Millennium Websites This site has it all built in for youlesson plan, resources and Endof-the-yearnews summaries are just one way to make current events a part of your http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/resources/2000.html
Extractions: This Web site is the cream of the crop. Designed as a companion Web site for its TV series on the millennium, CNN's site is definitely worth a visit. The presentations and content will knock your socks off. You enter at the current week's feature. The site sections will become available as the series airs. Ted Turner and his folks haven't forgotten you, either. There's a wonderful teaching guide at http://turnerlearning.com/cnn/millennium/ which offers thematic units and additional teacher resources. Note: you need the latest Shockwave/Flash plug-ins. USA Today - Millennium
Why Y2K Was A Non-Event Why was y2k a virtual nonevent? Why was there no pre-y2k crash? lesson Themessage of the alarmists and activists was heard loud and clear, http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_00/dfisher011500.html
Extractions: Raleigh Martin It was an absolute, pleasant surprise to arrive on the other side of the millennium not only unscathed, but to experience the utter joy and satisfaction of the world-wide celebrations that seemed to pull all of humanity into a unified sense of collective euphoria! No terrorist attacks, heck, even the weather was perfect! In fact, the rollover was such a non-event even the ultra-optimists seemed confounded and surprised. To witness this once-in-a-lifetime event come to pass in such a positive manner is quite inspirational to say the least. Through such collective will to rise to the occasion and demolish the y2k bug, as was the case over the past months and years, we as a human race demonstrated once again that through working together toward a unified goal, essentially, for the most part, eradicated a serious, universal, technological threat. A threat that had it not been identified and tackled in a timely manner and with full vigor would surely have meant total disaster.
EconEdLink | EconomicsMinute | Y2K, Currency, Banking, And The Fed Find other related lessons Find related lessons. EconomicsMinute y2k, Currency,Banking In the unlikely event that a recession arises from y2k shocks, http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM34&page=teacher
EconEdLink | Y2K, Currency, Banking, And The Fed In the unlikely event that a recession arises from y2k shocks, monetary policycould be Discuss this in the context of the numbers used in the lesson. http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/print.cfm?lesson=EM34&page=teacher
Extractions: The 2003 Blackout: Lessons for Property Owners and Managers Having issued its interim report on the apparent causes of last Augusts massive blackout, the U.S.Canadian taskforce charged with investigating the outage is now looking for ways to prevent similar catastrophes. A comprehensive solution is sure to be complicated, time-consuming, expensive and highly politicized. Building owners and managers intent on avoiding future problems would be wise to act on their own by considering some of the lessons learned from last Augusts event. As they prepared for Y2K and responded to 9/11, building managers introduced major improvements to the plans, processes and resources they employ to contend with emergency situations. Each time a new event occurs, however, additional challenges emerge. When the lights went out in the eastern U.S. and Canada (and, in subsequent incidents, in the UK, Italy and parts of Denmark and Sweden as well), building owners and managers faced a range of problems. Existing plans resolved most of them, but process improvements were also identified in three general areas. This paper offers strategies to help property owners and management teams address people and life-safety issues, communications needs and utility maintenance requirements to effectively contend with emergency situations.
Computerworld This Week In Print 21, Some Key Facts and events in y2k History s y2k worries fade, IT execsplan to boost spending on strategic projects while cutting costs overall in http://www.computerworld.com/news/weekinprint/0,10878,DAY01-03-2000,00.html
Extractions: The Jan. 3 issue features IT Agenda, our ultra-practical year-end special report, which targets technology initiatives that should be on CIO agendas in 2000, as well as a look at the '00 agenda for CEOs, and their marching orders for IT departments. Also in this issue: E-tailers learn a hard delivery lesson in the aftermath of a busy holiday season, while the pending merger of two major railroads raised fears that the consolidation of the two companies' IT departments would wreck chaos and delays. Also, the INS audit of the H1B visa miscount was underway amid heated debate over whether the 1999 over runs should be deducted from the fiscal 2000 cap.
Millennium 2000 You can enter from the current week s feature, and you ll need the Shockwave/Flashplugins, New Centuries and Millennia Introduction (Sample lesson) http://annettelamb.com/42explore/millenn2.htm
Here Comes The Millennium There s a fair amount of coverage of y2k issues and other technical goings on, This lesson is one of a series created by teaching fellows at the Library http://www.teachersfirst.com/2000.shtml
Extractions: Here Comes the Millennium!! TeachersFirst collected this eclectic set of millennium resources for the year 2000. Some of these are serious and historical. Others are a stab at the future. There are even a couple that take a good-natured poke at our progress over the past thousand years. Any of these could serve as a starting point for your own exploration of the turn of the century, the turn of the millennium, or both. This page remains on our site, but will not be updated further. New - "Great Minds" Lessons TeachersFirst has added two web-based lessons to our millennium resources. Designed for students in grades 7-12, each lesson includes Two lessons are available: 2000 Around the World The New York Times offers this collection of photos and short articles drawn from each of the world's time zones at the dawn of the year 2000. The site includes maps of the time zones showing the locations of the places mentioned.
