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From: Ian.Howard@f16.n258.z2.fidonet.org (Ian Howard)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: R-Net !
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 10:28:00 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 2:258/16 - Teenage Retreat, Littleborough

 > G'day from down-under,

Hi From Up North !

 > So why are you trying to invent the wheel, when we have one in the
 > form of K12net??

Well I will explain.

In Britain very few schools are involved in any sort of meaniful electronic mail system.  There was once a system called CAMPUS 2000 - this failed however as the subscription was 300 a year and it ran over Prestel which uses split baud rate modems !  It also was very hard to use.

About 6 months ago I decided that it would be very beneficial if I could set up a FidoNet type system at my school for use by all students and teachers.  At that time I managed to get in touch with a couple of people who were already interested in that sort of thing - Rik Lister and David Rance.  At the same time I was trying to get my school round to the idea that this system could work - they were very sceptical after CAMPUS 2000.

After a lot of hard work I now have a CM BBS running at my school with connections to our Nimbus LAN.

We are now trying to encourage many other schools to become involved in FidoNet type email (And file distribution, etc) and both Rik and myself are actively promoting FidoNet, K12 and R-Net in the appropriate circles. I would like to see at least 50 nodes in Britain by the end of next year - all carrying K12, Fidonet and R-Net !!!

R-Net was meant to be the network pollyfiller.  School specific services that K12 would be unsuitable for could be catered for by R-Net.  Things like local help conferences, a world-wide newspaper and most of all flexibility to change. When teachers or students wanted to do something we could do it, no more archaic Fidonet policy documents, something that could unite schools across the UK yet still let them contact the people in the wider world.

R-Net will also be connected into UUCP in a much cleaner way than K12 is at the moment.  We are tayloring our systems so that it is much easier to read and write to UUCP networks such as Internet.

We are also developing a suite of programs that will allow schools to plug in to all these services with great ease - The project, however, is still in its infancy.

I must stress however R-Net is *NOT* meant to replace Fidonet, K12 or Internet.  It is there so that schools in my country can get involved in all these services much more easily and cheaply and can also access the valuable UUCP network.

I hope that answers your question !

-- Ian.


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From: John.Feltham@f706.n640.z3.fidonet.org (John Feltham)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: staff meetings
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 13:38:00 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 3:640/706 - Coral Sea, Townsville Qld Australia

G'day Nola,

Monday October 12 1992 17:05, Nola Hambleton wrote to all:

 > In New Zealand we have staff meetings that last until 5 o'clock.   Do you
 > consider this to be reasonable?   There are a lot of schools that have
 > these on a regular basis i.e. three times a week.  How often do you have
 > staff meetings?

Wow! three times a week! I wonder what they talk about?

On the first Thursday of each month we have a subject co-ordinators meeting from 3.15 to 4.00 (or earlier).

The 2nd and 4th Thursdays are available for subject co-ordinators to call meetings of their particular teachers, if required.

On the 3rd Thursday we have a full staff meeting from 3.15 to 4.30. Thats it.

We do however, have a communal staff room where a lot of work gets done over morning tea and lunch.

I do know of a High School in Townsville that has fortnightly meetings from 3.10 to 4.00. The Chairman of the meetings has been the chairman for years. He lives on Magnetic Island, just off the coast. Their meetings alway finish on time! Ferries run to a time-table!  :-)


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From: Peter.Macinnis@p0.f508.n711.z3.fidonet.org (Peter Macinnis)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: Hello Peter!
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 09:47:00 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 3:711/508.0 - The Bay, Neutral Bay NSW

MB>instead, which is fine.  I have a son in college (age 19) and another son
MB>who is in the first year of high school, grade 9 (age 14).  When your
MB>daughter gets home I will encourage my son to write to her. OK?  I want
My son (18) might be willing to play as well, once he gets his
matriculation exams out of the way.  He will then go on to University --
college is not a widely used term here, except for technical colleges
(trade schools).  We had Colleges of Advanced Education, but they
started issuing degrees, and now they have been amalgamated into the
university system.

