FREE-Best Evidence Encyclopedia

This publication is free by going to this site: http://www.bestevidence.org/evidenceed/

The Best Evidence Encyclopedia is a free web site created by the Johns Hopkins University School of Education's Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE) under funding from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. It is intended to give educators and researchers fair and useful information about the strength of the evidence supporting a variety of programs available for students in grades K-12.

GLS Educator Symposium Program-FREE

Are you an educator, library media specialist, administrator, or technology coordinator? Are you interested in learning more about how media and technology can be integrated into schools? If so, then join us for the inaugural GLS Educator Symposium on Saturday June 13th. This free event runs from 9:30 am to 4 pm at the Memorial Union in Madison, Wisconsin.
The GLS Educator Symposium features panel presentations from noted scholars in videogames and digital media as well as hands-on workshops in game design, digital poetry, Second Life, and educational games. This symposium is open to past GLS conference attendees as well as newcomers. All participants must register online by May 30th.
Register Now!
Visit the website at http://www.glsconference.org/2009/program-saturday.html
and register online.

Educational Programming on Television

From the ECB..........

As your schools close or begin planning for a possible closure due to the H1N1 virus (Swine Flu), I want to call your attention to the resources online and broadcast on Wisconsin’s public television stations that can be used to continue or review instruction at home. In Wisconsin these stations include: WHA-Madison, WPNE-Green Bay, WHRM-Wausau, WHLA-La Crosse, WHWC-Menomonie-Eau Claire, WLEF-Park Falls, WMVT/WMVS-Milwaukee, and WDSE-Duluth-Superior.

The instructional programming broadcast Monday through Friday from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. has been selected by the ECB in conjunction with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) curriculum content consultants. These programs are curriculum-based and correlated to Wisconsin’s Model Academic Standards.

Weekly program schedules are available at http://explore.ecb.org/ecbschema/plsql/itvsched1. The weekly schedules include program descriptions along with links to supplemental materials including teacher guides and Web. All materials are free.

In addition, Wisconsin Public Television (www.wpt.org), Milwaukee Public Television (www.mptv.org) and WDSE-Duluth/Superior (www.wdse.org) broadcast many children’s programs before and after the instructional programming schedule suitable for elementary grades. Please also check the evening schedule lineups on their Web sites for programs appropriate for middle or high school students.

As parents at home look for educational activities to keep their children in the learning mode, please consider adding these links and information to individual teacher homepages or to your school’s Web site.

May Surf Report-Physics Sites

From the ECB.......

Looking for an exciting way to demonstrate concepts like kinetic and potential energy or velocity and acceleration? Want your students to experiment with circuits without setting up a lab? You'll find this and lots more in these Physics web sites in this month's Surf Report from ECB.

Learn how to build your own cosmic ray detector, or design virtual vehicles and structures and test them by varying properties like gravity, friction, spring stiffness and speed. Show your students video of kids designing and conducting their own physics investigations, or of scientists explaining E = mc2. Many of these sites would be great for smart board use. If you are a teacher with physics concepts in your curriculum, surf right over to:

_http://www.ecb.org/surf_

RARE AND ANCIENT WRITTEN WORKS GO ONLINE

National libraries from more than a dozen countries, in coordination with the United Nations’ education agency, put some of humanity’s earliest written works online April 21 with their launch of the World Digital Library, a web site in seven languages -- English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian -- that leads readers through a trove of rare finds. Among these are a 1562 map of the New World; the only known copy of the first book published in the Philippines, in Spanish and Tagalog; an 11th-century Serbian manuscript; and the oracle bones -- pieces of bone or tortoise shell heated and cracked and inscribed that are among the earliest known signs of Chinese writings. The online archive also contains early photographs, films, and audio tracks. Aimed at researchers, educators, and students worldwide, the site provides page-by-page viewing of the original works, scanned in by the national libraries that took part in the project, often with multilingual narration by curators. The link to the site is at

_http://www.wdl.org_.

RARE AND ANCIENT WRITTEN WORKS GO ONLINE

National libraries from more than a dozen countries, in coordination with the United Nations’ education agency, put some of humanity’s earliest written works online April 21 with their launch of the World Digital Library, a web site in seven languages -- English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian -- that leads readers through a trove of rare finds. Among these are a 1562 map of the New World; the only known copy of the first book published in the Philippines, in Spanish and Tagalog; an 11th-century Serbian manuscript; and the oracle bones -- pieces of bone or tortoise shell heated and cracked and inscribed that are among the earliest known signs of Chinese writings. The online archive also contains early photographs, films, and audio tracks. Aimed at researchers, educators, and students worldwide, the site provides page-by-page viewing of the original works, scanned in by the national libraries that took part in the project, often with multilingual narration by curators. The link to the site is at

_http://www.wdl.org_.