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TEXTESOL CONFERENCE October 14, 1995 Plano, Texas by William Eubank
Bilingual/ESL teachers will learn about some the resources found on the Internet that relate to teaching in the Bilingual/ESL area and how to access them.
Bilingual/ESL teachers are language learners too. This session will empower those attending by providing them with some of the keys to the Internet in areas that relate to Bilingual/ESL education.
This presentation will answer questions about how the Internet can be used by teachers as a resource for their personal continued growth, development and enjoyment in the field of teaching ESL. It will include the distribution of information about how to access areas in the Internet using several different tools. Addresses will be provided for Usenet, Newsgroups, and Web sites world wide that are aimed at providing and exchanging information about ESL teaching.
Format includes lecture, suggestions on access, handouts on net/web addresses, reading lists, E-mail and snail mail contacts.
Me William R. Eubank education Ottawa University BA Sociology KSTC MS Education teaching - Alaska, China, Texas, Mexico leave - take care of parent - learn about the computer You Work assignments - Elementary, Secondary, Post Secondary Computer Skills - computer, modem, E-mail, other
II Why I am here.
To tell you about my computing experience and how you can do same.
Provider Hours CostProdigy 118 $201 Mid Continent Library 015 $001 K.C. Starnet 160 $-0- One Crossroads Place 240 $025 Tenet 022 $005
Total on line time since June-October 1995 555 hours cost $232 additional time off line using my computer: 700 hours
III This is what I will teach you about today.
IV TENET - Texas Education Network
TENET Purpose The purpose of the Texas Education Network, TENET, is to advance and promote education in Texas. Established for use by the educational community, TENET is intended to assist in the collaboration and exchange of information between and among schools, district offices, educational service centers, the Texas Education Agency (the agency), and other State and educational entities.
TENET Goal The goal of TENET is to promote innovation and educational excellence in Texas. To achieve this, the network must provide quality, equitable, and cost-effective information and communication resources to the educational community.
TENET User Registration System Welcome to the Texas Education Network.
This network may be accessed through a number of local dialing areas across the state.
Only Texas educators who work full-time in Texas schools that are located outside these local dialing areas are eligible to use the TENET 800 lines. All local numbers are available to TENET users.
The following dialog will ask you to provide information that we need to begin the process to determine your eligibility for a TENET account. It is important that you answer the following questions accurately, since this information will be used for all business communication between you and TENET. It will also be used to list you in the directory of TENET users.
We should also mention that it is illegal under Texas and Federal law to provide false information with the intent to harass or defraud TENET.
If you need help with a particular question, or you do not understand what it is asking for, then answer the question with a single question mark ("?"), and a brief description of the question will be given to you. If a question does not apply to you, you may leave it blank.
IMPORTANT: This program will automatically exit in fifteen (15) minutes. This is a safety feature designed to ensure that you do not tie up our dial-in lines should your terminal, modem or other piece of communications equipment become frozen or inoperative. If this happens to you, the application you were filling out will be lost. You will need to start a new application after you have restored your equipment to working condition. This fifteen minute time limit only applies to this registration program. The personal account you obtain as a result of running this program will not have this restriction.
HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO TENET Call a number within your service pool: Kilene (915) 673-2518 Kilgore (903) 984-3830 Amarillo (806) 352-1007 Lubbock (806) 741-0028 Austin (512) 472-0602 Midland (915) 550-7216 Beaumont (409) 832-1200 Mineral Wells (817) 325-2481 Brownsville (210) 542-6295 Mt. Pleasant (903) 577-1677 Bryan/College Station (409) 862-2577 Odessa (915) 366-4307 Corpus Christi (512) 994-8400 Rockport (512) 790-7217 Dallas (214) 918-9700 San Angelo (915) 658-7727 Denton (817) 381-0296 San Antonio (210) 615-8909 Edinburg/McAllen (210) 318-3909 Temple (817) 774-7072 El Paso (915) 747-5080 Tyler (903) 509-1061 Ft Worth/Arlington (817) 795-2902 Victoria (512) 578-3565 Galveston (409) 763-2322 Waco (817) 752-6223 Houston (713) 790-1441 Wharton (409) 282-9050 Huntsville (409) 295-0444 Wichita Falls (817) 766-6189
Welcome to TENET. Type newuser for new account, jobseek to apply for a job.
