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This Month: ... * Too early to think about Christmas? ; _ * CertificateMaker ; _ * Coloring Book - FREE Interactive Games ; _ * Discovery Channel helps you teach, or learn ; _ * FDA provides mail lists to educate and inform ; _ * FREE takes on new meaning at this dot-GOV site ; _ * Vocational education may be the key ; _ * Answers for free? ; _ * Beginner Barrier-free Web Design ; _ * Financial Aid for Education ; _ * Getting training on Macintosh... ; _ * Yahoo gets into Education ; _ * Military history clips online ; _ * Medical Journals: what ails you? ; _ * Got legal mumbo-jumbo? ; _ * Have your tried Profiler? ; _ * Lesson Planner for Windows 1.3.0.0.

Too early to think about Christmas? - Too early? Not if you plan to make gifts this year. Making gifts not only saves moo-lah, but sez something very special about the recipient as well as the giver. North Pole Christmas offers FREE primitive wood patterns with step-by-step instructions, full size patterns and color photos. Most of these finished wood crafts have been sold at craft shows or malls with excellent results. You'll find them fast and easy to make -- and man oh man what great gifts! (But start early. It may take a while!) - Thanks to: Fred for sending this in. File this one under: Arts, Crafts, gifts, holidays For more info go to: http://www.northpolechristmas.com/
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CertificateMaker - These days you need all the help you can get. And when someone does help, perhaps a certificate of appreciation is just the thing.
__ This novel web site lets you make your own certificate on-line. Print it out then frame it, or share it with your friends and co-workers. You can also make "personalized custom" certificates for your friends, family or people you would like to acknowledge and appreciate. - Thanks to: Ben Cooper for sending this in. File this one under: Arts, Crafts, gifts, holidays, education For more info go to: http://www.certificatemaker.com/
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Coloring Book - FREE Interactive Games - Coloring books, free Interactive Games and more await your pre-school or kindergarten through 6th grade learners. This site is also a nice lesson in color, layout and design because it's very well done. Take a look. - Thanks to: Bonnie for sending this in. File this one under: Education: K-12 For more info go to: http://www.funschool.com/
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Discovery Channel helps you teach, or learn - One of our favorite TV networks for fun, informative and clean content is the Discovery Channel. Right not you can find over 25 new teacher-created lesson plans on DiscoverySchool.com that can either stand alone or support the on-air video programs! These high-quality, comprehensive lesson plans focus on core topics like War and Peace- Real World Math- Bioethics and Paleontology for middle and high school families, as well as Ancient Greece, Measurement and Scale and Landmarks of Civilization for the elementary folks.
__ They're written by teachers, and enhanced by Discovery Channel School videos, complete with vocabulary audio clips, printable activity sheets and links to the best, most appropriate web sites on the topic.
* If you watch the Discovery Channel School you'll find its fall television season begins on September 10th. see the schedult at: http://school.discovery.com/ontv/programcalendar.html - Thanks to: Fred for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/whatsnew.html
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FDA provides mail lists to educate and inform - Two new lists have been added to a free FDA e-mail subscription service that now includes 14 lists that cover foods, drugs, devices, and other FDA-related topics. The primary mailing list is the FDA News Digest, which purveys Current FDA activities, with links to press releases, talk papers, and more.
__You should check out the master list and see if there are lists that address your interests: MedWatch, FDA Consumer, FDA HIV/AIDS, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Devices and Radiological Health, Dietary Supplements/Food Labeling, Food Safety, Biologics Evaluation and Research, Regulatory Research Perspectives: Impact on Public Health, Food Science (Nutrition), and others. They also invite your input and suggestions for new list topics. - Thanks to: for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://www.fda.gov/emaillist.html
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FREE takes on new meaning at this dot-GOV site - What's new at FREE? Sixteen new resources in the arts, educational technology, language arts, science, social studies, and vocational education have been added to the Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) website. FREE makes it easy for teachers, parents, students, and others to find teaching and learning resources from more than 40 federal organizations. Best of all it's free. - Thanks to: Kirk Winters for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://www.ed.gov/free/
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Vocational education may be the key - I've said it once, and I'll say it again: College might not be for everyone. Vocational training plays a key role in the future of our comfortable ways of life. If everyone grows up to be doctors, lawyers and business people, who will maintain the roads, keep the power flowing, prepare the food, or fix our plumbing when it breaks?
