Millennium Websites You enter at the current week's feature. net/index2.htm Here's an index of worldwideevents to mark Millennium Bug http//members.aol.com/DonnAnCiv/y2k.html A http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/resources/2000.html
Extractions: This Web site is the cream of the crop. Designed as a companion Web site for its TV series on the millennium, CNN's site is definitely worth a visit. The presentations and content will knock your socks off. You enter at the current week's feature. The site sections will become available as the series airs. Ted Turner and his folks haven't forgotten you, either. There's a wonderful teaching guide at http://turnerlearning.com/cnn/millennium/ which offers thematic units and additional teacher resources. Note: you need the latest Shockwave/Flash plug-ins. USA Today - Millennium
CyberSleuthKids: Millennium Resources is the last year of the current millennium, not information on national and communityevents, activities, initiatives issue as well as online y2k peer group http://cybersleuth-kids.com/sleuth/Reference/Millennium/
Publications, On Reserve - Index, Federal Reserve Bank Of Chicago Studies Education Resources news and events Press Releases September 1999 44 Y2Kand Banks Suggested Reading current Issues in Economics and Finance, Volume 4 http://www.chicagofed.org/publications/onreserve/index.cfm
Teacher's Desk - Educational News Report Schools Failing at y2k In January 2000, some students could return to TheSchool Law Newsletter Keep informed on current legal developments in American http://www.teachersdesk.com/pages/news.html
Social Studies News of the Day Excellent, current, and complete coverage of They document eventsin history as they travel Census Bureau - It's coming faster than the y2k bug http://www.gcms.k12.il.us/kummerow/social.htm
Extractions: A few sites to get you going. There are many links to follow! 50 State Capitals - Information about the 50 states. Almanac - An InfoPleas site. Want an encyclopedia? Dictionary? Atlas? It's all three neatly wrapped in one! NEW! American Bar Association: How Courts Work- This site is divided into four subtopics: courts and legal procedures, steps in a trial, the human side of being a judge, and mediation, which covers every aspect of the trial system. NEW! American Memory - A Library of Congress site, a gateway to primary source documents. It seems to me that I already had posted this on our site, but it sure is worth a second look if you are doing any kind of research or if you are remotely interested in history. NEW! American Presidents - Excellent profiles of the country's leaders. NEW! Anacostia - African American History museum site. Ancient Images A multi-media mural emphasizing pre-Columbian Southeastern Native American culture created by Mount Pleasant Elementary School Fourth Graders and North Carolina sculptor Raymond Moose. Fantastic project! Atlanta 1906: A Race Riot - Four decades after the Civil War, the city had changed itself into a new, enlightened and racially progressive South. But in the fall of 1906, the city was engulfed in a deadly race riot, one of the worst of the Jim Crow era. This beautiful site contains six chapters with photos and hyper linked content within each page.
EconEdLink | Find A Lesson February 23, 2003 Browse EconEdlink online lessons by Title, Grade, Standard, or lesson Plan Type. Please choose how you would like to view the lessons by clicking on the appropriate indicator. To look for a lesson plan by Concept, please use the http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm
Extractions: April 6, 2003 Browse EconEdlink online lessons by Title, Grade, Standard, or Lesson Plan Type. Please choose how you would like to view the lessons by clicking on the appropriate indicator. To look for a lesson plan by Concept, please use the Search function located at the top of the page. Show Me the Money! A Lesson on the Unforseen Costs of Car and House Loans
Web Sites Of The Month 5 Star Links Frontline Apocalypse http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/With all the talk of y2k being the end of the world, this is an http://www.cleveland.k12.oh.us/ETO/resources/december99.htm
Extractions: February 2002 SIGNAL Magazine 2002 Pentagon Seeks Virtual Clone Defense Emergency Preparedness Moves Into Cyberspace. By Maryann Lawlor Technology is liberating the U.S. Defense Department from the chains of a single location by enabling it to become a network-centric department. The initiative to create a virtual Pentagon calls for taking advantage of advances in networking, Internet protocol, videoconferencing, mass storage and data transmitting technologies. These capabilities would allow military personnel to continue to collaborate and communicate in emergency situations even if systems within the Pentagon are damaged. Senior military officials have long recognized that their information technology systems are a virtual Achilles' heel, but the attacks of September 11 underscored the importance of both data and communications to the highest levels of the military under any circumstances. The terrorist attacks accelerated the implementation of a distributed Pentagon concept that could improve processes across the board in both crises and day-to-day operations. The program's design and implementation are being handled by the Office of the Secretary of Defense; however, once in place they will be maintained by the institutional Pentagon. The monies approved for September 11 provide funding for the project response.
Extractions: Vol. 8, No.7 "...to support and promote the expansion of quality literacy services..." Y2K Preparedness for Literacy Programs The Y2K Challenge. The Y2K Disaster. Y2K! We've all heard about it many times by now. But just what is Y2K? Will it affect us and our students? What, if anything, can we do about it? On April 22, 1999, the LAC hosted a workshop, Y2K Preparedness for Literacy Programs, addressing these questions and more. Aaron Levine, Manager of Management Information Systems for the Ford Foundation, and I led the session. systems. Finally, Y2K manifests itself in hardware chips. Chips are usually small microcircuits that are part of larger systems. Some of these chips, such as the ROM Bios chips, have date coding. ROM Bios chips enable a computer to "boot up" when you turn it on. Usually when we talk about making a computer Y2K compliant, we are talking about this ROM Bios chip. This is done by either replacing the chip completely, upgrading the coding on that chip, or installing a memory-resident program on the computer, called a TSR. The newest systems have correct coding in the ROM Bios chips. The older the system, the more suspect the ROM Bios chip. In all casesnew or oldthe system should be checked by an experienced technician.
Learning Resources CNN SF stories used as lessons for adult education and distance learning regardless of classroom setting http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/archives.html
