Tapped In Newsletter: December 2002
...ON THE TAPIS
December 2002
Issue 61
TAPPED IN Staff send our warmest wishes to you and yours for a Happy Holiday Season!
In This Issue
[1] Time Past, Present, & Future - A New Year's Resolution
[2] Member Perspective: Kathleen Bacer
[3] Technology Tips
[4] TAPPED IN News Nuggets
[5] About ...On the TAPIS
Quote of the Month -
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
- T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
[1] Time Past, Present, & Future - A New Year's Resolution
Time is all about taking "ownership" and valuing each unredeemable moment. Educators face a challenging future. As a valued member of the TAPPED IN Community, you have already made a commitment to taking ownership for your professional development by participating regularly in the TAPPED IN After School Online events, attending classes, meeting colleagues, and bringing students to the Student Activities Center. The TAPPED IN staff and volunteers have resolved to provide the Community with exemplary professional development opportunities in 2003. Working together, the future looks very exciting, indeed!
[2] Member Perspective: Kathleen Bacer
Kathleen Fletcher Bacer (KathleenDB) is an associate professor and the creator and director of Azusa Pacific University's new Master of Arts in Educational Technology Online degree program which will make its debut February 2003 just in time to utilize the new TAPPED IN interface (currently known as TAPPED IN 2). Coming from 19 years of K-8 classroom teaching, and 9 years training teachers in classroom management and manipulative math techniques, Kathleen now trains teachers how to utilize technology in the classroom to impact the teaching/learning process. She has been with APU full time for 5 years where she directed the regional-based MA in Ed Tech program. She earned her masters in education with an emphasis in mathematics from Cal Poly, Pomona, CA and her doctorate in educational technology from Pepperdine University in 1999.
Kathleen's Perspective
It was through my doctoral work at Pepperdine that I first fell in love with MOOs. Linda Polin introduced me to ElMundo - Pepperdine's Moo at the time - and I was hooked. It was a wonderful way to creatively express myself online and ElMundo still holds a dear space in my virtual persona today. A year after I completed my doctorate I noticed ElMundo was seeming a bit disserted. Where had everyone gone? I was told by a colleague that they had moved to TAPPED IN, the latest and greatest. I soon discovered that it was indeed just that!
Read all of Kathleen's Perspective on our member perspectives page.
[3] Technology Tips
Hold the SPAM, please!
One of the top priorities of TAPPED IN is to protect the community members from SPAM -"junk mail" - that shows up in your email box from unwanted sources. Folks who send SPAM often create software robots ("web-bots") that visit web sites and harvest email addresses from them, looking especially for addresses in an HTML "mailto" link. For more information, see http://spam.abuse.net/. Anti-SPAM measures taken by TAPPED IN include allowing only mailing list members to submit messages to TAPPED IN mailing lists (like MeetMe). Unlike posting to general Newsgroups, it's very unlikely you will be added to anyone's junk mail list as a result of posting to a TAPPED IN mailing list!
Advanced Tech Tip of the Month: Your Community Needs You!
TAPPED IN members include many experienced educators who have much to share with the TAPPED IN Community. If you have a suggestion for an After School Online topic and wish to become an After School Online Community Discussion Leader, just fill out the form at http://www.tappedin.org/info/surveys/asoprop.html. A TAPPED IN representative will provide support and help facilitate your discussions.
[4] TAPPED IN News Nugget
You can read TAPPED IN member Ferdi Serim's response to "Is the children learning", an article in the August Red Herring, at http://big6.com/showarticle.php?id=241
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Street Law provides curriculum and training for secondary teachers of law, government, and social studies to promote practical, participatory education about law, democracy, and human rights. Two resources available from Street Law are the Supreme Court Summer Institute for Teachers, June 2003, Washington, DC (www.streetlaw.org/scipage.html) and Landmark Cases, (www.LANDMARKCASES.org) (2002) developed to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases, helping students explore the key issues of each case. Street Law will be a featured guest of the Social Studies Forum in January.
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Alert TAPPED IN member Dafne Gonzalez spotted a reference to TAPPED IN in Herramientas de Comunicacion Sincronica y Asincronica, a chapter in the Spanish book Educar en la Red (2002) by Jesus Valverde Berrocoso
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Starting in January TAPPED IN member Bill Hilton Jr., an award-winning educator-naturalist from Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History in York SC, will lead NUTS ABOUT NATURE, a new discussion group on a wide realm of nature-based topics, including how to bring the outdoors into your classroom, virtually and otherwise. Bird watching, close-up photography, leading field trips, phenology, and nature study sites are all fair game--including the one at http://www.hiltonpond.org
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Webheads, led by TAPPED IN member Vance Stevens, participated in the Fourth Electronic Oasis (EO) organized by the Education Technology Special Interest Group of EgypTesol on December 14, 2002. http://www.egyptesol.org/
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Vance Stevens has recently been chosen "On the Internet" Editor for the TESL-EJ (Electric Online Journal) http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ and will write or solicit an article for this publication 4 times a year. If anyone has any suggestions or would like to write something for the column, contact Vance at vstevens@emirates.net.ae
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insite : Visions in stone - the transcendent granite sculpture of Jesus Bautista Moroles, written by TAPPED IN member Kevan Nitzberg, appears in the current issue of art-themagazine.com
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Do you have a News Nugget about yourself or another member of the TAPPED IN Community? Send your News Nugget to BJ Berquist at bjb @ tappedin.org.
[5] About ...On the TAPIS
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