login: newuser Which one of the following categories best describes what you do? 1. Public school (K-12) teacher, administrator, or staff member 2. Private school (K-12) teacher, administrator, or staff member . . . . . . . . . . 9. Employee of a Professional organization affiliated with education 10. None of the AboveEnter line number of your choice: 1
You chose "Public school (K-12) teacher, administrator, or staff member". Is this information correct [y/n/?] ? y The annual fee for this category is $5.00.
First Name: William Middle Name: R. Last Name: Eubank
Please enter your social security number, e.g. 123-45-6789 This information will not be published. It is for internal use only. Social Security Number: 123-45-6789
Please enter "m" for male or "f" for female. This information is strictly voluntary. Type
to skip question. gender: m Please enter the year of your birth. This information is strictly voluntary. Type
to skip question. year of birth: 45 Here is what you entered: 1 First Name: William 2 Middle Name: R 3 Last Name: Eubank 4 Work Phone Number: 816 356-2141 5 Home Phone Number: 816 356-2141 6 Social Security Number: 123-45-6789 7 gender: 8 year of birth: 45 Is this information correct [y/n/?] ? y 6 or 9 digit County-District Number: 220901 School: James Bowie High School Job Title: teacher Subjects Taught (if any): ESL Grades: 9-12 When TENET needs to send you some information via postal mail, it will be sent to your business address. All official correspondence from TENET will be sent to the address you enter here. Enter City: Raytown Enter State: Mo (Important to enter full state name - Missouri) The areacode in your telephone number (816) does not match any areacode in Montana. Please enter daytime/work phone number (including area code), e.g. 123 456-7890 Work Phone Number:
Any or all of the following information may be updated:
1 First Name: William 2 Middle Name: Richards 3 Last Name: Eubank 4 Work Phone Number: 817 468-9370 5 Home Phone Number: 816 356-2141 6 gender: M 7 year of birth: 45 8 6 or 9 digit County-District Number: XXXXXXXXX 9 School District: Arlington ISD 10 School: James Bowie High School 11 Job Title: ESL Teacher 12 Subjects Taught (if any): ESL, English II, English IV, U.S. History 13 Grades: 9-12 14 address: 6113 Lane Raytown, MO 64133
V Two Important USENET Newsgroups to Join + 16,000+ Other Newsgroups
From: Automatic digest processor (LISTSERV@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU)
Subject: TESL-L Digest - 24 Sep 1995 to 25 Sep 1995
To: Recipients of TESL-L digests (TESL-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU)
There are 14 messages totalling 400 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Poetry & ESL
2. which vs. that
3. Tex-TESOL State Conference 11/4 & 5, 1995
4. Student poems
5. Campus Interaction (3)
6. "kilometer" pronunciation (3)
7. student poems
8. Depressed students/stalkers
9. recent updates on SLRF 95 web page
10. Photos for conversation
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 00:02:10 EDT
From: "Dr. Chris Green" (cgreen@TXDIRECT.NET)
Subject: Tex-TESOL State Conference 11/4 & 5, 1995
NOT TO MISS! NOT TO MISS! FIESTA ESL!