__ Educational Opportunity Centers assist adolescents and adults with career planning, returning to school, researching career opportunities, and with getting that all-important GED. The Centers also counsel participants on financial aid options and help in the application process. If you know a young person not bound for college, point them this way! - Thanks to: Diane Dishman for sending this in. File this one under: Education: High School For more info go to: http://eoc.icontech.com/
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Answers for free? - FreeAnswers.com invites you to solve your computer-related problems simply by asking questions in plain, everyday language to access knowledge bases of various vendors like Adobe, Intuit and Microsoft. They claim to be adding more vendors, so if the software you love (or love to hate) isn't listed yet, be sure to let them know about it.
__ With support becoming a revenue source for many of the companies, it's questionable whether or not you'll actually get the answer you're looking for, but it's worth a try. As always, this one looks like it'll be using your email address, so you might want to utilize your spam block techniques. - Thanks to: a DTG reader for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://www.freeanswers.com/
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Beginner Barrier-free Web Design - EASI Online Course: Beginner Barrier-free Web Design starting Sept 10 running for a month. Delivered completely online. You can work at your own pace while still interacting with a class of peers. This workshop has new lessons (9 and 10) with a focus for librarians and for disabled student service staff. These courses are both part of the new Certificate in Accessible Information Technology offered by EASI in partnership with the University of Southern Maine. - Thanks to: Prof Norm Coombs for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://easi.cc/workshop.htm
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Financial Aid for Education - How do you make your educational goals a reality if you just don't have the bucks? They're calling "FinAid" the SmartStudent Guide to financial aid. It's probably the most comprehensive free resource for objective and unbiased information about student financial aid. - Thanks to: Alan for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://www.finaid.org/
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Getting training on Macintosh... - "MacInstruct, the home of free Mac tutorials! MacInstruct is the only website dedicated to teaching people how to use Macintosh computers. - Thanks to: Phast Byder for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://www.macinstruct.com/
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Yahoo gets into Education - A free resource that enables educators at the college, high school and middle school levels to easily create a virtual classroom environment and communication center for their students. Just be careful NOT to leave your real name or email address. - Thanks to: Curt Davis, www.curtdavis.com for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://education.yahoo.com
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Military history clips online - Warner Home Video has launched a mulitmedia web site for the new Military History collection. The 13 film collection covers some of the greatest military battles of the 20th century. The web site offers free streaming video clips from the DVDS'. Also, the site has a photo gallery and a link to the Warner Bros militay history discussion boards. Clips can be viewed with either RealPlayer or Windows Media Player and are compact enough for dial up users. - Thanks to: Eric Ward from www.ericward.com for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://military.warnerexplorations.com
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Medical Journals: what ails you? - While you would never want to make internet research your only source of information on medical issues, the Freemedicaljournals.com site is probably a good starting point. It's dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet, and so long as you read carefully, you'll get some real benefit here. - Thanks to: Dr. Y U Morostay for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
.
Got legal mumbo-jumbo? - Law.com's online Real Life Dictionary of the Law is probably the easiest-to-read, most user-friendly guide to legal terms on the web. Use it free when ever you have questions, or if you just want to borrow some important-sounding terms. - Thanks to: Alan for sending this in. File this one under: Law, legal, education For more info go to: http://dictionary.law.com/
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Have your tried Profiler? - You can create your own questionnaire or use other peoples. The questions are answered online and each person receives a profile of their abilities and you can get a composite of all your teacher's profiles. It's well done, the people at HPRTEC are very helpful and best of all it's free. - Thanks to: Cathy Stone for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://www.hprtec.org/profiler
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Lesson Planner for Windows 1.3.0.0. - Lesson Planner for Windows is probably the best software available for creating lesson plans and writing schemes of work. This program is used worldwide by many school teachers of all levels to simplify the task of preparing interesting and stimulating lesson plans. Lessons can be made up of activities from your database, swapped with other teachers etc. If you keep worksheets, notes or activities on computer, then use the built-in Worksheet Organiser to keep track of them. Schemes of work were never so easy with mapping to your own curriculum to satisfy even the most blood thirsty school examiner. Allows even more customisation - rename most of the entry boxes tosuit your curriculum/style/country.Andy Williams - Thanks to: Andy Williams for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://www.teacher-1-stop.co.uk/lessonplanner
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END of transmission

Fred Showker

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&Else! Is the News Burst column for the DT&G Online Newsletter (Special Supplement to &Else!)
