MidLink Magazine
Table of Contents

April - June: See Details
If Stones Could Speak
Echoes: Brilliant Poets
Java for the Teacher
Walls That Talk
Stories from the Streets

July - September
Summer Samplers
Nominate a Project!

October - December
Rebuilding a Nation's Spirit
Notable Neighbors
Coming to America
Beyond Wild Justice
Circle of Life

January - March - 2003
Statistics: A Curiosity Factor
ZenZine
Federal Holiday Web Quest
We, the Children
Pi, The Golden Ratio

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April - June 2003

 

• If Stones Could Speak - The Chicago Tribune Tower has more than 100 famous stones, including a moon rock, rock fragments from the Alamo, the Coliseum, and the Great Wall of China.  There are stones from all 50 US states and many countries.  Participants in this project will reserve “check out” rock fragments and will create projects that share, through the stone’s point of view, the historical importance surrounding the time period that it represents.  
  Teacher-Editors: Glenn Gurley, Highland School of Technology, Gastonia, NC
  Eddie Hamblin, Randolph County Schools, Ashboro, NC
   

• Echoes: Brilliant Poets Inspiring Students of Poetry - Learn about modern and contemporary poets and read student written poetry inspired by these very writers.  The longer our list of poets the better!  Have your students write biographies of famous poets then create works modeled after their poet of choice.  We’re creating an encyclopedia of modern and contemporary poetry one classroom at a time.  Please join us!
  Teacher-Editor: Delia DeCourcy, Cary Academy, Cary, NC
   

• Java for the Teacher: A collection of Java computer programs specifically designed by junior and senior high school students to demonstrate classroom content. Over the course of the year, junior and senior high school students will write Java computer programs to display topics that will help the teacher teach. For example,
  • Algebra II - Display the Fibonacci Sequence up to the sum of 10,000
  • Physics: Create a 3 column Table of Horizontal and Vertical Distances of a Projectile tossed at 0, 1, 2, ... 90 degrees.
  • Join us and serve up some Java for YOUR teacher!  You determine the content.
  Teacher-Editor, Cathy McQuone, cmcquone@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
  Florida State University School, Tallahassee, FL

   

• Walls That Talk: Using the book, Talking Walls by Margy Burns Knight as motivation,  students imagine walls that describe their different cultures. Students consider how these walls can unite them instead of divide them. They are now building virtual walls that talk, an online place to share information about the different cultures that makes up the heritage of our student population.  They are also creating murals, studying literature from around the world, and looking at counting systems from different cultures.
  Teacher Editor: Karen Kliegman karenklieg@yahoo.com
  Searingtown School, Albertson, New York
   
• Stories From the Streets: Stories From the Streets is a telecollaborative learning project for classrooms around the world. Join the students of Master's Academy and College in Calgary, Alberta, Canada as they explore the streets names around the place where they live and go to school. Each class will share the stories behind the streets in their neighborhoods. This project will unleash the powerful stories of men and women and events that shaped the part of the world where you live.
  Teacher Editor, Brenda Dyck, dyckba@shaw.ca Master's Academy, Calgary, Alberta