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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 CostIII This is what I will teach you about today.Prodigy 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
A. TESL-L
IV Two Important USENET Newsgroups to Join
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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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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
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people who are not participating in the list itself. This is directly
against KIDLINK policy and is disruptive of our efforts to establish a
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YOUR PRESENTER TODAY FAQs FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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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
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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
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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
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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
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To: William Eubank
Reply-To: KIDCAFE-Request@VM1.NoDak.EDU
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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.
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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.
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