Tapped In Newsletter: November 1998
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Issue # 13 November, 1998
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Quote of the Month:
"One of psychology's open secrets is the relative inability of grades, IQ, or SAT scores, despite their popular mystique, to predict unerringly who will succeed in life. ... At best, IQ contributes about 20 percent to the factors that determine life success ... emotional intelligence [includes] abilities such as being able to motivate oneself and persist in the face of frustrations; to control impulse and delay gratification; to regulate one's moods and keep distress from swamping the ability to think; to empathize and to hope."
Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, 1995
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[1] NEW K-8 Science Education Discussion Group
[2] BRAND NEW Foreign Language Discussion Group
[3] TAPPED IN upgrade and face lift
[4] Icons: Improve your image
[5] "Technology @ Your Fingertips": A Guide
[6] TAPPED IN Quick Notes
[7] About ...ON THE TAPIS
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[1] NEW K-8 Science Education Discussion Group
If you are interested in improving science education in your classroom, school or district, or looking to learn about innovative instructional approaches in science, then check out the new K-8 Science Education Discussion Group. Jackie Menasco and Erik Wilson are starting an ongoing discussion group in TAPPED IN to help teachers, and study issues involved with implementing standards in K-8 science classrooms.
Jackie Menasco is an instructor at the Science and Mathematics Learning teachers. Erik Wilson is a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco where he works on ways to support science teachers through the Internet. If you are interested in joining this group, send an email to contactus@tappedin.sri.com or just log in to TAPPED IN on Wednesday afternoon. Next meeting is November 25th!
[2] BRAND NEW Foreign Language Discussion Group
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Join your Foreign Language colleagues for an on-going colloquium on Internet resources, Keypals projects, assessment techniques and more. Sessions will be on Wednesdays from 2:30 to 4:00 pm (14:30 to 16:00 hours) Pacific Time. The first session is this Wednesday 11/18/98. Spanish teachers and interested others are invited to join us to discuss issues related to classes, our language(s) and Hispanic culture. The languages of communication for now will be Spanish and English. The sessions will be moderated by Chuck Merritt, Palo Alto High School Spanish teacher and Technology Learning Coordinator (Challenge 2000).
[3] TAPPED IN upgrade and face lift
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Good news! At the beginning of October, Sun Microsystems awarded a grant to TAPPED IN for their top-of-the-line Enterprise Server. This means that by the New Year, TAPPED IN response time will be 2-3 times faster and will be able to handle twice as many concurrent users than before!
More good news! SRI has awarded TAPPED IN an internal grant to spiff up the TAPPED IN user interface. Look for the new Web interface graphics around new years!
[4] Icons: Improve your image
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Have you ever logged in to TAPPED IN and noticed that some TAPPED IN members have pictures attached to them in the web window "Who Is Here" list? Would you like to have an icon or picture attached to your name? You can attach an icon to your TAPPED IN character (or any object that you own) very easily.
First 20 people only: if you'd like to use a digitized picture of yourself (head shot only), but you're not sure how to make it an icon (32x32 pixels), we will make your icon for you on a first-come-first-served basis (no guarantee on turnaround time but we'll do the best we can). Send a digitized image either as an email attachment or sending us a URL with the image.
[5] Technology @ Your Fingertips: A Guide
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The Department's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) produced a publication now available on the web, "Technology @ Your Fingertips: A Guide to Implementing Technology Solutions for Education Agencies & Institutions." The guide can be found at:
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/tech/index2.htm or http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/98293.pdf
This publication tells how to...
* Define your needs & technical requirements
* Develop a "needs assessment"
* Determine what resources you have & what resources you will need
* Implement, support, & maintain your technology solution
* Provide effective training... And more.
The guide is aimed at persons who have been given the responsibility to set up computer and networking technology in an education organization, and persons who will be supervising the process of technology implementation. It's not written for techies and it won't explain how to do something in a particular software package, but like its name implies gives a guides for making decisions about technology.
[6] TAPPED IN Quick Notes
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Horizon invites you to visit their Web site (http://horizon.unc.edu/main.asp). Also, check out The Technology Source (http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/), a free monthly webzine to assist faculty and educational leaders integrate technology to enhance teaching, learning, and administration. We're proud to announce that TAPPED IN is The Technology Source's Site of the Month for November! Send feedback on these sites to James Morrison.
Visit Converge, a new education technology magazine and see the article by Hulda Nystrom, TAPPED IN Associate Educator, about student online Civil Rights Forum that took place in TAPPED IN:
http://www.convergemag.com/Publications/CNVGNov98/profdev2/profdev2.shtm
ED's Oasis announces the winners of the latest MasterSearch Lesson Plan Contest! Visit the link below and check out their awesome lesson plans!
http://www.edsoasis.org/TGuild/Fwinners.html
TAPPED IN welcomes preservice teachers from University of Indiana, Master's students at the University of Rhode Island, and University of Michigan Master's and Doctoral students!
[7] About ...ON THE TAPIS
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