December 3-7, 2001

**BRAND NEW FEATURE – visit the Indian Basket Gallery link in your track.

**LIVE EVENTS for this week – all Campers invited to join in creating FIELD REPORTS.

NEW THIS WEEK - ALL students in Camp Internet are invited to prepare a Fall report on one or more activities they have accomplished since September that relate to their Camp subject track. They can describe a model they built, a book or film report, a field trip, a GPS activity, a garden report – or a project unique to your classroom. They can also send in scanned images of art projects or science projects in action. POSTINGS will be done by teachers of collected student work in the FIELD REPORTS rooms by track. All reports are requested to be posted by December 21^st. Posting rooms will be open 3pm-10pm every day for TEACHERS-ONLY postings, and open for student read only view 7am-3pm.

FIRST: Have your students each create a word document that is their report. Suggested size is 50-250 words. If they already have written a report as an assignment, they can simply turn it into a word document for use in this project. Where possible, have them include the full URL of the Camp resources related to their studies (including the http://www). They can then print out their report for your review, comments for improvements, and then final approval.

NEXT: Once they have a report that meets your approval, go to their computers and gather each report onto a disk – either as individual documents, or as paragraphs in the same document. If you have scanned images to upload, you can follow directions to do that – or – email them as an attachment to camp@campinternet.net and identify who each image is from. (Either way, we will help you get any scanned images or digital pictures online and ready for adding to the postings.)

POSTING: With your disk of student work, go to FIELD REPORTS (#3 on main portal) and select your track (ISL BC SW or GG). In your track report room, begin posting each student’s work individually, not as a group, one paragraph per student. If they wrote several paragraphs, divided those with a string of ……………… since the software can not recognize paragraph breaks. If they included a URL link to Camp or another resource that meets your approval (non-commercial, educational), make sure it is in the report with the full http://www string with open space on either side. If you have uploaded an image (250x250 pixels or smaller) you can include that as an http://www.filename.jpg file to create an image. ONLY teacher-approved images and links are allowed for quality assurance. EACH TIME YOU POST a new student work, change the YOUR HANDLE bar so it include the correct students name/teacher name/school name.

**LAST CALL for SCHOOL INTROS

Teachers – closing time is nearing to get those SCHOOL INTROS online in the FIELD REPORTS / CAMPWIDE room. We would like to see a posting from every teachers, text only is fine. (Open for posting 5-10 pm weekdays and all day weekends until 10pm). Say Hello ! Room closes to archive this month on December 21^st, so please take a minute and add your posting – ALL TEACHERS WANTED !!

Follow-up field reports are also being added at FIELD REPORTS / TEACHER TRAINING. We have new ones from the Huntington Gardens and from the Coachella Preserve and welcome more! We also invite Teacher Book Reports in lieu of field trip activities.

**TRACK HIGHLIGHTS

Islands – We continue learning about EUROPEAN explorers and learn about how the early arrivals ‘Survive the Trip to California’ in the Dig.

Backcountry – We head out to the southern California coast this week to meet the Chumash and Gabrielino. Dig is ‘Meet the Chumash and Gabrielino’.

Southwest – We head out to the southern California coast this week to meet the Chumash and Gabrielino. Dig is ‘Meet the Chumash and Gabrielino’.

Garden – We feature new Garden Folktales and several full text books for our Garden Campers, and science continues meteorology.