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Home Land Security It seems that the implementation of y2k related plans have had some extraordinarily The lessons learned and to be learned from y2k can be expected to http://users.rcn.com/pgordon/homeland/homeland_strat.html
Extractions: The tragic events of September 11, 2001 have had an impact on strategic planning and implementation efforts relating to all aspects of national infrastructure protection and security, including information technology, cyber-security, and cyberterrorism. Indeed, the lessons that can be learned from national and global efforts to address Y2K-related technology problems, can be viewed in a new light given the events of September 11. Understanding the successes and the shortcomings of the Federal government's Y2K efforts can help illumine current efforts to address the multiplicity of complex challenges and threats that now face the nation. Many of the current challenges and threats are also highly technical in character. In addition both sets of challenges have been characterized by a sense of urgency and the need to organize quickly in order to bring about desired results. To reflect on the Federal government's Y2K efforts at this point in time constitutes something of a challenge. I will begin by summarizing some of the misconceptions concerning Y2K, misconceptions that seemed to make discussion of Y2K particularly difficult prior to September 11. These misconceptions span a wide gamut and include the following:
Extractions: THE FULL EXTENT of the threat to everyday life posed by the Y2K bug may never be known. Thanks to the judicious application of billions of dollars, the most critical, potential crises of Y2K were successfully averted, and the world eased into the 21st century with only minor problems. Some argue that the amount of time and money spent on the remediation effort was disproportionate to the threat, but that question is now moot. On the other hand, the transition's success can help shed light on how we might go about solving other distributed technology problems like global information security management. The lessons of Y2K, however, offer approaches and strategies, not absolute solutions. Information systems affect all aspects of modern life, so computer security is not merely a technical issue but a management problem that could have a serious impact on the bottom line. The global information security risk is like Y2K without a fixed date.
Extractions: Given the human tendency to look on the bright side, many business executives are prone to ignoring "disaster recovery" because disaster seems an unlikely event. "Business continuity planning" suggests a more comprehensive approach to making sure you can keep making money. Often, the two terms are married under the acronym BC/DR. At any rate, DR and/or BC determines how a company will keep functioning after a disruptive event until its normal facilities are restored.
SurvivalRing > News > Start Page > The SurvivalRing Watchdog y2k was a nonevent but we can discuss other things. It will contain scannedin ORIGINAL CD docs, both historic AND current, or as current as can be http://www.survivalring.org/watchdog.htm
Extractions: I've collected dozens of original Civil Defense Documents (both US and Canadian) and have a few scanned in. I have all the rest to scan in as time allows, and will put every bit of what I can ONLINE for the world. The historical significance, as well as the quite interesting "National Paranoia" of the Cold War created a wondrous and vast library of documented facts, worrisome phallacies, and useful data and plans that, unfortunately, may one day be required knowledge.
WVIZ/PBS Educational Services content library (featuring educational media, lesson plans, and assessmenttools) that responds directly to schools; educational needs. http://www.wviz.org/edsvcs/index.asp
Extractions: PBS Character Appearances ... Get Ready for the Cleveland Orchestra Chalkwaves! Imagine, quality video running into your classrooms like tap water. Just turn it on! Chalkwaves Ohio is an Ohio-standards-based content library (featuring educational media, lesson plans, and assessment tools) that responds directly to schools; educational needs. Chalkwaves Ohio video and text files can be accessed by teachers and stu dents on-demand using the desktop computers and networks already deployed in classrooms. Chalkwaves helps teachers fulfill the mandates of No Child Left Behind Legislation . For more information on this outstanding new service, visit www.wviz.org/chalkwaves
ISTE | Home Dr. Moursund calls these interdisciplinary IT (or IIT) lesson plans. Turn Y2Kinto a math lesson using spreadsheets to analyze number patterns in http://www.iste.org/inhouse/publications/ll/27/2/summaries.cfm
Extractions: Involving Students in Solutions Two major challenges for the integration of technology into teaching and learning are (1) staff development and (2) support and maintenance of the hardware and networking. Adequate solutions to these challenges further stretch the budget for the hardware itself. Involving students in these two crucial components helps alleviate some budgetary challenges and allows students to gain useful technology, leadership, and communication skills while participating in authentic problem-solving environments. In this issue we feature two exemplary programs for students. The first, Generation www.Y, gives students technology and pedagogical skills they can use when they partner with teachers to develop lesson plans that incorporate technology. Why Gen www.Y?
