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up! Please feel free to pass this newsletter on to friends and colleagues. Welcome to the November (maybe December
by now) 2000 edition of the ICTeachers newsletter. A bunch of practising teachers,we help other teachers by offering links and resources donated by colleagues from all over the country. We aim to provide services ensuring teachers don' t get ripped off. We generally try to help colleagues who have good ideas but little support Please send us your suggestions, ideas and questions. We appreciate your comments! Christmas is coming... the teacher's getting fat! TOP TIPS FOR XMAS PRESENT GATHERING! How do you ensure you get maximum presents in the minimum of time? First, prime your children three weeks from the end of term with "Hmmmmm, I love MILK chocolate....yummy!" or "Of course, I particulary love MILK chocolate, NOT plain...repeat after me children! MILK not PLAIN! MILK not PLAIN!" Secondly, as the presents begin to arrive make sure you put them on the window sill in full view of parents and children. This has the dual purpose of being a constant reminder for the children that pressies are important to you and to the parents to remind them that their present WILL BE MISSED!!!! Before you have a go at me, this tip was passed on to me by the head who, as with all heads, doesn't get the haul of choccy he once did. Does this count as professional development? I wonder if we could set a target using it. Hey ho! Happy Christmas and have a good one this year!!!! Two new interactive additions to the ICTeachers
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Adobe Acrobat Reader version 4 is required to view the modules. This free program can be downloaded from the ICTeachers website. The modules are best viewed with a minimum screen resolution of 800x600 pixels and cannot be printed. Terence has published such works as Computer Studies & Information Technology (revised 1999)With Bob Dolden Macmillan Education Technical Drawing For Today (reprinted
43 times) Industrial Arts For Today (reprinted 27
times) He latterly worked as a Senior Lecturer, University of Greenwich, attached to Business Studies and since 1999 has been writing Technology Training manuals full time. New
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Writing to Santa! The snow is falling and the carol singers are out rousing the spirits of the weary and good cheer is all around. Well it would be if it were not for the floods, long working hours, global warming and the dreaded shopping! Never mind, here at ICTeachers we ensure that the children forget all about OUR problems and concentrate on making Christmas fun, educational and still a special time. We also intend to help you, our colleagues, meet those curriculum targets by giving you ideas to use in this festive season. Why now visit our Christmas pages http://www.icsanta.org.uk/ and learn about Christmas around the world? At ICTeachers we have many ideas that YOU can use in the classroom to meet the needs of the curriculum. This year, as a special treat, you could let the children write an email to Santa and get a reply appropriate to their age group from Santa, or one of his helpers posing as Santa. (All Santa' helpers are rumoured to be renegade Primary School Teachers so you won't have to worry about security for the pupils). Well that’s my planning for December done. Now I have to worry about the new year, (but not yet). Don't forget to visit http://www.icsanta.org.uk/. Merry Christmas and a stress-free new year! Lee Beresford "Pokemon models out of toilet rolls! They created a sensation with the boys in my son’s Year 2 class, and set me up instantly as the local authority on all things “net”! A number of mothers asked me for my list of recommended sites, and the majority were amazed at what was available if you take the trouble to look for it. Many were also pleased to discover that much of what I recommended could be completed off-line and, indeed, away from the computer. By this time I had accumulated a huge resource of sites, found whilst surfing for ideas to keep my two young children busy and looking for activities which would support and inspire their school work and general learning. I wanted to provide alternatives to the standard TV, video, and computer game fare that kids today are increasingly subjected to. When my daughter did a project on flags, I found images of flags with which I could create computer jigsaws – and her learning and enjoyment increased by leaps and bounds. When my son studied castles, I found some wonderful sites on castles for him to enjoy and a printable model of a castle which his whole class had fun assembling (some parents, faced with the intricate cutting and sticking, may disagree with me there!). From there it was a small step to the creation of Activity Village. Initially conceived as a means of distributing these discoveries to like-minded parents and teachers, I decided to develop original content as well, resuscitating my skills as an editor and in DTP in the process. Many of the features already on site – for example the teaching clock – were developed to help my own children. And I have discovered that “printables” are definitely the most popular feature of the Village. The site, now nearly 2 months old, is constantly evolving and expanding as I discover what my readership – from mid-Western American moms to English Language teachers in India and Japan to UK parents and teachers – wants to find. Any suggestions, feedback and contributions are positively encouraged! Most of all, we try to have fun! Please join us at the Village at http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/ You can also subscribe to our weekly newsletter for news of updates at the site and season and holiday-appropriate site suggestions by sending a blank email to Activity_Village-subscribe@egroups.com " Thanks! Lindsay Digital Brain A Knowledge Exchange Portal is an intrinsic part of
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