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From: Katherin.Mcarthur@f127.n267.z1.fidonet.org (Katherin Mcarthur)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.music
Subject: Re: Musicals
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 92 21:12:29 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:267/127 - Fudruckers!! BBS, Albany NY

In a message quoted from Donna Ransdell on 02 Apr 92 16:53:06.
Donna Ransdell said to Laurence Akiyama...

DR> There are probably several of us, but since we need to relate it
DR> to education, the question should be, "what musicals are the
DR> schools performing these days?"

     Well, last year our school did _Fiddler on the Roof._  I was in the pit, and it was a LOT of fun.  This year a bunch of kids got together and did _You're a Good Man Charlie Brown_ on their own, and the usual spring musical is _Guys and Dolls._  Unfortunately, I wasn't able to be in the pit this time - no viola part.  Oh well.


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From: Dave.Hans@f127.n267.z1.fidonet.org (Dave Hans)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.music
Subject: Re: Other Music!
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 92 20:37:19 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:267/127 - Fudruckers!! BBS, Albany NY


     I sing.. I've made All County Chorus 4 times in 3 years and hope to go to The NYSSMA Solo Festival(Graded)

     Yes.. I somewhat like Classical..



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From: Juri.Rastovski@p1.f239.n701.z89.fidonet.org (Juri Rastovski)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.music
Subject: re: HOLA
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 92 08:01:30 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 89:701/239.1

Yeah I guess they are pretty good!!!!

TTYL

Juri Rastovski


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From: Laurence.Akiyama@f6.n345.z1.fidonet.org (Laurence Akiyama)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.music
Subject: Re: Music
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 07:46:19 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:345/6 - Leeward School Dist, Honolulu HI

Nope. Actually I'm a student, too! I'm a singer, but I don't sing in our musicals, only in the school Chorus. As far as musicals are cocnerned, I'm Properties Master (not the most exciting job you'll ever have). I never acted in one...what do you play? 


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From: Dave.Hans@f127.n267.z1.fidonet.org (Dave Hans)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.music
Subject: Chorus
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 92 20:39:36 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:267/127 - Fudruckers!! BBS, Albany NY

Hey.. Just to let you know.. I just completed All County Swing Choir last weekend and maybe be going onto the NYSSMA Solo Festival



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From: Katherin.Mcarthur@f127.n267.z1.fidonet.org (Katherin Mcarthur)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.music
Subject: Re: Argh!
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 92 21:07:06 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:267/127 - Fudruckers!! BBS, Albany NY

In a message quoted from Donna Ransdell on 26 Mar 92 17:43:04.
Donna Ransdell said to Katherin Mcarthur...

DR> I just found out about two community programs available to our
DR> schools. The San Diego Symphony has their Young People's Concerts
DR> and their Meet-A-Musician assemblies, which are dirt cheap for
DR> elementary schools. They also have a couple of other things
DR> available for elementary schools, so I gave it to our assembly
DR> organizer to handle. The San Diego Opera has docents that they
DR> send out to teach kids about opera. They are practically free!
DR> Then the kids can attend a dress rehearsal of a kid's opera for
DR> $3 as a follow-up. Neat, huh!

     That's great!  I think that the opera bit would be enjoyed, especially, assuming that they aren't silly enough to spend an hour talking instead of showing off the neat-o costumes.  ::grin::  They sound like really great programs, though.  Good luck on getting ahold of them...

DR> Quite frankly, that's why I started looking. All of the vocal
DR> music teachers were cut for 92-93. I wanted to find some
DR> inexpensive assemblies that featured thearts, so that music
DR> education won't be completely lost when the six of us are gone.

     OUCH!  As far as I can TELL, our music is fairly safe.  All of the teachers, except for one highschool teacher and the orchestra conductor (who doubles as the K-12 Fine Arts Head) teach in more than one school, and even the other teacher I mentioned teaches two highschool bands, an after-school jazz band, coupla music courses (Music Theory, Music in our Lives, that sort of thing.)  I don't THINK any cuts are planned.

DR> We are also a suburban area. Our district sent 81 layoff letters
DR> on Black Friday (13th). That's out of 733 certificated,
DR> probationary or tenured employees. There were about 30 temporary
DR> teachers who were also sent notices.
DR>

     A few weeks ago, our school district put an ad in the paper that we were willing to accept teacher applications.  We normally do that once a year, to keep our database of options open in case a job opens up.  In four days, we got 580 replies.  I don't know how many of those were from people who are currently employed but afraid they aren't going to be, but still.  ::shiver::  Scary, really.