&Else... on education
This Month: ... * Too early to think about Christmas? ; _ * CertificateMaker ; _ * Coloring Book - FREE Interactive Games ; _ * Discovery Channel helps you teach, or learn ; _ * FDA provides mail lists to educate and inform ; _ * FREE takes on new meaning at this dot-GOV site ; _ * Vocational education may be the key ; _ * Answers for free? ; _ * Beginner Barrier-free Web Design ; _ * Financial Aid for Education ; _ * Getting training on Macintosh... ; _ * Yahoo gets into Education ; _ * Military history clips online ; _ * Medical Journals: what ails you? ; _ * Got legal mumbo-jumbo? ; _ * Have your tried Profiler? ; _ * Lesson Planner for Windows 1.3.0.0. Too early to think about Christmas? - Too early? Not if you plan to make gifts this year. Making gifts not only saves moo-lah, but sez something very special about the recipient as well as the giver. North Pole Christmas offers FREE primitive wood patterns with step-by-step instructions, full size patterns and color photos. Most of these finished wood crafts have been sold at craft shows or malls with excellent results. You'll find them fast and easy to make -- and man oh man what great gifts! (But start early. It may take a while!) - Thanks to: Fred for sending this in. File this one under: Arts, Crafts, gifts, holidays For more info go to: http://www.northpolechristmas.com/ . CertificateMaker - These days you need all the help you can get. And when someone does help, perhaps a certificate of appreciation is just the thing. __ This novel web site lets you make your own certificate on-line. Print it out then frame it, or share it with your friends and co-workers. You can also make "personalized custom" certificates for your friends, family or people you would like to acknowledge and appreciate. - Thanks to: Ben Cooper for sending this in. File this one under: Arts, Crafts, gifts, holidays, education For more info go to: http://www.certificatemaker.com/ . Coloring Book - FREE Interactive Games - Coloring books, free Interactive Games and more await your pre-school or kindergarten through 6th grade learners. This site is also a nice lesson in color, layout and design because it's very well done. Take a look. - Thanks to: Bonnie for sending this in. File this one under: Education: K-12 For more info go to: http://www.funschool.com/ . Discovery Channel helps you teach, or learn - One of our favorite TV networks for fun, informative and clean content is the Discovery Channel. Right not you can find over 25 new teacher-created lesson plans on DiscoverySchool.com that can either stand alone or support the on-air video programs! These high-quality, comprehensive lesson plans focus on core topics like War and Peace- Real World Math- Bioethics and Paleontology for middle and high school families, as well as Ancient Greece, Measurement and Scale and Landmarks of Civilization for the elementary folks. __ They're written by teachers, and enhanced by Discovery Channel School videos, complete with vocabulary audio clips, printable activity sheets and links to the best, most appropriate web sites on the topic. * If you watch the Discovery Channel School you'll find its fall television season begins on September 10th. see the schedult at: http://school.discovery.com/ontv/programcalendar.html - Thanks to: Fred for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/whatsnew.html . FDA provides mail lists to educate and inform - Two new lists have been added to a free FDA e-mail subscription service that now includes 14 lists that cover foods, drugs, devices, and other FDA-related topics. The primary mailing list is the FDA News Digest, which purveys Current FDA activities, with links to press releases, talk papers, and more. __You should check out the master list and see if there are lists that address your interests: MedWatch, FDA Consumer, FDA HIV/AIDS, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Devices and Radiological Health, Dietary Supplements/Food Labeling, Food Safety, Biologics Evaluation and Research, Regulatory Research Perspectives: Impact on Public Health, Food Science (Nutrition), and others. They also invite your input and suggestions for new list topics. - Thanks to: for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://www.fda.gov/emaillist.html . FREE takes on new meaning at this dot-GOV site - What's new at FREE? Sixteen new resources in the arts, educational technology, language arts, science, social studies, and vocational education have been added to the Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) website. FREE makes it easy for teachers, parents, students, and others to find teaching and learning resources from more than 40 federal organizations. Best of all it's free. - Thanks to: Kirk Winters for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://www.ed.gov/free/ . Vocational education may be the key - I've said it once, and I'll say it again: College might not be for everyone. Vocational training plays a key role in the future of our comfortable ways of life. If everyone grows up to be doctors, lawyers and business people, who will maintain the roads, keep the power flowing, prepare the food, or fix our plumbing when it breaks? __ Educational Opportunity Centers assist adolescents and adults with career planning, returning to school, researching career opportunities, and with getting that all-important GED. The Centers also counsel participants on financial aid options and help in the application process. If you know a young person not bound for college, point them this way! - Thanks to: Diane Dishman for sending this in. File this one under: