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March 2OO4 Winners

Jesmond Calleja http://www.speedyadverts.com SpeedyAdverts is a non-profit organisation working for charity and mission aids around the world. As a means of fund raising we promote various products & services. All commission earned goes for charity. Do we deserve the award? We work hard for charity, it is up to you to judge. Thank You Jesmond Calleja Dear Sir, It is a great honour to receive your award and to be selected as the site of the month. Thank You! We have published your full review here: http://www.speedyadverts.com/SAWONAWARDS/html/our_awards_49.html We have also published your award in our Honours Received page: http://www.speedyadverts.com/html/ap_ratings.html I am happy that you can use our Web Site Guide for your students, this is a great honour for us. Please let me know it I need to change anything. Best Regards Jesmond SpeedyAdverts

David Adams http://www.davidadamsonline.com Why I think I deserve the award?: This website features my artworks - paintings, scrimshaw, jewelry and crystal carvings. I also offer reproductions, painting demonstrations, painting tips, free coloring sheets and newsletter. My site is informative and provides beautiful art for the community. David Adams Dear Steve, Thank you very much for the Award! I have proudly displayed it on my site along with links to your website. I took the time to browse your site - it's absolutely wonderful! I was aware that Da Vinci wrote music, but have never heard it until I visited your site - thank you. Warm Regards.....David Adams

Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Website of the Yale National Initiative http://teachers.yale.edu We want you to know about a new Website of the Yale National Initiative to strengthen teaching in public schools. The Initiative, a multi-year effort to replicate the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute’s successful model of teacher professional development in other school districts throughout the country, has launched a new Website as a resource for teachers, education supporters, and policymakers nationwide. The new Website provides regularly updated announcements and other information about the activities of the National Initiative and the members of the League of Teachers Institutes. Visitors will find descriptions of the Teachers Institute model of university-public school partnership for improving teaching through teacher-initiated seminars led by university experts in fields in the humanities and the sciences. The Website also provides information on the teacher-leadership principles underlying governance of Teachers Institutes as well as access to resources for those interested in exploring the establishment of a new Teachers Institute. Teachers and others may also click on the Curricular Resources button to search and download any of the more than 2,000 innovative Curriculum Units for K-12 classroom use that have been developed by teachers as one result of their seminar participation. U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige, who oversaw the establishment of the Houston Teachers Institute, said, "I applaud the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute for supplying models for what universities should do. Its projects are not just inspiring; they are creating an environment in which partnerships will be the norm, not the exception." Jing Zhang Dear Steve, Thank you for your comments on our site. Jing Dear Jing, Thank you for informing me about the new website of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. After a careful examination of your site, we find that it merits our award for its design, informative content and navigation. The wide variety of programs and K-12 Curriculum Units will appeal to my associates at Syracuse University, who are currently involved in professional development. Your fast and slow versions of the website will provide accessibility with those using older machines as well as speech to text synthesizers.

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Mark Mclean http://banditawards.moonfruit.com We have put a lot of time and effort into our site. We hope to provide a valuable resource for the awards community. Mark Mclean Hello there Steve, I thank you very much for the great award and for the very kind comments you gave on our site. I have posted the award on my awards won page along with a link back to your site. It is a great honour to receive an award from a site that is as dedicated to web excellence as your own. Thank you again!! Mark Mclean. Webmaster.

PROJECT LEGAL TIPS - Jim Carroll http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal First, I appreciate receiving your checklist form and I have some questions re: its use. Did you intend for teachers to complete this form as a prerequisite and submit it when they submit the WebQuest? Or did you intend it for our (staff developers) use? One of our problems has been that teachers generally ignore looking at the checklist and submit WebQuests with numerous items on the checklist missing. Will requiring them to do a checklist form like this at the time of submission improve the WebQuests? I think so, but my colleague, Joe, does not. He thinks it will only be viewed as an additional bureaucratic step, and that teachers will simply spend ten seconds checking all of the "yes" choices. Overall, I think it would hopefully force teachers to consider the criteria prior to submission, but Joe is probably right (he usually is). James Carroll To: Project Legal Subject: On Line TIPS Form Submission Dear Jim, I've developed an online version of the TIPS WebQuest check-off which can be easily adapted to collect, collate and verify projects' compliance by participants. http://users.erols.com/sjfeld/tipsppa.htm Let me know about its applicability. I would like to develop a similar form for the PowerPoint component. Music Piracy WebQuest http://users.erols.com/sjfeld/cover.htm A WebQuest developed as a result of a four day TIPS Training session, using the Public Policy Analyst, developed by Dr. James Carroll at Syracuse University. PowerPoint Freedom of Speech Computer Graphics Students Take a Stand Women's Prison resulting from a collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art and the Global Film Initiative. TIPS Student Art Gallery Best wishes, Steve Feld Congratulations, Steve, on obtaining a Best Buy award, and I will be sure that you receive any future announcements that I receive re: funding. To my knowledge, you are the only one to apply. Good luck and let me know how you use the award. Jim -----Original Message----- From: Steve Feld Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 1:10 PM To: James Carroll Cc: IGELERN@NYCBOE.NET Subject: [Fwd: Congratulations te@ch Award Recipients] Dear Jim, Thanks for letting me know about the Best Buy Te@ch grant.. Were there any other TIPS Bronx schools to get the award? Please let me know about any other funding opportunities Best regards, Steve Feld -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Congratulations te@ch Award Recipients Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:20:29 -0600 From: Community Relations Reply-To: teach@BestBuy.com Congratulations! Your school has been selected to receive a Best Buy te@ch award. Within the next two weeks we will mail a package to the contact person on your te@ch application. The package will contain a grant award check for $2,500 (payable to the school) and a CD with important tools and templates to help your school garner community and media recognition of this award. Thank you for participating in the Best Buy te@ch program. Any questions should be directed to teach@BestBuy.com. Sincerely, Best Buy Children's Foundation TIPS LISTSERV Announcement

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