...od manners at the theater, in the home at a meal, at a party, etc.Students create stories about problems ith manners. These stories should be the type hich end but are not finished. The stories are printed and distributed for the class to read and role play the situations.Students create party invitations, menus for a party, favors for a party, etc.Students rite a letter to their grandparents.Students practice good manners during use of telecommunications. Teacher might ant to use the information provided at this site on Safety Online edressafetymenu.shtmlStudents make a data base hich includes the titles, names, street addresses, cities, states, and zip codes of their parents. They use this data base to create address labels. The labels are attached to letters inviting the parents to a special program about good manners.Students rite crazy stories about mealtime disasters. The stories are saved and printed. Other students read the stories, and then rite their suggestions about ho the mealtime disasters could have been averted.Students create HyperCard stacks or computer presentations on proper use of utensils at meals.They scan photos or draings of the utensils and place the scanned pictures into the stack.Students create a classroom nespaper on manners.Students become playrights as they rite plays about good manners during sports and recess.Students use graphics and sound to demonstrate ho to make introductions.Students rite articles to the nespaper about their studies of good manners.Student take digital pictures of children using good manners. They add text and publish posters of good manners.Students make up brief dramas about use of good manners. They put these on videotape and then into computer presentations. Follo-UpExtensions Parents and community members appreciate class activities hich emphasize good manners. Communication ith the community is suggested. Parents and community members ill enjoy being invited to the school to hear about manners programs, and to vie the computer presentations and other computer-related products. Students may present programs on good manners for other classes.Adaptions This project may be completed using one classroom computer. Students or student groups may take turns putting information into the computer. A LCD or other projector may be used for the class to ork on the project together.Suggestions for Parents There are so many ays to teach and reinforce good manners at home. First of all, you must set expectations for mannerly behavior. Children need to kno hat they are expected to do and that they must live up to expectations. Often shoing by example ill be enough for children to kno ho they should act. Hoever, theyll be sure to observe actions and speech on television, online, and in public that ill be unacceptable to your family. They must kno that you ill not accept these behaviors. Just practicing ansering the telephone can be great fun for your special telephone anserer. Helping to plan a special dinner and shoing good manners at the dinner is exciting for a young child. Helping Mom be seated at the table or holding the door for older people is something children enjoy. Having fun ith good manners can lay the groundork for the future.Beginners Guide to Good MannersStay Calm!Try and keep cool, particularly in the heated discussion areas. Bear in mind that it is very easy to misread the tone of a message, and give it a sarcasm that as never intended. Often a smiley is used to indicate that the riter is joking, it looks like this -DONT SHOUT!Beare of leaving the caps lock on hen riting e-mail or USENET messages, and only typing capital letters. It may make things easier for you, but it instantly marks you as a beginner, and is generally refered to as shouting. YOU CAN PROBABLY SEE HY!Ask clear questions.If you are mailing someone ith a question, and have read the FAQ!, then make it as easy as possible for them to help you. Make your question as clear and specific as possible, and if relevant provide as much information as possible.Consider the folloing to versions of a questionPlease Help! I am ne to the net and dont kno hat to do!here can I find a good Beginners Guide to tools for using the netI am using a Macintosh computer. Thank You.The second version encourages a concise and to the point anser, and is much more likely to get a helpful response..Dont get offended easilyThere are some very helpful people on the Internet, and also some very busy people. So dont get offended if you do not get a rapid reply - no one is obliged to help you out, and some people get an aful lot of e-mail.Give something backIf you do get a lot of information back as the result of a question, then you ill very likely also get several e-mail messages along the lines of Id like to kno too if you find out It may be a great help to other to summarise all the information you receive and tell the USENET group or mailing list. Many of the helpful gurus out on the net ill also appreciate a short thank you message.Keep a small sigMany users like to have a itty quote or saying at the bottom of their messages, knon as a SIG, Short for signiature. Some also go ay over the top ith all sorts of quotations, jokes, favorite locations on the eb, and even pictures done in type. Keep your sig to 4 lines or less. Stay on topicAlays try and be sure you are asking your questions or leaving messages in the correct place. Sometimes discussions drift onto ne topics, and this is very confusing for those ho ere expecting something else entirely. It is also good manners to live and let live. For example it ould not be acceptable for a scientist to leave critical messages in the astrology discussion group - the astrology group is for people ho DO believe in it. Similarly, it ould not be acceptable for an astrologer to make provocative posts in the astronomy discussion areas. There is a separate USENET group called sci.skeptic for this sort of heated confrontation!.Some people ill also place messages absolutely everyhere ith no regard for it being appropriate. This is generally called spamming after the Monty Python sketch in hich the characters order Spam, spam, spam, spam, sausage, spam, and spam.Dont let them ind you upSome childish net users like to deliberately leave messages to ind up other net users. This is often called flame bait. For example, it is not rare for someone to drop a message into one of the Star Trek disussion areas accusing them of not having a proper life. There is no point in a heated response, as that is exactly hat they ant, and they have probably moved on anyay!. Table Manners for Kids and Parents Elbos on the table, double dipping, and trips to the restroom -- ho is your family doing hen it comes to the social graces at the dinner table The ansers to the questions just five, may tell and ell tally the score.1 hen is it acceptable to put your elbos on the table Top of Form 1Only beteen courses. xhile you are eating. Never. 2 During the m...
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