MB>communication gap with another country.  By the way, what is your daughter
MB>doing in Indonesia, what a terrific experience!  My students will
Cate (Catriona on formal occasions, but we pronounce it the highland
way, not like Glaswegians, which is why she is Cate) is back now -- two
weeks of intensive practice of their Indonesian language skills.  BTW,
High School here is 7-12, mostly comprehensive and co-ed -- somehow my
two oldest have drifted into selective and single-sex schools.  As a
former teacher in single sex selective and comprehensive schools, I
don't altogether approve, but there it is . . .

There, now you've got a bit of background meat to start working on.
Hooroo!
peter




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From: Brian.Bedord@f17.n3400.z1.fidonet.org (Brian Bedord)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: Life
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 17:10:04 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:3400/17 - MET NET BBS, Helena MT

Hi boss,  are you looking foward to you short week  and the reading conference comming up .  I sure am!!!!!  Im brginning to think that this bio is a bigger piece that I can chew while I am teaching and doing evey thing else.  I need to get my priorities in order and relax or I am going to short circut my self.  Sorry I am such a grouch I am trying hard not to be, but at times there is more incomming info than out going patience.  I hope that you and Suzie have an enjoyable time on the 15th and 16th.  You 
are doing a good job this year and I am proud of you.
Brian

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Subject: Restructuring Help!
From: ajaques@eis.calstate.edu (Armand Jaques)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:26:29 GMT
Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services
From: Carol.Nauss@f2.n255.z1.fidonet.org (Carol Nauss)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: Re: WAY TO GO
Date: 14 Oct 92 03:17:34 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:255/2 - NEWBED, Fredericton NB

Maurice..:) Glad to know that you are starting to have a success story in 
your work.  I know that success breeds more interest and greater acceptance 
of new ideas.  If teachers can see the advantages and the hlep they can 
receive then they will try to learn and use it more.  Someone said somewhere 
that computers do make work faster...but ...they also tend to lead to more 
work as you experiment and extend what you know and begin to apply it in 
other areas.  Hope you had a good Thanksgiving.  Carol

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Distribution: world
From: lloyd@ultramac.uucp (Lloyd Klinedinst)
Organization: Odyssey Ultraware, Inc
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 22:39:26 CDT
Subject: Re: The English language!

John,
 I enjoyed the consideration of chairman's origins, but after checking
in the Oxford English Dictionary, I need more support for its
hypothesis.
In the OED I find the first entry of chairman in 1654 by a Trapp who was
commenting on the book of Job; then in 1699--and this is the entry that
sways me away from the NZer's interpretation--is the occurence of
chairwoman by T. Brown, in 1734 by Fielding.
Then I fancied about your possible reference to man in your comment
about "less mangling of the English language" if not "Latin is no longer
taught in most schools.  If it
were, there would be..."  Wouldn't women have a hand in this?
And finally ---not necessarily in reference to your writng of "the draft
of this penmanship as a manuscript, both words referring to an activity
of manus, the hand," but not unconscious of it, I trust there was no
manhandling of this matter, which redundancy would unmanly be, and no
less unwomanly--I unhand this matter now...surcease...
Til soon, I hope, John,...

CC. Gerry, please track this to see that my first cross continent IN message makes it.
Thanks.
From: Keith.Bobbitt@f40.n11.z1.fidonet.org (Keith Bobbitt)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: Global Village News
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 92 17:00:00 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:11/40

Hello Chris,

We had a sonic boom the other day but no one seems to know what caused it.
 This is a local type story.  Would it be OK if a couple of my students entered
 the story in The Global Village News? 
Keith


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From: bigstar@stein.u.washington.edu (J. Paschel)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: help needed on tattletales :0)
Keywords: tattletales
Date: 13 Oct 92 02:36:03 GMT
Organization: University of Washington



