News+Groups


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Lauren Crossett-Art network [] This website contains art discussions from around the world. I found it easy to see what topic was being discussed and how you could respond to it. I found all the topics being discussed very helpful for an artist as well as an art teacher. They had discussions ranging from an effective way to sell art to conversations on good art museums and field trips you could take your class. I especially liked all the discussions on recent shows that had been happening and how people felt on them. Almost anything you wanted to discuss about art was on this website and I found it a very interesting and useful tool.

Leah Close- Education Forums [|www.education-forums.com] I like web sites that are structured and things are easy to find otherwise I get frustrated and go somewhere else. This is a web site that even I found easy to work with. It is a great site for news groups in that there are several forums to get involved in. Its easy to find in what area your questions or concerns will be answered. There are general discussion areas as well as those meeting a specific topic. By viewing previous quotes your question could be answered without you even having to post anything. I think this would be a helpful site for educators to use to enhance their knowledge in education.

Katie LaBorence- We the Teachers [] This educational forum is for teachers. This news group is split up into different sections, based on topics. One of the sections is Teacher Specifics. This includes topics for new teachers to talk to current teachers and get advice, a place for random educational topics, and certification and testing topics. Another section is the classroom, where topics from elementary education to secondary education are covered. Also, the main subject-areas are included in this section. The last section that is included in this news group is for after school topics. Here, teachers are able to meet talk to other teachers about their own interests and hobbies.

Ashlee Preston - Newsgroup for 4th grade teachers [] When I was looking through this website, I notice that there is a list of topics that teachers around the world are communicating with, I seen that the teachers have very good ideas about the topic that is discuss. The discussions look like they are the littlies things that the teachers have a big problem with in the class room. There are more discussions about bulletin board down to the teachers. I think it is interesting what other teachers in other states have to say about the topic of what they are talking about.

Jennifer Hess- NewsGroup for many teachers [|Teachnology Teacher Forums] This has several of different topics and grades; I thought it was pretty nice. As I was searching I couldn’t find a decent one, and this is really the only one that’s decent. It has pen pal part, where teachers get together and talk to each other. I thought that was neat, because you can become friends with other teacher online. They have like core context areas, where they really talk about this topic, like as math, any kind of math will be discussed on that topic. It is very organized that’s why it’s very decent. On this site, they have over 9,000 members; it shows it’s very efficient.

Aaron Porzelius edwebproject.org [] USENET Discussion Groups: K1NET The home page of this website is very simple and has lots of options for you to choose from. The home page has discussion boards that you can visit and talk to other teachers on, as well as has different news groups for you to choose from. This makes this website even more useful, because not only are there news groups for you the look at there are discussion boards where you can talk about and get other people’s views on what you read. I really thought that this website would be useful for teachers, but there most likely other websites that are just better put together and more user friendly.

Sarah Tipton- News Groups for Science Education [] The layout of this website is very simple and very easy to understand. If offers various news groups to join into depending on the topic. A few of the topics listed were general science, cancer, air pollution, science research, and a few others. The website did not include much of anything else other then the news groups which made it easy to understand and control. A news group seems helpful in a way to keep in touch with on going problems and issues relating to the subjects, or sometimes a news group can be a group of teachers who communicate to each other and subject materials. I don't see much use for students or young teens, but very helpful to teachers and faculty members.

Christiana M. Strebe – teacher’s desk

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I found the site teachers desk to be a mediocre site for news groups. The site has a lot of useful information for teachers to use such as discussion forums and premade lessen plans that you can look over and choose from. The site was well designed and easy to follow. It also has lists of sites that other teachers recommend. Various clubs you can join and a forum on educational news. While the site was put together well I thought it was a little too impersonal. The site did not have a lot of personality which while not the most important thing a site needs to have it still needs to look user friendly.

