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WELCOME to the 202nd Issue of EduHound Weekly! Win a Laptop Computer System! Enter to win a Gateway laptop computer and peripherals worth more than $4,000 just for logging on to www.EdTechInfoCenter.com and submitting a review of a product that you've purchased or used in a K-12 or Higher Education environment. T.H.E. Journal will be launching this new, FREE Web site ­- the Educational Technology Information Center (ETIC) ­- in the coming months.  ETIC will provide a forum for educators to share their real-world experiences of using hardware and software products so others can make better-informed decisions. Click here for details on how you can enter to win this laptop computer system. EduHound Weekly Archives at: http://www.eduhound.com/eduhoundweeklyarchives.cfm From the Desk of Judi! This week's topic is: THANKSGIVING The holiday we know today as Thanksgiving was recommended to President Abraham Lincoln by Sarah Josepha Hale, a prominent magazine editor. Her letters to Lincoln urged him to have the "day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival." An October 3, 1863 proclamation sets apart the last Thursday of November "as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise." Some sites to help in this effort: Kids Domain Thanksgiving Fun Where you can kick back, relax, download the coolest screensavers, find new jokes, create great crafts, or master a new game. http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/thanks/index.html ThanksgivingRecipe.com Features a cornucopia of recipes, menu ideas, planning guide and cooking tips, as well as features on vegetarian meals, leftovers, turkey and desserts. http://www.thanksgivingrecipe.com The First Thanksgiving Beginning with a pictorial time line of 1620–1621, students explore the voyage on the Mayflower, the relationship between the Wampanoag and the Pilgrims, and the events that led up to the harvest feast celebrated by both groups. The project also gives students an intimate perspective of the period through interviews with Pilgrim interpreters playing the roles of actual Pilgrims, and a modern-day Wampanoag descendant. http://teacher.scholastic.com/thanksgiving/ Bethany Roberts' Thanksgiving Fun for Kids Here you'll find holiday jokes, games, tongue twisters, crafts, projects and recipes. http://www.bethanyroberts.com/Thanksgivingfun.htm Thanksgiving Crafts - EnchantedLearning.com These crafts projects are for preschool, kindergarten and elementary school children. The crafts use materials found around the house, like egg cartons, cardboard, paper, boxes, string, crayons, paint, glue, etc. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/thanksgiving/ DLTK's Crafts for Kids Thanksgiving Activities Includes printable templates for Thanksgiving crafts for preschool, kindergarten and gradeschool kids. http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/thanksgiving/ Awesome Clipart for Educators: Thanksgiving Clipart Features FREE Thanksgiving clipart, coloring pages, banners, backgrounds, fonts, icons, lines, worksheets and wallpaper. http://www.awesomeclipartforeducators.com/type.cfm?feature=Thanksgiving Enjoy! judi EduHound Spotlight Site of the Week! In honor of Thanksgiving, this week's featured site is: History Channel: The History of Thanksgiving http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/thanksgiving/ Ever wonder what the pilgrims and their Native American guests really ate at the first feast? The truth may surprise you. Contrary to popular belief, they didn't sit down to a meal featuring turkey, corn, cranberries, and pumpkin pie (in fact, they didn't even have forks!). Nor did the pilgrims dress exclusively in black and white and show up wearing shoes and hats adorned with buckles. So what did they eat and wear? Travel back to Plymouth and hear from some pilgrims to find out what the original celebration was actually like! Enjoy! **You can now see our past "Sites of the Week" live on EduHound at: http://www.eduhound.com/weeklyspotlight.cfm EduHound Spotlight School/District of the Week! Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township Indianapolis, Indiana https://www.ltschools.org See for Yourself & Submit your School/District Today! You can now see our past "Schools/Districts of the Week" live on EduHound Schools on the Web at: http://www.eduhoundschoolsontheweb.com/schoolspotlight.cfm EduHound Spotlight Classroom of the Week! Mr. Lewis' Computer Lab @ Hyndman Middle-Senior High School Hyndman, Pennsylvania http://www.mrlewisonline.com See for Yourself & Submit your Classroom Today! You can now see our past "Sites of the Week" live on EduHound Classrooms on the Web at: http://www.eduhoundclassroomsontheweb.com/classroomspotlight.cfm Educational Conference Planning Florida Educational Technology Conference January 26-28, 2005 Orlando, Florida http://www.fetc.org/fetc2005/ Other upcoming conferences: Ohio SchoolNet State Technology Conference February 14-16, 2005 - Columbus, Ohio http://www4.osn.state.oh.us/stateconf2005/default.jsp Michigan Assoc. for Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) March 16-18, 2005 - Detroit, Michigan http://www.macul.org/conferences/ For a complete listing of all educational conferences, check out T.H.E. Journal's Calendar at: http://www.theconferencecalendar.com Ask Judi! This week features a new offering from The Center for Children and Technology at the Education Development Center: Picturing Modern America http://www.edc.org/CCT/PMA/ Contains interactive exercises designed to: Deepen students' understanding of common topics in the study of modern America 1880-1920, Build students' skills in analyzing primary sources, especially visual sources, Generate questions that students can pursue by searching in American Memory and other sources. Above all, we hope that you use PMA to encourage your students to actively read, question and discuss the photographs and other documents that give us fragmentary evidence of American life at the turn of the last century. Enjoy! Each week, I'll use this area to answer your questions, post announcements, and provide interesting input! So please email me at EduHoundWeekly@eduhound.com and watch for your answer here! 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