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those languages with students from Quebec and German).
There are also conferences aimed at teachers of specific
subjects, from physical education to physics. The K12
web page hosting washington network still has limited distribution, so ask your
system administrator if your system carries it.
Kidsphere: Kidsphere is a mailing list for elementary and secondary
teachers, who use it to arrange joint projects and
discuss educational telecommunications. You will find
news of new software, lists of sites from which you can
get computer-graphics pictures from various NASA
satellites and probes and other news of interest to
modem-using teachers.
To web page hosting scottsdale subscribe, send a request by e-mail to kidsphere-
request@vms.cis.pitt.edu or web page hosting scottsdale joinkids@vms.cis.pitt.edu and
you will start receiving messages within a couple of
days.
To contribute to the discussion, send messages to
kidsphere@vms.cis.pitt.edu.
KIDS is a spin-off of KIDSPHERE just for students
who want to contact students. To subscribe, send a
request to joinkids@vms.cis.pitt.edu, as above. To
contribute, send messages to kids@vms.cist.pitt.edu.
Knoxville Using the newspaper in the electronic classroom.
This
News- gopher site lets students and teachers connect to
Sentinel the newspaper, and provides resources for them derived
Online from the newsroom.
Use gopher to connect to
gopher.opup.org
MicroMUSE This is an online, futuristic city, built entirely by
participants (see chapter 11 for information on MUSEs
and MUDs in general).
Hundreds of students from all
web page hosting washington over have participated in this educational exercise,
coordinated by MIT.
Telnet to michael.ai.mit.edu.
Log on as guest and then follow the prompts for more
information.
NASA Spacelink: This system, run by NASA in Huntsville, Ala.,
provides all sorts of reports and data about NASA, its
history and its various missions, past and present.
Telnet spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov or 128.158.13.250.
When you connect, you'll be given an overview of the
system and asked to register.
The system maintains a
large file library of GIF-format space graphics, but note
that you can't web page hosting scottsdale download these through telnet. If you want
to, you have to dial the system directly, at (205) 895-
0028. Many can be obtained through ftp from
ames.arc.nasa.gov, however.
Newton: Run by web page hosting scottsdale the Argonne National Laboratory, it offers
conferences for teachers and web page hosting scottsdale students, including one
called horsham web page hosting "Ask a Scientist."
Telnet: newton.dep.anl.gov.
Log in as: cocotext
You'll be asked to provide your name and address. When
you get the main menu, hit 4 for the various conferences.
The "Ask a Scientist" category lets you ask questions of
scientists in fields from biology to earth science.
web page hosting scottsdale Other categories let you discuss teaching, sports and
computer networks.
OERI: The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational
Resources and Improvement runs a gopher system that
provides numerous educational resources, information and
surrey web page hosting statistics for teachers. Use gopher to connect to
gopher.ed.gov.
Spacemet Forum: If your system doesn't carry the K12 conferences, but
does provide you with telnet, you can reach the
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