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Welcome back to school! We hope that you've had a restful and productive summer. As the new year gets fully into swing, we trust that Sun Associates News will continue to serve as a valuable resource for technology integration and professional development ideas. As always, you can contact us with your ideas and suggestions by email at newsletter@sun-associates.com.
This issue and back issues of Sun Associates news are available online.
Please feel free to email any of the contributors of our newsletter with your comments and suggestions for upcoming issues. We are always looking for submissions and ideas to make Sun Associates News better and more relevant to your work.
I. NEW @ SUN ASSOCIATES
II.THIS MONTH'S FEATURE -- Internet Safety
III.INTEGRATION IDEA OF THE MONTH -- Searching for Lucy
IV. SUN ASSOCIATES SURVEY
V. HOW TO SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE
It's been a very busy and very eventful summer out here at Sun Associates. In addition to working on a number of exciting professional development and evaluation projects (check out our on-going Mercer County, WV project for a lot of new professional development and integration resources), we have also found time to focus on the development of our organizational structure. To wit, we've added four new staff members who we would like you to meet!
Maureen Yoder, Associate Director, brings both classroom and higher education experience to the organization. Her experience includes professional development, curriculum integration, distance learning, and program evaluation. Maureen is a Full Professor at Lesley University, and the Program Director of the Technology in Education Online Master's Degree Program. In addition to her 15 years experience as a classroom teacher and computer specialist, Maureen has published and presented, nationally and internationally, on inquiry-based teaching, online learning communities, and The Digital Divide. Maureen has her doctorate in Educational Media and Technology from Boston University.
Kerry McLaughlin, Staff Development Associate, is a highly accomplished technology-using classroom teacher. She joins Sun Associates with over eight years of classroom experience and focuses on the development and delivery of teacher professional development. Kerry holds multiple Massachusetts teacher certifications and has a Masters in Ed from Boston College (MA).
Lois Reynolds, Staff Development Associate, has classroom teaching experience as both a technology teacher/coordinator and a music educator. Her teaching experience is in addition to 13 years of work as a Software Engineer and Support Specialist. Lois holds a Massachusetts teacher certification and has a M.Ed. from Lesley University (MA).
Roxanne Schneider, Staff Development Associate, has over 15 years of experience as a school technology coordinator and is a regular contributing writer for several national educational technology journals. Within Sun Associates, Roxy focuses on designing and delivering teacher professional development. She is also the content editor of our online newsletter, Sun Associates News. Roxy holds multiple Massachusetts teacher certifications, and has a M.Ed. from Westfield State University (MA).
II. THIS MONTH'S FEATURE -- INTERNET SAFETY
Across the country, teachers are dusting off their classroom equipment, and making resolutions to integrate Internet research into their curriculum. It's likely that since you are reading this newsletter, you are thinking about the pitfalls your students may uncover as they are researching for your class. How can you prepare your students and their parents to safeguard children while using the Internet?
Despite the filters and the supervision that you rely on, students may still encounter a site that asks for their name and address for marketing, or leads them to pornography. First, know the laws. Did you know that it is illegal to solicit information by manipulative marketers from a child under the age of 13 without parental consent? Did you know that you can report child pornography sites and unfair marketing sites? Here are two ways that you can become an active participant in Internet safety.
In the full continuation of this story you can read about two ways that you can become an active participant in Internet safety.
III. INTEGRATION IDEA OF THE MONTH -- SEARCHING FOR LUCY
Welcome to the Integration Idea of the Month. Each month we share a technology project that you can implement in your classroom. All lessons are designed for the one or few computer classroom, though a lab setting will work just as well.
This month's lesson is entitled Searching for Lucy and is a social studies unit for middle grades.
For many students searching the WorldWideWeb for some particular information can be as frustrating as it is rewarding. This month's classroom activity demonstrates to students the importance of being specific about a topic when searching the web.
Curriculum Area: Social Studies/ Early Man
Grade Level: Middle SchoolTechnology
Skills Developed: Searching the Internet, Bookmarking, Inserting Pictures,
Citing Internet Sources
Student Grouping: Individual and Whole
Class Time: 2 class periods
Materials: Internet, Microsoft Word
For the full details, check out the lesson plan for Looking for Lucy.
Sun Associates has many lesson planning resources at their website. Take a look at the Links to Educational Resources and Lesson Plans that can be found at Sun Associates WWW Resources.
If you have questions or suggestions for future projects, email Kerry
At Sun Associates, we are always looking for new websites that can help inspire and facilitate teaching and learning in the classroom. We would like to share some of these websites in this newsletter in the coming months. We would also like to ask YOU to share some of the gems that you have discovered with US. Please email us at newsletter@sun-associates.com and we will include your favorites in our list.
Please tell us the following:
Please let us know if we can publish your name, school and/or email address so that teachers may be able to contact you.
V. HOW TO SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE
We hope you enjoyed reading the ideas and information in Sun Associates News. If you have received this newsletter forwarded by a friend and would like to to receive your own copy, simply send an email -- with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject -- to us at newsletter@sun-associates.com. If you would prefer not to receive future issues via email please let us know by emailing to newsletter@sun-associates.com. Just put the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject of your email message.
Sun Associates offers this monthly newsletter as a service to educators interested in issues related to the integration of technology in schools. Our firm specializes in technology evaluation, planning, and professional development. We work with teachers across the country and bring this breadth of experience to all of our work. This newsletter is designed to share some of our recent findings and experiences.
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Last updated, September 17, 2001