The seventeenth annual state conference of TexTESOL
(Texas Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages)
Date: November 3 and 4, 1995
Location: San Antonio, Texas, at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center,
across from San Antonio's beautiful riiverwalk
Theme: "Diversity as Challenge and Resource"
Featured Speakers:
Subject: TESL-L Digest - 1 Aug 1995 to 2 Aug 1995
To: Recipients of TESL-L digests (TESL-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU)
There are 16 messages totalling 530 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Getting teens to speakin class
2. getting students talking
3. How many exposures?
4. Clothing makes the teacher?(P.S.)
5. More on exams (yawn...)
6. Teenagers and Speaking (2)
7. speaking games (2)
8. Games for grammar
9. Teaching for low achievement students
10. Student Motivation
11. Clothing
12. speaking in class
13. Getting students to speak
14. Recipes for Tired Teachers
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 1995 08:49:48 EDT
Anthea posed the following question:
>>When someone goes to study or work in another country, is he or she
justified in demanding that s/he be addressed in the same way as at home?
In other words, should we respect the customs of our students' countries
with regard to how we address them, or should we follow our own local
customs?<<
I think this is a non-issue for most of the English-speaking world. We tend
to address people as they _want_ to be addressed, whether this is their last
name, a nickname, etc. For example, I know an Eddie who absolutely hates to
be called Ed. If you know he likes to be called Eddie, why annoy him with
the name Ed? I think the same thing would apply to a person who wants to be
called Park, Kim or whatever.
Regards,
Michael E. McCay, who also answers to Mike, Mickey, McCay, Mikel, Miguel
and Vote.
ARTICLES (a sample of some of the files found in the TESL-L achieve)
0. TESL-L Information files
* TESL-L information files:
TESLK-12 was founded in January, 1994, with the goal of providing
fast, convenient, and topical electronic discussion forum for teachers of
English as a second or foreign language to children. The organizers plan
to make TESLK-12 useful to past, present, and future teachers of English
to students in primary and secondary schools; and we hope that, as access
to electronic communications and the membership of TESLK-12 grow, teachers
will be able to expand their understanding not only of the
field of TESL/TEFL but also of the nations and cultures that make up our
global village.
Subject: TESLK-12 Digest - 29 Aug 1995 to 31 Aug 1995
There are 9 messages totalling 247 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Child Abuse and Native Language (6)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 09:07:22 -0500
I suspect most of you have heard about the case in Amarillo, Texas about
a Mexican-American woman and her 4-year old daughter. She was convicted
by a local judge of child abuse for only speaking Spanish to her daughter. She has been sentenced to speak only English to her daughter from this point forward as the judge insists that she must know some English to prepare her for kindergarten. This all came to the court due
to a some sort of suit filed by the child's father, a monolingual
English-speaker who says he cannot communicate with his child because
she only speaks Spanish.
Rather than espousing my reactions to this case, I would implore you to
respond to this case. Specifically, is the use of native language in the
home a benefit or a deficit to the child's acquisition of English? Is
the use of native language advantageous or disadvantageous to her in
acquiring academic skills? Is it child abuse?
I look forward to your feedback.
Trish Morita Mullaney
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Topics covered in this issue include:
2) Re: etymology
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1995 10:24:39 -0500 (CDT)
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 22:41:04 -0400
I will be teaching a high school ESL 3 class for the first time
this year and would like any ideas you may have re: reading materials,
games, teacher resources and whatever else you have used that works.
School is just around the corner and I'm starting to work on lesson plans.
Please help! I also teach Spanish 1 &2. If anyone has a good idea to
use in these classes please send them to me. Thanks in advance :)
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 17:00:20 -0500
> I've accepted a job on a reservation where I will help to develop
>curriculum, materials, and methods to teach native American languages.
> I would like to know of anyone else who has done similar work, or
>knows someone who has. I'd be happy to have email contacts, phone
>contacts, or addresses.
Thank you.
Alice Harman aaharman@seattleu.edu
Do you know of the gopher service we offer that lists the colleges and
universities in North America that teach about 350 Less Commonly Tuaght
Languages. For most, we list a contact person with addresses and phone
numbers.
The URL for the gopher is: gopher://lctl.acad.umn.edu
It can be found under the Univ of Minnesota
==============++++++++++==============
Louis Janus
References: <3urte3$1p0@anshar.shadow.net>
fanghorn (fanghorn@shadow.net) wrote:
In an 8th grade lit. class, I would rather use a text with short
stories or readings. It's hard enough to hold their attention.
