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JacksonFive's
Free Weekly "Path2English" Newsletter
Issue: 41     "Resources for Your Children"     Mar 4, 2001
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Dear Reader,

    Haven't heard from me in a while, right? If you are a teacher,
    you know what I have been busy with the last few weeks. It is the
    start of a new semester at our JacksonFive School and there are
    new classes starting and old classes restarting. So you'll have
    to excuse me if I can't write as regularly as before. When you
    are waiting anxiously for the next issue, please remember there
    are many wonderful past issues already sitting on the website.

    This last week I have been experimenting with a new teaching tool
    at our school. Do you know what it is? Yes, it is a digital video
    camera. I've been very impressed with the results. Students seem
    to like it a lot and it will make a great tool to record the
    progress of their learning. I even bought an interface card to
    connect it to my computer so maybe someday soon you'll be able to
    see some teaching video clips on our website. Wouldn't that be
    lots of fun?
   (582K MP3 recording,
    http://home.pchome.com.tw/education/path2english/MP3-041-01.mp3
    or http://www.path2english.com/Reference/MP3-041-01.mp3)

    As mentioned in the last issue, I'm going to share with you some
    educational resources for you and your children. As many of you
    have children, I hope these websites will provide some good
    "quality time" for you and yours (def: time spent bonding and
    building relationship with others). I have found these following
    sites to be outstanding indeed:

  1) This is a HUGE website about dinosaurs and their environment.
     You can spend many hours with your children exploring this
     website, watching wonderful movie clips, and playing fun "dino"
     games (def: short for dinosaur). You can even follow scientist
     as they uncover more facts about these great giants. Both
     children and adults will find this website educational and
     entertaining. Even if you don't have children, this website is
     certainly worth a visit.
     http://www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs/dino_worlds/index_week6.shtml

  2) This is a fun and well produced website full of educational
     games for children. Your children will come back to this
     website again and again.
     http://www.alfy.com/help/sitemap1.asp?FlashDetect=True