Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h34Da4U25029; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 08:36:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 08:36:14 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <002701c2faae$4a693ea0$35881a0a@famlit.net> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Jon Lee" <jlee@famlit.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1486] Clips and Cross Posts X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 3379 Lines: 85 Howdy all! From: ASCD Smartbrief April 3, 2003 ascd@smartbrief.com Curriculum Mapping as Professional Development To make sure students have a high-quality education, instructional leaders must now more than ever take up the charge to redesign professional development into a bold, substantive use of time for veteran and novice teachers alike. Curriculum mapping is one powerful way to sharpen teachers' curriculum-design and teaching skills while promoting collaboration across subjects and grade levels. Read this story in Curriculum Technology Quarterly http://www.ascd.org/cms/objectlib/ascdframeset/index.cfm?publication=http:// www.ascd.org/publications/ctq/2003spring/mills.html See more stories in ASCD newsletters http://www.ascd.org/cms/index.cfm?TheViewID=367 From: the USDOE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES FIRST TOPICS FOR WHAT WORKS CLEARINGHOUSE EVIDENCE REPORTS The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences today announced seven initial Evidence Report topics for the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC). The topics were chosen to meet the needs of educators and education decision makers to identify and implement effective and replicable approaches to improve important student outcomes. Go to http://www.w-w-c.org/ to find a list of topics and their abstracts. I signed up for a WWC Email update at http://www.w-w-c.org/list.html I have not tried this little site...so do so at your own risk! (I hear it is well worth it) What is Hot Potatoes? http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/ The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for non-profit educational users who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a license. Check out the Hot Potatoes licensing terms and pricing on the Half-Baked Software Website http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/ Here is another cool reading application site: From: NIFL Technology Listserve Phil Shapiro Arlington, Virginia pshapiro@his.com Phil writes, "hi everyone - I recently came across a very useful shareware program for windows, websequitur, that lets you create reading exercises on the web where students have to figure out which phrase comes first and next in a reading passage. These language exercises teach both reading and writing skills as students figure out how to read in context. To help others learn what websequitur can do, I've set up a web page at http://www.his.com/pshapiro/websequiturs/ this page includes some children's stories, some nonfiction reading passages and some satire that I wrote. The html files that websequitur creates can also be used with a browser on a computer that is not connected to the internet. So these kinds of reading passages could be copied onto donated computers -- or handed out to students on floppy disks." Thanks Phil! I have been to the site and tried out the stories - I LIKE IT! Hope you do too! Take care! Jon Lee Senior Training Specialist Project Manager for Design and Development NIFL-Family Listserve moderator National Center for Family Literacy 325 West Main St, Suite 300 Louisville, KY 40202-4237 Phone: 502.584.1133 x175 Fax: 502.584.0172 jlee@famlit.org http://www.famlit.org
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