Katia Petsas- News Groups [] This website looked very organized and had many educational topics that varied from K-12 to home schooled. The only problem with it was to view any of the incites you had download them to the computer and that was only to view some of them. If you wanted to look at more you would have to subscribe to it. Which I do not like doing unless I know for sure what I am downloading on my computer. But it had a link []. Which looked like it was very organized and was actually there to bring the teachers discussions together. It said that it was to “foster peer support and development.” I would recommend this site to other teachers, instead of the first one. But thanks to the first one I found the teachers.net.

Joshua Faretta- Dave’s ESL Café [] I think this website is very useful for teachers. It provides them with a way to solve problems that they are having trouble with. They can come on here and ask other teachers about problems they are having in their classroom. I think the best way to learn is to learn from others perspective. Even if you don’t take their advice at least you can see their perspective. Also, like educational blogs teachers also come and post useful lessons. You can find interesting advice or lessons on any subject. I think this is a very useful tool to teachers. This is something that I definitely see myself using and commenting on in the future.

Connie Bernert- NewsDemon [] This site has tons of information and other links to so many blogs and newsgroups. The topics to name a few are culture, history, geography, ideology and folklore. Each of the many topics prove to be interesting and eye opening. The site is very user friendly and visually appealing. Under Blog Categories there are sections titled technology and trivia Contest. I can honestly admit I wasn’t aware that there were so many newsgroups on so very many different topics. I would recommend this site to anyone currently in education or about to become a teacher, it would be a great source to keep up on current news and events, as well as give and receive valuable advise.

Casey Sandoval- News Groups []

I think this is the best out of all of these different educational tools. This is a place were you as a teacher can up your teaching skills? If there is a subject that you cant quit get across there could be a teacher out there that knows exactly how to get the information across. Or if you just want to see what other teachers are doing with the information they are given two minds are better then one I always thought. This is something that I could see myself using a lot in the future.

Chelsea Gill- USENET Discussion Groups [] This website has many different news groups that would be very helpful to all teachers. This site has links to all different types of news groups. These include news groups for different grade levels, subjects, and issues. There are news groups for home schooling, religious schooling, and schools for the disabled. This website is very helpful for all different teachers. You can go to any link to join a news group and read about it. There is a huge variety. There are also multiple groups for foreign languages also. Overall, this seems like a very good site to get helpful news groups from.

Tiffany Wrinkle-A to Z Teacher Stuff [] This is a forum dedicated to secondary education teachers. It is an open discussion between teachers to discuss various ideas in specific subjects, offer support, using technology, methods of teaching, and just about anything there is to discuss when it comes to secondary education. Unfortunately I did find a couple posts where a teacher was telling everyone something bad about one of their students just for the sake of gossiping. But other than that it seems to be pretty organized and responses to questions seem to be relatively prompt. One thing I didn’t like was that there does not seem to be any good way to search within the forum if you have a specific question that you want to see if it was already asked and answered. I like the idea of teacher forums and newsgroups because it gives teachers a way to go outside of their own school and district and get opinions of teachers from all over the nation, but I also do not like how unprofessional some of posts have been that I have seen.

Jake Kelley-News Groups [] This site starts off with a wide variety of different news groups covering a wide span of different subjects. Each subject area is constantly being updated with new material. This site provides an excellent source for online discussion about current and past events. I feel that this particular site mainly focuses on current news. However, older news and news groups are still available to new viewers. There is opportunity for a lot of feedback from other news viewers and it is delivered continuously. This site as a whole covers such a span of different news articles and hot topics that is makes expressing your opinion and reading those of others very easy.

Chiquita Richmond- newsgroups http://learninfreedom.org/

The website interests the minds of many children and adults. The information released is vital or important to a child's educational path. The website gives advice for people who want to help share past experiences. The page is great for informing people on things that happen in the world around us. In the field of education everyone must communicate to stay on the same understanding of the curriculum goal. Even though children think the news is boring, it can be meaningful and fun learning experience to construct related issues that the child goes through on school grounds or daily life. All children should be encourage to speak freely.