Welcome to Dorothy Blake's
and Bryan Lumpkin's Web Page

Dorothy is a business and computer teacher at the International School of Brussels, Kattenberg 19, 1170 Brussels Belgium.
Click on Dorothy's photograph for a poetic history of technology at ISB.

Dorothy and her colleague Marianne Hubert Truyens, who also teaches at theInternational School of Brussels would like to show you what their school is all about!

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Bryan is the technology coordinator at the Barrie School in Silver Spring, Maryland.
The Barrie School invites you to visit its website!

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We participated in 5-day technology workshop called SUMMERCORE at Noble and Greenough in Dedham, MA.

What follows is an evaluation and recommendation of educational websites researched by Week #2 SummerCore participants.

• Group 1
• Group 2
• Group 3
• Group 4
• Group 5
• Group 6

  Group 1
  Grades 5-8
  Anne, Nora, Meggen, Susan
  

  • this is a web site http://vif27.icair.iac.org.nz/ that followed the travels of a New Zealander who traveled the Amazon in Brazil and Peru. It includes activities that involve the internet further with links to some interesting sites. For ages 5-15.
    
    
  • This address http://forum.swarthmore.edu is the home page for the Math Forum at Swarthmore and is an excellent starting spot for math programs at all grade levels. Look for lesson plans, weekly challenge questions, research, answers to mathematical oddities, and a link to other pages.
    
    
  • web site http://learning.turner.com/program/hope/time2.html about a movie about civil rights movement, adolescents, etc., great info for teachers to use it in the classroom.

  Group 2
  Tech1
  Bob, Randy, Bryan
  

  • This website http://quest.nasa.gov/ is a good site for science projects involving aerospace. A+!!

  • Another great site dealing with space is http://medicine.wustl.edu/~kronkg/index.html. This one focuses on comets and meteors.

  • This site www.yahoo.com/science is a great jumping off point for research on innumerable science sites. A great place to start.
    

  Group 4
  
  Foreign Language
  Sarinda and Marianne
  

  This is a file with 200 mini-lessons researched by Sarinda and Marianne.
  
  • http://138.87.135.33/class/projects.htm
  TECHNOLOGY AND SHE
  by Dorothy Blake

  She was 23 when she came to ISB.
  
  25 manual typewriters housed in classroom 103.
  
  Shorthand and Typing were subjects of the day
  
  Little did she know, it wouldn't always be that way.
  
  Computers came to ISB; back when Stone* was new
  
  Times were changing quickly, and in 1982
  
  All the powers that were in place said
  
  She should teach them, too.
  
  First came the Apple 2es.
  
  Very basic, but beyond compare
  
  Years later they found another home
  
  Down in the Ecole Elementaire.
  
  Single, double, and hard drives followed
  
  Now a network in their place
  
  Visicalc, Word Perfect, and Works, (I'm talking non-Windows versions!!)
  
  Who is this guy--Bill Gates??
  
  Today in 1998, she is doing fine.
  
  Computer use is taught by many
  
  Even Nimmons* is on-line.
  
  Mrs. Shack* in graphics arts
  
  Mr. Smith* on Internet
  
  Science collecting data
  
  Where will it lead us next?

  (*refers to Mr. Douglas Stone, Mr. Colin Nimmons, Mrs. Gwen Shackleton, and Mr. Thomas Smith)