6.++News+Groups

= = · Jake Beeney-Learn in Freedom · [|www.learninfreedom.org] · After browsing through the information on this website I found that I even learned more than I once knew about education. This site informs the reader of how to be informed of their rights to learn and how to take responsibility for their education. This site also gives information on different text book choices, home schooling, and the necessity of diversity in education. This site focuses heavily on the student and their parents taking the “reigns” of their education into their own hands in many different aspects of education. I think this website opened my eyes a bit more as to what education means and I feel that this site would also help others broaden their educational horizons. This particular article was also written by Karl M. Bunday who graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School and also has four children in the Minnesota public school systems. I would venture to say that he has adequate experience both enduring his own educational experiences as well as the educational experiences of his own children. With that being said I would say that his insight on this topic would prove to be useful and credible for most everyone. = Casie Golliday - Education-Related Newsgroups FAQ  = = · [] = = · This site is by **  [|Karl M. Bunday] from the ** University of Minnesota Law School. It includes a lone and exstensive list of diferent education realted newsgroups. It ranges in subjects and topics. This site would surely have the topic you are looking for to discuss about. All you have to do is fine the subject or topic you need, then click on the link. You then send an email in order to join the newsgroup and then your in! =
 * Submit your examples of news groups here. You should focus on news groups that would be important to teachers or educators. Check page 217 in your text if you have questions related to news groups. Please be sure that your submission contains your name, website title and address (hyperlinked), and at least a 100 word review of news groups (see** ****submission example**** **with questions).**

Elise Davidshofer—Dave's ESL Cafe [] Dave's ESL Cafe is a news group of ESL students from all across the world, which will be good for me when I teach ESL in Norway. It has a variety of different links for teachers—such as getting jobs and submitting your resume. However, it is also for students as well. Student Forums and Help Center are places where students can post questions about English and receive help from other people or it gives them a place to discuss other cultures across the world. The website also provides some good information for ESL students. This might be to something good to mention to ESL students as a resource available to them.


 * Kelli Hogan-Teachers.net
 * [] You should see a lot of different news groups categories in bold. Find "Teaching Methods" and click on "Classroom discipline." Scroll down the page and then click on "[|Re: Classroom Behavior], 3/08/10, by pixie."
 * Teachers.net is a website that has atleast a hundred different chatboards. There are different categories for these chatboards. A few of the categories include the following: teaching methods, grade level, subject matter, and hot topics. Teachers from all over the country have access to these chatboard. Teachers can post questions to other teachers and in return other teachers will then reply with answers and advice to the question asked. The particular chatboard I chose is about classroom behavior. The teacher, Pixie, who created the chatboard first mentions a book written by Dr. Fred Jones, and in the book he gives advice to teachers on how to discipline their students. Pixie then gave some personal stories that happened in her classroom. Teachers then gave feedback to Pixie's original post. Some agreed with what she was saying, and some gave personal stories from their classroom. This website is especially helpful for beginner teachers who may not know how to quite run a classroom yet.


 * Benjamin Culik - NCLRC: Teacher's Corner
 * [|nclrc.org]
 * The National Language Resource Center's Teacher's Corner is a news group that provides a vast amount of information about using technology in the classroom. There are a lot of helpful tips on how best to incorporate various technological tools into a lesson. Not only that, but it also provides links to tutorials and educational blogs, information about professional development, and teaching materials. This is a great site because not only does it give suggestions on how to use technology in the classroom, but it also provides help on how to use that technology. I believe any teacher would find this site to be very useful.


 * Cara Philpott-eBoard
 * [|http://www.eboard.com]
 * eBoard is a website communication tool for educators, parents, and students. Educators can create a website at eBoard to post information for their parents and students regarding grades,course policies, office hours, and other useful information to improve student perfprmance. eBoard can also be used by educators to share ideas and resources to further enhance their teaching styles. It can also be used to increase technology in the classroom by providing pod casts, links, photos, and streaming video. eBoard can also translate into thirty languages to increase communication. eBoard costs thirty-nine dollars a year and can be trialed for thirty days before purchasing.

· Alanna Blackburn – Association for Educational Communications and Technology • [] · AECT is a website that thousands of educators are a part of. The website is focused on improving teaching methods through the use of technology. The website gives updates of new technology techniques that teachers use in the classroom which have been effective, as well as how students are learning how to use new and improved technology. There are chat boards for people to post ideas about this topic. This website is not only focused on the improvement of technology, but also how students and teachers are using the technology. This is a good opportunity for teachers to take advantage of because technology is currently becomming more and more effective. The more aware teachers are of the new and upcoming technology, the better students will be up to date with the newest upcoming technology techniques. This is becoming very important in America!

Zach Wolf - Science Newsgroups and News Resources [] This website, sciencepage.org, provides news in a multitude of different areas of science, such as astronomy, biology, chemistry, etc. It gives teachers breaking news in these areas that they can share with their class and discuss with other teachers so that the material they are teaching stays fresh and new. It allows teachers to be in the new of the most recent research that is occurring in the fields that they are teaching. The website also offers newsgroups for teachers in general, providing news on current topics in schools and as well as new technology and teaching methods. I would strongly recommend it to any junior high or high school lever science teachers.


 * Trevor Mitchell- Teacher Magazine
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 * This website calls the news group forum instead. The forums are a place where teachers can go to voice opinions, questions, concerns, experiences and other information. The topics are unlimited but the topics are all about teaching and concerns within the occupation of teaching. To post a forum as part of the news group you must fill out a simple registration and begin the free posting. The great thing about this website is the ability for teachers to make remarks on other teachers posts to give personal experience and support. Some teachers are very concerned with state legislation and budgets and post their concerns and start chat threads about their concerns.


 * Ashley Brinkman-The Mixer
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 * This newsgroup brings together students around the world in order to help each other learn different languages. In order to use the site you have to join. This site uses Skype to communicate between members. After you become a member you'll want to find a language partner that is fluent in the language you wish to learn or are currently learning. There are also groups on mixer. These groups are primary for teachers in order to organize their students who are using the site to communicate with another classroom in a different country. This site offers a social component to learning a new language.