Free stuff!

NEA Today, Feb 1997

39. For a list of freebies available through the World Wide Web, including pens, post-it notes, and magazines, visit The Next Generation home page at http://www.supernet.ab.ca/ cgi-bin/freestuff.

40. School Recycling Programs: A Handbook for Educators is available from the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Request document #530-SW-90-023 from RCRA Information Center, Office of Solid Waste, U.S. EPA, Washington, DC 20460, or call 800/424-9346.

41. The General Mills Foundation grants more than $1 million each year to fund K-12 education projects that improve academic performance. For more information. contact Reatha Clark King at the General Mills Foundation, P.O. Box 1113, Minneapolis, MN 55440, 612/540-7891, or send E-mail to mills999@ mail.genmills.com.

42 Create a home page for your school on the World Wide Web-Microsoft and MCI will help, through their Schools on the Web project. Your school must have an Internet connection and an E-mail account. Visit http://www.microsoft.com to learn more, or send E-mail to schools @ Microsoft. com.

43. For links to online sites offering freebies-everything from classroom materials to posters to computer CDs-visit http://www.c3.lanl. gov/-jspeck/freebies.shtml.

44. Survey American painting from colonial times to the early 20th century through a series of colorful slides from the National Gallery of Art. Forty slides-featuring the work of Benjamin West, Winslow Homer, and others-a 28-minute audiocassette, and text are available on loan to educators. Contact the Department of Education Resources, National Gallery of Art, 4th and Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20565, or call 202/842-6273.

45.High school students can "tour" France on the Web at http://web.cnam.fr/fr/. Pointers with practical information, language tips, hyperlinks to popular French attractions, even information on politics and sports are available-all in French. For those more comfortable with English, this site also links to "Tennesee Bob's Famous French Links," a site whose extensive offerings include Paris subway maps.

46 The Borderline Cartoon Archive, located on the Internet at http://www.the-borderline. com/old.html, provides free cartoons on a range of topics that can be used in publications.

47. For a free CD-ROM containing demos and previews of more than 140 educational software titles, contact Educational Resources at 800/624-2926.

48. To help teachers and students 4learn the technology associated with calculators and programming devices, Texas Instruments offers free newsletters. There's also a toll-free line to help educators with technology questions. Texas Instruments, P.O. Box 6118, Temple, TX 76503-6118, 800(TICARES.

49. Many local public television stations offer free education services to educators, including a National Teacher Training Institute. Station trainers help teachers and media specialists integrate quality television and other technologies into the curriculum. To learn more, visit PBS on the Web at http://www.pbs.org or contact PBS at 1330 Braddock Pl., Alexandria, VA 22314, 703/739-5000.