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From: Vincent.Romeo@f628.n712.z3.fidonet.org (Vincent Romeo)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tech
Subject: Re: teach.Handicapped
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 09:03:00 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 3:712/628 - Education Database, Sydney University

Hi Herman.
Sorry I take so long to reply. Can the case study etc, be 
uploaded/downloaded?. Otherwise you can send the information to me via my 
sysop. Address it to,
G. Shearsby
Faculty of Education A22
University of Sydney 2006
N.S.W  Australia.
Tell him its for me. You mentioned "Telecommunications works for all of 
them", can you elaborate on the TC. part. At this point I would like to be 
more specific, the slow learner, behavioural problems, intellectually 
disadvantaged etc. What teaching strategies for classes of this condition 
are you familiar with, especially in the Industrial art field.
This is my final year at UNI and I am trying to get some Ideas, other than 
reading research papers on statistics, as I may be Teaching these students 
next year. Hopefully your case studies etc, will be a great help.
As far as what is available in the system, I'm not sure. I have been given a 
number of another board which should be helpful, I do know that state 
schools do offer a social worker to be with the physically impaired whilst 
she/he is in the IA classroom. There are in service courses occaisionally, 
but from my brief experience its up to the teacher to contact certain 
government bodies for necessary advice/information.
As I mentioned before this is my final year and I am to give a seminar to my 
peers. Any information that I can pass to them will greatly improve all our 
standards as future educators.

See you later Vince  
 

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From: Peter.Eakin@f628.n712.z3.fidonet.org (Peter Eakin)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tech
Subject: teaching design
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 17:43:09 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 3:712/628 - Education Database, Sydney University

	message to Steve Cavrak:
		Hello again Steve,
As you probably realise I've received your message about Jane Petrillo
and her Teaching Conference on "Thoughts on the Electronic Bauhaus -
Design & Interactive Learning on the Computer", however... I'm not quite
sure how to contact her, would you have more of an idea on where I would
reach Jane? Would it be easier to just leave her a message in each area?
Anyway, advTHANKSance,
                      Peter Eakin - Sydney, Australia.---

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From: Doug.Purdy@f19.n267.z1.fidonet.org (Doug Purdy)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tech
Subject: Tech ed
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 92 22:44:37 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:267/19 - QMS Connection, Queensbury NY

Hi Stuart.
    Thanks for the note. I am Sysop of a educational bulletin board in
 Queensbury New York. USA. Just south of Lake George on the map. I am new to
 this stuff also. I am 28, and have been teaching Tech Ed since its inception
 about 6 years ago. I taught for a year at State University of New York College
 at Oswego. I taught undergraduate metals and polymers processing classes there
 during my masters degree.
    I then moved back near home and have been teaching middle school Tech Ed
 since. I am married with two childeren. Hmm, married almost 8 years now. Kids
 are 19 months and 3 months. I have done a little work in construction.
 Designed and built my own home and finished a couple of others for members of
 the family.
    I had the opportunity to be editor of the Technology Educator, the journal
 of the New York State Tech Ed association {NYSTEA}. That was interesting. I
 did the publishing myself and was worn out in 3 years and resigned. I did all
 the desktop publishing and had it professionally offset.
    Other than that, I don't do much special. I have an sail boat that I
 spend my time (and money) on in the summers, and I play golf when ever I can.
 It snows here alot, so the courses are not open yet this year.
    I guess my views, which you have seen recently, have come from 6 years of
 teaching here. It is upper middle class, the kids seem to have almost all they
 need, except a will to learn. I had the mistaken thought that if learning were
 fun, kids would dig in. Well, I was young then <GRIN>. The formula for a
 successful education seems to be more complex than that. It involves parents,
 family, peers, media, and the educational community. That seems to be alot of
 factors to juggle to find the right mixture. My problem is that I have so
 little control over most of them, but hear the ridicule on the nightly news
 that education is poor, and the teachers aren't doing their job.
    Your travels sound great. I would like to get a big sailboat and cruise
 the world for my retirement. In about 27 years <grin>. That is if the budget
 isn't cut and I don't loose my job as seems about to happen at any moment.
 Johnny isn't learning enough math, so we need more. My area may be the one to
 go. I believe, more of what is already unsuccessful won't help. What do you
 think?
Doug



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From: Andrew.Williams@f628.n712.z3.fidonet.org (Andrew Williams)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tech
Subject: Design & Tech
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 00:13:00 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 3:712/628 - Education Database, Sydney University

Thanks for your reply to my message.

