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UNICEF State of the World's Children Middle East News On Line    Lexington A to Z

The ABC's of Civil Rights   Windows2000 Support Site Storyboarding in Video Production

http://www.unicef.org/sowc02/

This site gives the full text of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) State of the World's Children. Lesson plans and other materials addressing this resource can be found at RiverDeep (RiverDeep's instructional support was reviewed in December TIPS).

Middle East News Online

http://www.middleeastwire.com/

"Middle East News Service Inc., is a news service venture formed in 1998 to be a global media service provider and syndicator of news and information about the Middle East and North Africa regions to a world-wide audience. . . " As a specialist news source, the site provides more in-depth coverage of its area than is possible from general news sources

Fayette County's own Artie Atkins developed this "virtual tour" of Lexington sites - take a look at this (and the other virtual tours) for project/display ideas for your school!

The ABC's of Civil Rights

http://buckman.pps.k12.or.us/users/brohloff/Civil_Rights_ABC/student_web_site/index.html

This is a great example project page, as well as a good resource for elementary classes. The proud work of Buckman Elementary (Portland, Oregon) second graders, the illustrations are all hand-made and scanned, and each page gives a fact from the Civil Rights Movement. A great project idea for Black History Month!

Help for Windows2000

http://www.ntfaq.com

Here's a tech support link - a source of hints and helps for Windows2000 users with a good searchable database. If you dislike the Microsoft Knowledge Base, here's an alternative! 

All of the below websites are examples of storyboarding - the process of pre-planning video shooting and editing using sketches. Kids don't like to pre-plan, and the results is often lots of wasted time and disorganized video projects. These links can help!