(don't you remember when you were in eighth grade? only a few of
your friends were reading whole books! These days even fewer do it)
I teach ESL to adults (it's different, I know). If my students are
homework doers then I assign the "short" reading to be read at home, and
we read it again in class and discuss the story as we go, then discuss
related themes afterwards (I dearly hate to look at the tops of their
heads while they try to find the answer to a question I've asked, so I
ask comprehension questions every sentence or two)
With non-homework doers, we just read in class, slowly. It's the same
basic idea, only it takes about twice as long.
The homework doers who have re-read the text say that they don't find it
too boring to repeat the reading in class, rather they find out how close
their dictionary came to explaining the real meanings and/or connotations
of the new words. They often go home and read it again.
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 17:11:14 GMT
Phillip Burgess (pburgess@netcom.com) *** Junior Mints: a SIGGRAPH
tradition
From: Scott Fabel
Hi everyone!!
A friend of mine asked me to post to this newsgroup to see if I could
get a hold of a listing of Spanish Computer Terminology. If anyone has
something like this, could you please e-mail it to me (since I don't
speak Spanish, I don't subscribe to this newsgroup.....).
Scott
Newsgroups: k12.lang.esp-eng
In article <405mvl$bdm@crchh327.rich.bnr.ca>, wijetung@bnr.ca says...
>Could you please translate the following for me
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I am a Spanish Teacher in Fresno, California. I have a number of native
Spanish speakers in my classes each year. Most of them are Mexican, a
few are Spanish or Spanish American. Chances are these students will
want to correspond via air mail. But I will try to arrange for e-mail
help as well. Classes here begin in September.
Please reply to me...Bill Arnold...at
I will be glad to give you my school address by e-mail.
Subject: Usage guidelines for KIDCAFE
Dear New KIDLINKers,
Welcome to Kids
If you are within our age range, we are delighted to have you with us.
There are some very important instructions in this message. Be sure to
follow them carefully. If you participating by yourself (without an adult
to help you), please also read what we say to adults. Lars-Erik Nilsson,
the KIDCAFE helper, would be glad to answer any questions you have. You
can write to him at this email address: len@svenshog.se
Welcome to Adults
Please do not use this list to obtain keypal contacts for people who are
not participating in the list itself. This is directly against KIDLINK
policy and is disruptive of our efforts to establish a global dialog.
From: Neal Styka
To:
V Resources for Advanced Computer Users
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) - a protocol for moving
files/programs on the Internet.
YOUR PRESENTER TODAY FAQs FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Crossroads U.S.A. Mall |
Consensus Inc. |
Investors Co-op
From: "Michael E. McCay"
Subject: Korean names
**OVERHEAD TRANSPARENCY PRESENTED**
* 1. Classroom practices and activities, issues of teaching and learning
* 2. Testing and evaluation
* 3 Computers in ESL - activities
* 4. Computer hardware and software
* 5. Books, periodicals, and other materials
* 6 Net resources and email
* 7. Organizations and conferences
* 8. English learners, countries, schools, and teacher education
* 9. The English language
*10. Commercial
INDEX INSTRUCT TEM OWN V 77 81 94/09/24 21:38:20
* Instructions for using the Index option for receiving TESL-L postings.
POSTING GUIDE TEM OWN V 79 245 95/06/13 09:45:54
* Guidelines for posting messages to TESL-L.
*** 1. Classroom practices and activities, issues of teaching and learning
40 TIPS TEM OWN V 73 455 95/01/19 11:33:19
* From the newsletter Hands-On English, here are 40 tips to make your
* teaching easier and more effective.
ADVANCED LEARNERS TEM OWN V 84 788 95/07/25 17:45:17
* TESL-Lers' responses to the question: What do advanced students need?
AL-GT METHODS TEM OWN V 133 811 94/09/24 21:49:21
* Are audio-lingual and grammar-translation methods extinct in EFL/ESL
* classrooms? A TESL-L discussion.
