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Week of the 18th of June, 1997
Summer Programs
Interested in what's happening this summer? A list of summer
programs for educators and students alike is a starting point for your
summer adventures!
Howard County
Public School System Howard County Maryland -"Learning reaches
beyond the classroom into the community and is networked into the world."
- ELEMENTARY
Morris Brandon
Elementary School Atlanta Georgia - "See what is going on here at
Brandon, and in the Buckhead Community. Visit the online edition of the
Brandon Bee."
School #5
Paterson New Jersey - This site was designed by two eighth-grade students
at the school and includes the school's mission statement as well as a
"Kid's View" section.
Coon Rapids High
School Coon Rapids Minnesota - A well-designed and content-rich
web site for the students, parents, faculty and staff of Coon Rapids High
School.
East Syracuse-Minoa
Central High School Syracuse New York - "ES-M is proud to be a
Workforce Preparation School: 'If you always do what you've always done,
you'll always get what you always got.'"
Sinnott Magnet School for Health
and Health Careers Brooklyn New York - "Youth on the move: learning
and growing" - this school serves grade 6-8 and encourages them to become
involved and interested in a health-based career by having students
volunteer at nursing homes, day cares, and hospitals.
INTERNATIONAL
Norway
Birralee
International School Trondheim Norway - "Birralee is an
independent, co-educational day school with instruction at Infant, Junior
and Senior levels."
Kuwait
New English
School Jabria Kuwait - " Always central to NES's approach is the
belief that every child is capable of excellence in some sphere. We are
proud of the fact that since 1969 our students have gone on to achieve
excellence in many different ways."
- What's FTP? Or HTML? Email? The Dictionary of Computer Terms
is humourous and fairly extensive in its description of words which are
being incorporated into our language as a result of an explosion of
information technology. Computer science teachers, look here.
- French students and teachers will be interested in checking out Groupe Casterman, a French-language
publishing firm located in Belgium.
The Mid-Atlantic Eisenhower
Consortium for Mathematics & Science Education - their website is
mainly for math and science educators in the Delaware, District of
Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West
Virginia areas. "The ... content is focused on the critical themes in
education reform - curriculum, instruction, assessment, professional
development, equity, technology - hence the site appeals to a much broader
K-12 educational audience." from the web site
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