Are your pre-apprenticeship programs tied in with the schools in any way? Our pre-apprenticeship programs are not linked with the schools at all, they are completely independent and are run by the Dept of Technical and Further Education. A student can o
nly do such a course at a tech after they have left school. We do however have some activities jointly run with the cooperation of both the techs and schools. The way in which things are going, Industrial Arts subject area maybe linked with tech colleges
 more and more.
How big a part does the industry play in the `partnerships', industry links? Do they do what they are told by the schools or do they get a say in what is being taught or where education in the school should go in the future.
What type of credit do the students get for working in a business, is it in an assessment task as part of the students studies or is it in some other form of credit?



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From: Cam.Cruickshank@f2.n255.z1.fidonet.org (Cam Cruickshank)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tech
Subject: SHARE
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 14:38:32 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:255/2 - NEWBED, Fredericton NB

Senior high Graphic Communication students would like to communicate with 
students in Australia.  We would like to share information concerning types 
of High School Courses you are studying as well as career opportunities, 
summer employment, etc.   We are a class of twelve students in a rural area 
of Nova Scotia.
.........St. Mary's Rural High, Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia.....

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From: Gordon.Benedict@f49.n134.z1.fidonet.org (Gordon Benedict)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tech
Subject: disabled
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 92 09:21:24 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:134/49 - The Student Exchang, Calgary Alta

     Hi Matt,

 MF>  I was reading your conversation between yourself and
 MF> Sue Woodruff, and I noticed that there was mention of 
 MF> mainstreaming children with learning difficulties.

 MF>  What I am trying to gather is information on whether our new 
 MF> Design and Technology document caters for the 
 MF> aquisition of practical skills by those students who have
 MF> a disability, either a mental or physical disability.

     I wish I could help but, since I have no access to the Design
     and Technology document you speak of, I have no idea whether
     it caters to skill building of the disabled.  Sorry.

    No relation to Dr. Barry Frost of Melbourne, are you?  He was
    an education professor at the University of Calgary until he
    retired about 5 years ago and headed back to Australia.

      Gord



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From: Andrew.Johnson@f49.n134.z1.fidonet.org (Andrew Johnson)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tech
Subject: tech.ed
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 19:36:54 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:134/49 - The Student Exchang, Calgary Alta

Technology Studies is fine as a name, I prefer something along the lines of Design and Technology.  I agree that the shift is to more questions of why - not just 'how' and I think that things are moving to generic technologyat middle school levels.  I am putting in a metals area at the back of my woodworking lab and I am taking over the electronics lab across the hall too.  Eventually I hope for the revitalization of technology at our school with some more teachers hire d as a result.  I hope they will be 



generalists.  Students will learn about wood because we have the facillities to make models from wood.  In short the name should reflect the times and a name that recognizes the problem solving going on - like Design and Technology fits.  Meantime our department is called Creative and High Tech Skills, and we offer a module called Woodcrafting in the woodworking lab - its a design class.


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From: Rob.Reilly@f218.n321.z1.fidonet.org (Rob Reilly)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tech
Subject: INTERNET
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 11:16:50 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:321/218 - Schoolhouse BBS, Lanesboro MA

Hello Peter,
 
Nice to hear from you.
 
 PS> BTW-How are things in your area?
 
Things are flying along here.  I am going to have a very busy summer vacation with just the computer things I want to attend to!
 
 PS> My first choice, Quinnipiac College in New Haven 
 PS> Connecticut, will be hooking 
 PS> a BBS to BITNET. Any ideas what is BITNET and the 
 PS> difference between that and 
 PS> INTERNET?
 
BITNET is a subset of the Internet.  There is not much difference.  It is pretty much the same.  I am not sure if you if you can telnet and ftp on Bitnet, but I tend to think so!  I'll ask a friend that is over on BITNET.
 
 PS>  But, what are the "telnet capability" and what 
 PS> is the FINGER command?
 
Telnet is the capability to be at one computer site, say in New York City, and you can connect to any other site in the world just as you would log into another computer on a LAN.  The Internet connection is one where all the sites are on one huge world wide LAN (of sorts).  If you were in NYCity and logged into the Particle Physics Lab in Geneva the connection would not be a charged long distance call as the Internet lines are leased high speed wires.  There is a flat rate for the Internet wire.
 
So telnet is the ability to log into another site anywhere in the world - the connection is usually instantaneous, you would not believe the speed.  It's just as though you were accessing something on your computer.
 