ALICE FILE TEM OWN V 80 431 95/06/01 00:17:07
* A set of worksheets to use with Alice in Wonderland.
BASICESL MATERIAL TEM OWN V 80 455 95/02/01 08:40:12
* What materials would you take if you were going to another country
* to teach? This file has answers suggested by TESL-Lers.
*** 2. testing and evaluation *********************************************
COMMENTS FILE TEM OWN V 80 914 95/02/11 12:01:17
* Techniques for commenting on student papers. See also the next file.
ORALSKIL TESTING TEM OWN V 80 361 94/09/14 20:41:29
* Information on ways to test oral proficiency.
*** 3. computers in ESL - activities **************************************
CALL FILELIST TEM TSL V 80 121 95/08/31 08:46:13
* For bibliographies of CALL and computer-related references, order the
* BOOKS FILELIST. All other CALL files will eventually be moved to this
* subdirectory, which contains 10 files as of 12/18/94)
CALL-NL AUSTRALI TEM OWN V 75 90 93/01/14 18:24:05
* An article on computer/ESL matters from Australia, 1/13/93.
*** 4. computer hardware and software ***********************************
CELIA HOWTO TEM OWN V 80 619 94/09/14 21:02:54
* An introduction and instructions for using the Computer Enhanced
* Language Instruction Archive, an on-line source of freeware, shareware,
* and commercial demos of CALL software.
CONFEREN EQUIPMNT TEM OWN V 73 112 94/09/14 21:20:38
* How to get exactly the audio-visual-computer equipment you need
* for a conference presentation.
*** 5. books, periodicals, and other materials ****************************
BOOKS FILELIST TEM TSL V 80 185 95/07/02 12:51:54
* A subdirectory of book lists on various topics. Order this file
* to obtain descriptions of the book lists that are available.
DONATING BOOKS TEM OWN V 78 120 95/07/25 17:45:58
* Advice on where and how to donate books.
*** 6. NET RESOURCES AND EMAIL************************************
ABBRV FILE TEM OWN V 80 523 95/02/22 07:48:33
* A list of the acronyms like IMHO and 'emoticons' like :-) commonly used
* in email messages.
BITNET ARTICLE TEM OWN V 76 201 94/09/14 20:28:49
* An article entitled "All you didn't want to know about BITNET and were
* afraid to ask...." written by Eric Thomas, the creator of Listserv,
* from the Spring 1993 issue of Internet Society News.
*** 7. organizations and conferences **************************************
CATESOL FILELIST TEM TSL V 80 46 95/06/14 09:05:35
* California TESOL position papers placed in these archives for
* comment or reference by TESOL affiliates in other states.
CEA SIG TEM OWN V 76 57 94/09/27 00:44:31
* An announcement of a new ESL/Bilingual Education Special Interest
* Group of the Correctional Education Association.
*** 8. English learners, countries, and teacher education ***************
EFL INJAPAN TEM OWN V 80 1240 95/07/20 14:45:14
* TESL-L discussion about teaching Japanese students, mostly in Japan.
KOREA CAMP TEM OWN V 80 144 95/06/29 11:01:24
* A job opportunity at a Korean summer camp for children
*** 9. The English language ******************************************
EMAIL LANGUAGE TEM OWN V 77 302 93/03/09 14:18:40
* An article by Natalie Maynor on the new language forms that appear in
* email discourse.
ENGLISH HOMOPHON TEM OWN V 73 1381 95/07/11 00:01:00
* A list of English homophones prepared by John Higgins.
*** 10. commercial **********************************************
BABEL INFO TEM OWN V 79 252 94/09/11 14:50:57
* Description and ordering information for The Multilingual PC Directory,
* by Ian Tresman, which is a source book for IBM PC language software of
* all sorts (word processing, spell-checking, character sets, translation, etc.
).
