New FREE Release: Big6 eNewsletter, March 2001 Issue

[Susann Wurster <Sue_Wurster@BIG6.COM>]

Announcing.....

The Big6 eNewsletter, March 2001 issue is ready for you!

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WHAT IS THE BIG6?
-- A process approach
-- A curriculum
-- A program for integrating information literacy into classroom learning.

PREVIEW--IN THIS ISSUE:

BIG6 CONFERENCE 2001: IMPACT on INSTRUCTION--Teaching Information &
Technology Skills, August 10-12, San Jose, California. Speakers will share
Big6 expertise and practical lessons to help you integrate the Big6 in your
school! Register early and save.

FEATURE ARTICLES:

--It All Points to Focus
by Blythe Bennett
Read educators' candid comments about the Big6 based upon the Big6 Survey,
November 2000.

--What's New with the Big6 at Neveh Channah
by Reuven Werber, Tamar Schwartz, Tzila Yarhi, Phylis Goldman, Miriam
Weitman
Read how secondary school educators in Israel incorporate Big6 Skills into
the existing curriculum to improve and enhance history projects, writing
projects, and science projects.

--West Park School's Wall of Fame: Famous People of Today and Tomorrow,
by Tongay Epp
Elementary teachers in West Park school (Nebraska) collaborate to help third
grade students integrate technology with a research lesson on biographies
and autobiographies.

--The Big6 and the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP),
by Joyce Needham
Missouri students in fourth grade learn the Big6 is an important process.
The Big6 helps students know how to approach information problems in math,
social studies, and communication arts and much more! Read why the Big6
process approach was very important when Missouri's statewide achievement
tests changed from assessing content, to assessing process.

More Big6 content is freely available for you at: www.big6.com

--
Sue Wurster
Big6 Executive Manager
Sue_Wurster@Big6.com

It's Coming!
The Big6 Conference 2001: Impact on Instruction
Teaching Information & Technology Skills, San Jose, CA  USA
August 10 -12, 2001
For conference details, visit:  www.big6.com/conference.htm

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