You need to have an account and password on sites that you telnet to, of course.  But there are many free access site (well there are a few).
 
 > Also WHOIS is an online database sort of 
 > operation, you need to have 
 
WHOIS and Finger are more or less similar.  WHOIS is a world wide database.  If you wanted to find out who the people the run, say, General Electric's Internet system you would "telnet" to nic.ddn.mil and invoke "WHOIS General Electric".
 
Finger is much like a user list for your local bbs.  Finger give a bit more information.
 
 PS> What is FTP? and the capability of it?
 
FTP is File Transfer Protocol.  It's essentially downloading over the Internet.  FTP is the act of copying a file from, say, the National Science Foundation's Internet site to your directory on your computer.
Only the transfer occurs at, pretty much, the speed of the computer, rather than at modem speed.
 
 PS> return, she has sent replys but they all NEVER gotten to me!
 
If all goes well, the message should be in the Matrix area at your bbs site - do you have access to NetMail there at Fordham Prep?
 
The system works fine until messages hit the local FidoNet sites, as very few of them have Intergating software running.  Your messages may also be sitting at the "hub" which Fordham Prep BBS feeds from.  That bbs would most likely have to send your message via long distance ($$) to Fordham Prep BBS.
 
-Rob-


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From: Merle.Rudebusch@f101.n285.z1.fidonet.org (Merle Rudebusch)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tech
Subject: Autocad Animator
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 09:03:00 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:285/101 - NE Dept. Education, Lincoln NE

Has anyone worked with the AutoCad Animator and produced files that
would be appropriate for a Industrial Technology program.  I have
come across the Animator Player that is public domain from Auto Desk
that is on the BBS called AAPLAY.ZIP.  A file called DOHC.ZIP, is a
animation of the Dual Overhead Cam Engine.  This program can be set
to single frame or operated at any speed to show the engine operation.
We are looking for more FLI files to use with the Animator Player
program.  If anyone is interested, they are Freqable from this board
1:285/101
  SLMR 2.1a  


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From: Paul.Manuel@f628.n712.z3.fidonet.org (Paul Manuel)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tech
Subject: Tech.ed
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 15:12:07 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 3:712/628 - Education Database, Sydney University

G,Day Andrew,
             I red the conversation between you and Paul Swatridge 
and was interested to read of your approaches to teaching your 
Carrer and Technology Curriculum. In OZ at this stage we are 
implementing a new syllabus similar to yours. The recomended 
teaching approaches include co-operative learning, Negotiated 
learning and reflected learning. These methods are very effective 
teaching and learning methods.
 I would be interested in adapting your team teachung method to our 
new syllabus. Do you think it would be sucsesfull here.
                                Yours greatfully, 
                                  Paul Manuel

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From: Paul.Manuel@f628.n712.z3.fidonet.org (Paul Manuel)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tech
Subject: Teaching Design
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 14:53:06 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 3:712/628 - Education Database, Sydney University

Hi, your letter interested me as i have just fininshed looking 
specifically at the design and technology syllabus support 
material.There is some info in this document that may help you. It 
deals with the recomended approaches for teaching desing and 
technology.Basically it uses three approaches to teach design 
including co-operative learning, negotiated learning and reflective 
learning techniques. From what i have read these approaches are 
excelent for teaching and learning design.
 I will down load a mesage with more info on teaching and the 
implementation of design and technology if you like.
By for now, Paul.

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From: Peter.Van.Vuren@p20.f17.n128.z1.fidonet.org (Peter Van Vuren)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tech
Subject: Solar/Electric Automobiles
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 16:19:26 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:128/17.20 - Rivendell, Colorado Springs CO

* Original: FROM.... Peter Van Vuren
* Original: TO...... All
* Forwarded by...... Maximus-CBCS v1.00 at 1:128/17.20

All!
There is an organization in Colorado Springs, CO that is promoting an 
event that will challenge vehicles powered by zero poluting fuels such as 
solar or electric power.  The real challenge to this event is the 
location.  The event will take place Oct. 8, 1992 on the Pikes Peak 
highway. The finish line is at the summit of Pikes Peak at an altitude of 
14,000 feet. Sound interesting? let me know. or write to:
Pikes Peak Solar/Electric Challenge
219 W. Colorado Ave., Suite 202
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
or phone at (719) 635-8803 in USA


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From: Stewart.Rothman@f38.n17.z1.fidonet.org (Stewart Rothman)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tech
Subject: 16mm Prof Camera Equip
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 22:17:34 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:17/38 - 65'North, Fairbanks AK

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