B. TESLK-12
**OVERHEAD TRANSPARENCY PRESENTED**
To: Recipients of TESLK-12 digests
2. new archives
3. Suicide
4. Child abuse and native lang.
From: Trish Morita-Mullaney
Subject: Child Abuse and Native Language
C. 16,000 Plus Newsgroups - USENET
**OVERHEAD TRANSPARENCY PRESENTED**
ncte-talk@itc.org
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [NCTE-TALK:1190] NCTE-TALK digest 276
X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0 -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas
NCTE-TALK Digest 276
by ASGarrison@aol.com
3) Pedagogy, Pedantry: A rejoinder
by GODSEYS01@TEN-NASH.TEN.K12.TN.US
4) Re: etymology
by CRFBARZJM@CRF.CUIS.EDU
5) Re: block scheduling
by Mary Beth Hannah-Hansen
7) Re: The politically correct Bible?!
by Reinhold Schlieper
8) Romeo and Juliet
by CRF_WEDGBUVL@CRF.CUIS.EDU
9) Teaching the novel
by CRF_WEDGBUVL@CRF.CUIS.EDU
10) feminist shakespeare
by CAREYWEBB@wmich.edu
11) Re: Demi and Heinekins
by TchrRobert@aol.com
12) Pedagogy, Pedantry and Pen Color (Friday's on its way)
by Mbeliason@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu (MarMar)
13) Re: what we teach?
by tannerm@isd.ingham.k12.mi.us (Marcia Tanner (Okemos))
From: CRFBARZJM@CRF.CUIS.EDU
To: ncte-talk@itc.org
Subject: Re: etymology
Message-ID: <01HW2TAIGLHE8ZEFVC@CRF.CUIS.EDU>
Another helpful source on etymology which points to the fact that
words are still "originating" even as we speak is the Word Watch column
which occupies the final page of _The Atlantic Monthly_ (in alternating
issues now, I believe). The column traces the roots of words or
expressions that may be in the process of becoming permanent fixtures
in our language. Jonathan M. Barz Department of English Concordia
University -- River Forest, IL
SLART-L
**OVERHEAD TRANSPARENCY PRESENTED**
Sender: SLA Research and Teaching
From: A Frink
Subject: ESL 3
AAFrink@aol.com
Sender: SLA Research and Teaching
From: Louis Janus
Subject: Re: Native American Languages
--> Campus information
--> all the U of Minn gopher servers
---> Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
Less Commonly Taught Languages Project
CARLA
612/627-19872 (fax: 612/627-1875)
lctl@maroon.tc.umn.edu or
janus005@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Newsgroups: misc.education.language.english
**OVERHEAD TRANSPARENCY PRESENTED**
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 19:52:42 GMT
Lines: 30
: Looking for ideas on using literature anthology for 8th grade lit.
class. What
: do you prefer, reading in class or assigning stories for homework? I
rather use
: novels but have to use a text. Thanks,
: Zoe
Hope this helps. Meg Gam ESL Teacher NYC
Sender: pburgess@netcom17.netcom.com
Xref: prodigy.com alt.folklore.computers:57315 alt.usage.english:43109
>> Okay, any nominations for the following collective nouns ?
>> a(n) _______ of newsgroups -----> a wienerschnitzel of newsgroups
(A corresponding percentage of newsgroups seem to involve
hilarious German names..."alt.fingerlichenschtein", etc.)
>> a(n) _______ of FAQs ------>a plain-paper of FAQs? (groan)
>> a(n) _______ of newbies (Delphoids, AOLiners, frosh, etc.)
a free on-line trial offer of newbies.
Newsgroups: k12.lang.esp-eng
**OVERHEAD TRANSPARENCY PRESENTED**
Subject: Computer Terminology
Date: 6 Aug 1995 19:55:23 GMT
Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Charlotte, NC - info@char.vnet.net
My e-mail address is sfabel@success.net.
Thanks a bunch!!
Subject: Re: English -> Spanish Translation please
Date: 9 Aug 1995 15:31:46 GMT
I missed you (emotionally) : Te heche de menos
Would you like to see the place I live? : Quieres ver donde vivo?
