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Keeping parents and Teachers informed about worthwhile websites, and internet concerns. |
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Computer Lab Newsletter
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Hello, and welcome to the November Computer Lab Newsletter. I hope everyone is having a happy and healthy fall season. As I explained in the previous edition, each newsletter will have the following highlights:· Useful, kid-friendly, user-friendly, and parent-friendly websites that are worth taking a look into.· Ideas for keeping your children safe online.· Answers to frequently asked questions you may have. (Just email me with your questions). All questions that are posted will be anonymous.· Any information I feel interesting and worth sharing with you.· Information about what your student will be doing in computer class. |
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All websites that we use in the classroom are located at the following address. Feel free to look around at them. All information I supply in this newsletter will come from one of the sites on this page. Remember, these are the ONLY sites your child has access to here at Avery-Parsons Elementary. If you come across another site that you feel would be great for kids, send me the link, and I will add it. Additionally, if you come across a link that you feel kids should not have access to, please let me know immediately.
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I can be reached at the following locations, and the following times. School: 395-7051; 8:00 A.M.— 4:00 P.M. Email: heidia@buena-vista.k12.co.us Home: 395-9174; 5:00 P.M.—7:00 A.M. Please do not hesitate to call if you ever have any questions or concerns |
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Food For Thought
If the World Were 100 People
50 would be female
There would be
There would be
There would be 6 people would possess 59% of the world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 70 would be unable to read
Taken from Edutopia Journal November edition 2006
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Resources from the US Government- FREE or Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
Free resources from many different Governmental offices in one place. They are categorized by content areas. |
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Taken from the Answers.com website:
What is Answers.com? How do we do it?
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Learn how everything works! Everything from soup to nuts is listed on this very informative site.
Taken from the howstuffworks site: HowStuffWorks is the leading source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. Founded by North Carolina State University Professor Marshall Brain in 1998, the site has since grown to be an award-winning online resource for millions of people of all ages. From car engines to search engines, from cell phones to stem cells, and thousands of subjects in between, HowStuffWorks has it covered. No topic is too big or too small for our expert editorial staff to unmask...or for you to understand. In addition to comprehensive articles, our helpful graphics and informative videos walk you through every topic clearly, simply and objectively. By offering you consumer opinions and exclusive access to independent expert ratings and reviews from the trusted editors at Consumer Guide® and Mobil Travel Guide®, HowStuffWorks can provide you all of the information you need before you make important buying decisions in just a few clicks. |
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We have been studying Email hoaxes in 4th grade, and are learning to be good consumers of the Internet. I reinforce this important topic with 5th graders as well. I came across this funny editorial, and thought I would share...it is exactly what we are learning right now. Email facts Of Life - Hoaxes by Anthony Demas* 1. Big companies don't do business via chain letters and there are no computer programs that track how many times an e-mail is forwarded, let alone by whom. Bill Gates is not giving you $1000, and Disney is not giving you a free vacation. There is no baby food company issuing class action checks. No one cares who adds their signature to a chain e-mail and nothing good will happen if you are foolish enough to add yours to the list. 2. Proctor and Gamble is not part of a satanic cult or scheme, and its logo is not satanic. Tommy Hilfiger did NOT make racist or anti-Semitic remarks on Oprah. 3. MTV will not give you backstage passes if you forward something to the most people. 4. The Gap is not giving away free clothes. You can relax; there is no need to pass it on "just in case it's true." 5. There is no kidney theft ring in New Orleans. No one is waking up in a bathtub full of ice, even if a friend of a friend swears it happened to their cousin. If you are bent on believing the kidney theft ring stories, see http://urbanlegends.tqn.com/library/weekly/aa062997.htm And I quote: "The National Kidney Foundation has repeatedly issued requests for actual victims of organ thieves to come forward and tell their stories." None have. That's "none" as in "zero." Not even your friend's cousin. 6. Neiman Marcus doesn't really sell a $200 cookie recipe. And even if they do, we all have it. And even if you don't, you can get a copy at: http://www.bl.net/forwards/cookie.html Then, if you make the recipe, decide the cookies are that awesome, feel free to pass the recipe on. 7. If the latest NASA rocket disaster(s) DID contain plutonium that went to particulate over the eastern seaboard, do you REALLY think this information would reach the public via an AOL chain letter? 8. There is no "Good Times" virus. In fact, you should never, ever, ever forward any email containing any virus warning unless you first confirm that an actual site of an actual company that actually deals with viruses. Try: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/index.html And even then, don't forward it. We don't care.You CAN get a virus from a warning e-mail, so DON"T forward the warnings!!! 9. There is no gang initiation plot to murder any motorist who flashes headlights at another car driving at night without lights. 11. If you still absolutely MUST forward that 10th-generation message from a friend, at least have the decency to trim the eight miles of headers showing everyone else who's received it over the last 6 months (Think Cut and Paste) It sure wouldn't hurt to get rid of all the ".." or ">>>" that begin each line either. Besides, if it has gone around that many times we've probably already seen it. 12. Craig Shergold (or Sherwood, or Sherman, etc.) in England is not dying of cancer or anything else at this time and would like everyone to stop sending him their business cards. He apparently is no longer a "little boy" either. 13. The "Make a Wish" foundation is a real organization doing fine work, but they have had to establish a special toll free hot line in response to the large number of Internet hoaxes using their good name and reputation. It is distracting them from the important work they do. Also, the American Cancer Society does not give 3 cents for each person you forward e-mail to. They ask for you to donate money, they don't give it, as if they could know how many e-mails you sent out...sheesh. 14. Women really are suffering in Afghanistan, but forwarding an e-mail won't help their cause in the least. If you want to help, contact your local legislative representative, or get in touch with Amnesty International or the Red Cross. 15. As a general rule, e-mail "signatures" are easily faked and mean nothing to anyone with any power to do anything about whatever the competition is complaining about. 16. KFC really does use real Chickens with feathers and beaks and feet. No, they really do. Why did they change their name? In this health conscious world, what was KFC's name? Kentucky FRIED Chicken. FRIED is not healthy. So with the help of a focus group, they changed the name to KFC. It's short, doesn't offend dieters and it's easy to remember. 17. Another thing, just because someone said in a message, four generations back, that "we checked it out and it's legit," does not actually make it true. PS: There is no bill pending before Congress that will allow long distance companies (or the post office) to charge you for using the Internet. Bottom Line... composing e-mail or posting something on the Net is as easy as writing on the walls of a public rest room. Don't automatically believe it until it's proven false...ASSUME it's false, unless there is proof that it's true.
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