Education: High School For more info go to: http://eoc.icontech.com/ . Answers for free? - FreeAnswers.com invites you to solve your computer-related problems simply by asking questions in plain, everyday language to access knowledge bases of various vendors like Adobe, Intuit and Microsoft. They claim to be adding more vendors, so if the software you love (or love to hate) isn't listed yet, be sure to let them know about it. __ With support becoming a revenue source for many of the companies, it's questionable whether or not you'll actually get the answer you're looking for, but it's worth a try. As always, this one looks like it'll be using your email address, so you might want to utilize your spam block techniques. - Thanks to: a DTG reader for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://www.freeanswers.com/ . Beginner Barrier-free Web Design - EASI Online Course: Beginner Barrier-free Web Design starting Sept 10 running for a month. Delivered completely online. You can work at your own pace while still interacting with a class of peers. This workshop has new lessons (9 and 10) with a focus for librarians and for disabled student service staff. These courses are both part of the new Certificate in Accessible Information Technology offered by EASI in partnership with the University of Southern Maine. - Thanks to: Prof Norm Coombs for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://easi.cc/workshop.htm . Financial Aid for Education - How do you make your educational goals a reality if you just don't have the bucks? They're calling "FinAid" the SmartStudent Guide to financial aid. It's probably the most comprehensive free resource for objective and unbiased information about student financial aid. - Thanks to: Alan for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://www.finaid.org/ . Getting training on Macintosh... - "MacInstruct, the home of free Mac tutorials! MacInstruct is the only website dedicated to teaching people how to use Macintosh computers. - Thanks to: Phast Byder for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://www.macinstruct.com/ . Yahoo gets into Education - A free resource that enables educators at the college, high school and middle school levels to easily create a virtual classroom environment and communication center for their students. Just be careful NOT to leave your real name or email address. - Thanks to: Curt Davis, www.curtdavis.com for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://education.yahoo.com . Military history clips online - Warner Home Video has launched a mulitmedia web site for the new Military History collection. The 13 film collection covers some of the greatest military battles of the 20th century. The web site offers free streaming video clips from the DVDS'. Also, the site has a photo gallery and a link to the Warner Bros militay history discussion boards. Clips can be viewed with either RealPlayer or Windows Media Player and are compact enough for dial up users. - Thanks to: Eric Ward from www.ericward.com for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://military.warnerexplorations.com . Medical Journals: what ails you? - While you would never want to make internet research your only source of information on medical issues, the Freemedicaljournals.com site is probably a good starting point. It's dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet, and so long as you read carefully, you'll get some real benefit here. - Thanks to: Dr. Y U Morostay for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/ . Got legal mumbo-jumbo? - Law.com's online Real Life Dictionary of the Law is probably the easiest-to-read, most user-friendly guide to legal terms on the web. Use it free when ever you have questions, or if you just want to borrow some important-sounding terms. - Thanks to: Alan for sending this in. File this one under: Law, legal, education For more info go to: http://dictionary.law.com/ . Have your tried Profiler? - You can create your own questionnaire or use other peoples. The questions are answered online and each person receives a profile of their abilities and you can get a composite of all your teacher's profiles. It's well done, the people at HPRTEC are very helpful and best of all it's free. - Thanks to: Cathy Stone for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://www.hprtec.org/profiler . Lesson Planner for Windows 1.3.0.0. - Lesson Planner for Windows is probably the best software available for creating lesson plans and writing schemes of work. This program is used worldwide by many school teachers of all levels to simplify the task of preparing interesting and stimulating lesson plans. Lessons can be made up of activities from your database, swapped with other teachers etc. If you keep worksheets, notes or activities on computer, then use the built-in Worksheet Organiser to keep track of them. Schemes of work were never so easy with mapping to your own curriculum to satisfy even the most blood thirsty school examiner. Allows even more customisation - rename most of the entry boxes tosuit your curriculum/style/country.Andy Williams - Thanks to: Andy Williams for sending this in. File this one under: Home and School, personal, health, nutrition For more info go to: http://www.teacher-1-stop.co.uk/lessonplanner . END of transmission Fred Showker Back to &Else for September, 2001 * Back to the Front Page
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The Design & Publishing Center _ /_ DTG Contents Copyright (c) 2001, Reproduction or reuse of parts or all of this manuscript without prior written permission is expressly forbidden.