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From Canada's Schoolnet
Hooked-On-School
http://www.schoolnet.ca/vp/Hooked/Interested in students "at-risk or drop-out" of school? This new site offers a new option in dealing with this problem. Hooked-On-School, an initiative of Industry Canada's Schoolnet, is a prevention site focusing on students at-risk of dropping out and/or students who have already dropped out of school. The site informs young people about the consequences of dropping out of school. They also have the chance to tell what they think about school on this interactive site.
Parents, special needs educators, teachers and others are also invited to participate.
From the NOVAE GROUP Teachers Networking for the Future
Online English Grammar Site
http://www.edunet.com/english/grammarIf you don't know your "your" from your "you're" or your "its" from your "it's," then maybe it's time you took a refresher course in English grammar. For help with befuddling grammatical usage, check out the "On-Line English Grammar" web site's table of contents, or just do a keyword search of this great site. You can brush up with practice pages that include hypertext grammar courses and even an English as a second language test. Also, be sure to drop by the "Grammar Clinic" for important FAQs (learn the rules for using "that" vs. "which," and whether you use "was" or "were" in an "if" clause), get your questions answered by English teachers, and participate in some friendly chat in the "Grammar Cafe."
From the NBNSOFT Content Awards Ejournal
Homework for Kids
http://members.aol.com/ebvannessIt's one thing to tell the kids to use the Internet to help them with their homework, but life is never quite so simple. Well the challenge just got much easier with Homework for Kids: Helping Kids with Computers to use the Internet. This site has been created 'in association' with Amazon.com Books (they have a book information link as well) but the main idea here is to help kids find the information they want, and to find it as quickly as possible. So they'll find many preselected links for events taking place each month, as well as a great area called Research Sites. Kids can scroll through this list and find just what they are looking for.
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