I am a graduate student in Sociology at the University of Washington.  As
part of a seminar on methodological problems related to the study of
Deviance, we are attempting to come up with a plan for studying juvenile
tattletales.  This is one segment of a broader proposal to study all types
of snitches, from corporate whistle blowers, to honor code upholders, to
kindergarten tattletales. ...Yes, we are getting many millions of your tax
dollars to sit around and think of such issues :)

I am choosing to define juvenile tattle-tales as those children between
roughly the ages of 4 to 8 who seem to display a pattern of tattletale
behavior.  By "tattletale behavior" I mean repeated warnings or pleas to
an adult that another young child has done something "wrong". 

What I am interested in is any information which you feel might be of
interest.  Such info may include (but is not limited to) the following: 

- Citations of possible references in any of the pertinent literatures to
  this topic. 

- First hand accounts of your experiences with juvenile tattletales.

- Your thoughts, feelings, or insights on possible origins of this behavior.  

- Anything else you feel appropriate.

If desired, I will certainly post a summary of whatever info I get.  If
you have any advice, suggestions, or comments, please feel free to e-mail. 
Please direct all correspondence to: 

		bigstar@stein.u.washington.edu

Thank you for your time, attention, thoughts, and comments.
From: Maureen.Barstow@f120.n321.z1.fidonet.org (Maureen Barstow)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: Australian/American Linkup
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 92 21:12:52 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:321/120 - SpaceMet Internet, Amherst MA

Hello Martin
So glad you answered my call for a link between students from Australia.
My kids will be delighted to have kids to send and received e-mail.  How
is it that you can have children as young as 5 telecommunicating.  You 
must have a very technologically advanced school.
What is the makeup of the curriculum in the area of computers at the high school level.  I teach with computers grades 9-12  and am very interested in what you do.  Hope to hear from you soon.


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From: Chris.Rowan@f2.n3820.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Rowan)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: GVN participants as of 10/13/92
Date: 14 Oct 92 04:58:30 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:3820/2 - The Lyceum, Brownsville TX

This is the Global Village News participants' list as of 10/13/92.
Please feel free to post your articles on Channel 11.  The topic for
this project period is "People in your Community."   I would
sincerely appreciate any comments or suggestions you may have about
this project.


Participant's Name           Location                   Grade Lvl
------------------|------------------------------------|---------
John Chisholm     |  Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada    | 6
Roberta Hawkins   |  Seattle, WA                       | 10-12
Cal Hauserman     |  Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada     | 4
Cindy Cole        |  Charlemont, MA                    | 6
Carol Hooper      |  El Paso, TX                       | 7-8
Zelma Gragg       |  El Paso, TX  (?)                  | 4-6
Tom Winn          |  FIr Island, WA                    | K-12
John Feltham      |  Townsville, Queensland, Australia | 8-12
Ann Bradford      |  Agawam, MA                        | 4
Jeff Benedict     |  Chimacum, WA                      | 9-12
Rebecca Mctainsh  |  Brighton, Otago, New Zealand      | 4-6
Phil Spooner      |  Gaston, OR                        | K-6
Nancy Bucher      |  Bonners Ferry, ID                 | 2-6
Lorna Kropp       |  Spokane, WA                       | 5-6
Dave Lehnis       |  Lacey, WA                         | 9
Diana Campbell    |  Bernardston, MA                   | 6
Deborah Roussell  |  Hatfield, MA                      | 6
Elliott Mitchell  |  Nashville, TN                     | post grad
Bob Anthony       |  North Sydney ,Cape Breton, Canada | 6
Jean Churchill    |  Easton, MA                        | 7
Janice Kibbe      |  Holyoke, MA                       | 4
Loretta Taylor    |  Bothell, WA                       | 5
Chris Rowan       |  Brownsville, TX                   | 6
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From: Robin.Bain@p5.f505.n770.z3.fidonet.org (Robin Bain)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: Calling England/Europe
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 08:57:43 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 3:770/505.5 - Southern Vortex, Dunedin

