineClass, and eSchoolNews.
For more information, link to http://www.edsoasis.org/TGuild/MasterSearch.html
For more information contact Terrie Gray, Director, ED's Oasis.
[7] TAPPED IN Quick Notes
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Check out our mailing lists if you would like to get more in touch with members of TAPPED IN.
Don't forget about the web based TAPPED IN event calendar (so you always know what's going on).
Don't forget that you can talk to experts from Math Forum, ED's Oasis, Geological Society of America, IOSEL/SEPUP, and New Haven Unified School District.
And last, but not least, don't forget about the discussion boards on the TAPPED IN website. Check out and participate in any one of the 9 discussions online.
[8] About ...ON THE TAPIS
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