You are always on my mind : Siempre pienso en ti.
Hope this helps.
HM
I need e-mail address to native Spanish speaking high school students
for my Spanish class to exchange e-mail. If anybody out there knows any
thing about this please e-mail at scottp@falcon.cc.ukans.edu.
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William_Arnold@emailbbs.ucs.csufresno.edu
**OVERHEAD TRANSPARENCY PRESENTE**
KIDCAFE-Request@VM1.NoDak.EDU
To: William Eubank
Reply-To: KIDCAFE-Request@VM1.NoDak.EDU
===============
Welcome to the KIDCAFE mailing list. This list is one of several run by
the KIDLINK project as part of our efforts to create a global dialog
among the 10 to 15-year-old youth of the world.
=================
Thank you for your assistance in making it possible for students to
participate in the KIDCAFE dialog. Please respect our age limits; adults
are not allowed to send messages to KIDCAFE. Class participation is
limited to grades in which kids are
normally within the age range at the beginning of the school year. In the
United States, this means grades 5-10. Fourth grade classes are too young
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Subject: Re: KEYPALS: Request for Keypals :: Michelle Lee (Glendal)
Comments: To: CAFEMOD@ucunix.san.uc.EDU
To: Multiple recipients of list KIDCAFE
michelle lee
I'd love to be your penpal.
I'm 11 and I play the trombone.
Yes i'm christian.
Neal Styka
Gopher Server - A storage and retrieval protocol for files
archives on the Internet.
WWW - World Wide Web a standard for linking documents with
hypertext.
Internet Relay Chat - IRC - an Internet service that lets users
exchange typed messages in realtime.
Bulletin Boards called BBS - often local or regional.
**OVERHEAD TRANSPARENCY PRESENTED**
William R. Eubank James Bowie High School
6113 Lane 2101 Highbank Drive wmeubank@yahoo.com
Raytown, Missouri 64133 Arlington, Texas 76018
1. Q. Why do you have so many accounts?
A. I have a number accounts because I want to learn about the
different types of accounts that are available and to discover how useful
they are in education.
2. Q. Please explain the different accounts that you have and what
you have discovered about them?
A. I will tell briefly about my accounts in the order in which I
joined them. Please remember that I am not trying to "sell" anything. I
intend to use as many different, major commercial accounts as I can
between now and August 1996.
PRODIGY I have this account because it came with the computer
when I bought it (1992). At that time Prodigy promised three months free
trial membership. Even though I did not activate the account until June
of 1995 - they honored the offer. I feel that this was a good way to
start out. It was easy to install and I was able to learn how to use
E-mail, get a modem and upgrade the memory on my computer so that I
could use my computer on the NET. It was an EXCELLENT way to start.
MID CONTINENT LIBRARY The cost was $1. It gave me card catalog
access to 29 branches of a five county library system. It gave me
experience with a modem and basic DOS type interface. I can do my
research from home. 15 hrs
STARNET (free) I am a Beta Tester in return for the use of this
account. This was offered by the Kansas City Star Newspaper. Have used
it about 160 hrs.
It will cost when it goes commercial but will also provide Internet.
ONE CROSSROADS PLACE(BBS) (free) I am a volunteer Customer
Service Representative (Cosysop) in return for three levels of accounts.
On our system, teachers get Comp (=free) accounts.
(wmeubank@yahoo.com) 240 hrs.
TENET ($5.00 per year) -
China Pictures |
Texas Pictures |
Cozumel Pictures |
Playa Pictures |
Argentina Pictures
Teaching Assignments |
E.S.L. Conference Presentations |
TESOL Affiliates |
E.S.L. Links
Elder Care Resources |
Publications |
Web Publications
Hy-Vee Stores |
The Soap & Water Co. |
Hy-Vee Stores Net
Santa Fe Railway |
Rotary InterCountry Teacher Exchange |
MidTesol |
Kansas City Variety Club