 > You message reached Groningen, a town in The
 > Netherlands.
 Greetings Guus- from New Zealand. I,m intercepting your message to James Bannan but would also be interested in joining. Are you a teacher? Do you have children interested in communicating? I have a small rural school 40km south of Dunedin in the South Island of New Zealand and we are finding that K12 has opened up the world to us in our small remote community. It is spring time here and the tulips springing up in our garden are at least one thing children here would have in common.
Kia ora


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From: Sarah.Putnam@p9.f17.n3400.z1.fidonet.org (Sarah Putnam)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: 3rd & 4th grade penpals
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 17:47:01 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:3400/17.9 - MET NET BBS, Helena MT

Hello Jack. Joel and I have hooked up our kids as penpals but Woodman
have more than he has so I'm looking for more. My 3rd & 4th graders are especially eager. Would you ask your teachers of those grades if they have any interest in facilitating the process? or maybe Roland has some 5th graders who would write to younger kids?
Busy busy here as I imagine you are there. I'm writing this on a new Macintosh LC with a modem designated phone line. Very exciting
Thanks to that PIR day I finally feel comfortable using the satellite and tape stuff for the teachers -- they sign up on a central calendar and I tape it.  21st century here we come. The next hurdle is to have a kid actually take a class via distance learning. 
Let me know about penpals.       Thanks. sarah

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From: James.Bannan@f369.n633.z3.fidonet.org (James Bannan)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: Global Environmental Watch
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 18:10:08 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 3:633/369 - City Limits BBS, Boronia Vic

Hooray!  Hooray!  Three days of sunshine and even a feeling of being in the roast.  Still, in Melbourne, if you don't like the weather, just wait 'cos it always changes.
Does it really rain that much in UK.  My Great, great grandfather came form Middlesex, or so I am lead to believe.
Cheers....Jimbo Down South


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From: Tom.Barner@f109.n321.z1.fidonet.org (Tom Barner)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: BROWN BAG HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 00:40:38 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:321/109 - Pioneer Valley PCUG, Amherst MA

****New Channel 3 Activity****
Please let me know if you wish to participate
====================

Brown Bag Homework Assignments will begin here soon for the 1992-93 
school year and our international friends.
Watch for a message during the week of October 4th. Assignments will 
be posted once a week on Sunday evening for use that week starting on
October11, 1992. We hope that all teachers and kids will join us.
Some teachers download for their students, while some home-schooled kids
download the homework themselves. 
I am always appreciative of any comments and suggestion for upcoming
assignments and also comments and questions after they have finished.
each assignment will be accompanied by a Teacher's Notes page.
I hope that you will join us......Tom Barner.....Brown Bag Science.




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From: Carol.Cunningham@f6506.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Carol Cunningham)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: TEXAS IS IN THE SOUTHWEST
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 92 07:13:36 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:124/6506 - BBS AMERICA/3RS BBS, Richardson TX

Hi Julie,
   Glad to hear from you. Texas is considered to be in the Southwest though sometimes the labels that are put on our area are strange. The Dallas Cowboys are assigned to the Eastern Division of the NFL which is indeed difficult to
understand.
   As for student motivation, yes, there are indeed students who I have a
difficult time motivating. Working one-on-one does help in that regard. I work hard on imparting to the student that I really care and am there to help and
support. Happily I often see much progress made.
    I too love chatting with people from many different areas, Julie, and look
forward to further computer "visits" with you. What subjects do you teach?
                     
