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Things have been pretty slow around Tech-Ed land lately, as those of us who aren't teachers enjoyed the dying days of August, while the teach-ers scrambled to get ready for the new year (which for some of you started this week and for nearly everyone else in the K-12 business will begin Tuesday.

The new year is sure to bring new issues of technology in education, so let's get those cards, letters, and especially e-mails rolling so we can breathe some fresh fall life into this list.

By the way, the Technology & You column in the upcoming issue of Busi-ness Week, posted at www.businessweek.com tonight, deals with graphing calculators. I'd be very interested in the thoughts of math and science people out there, either about the use of calculators in general or about specific models.

Best wishes to all for a successful 1997-98 school year and hope to hear from lots of you soon.

Steve Wildstrom, Moderator

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Jane Coffey (AFCJane@aol.com) writes:

The following is a memo sent today, Sunday, August 17, 1997 to announce the opening of registrations for the next Read In! So many of you ex-pressed an intersest as to the date, I am personally sending you a copy...Join us this year, if you can: Check out the GREAT authors we have! This is going to be a GREAT one!! (***and, before any of you ask, YES, the technology IS in place! ;-))) Jane ;-)

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Hello from the April 24, 1998 Read In!

Hope you have had a restful and relaxing summer and are ready to head back to the classroom to begin another great year! If you are year round or homeschoolers, we hope your year is going well!

We want to extend a personal invitation for you and your students to participate in one of the BEST online reading projects, the Read In! Mark your calendar for April 24, 1998 so you will not miss the exciting Day Of activites. We have a new URL with com-plete information, archived chats, and registration forms--check us out!

There will be authors online to chat with us about their books and an-swer questions we may have about their careers, etc. These are the authors who have already agreed to participate in The April 24, 1998 Read In!:

Lloyd Alexander, Avi, Bruce Balan, Judy Blume, David Boyd, Eve Bunting, Bruce Coville, Paula Danziger, Ed Emberley, Virginia Hamilton, Daniel Hayes, Joan Irvine, Jackie French Koller, Evelyn Clarke Mott, Connie Porter, Aaron Shepard, R.L. Stine Rob Thomas, David Wisneiwski, and Jane Yolen!!!

Registration to participate will open August 18th. To learn more about this wonderful project, visit us at our website
http://www.readin.org. Remember to mark your calendar for April 24th to experience something you and your students will not soon forget!!

Vickie Roop
AFC Vickie@aol.com
International Volunteer Coordinator

Jane Coffey
AFCJane@aol.com
Project Director/CEO The Read In! Foundation

The Read In!
An Interactive, Global Reading Project to Encourage Literacy
http://www.readin.org
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*A note from Jane: There is NO cost to join and this is NOT an AOL pro-ject, it is open to anyone with www access. Prior to the Day Of, you WILL need to download free chat client software. In the two weeks prior to, we will make certain of your connectivity: Last year we had over 140,000 participants and anticipate many more! JOIN US...it is GREAT fun!

Wendy Bay Lewis (mtcenter@thinkglobal.org) writes:

Think!Global offers teachers a social studies curriculum on peace, hu-man rights, democracy and the environment for middle schools. All les-son plans are available on the web site at:
http://www.thinkglobal.org

All materials are offered free of charge. Lesson plans are inspired by a book President Jimmy Carter wrote for young people called, "Talking Peace."

Teachers can select one of four projects and enroll by completing a form on the web site. The projects are:

"The Electronic Passport" - Introductory level. Offered 6 times/year.

"Peace Leaders" - Students elect the Peace Leader of 1998.

"Peace Explorers" - Students research current global conflicts and file a report. Offered twice a year.

"5-H: Hunger, Housing, Health, Habitat and Human Rights" - Students learn about basic needs for survival and write a Recipe for Humankind. Then, they act locally through community service projects. Offered twice a year.

Everyone welcome! There are weekly updates via listserv.

Wendy

************* THINK!GLOBAL ************** *
* Wendy Bay Lewis, Executive Director
* Montana Center for International Visitors *
* 104 East Main Street, #312
* Bozeman, Montana USA 59715
* * Tel 406.586.8030 Fax 406.586.9939 *
* Email: mtcenter@thinkglobal.org
* Web site: http://www.thinkglobal.org
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Andrew Jagoe (jagoe@intranetcommunications.com) writes:

I would like to share information on an extremely powerful product just released to help elementary and secondary schools manage and develop a comprehensive intranet. I think this product is of particular value to the Tech-Ed users in that its purpose is to enable all teachers and ad-ministrators to be able to create intranet Web pages by choosing from pre-designed school templates and style sheets. Design work is accom-plished seamlessly within the Netscape web browser. The goal of the product was to make designing web pages as easy as browsing web pages. The product is a comprehensive out of the box school district intranet groupware solution.

Further information including an online demo is available at http://www.intraschool.com. I can be reached by email at jagoe@intranetcommunications.com or at (310) 793-1852. I have enclosed the following press release.

Sincerely,
Andrew Jagoe
Director of Sales and Marketing
Intranet Communications Corporation

INTRANET COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF IN-TRASCHOOL 1.0
INTRASCHOOL 1.0 IS THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE OUT-OF-THE-BOX INTRANET SOFTWARE SOLUTION FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (July 31, 1997) - Intranet Communications Corporation today announced that it will deliver the final version of IntraSchool 1.0 next week at the Atlanta Educational Technology Conference & Expo '97 in Atlanta, Georgia. IntraSchool is a modular, scalable, standards-based intranet application built around Netscape's award-winning serv-ers and the iChat Rooms server.

The announcement was made at the 'Building the School District Intra-net' conference held in conjunction with Netscape Communications and Intranet Communications in an effort to extend to school districts the powerful enterprise groupware capabilities of IntraSchool and Netscape Communications' new SuiteSpot 3.0.

With IntraSchool, users can create professional web pages in minutes by using the templates and style sheets provided. No knowledge of HTML or programming is required. All design work is done seamlessly with point and click buttons within the web browser.

IntraSchool features include:

-- Simple web page wizards allow anyone to create professional quality content.
-- Uniform structure and centralized site maintenance
-- Security based on IP addresses, user name and password, or both.
-- Modular component architecture allows users to add homework, chat and other pre-designed features to their web page.
-- Custom template to import existing web pages 7 Includes Netscape Suitespot and iChat Rooms

IntraSchool continues to play a key role in building comprehensive intranets for such leading customers as: Garden Grove Unified School District, California, Bellflower Unified School District, California, and Montrose County School District, Colorado.

Sarah G. Fuhrmann (watcomm@earthlink.net) writes:

Educators are looking for ways to use the Internet to help them bridge distances and improve communications and outreach. One available op-tion is "Sound IDEAS," a Windows-based conferencing software from New-Star Collaborative Technologies that allows as many as 32 users to share images and talk at the same time over the Internet. The only special equipment required is a modem and a sound card.

Schools in the St. Louis area are looking at Sound IDEAS to help them work with students on things like homework hotlines, foreign language training and English writing classes. Meanwhile, some preschool admin-istrators have looked at using it to communicate with their colleagues in other locations, for example to share lesson plans.

Any school or teacher interested in testing the technology firsthand can obtain the Point-to-Point version of Sound IDEAS free by contacting NewStar's Senior Vice President of Marketing, John Schweitzer, by email at jfschw@aol.com, by calling (314) 434-6600 ext. 108 or at NewStar's website, www.newstartech.com.

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