Y2K Problem, 2/99 security implications of the y2k problem, and offer some lessons learned from The current Solution DOD has an extensive plan for tackling the y2k http://www.bens.org/pubs_0299-y2k.html
Extractions: DOD has significantly increased its efforts to cope with the Y2K problem in recent months, and its progress on this Herculean task should be lauded. But there are no guarantees until testing is completed. As such, it is prudent to plan for worst-case scenarios. On the whole, the U.S. private sector is much better prepared than the government to face the Y2K issue. While the same market factors that drive private enterprise to prevent Y2K failures cannot be directly applied to government agencies, there are lessons to be learned. Throughout private industry, companies have recognized the interconnected nature of their systems and how these linkages affect what is truly "mission critical." Many companies have also turned to dependency models, which bring out the hidden vulnerabilities of these systems.
Continuity Of Operations Plan (COOP) Then, incorporate lessons learned from each event into subsequent and otherelements of y2k plans provided an excellent point of departure for COOP. http://csrc.nist.gov/fasp/FASPDocs/contingency-plan/TreasCOOPBSP.htm
Extractions: Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) Identification Data BSP Number BSP Title/Name Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) Version Number Adoption Date Approving Authority CIO Council Security Practices Subgroup Responsible Organization US Department of Treasury Level of BSP Candidate Security Processes or other Framework(s) Supported Contingency Planning (SPF 5) Reserved Points of Contact Government BSP Owner:
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Extractions: Home About PZ PZ Site Features The PZ Insider Living in Today's World PZ Store Search Tuesday, September 20, 2005 PZ Site Features Register Login The Word But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: I applaud the decision of Israeli Finance Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to resign from the Cabinet; although I wish that he had done it sooner. After he walked out, he correctly stated that withdrawal from Gaza will create a Palestinian terrorist center right in the midst of Israel. We both are concerned about the survival of the Jewish State. Netanyahu, however, is a politician first and tried to have it both ways. He wanted to remain a part of the Likud government but still oppose the Gaza withdrawal which will remove 1700 families, cost $1.7 billion, and leave 10,000 Palestinians employed by Israeli companies unemployed. Finally, maybe too late, he went with his true feelings and left the Cabinet.
U.S. House Of Representatives, Committee On Science y2k Lessons Learned and Critical Infrastructure Protection Reuse Additionally,these plans are durable beyond y2k and establish the foundation for all http://www.house.gov/science/burbano_012700.htm
Extractions: Hearings ... Back to Home Page JANUARY 27, 2000 I am pleased to submit this prepared testimony to Chairman Horn, Chairwoman Morella, and the distinguished members of the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology, and members of the Subcommittee on Technology. This testimony will provide the Subcommittees members details on the aftermath of Y2K and the continuing impacts of the federal governments preparatory efforts from two perspectives. First, in my role as Chairman of the CIO Councils Subcommittee on Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), this testimony explains how lessons learned from the federal governments successful approach to managing Y2K efforts could be applied to government-wide efforts to implement Critical Infrastructure Protection initiatives. Similarly, this report also describes how products and processes developed in support of Y2K can be leveraged into each agencys ongoing critical infrastructure security efforts.
Neo-liberal News For Kids: Citizenship Lessons From Channel One Here was an event that seemed to have taken the news media, between and amongcompeting models of democracy as we develop our lesson plans and teach. http://www.utpjournals.com/simile/issue13/bybeefulltext.html
Extractions: Article number: 44 ABSTRACT This article asks What lessons does commercially produced news teach young people about the meaning of democracy and of citizenship? Three competing models of democracy are introduced: Neo-liberalism; Communitarianism; and Participatory. With these three models as reference points, one week of Primedias Channel One video news programthe week of the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle, Washingtonis analyzed. While the concept of democracy is never directly taken up in this programming, it is argued that the stories, advertisements, and formal structure construct a compelling vision of neo-liberalism as the normative standard for democracy in the United States. News stories, popular magazine articles, and academic studies have been pointing to a rising tide of political apathy among young people for nearly a decade. And the indicators include everything from: low and declining rates of voter turnout for young adults ( Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2003