                                       Sincerely,

                                       Carol


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From: Sheila.King@f315.n103.z1.fidonet.org (Sheila King)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: WANTED: WORDS OF WISDOM  
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 92 18:46:00 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:103/315 - Castle of the Four , Diamond Bar CA

Dear Alicia,

you asked:

-> I'm studying to be a math teacher in junior high or high school.  I
-> can't tell you how excited I am about having that opportunity.  On
-> the other hand, for every ounce of anticipation, there's an ounce of
-> fear.
-> Here's where you come in (PLEASE).  Let me know how you handled your
-> first year as a teacher.  If there were only one thing I
-> needed to remember when I walk through the classroom door for the
-> first time, what would it be?  How has your attitude toward
-> teaching changed over the years (if it has)?

I am a high school math teacher with nine years behind me. I remember
very well how scared I was on the first day of Algebra 1 class. However,
my freshmen students were so scared themselves, that I don't think they
noticed how nervous I was. It all worked out fine, however, because I
was convinced that I would help those kids to learn math and do well and
succeed. I wanted to straighten out their misconceptions and help them
through the difficulties. I am sure that my concern and caring came
through and we all got along fine.

Good luck
Sheila
coming to you from Diamond Bar, CA (in Los Angeles County)
                                                                                                              

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From: Guus.Goos@f506.n282.z2.fidonet.org (Guus Goos)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: Calling England/Europe
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 18:06:01 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 2:282/506 - GOOFY'S, Groningen NL

Hi James.

 > Hello,  is anyone in England or Europe picking up this message.  If you
 > are it would be nice you receive an acknowledging message/note that it
 > does reach into the Continent.

You message reached Groningen, a town in The Netherlands. (You might say
Holland).

 > Is anyone their interested in joining
 > in an informal Global Environmental Watch.

It could have a try.
So I'm in.

Blessed Be,
          Guus.


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From: Gary.Toombs@f17.n3400.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Toombs)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: Telecommunications
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 19:47:03 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:3400/17 - MET NET BBS, Helena MT

Cal this is great I am going to call NASA tomorrow night and start
on the science project for the elementary grades.  This may encourage the district to invest in some equipment so we can do this at school.  I enjoyed the weekend class and am having a ball with this modem.

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From: Kevin.Mccluskey@f2.n255.z1.fidonet.org (Kevin Mccluskey)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: Re: TELECOM AND NETWORKING AND TEA
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 21:20:56 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:255/2 - NEWBED, Fredericton NB


 > Kevin...:)  I certainly didn't and I go back much further than you 
 > do.  What I have learned I have gathered by talking with other 
 > teachers who used computers and technology and by reading and doing. 
 >  Carol

I was asking a friend the other day waht makes some of us 'life long 
learners' and other not?  He ddidn't have an answer.  What is yours?  What 
prompted you to take-up computers? and in gereral what drove you to continue 
learnig new things after college???


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From: Donna.Ransdell@f1311.n202.z1.fidonet.org (Donna Ransdell)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: ALaska
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 19:03:03 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:202/1311 - The Education Stati, Poway CA

 > I taught in Alaska from 1980-1986 what would you like
 > to know about it


I'm not the one who asked, but where did you teach? I taught in the Aleutians, 1988-1990.


                                    -donna


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From: Peter.Macinnis@p0.f508.n711.z3.fidonet.org (Peter Macinnis)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: Re: SOUTHERN CROSS
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 18:18:00 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 3:711/508.0 - The Bay, Neutral Bay NSW

When Jimbo talks about the heat, you'd better believe him!  We flew into
Melbourne from Indonesia one day in January, some two years back (for
some reason, the airline decided the best way to take us home was to
take us 1000 kilometres south, and then fly back to Sydney!!).

The temperature at 7 am was 43 degrees, and it got to 47 degrees that
afternoon, and in the tropics we had been used to (wait for it!) 27
degrees!  These are Celsius degrees, you realise, not boring old
Fahrenheit, so it was between, let's see, 40 C is 104 F, 45 is 113 F, so
there you are -- you work it out.  No wonder we Sydneysiders think
living in Melbourne must be Hell!  <GBG for Jimbo>




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