Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 20, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Winnipeg free May bean Heads suffer without their fix the Beanie baby craze int entirely my but i still feel a sense of responsibility for the madness that has swept Beanie tiny stuffed Ani Mals that have become outrageously popular in a variety of North american have reached the level of a mania in the empty shelves and frantic parents began to appear right after the free press ran my front Page Arti Cle on the one the shelves were the next the cupboard was store owners were but customers were waiting lists were drawn Mark owner of the laugh ing has More than 80 peo ple hoping for a phone Call telling them some of the More than 100 different babies Are its just any of them that they says Malkin of the take take in hoping to have More in two but i dont know for the insanity didst just hit other Peoples i bought a Beanie when i was researching the initial the child loved took it to school and was indoctrinated into the cult of Beanie Wor their it is More is part of the marketing strategy of toy maker to Warner was to produce a variety of the cutely named animals and without randomly retire buy while you tomorrow they might be collectors have driven the demand and the Cost Way retired babies can go for Hun even of theres a Grey Market on the where impassioned bean Heads Trade and barter their in things Are getting some stores have raised causing fury among Par sorrow for children and some Nasty chatter about Price Lack of principles and pure Ronna owner of mind has been Selling Beanie for Lindor Reynolds More than three she has always charged a practice Shell continue if she can Ever get fresh i have i Haven had any for a says Ive decided not to raise in trying to be in not Here to make a Quick i have Loyal customers and i want to be fair to Rhonda Matias is at the Centre of the As the owner of a store is a gift shop at the Matias has hundreds of customers looking for the Novelty its her Job to Supply its bigger than cabbage Patch bigger than Matias they Are really True invest ment they increase unbelievably when there last Matias had a wide variety of beanies priced at on her Price had risen to Why the increase of four dollars Over the weekend i had to Fly to Montreal and pay retail for Matias we just cant get them any other this thing is unbelievable and it Hast even peaked in making maybe a Dollar on some of Matias says her store once moved 600 beanies in two theft has become a real All the theft is from the she its the parents who Are trying to steal Matias says her prices Are higher than elsewhere in but the main difference is that she can actually Supply the we Cater to Hunters coming people going on Tours to people travel Ling to they All want and they expect to find them at the parents can Only Hope the mad Ness ends As Long As i find chocolate the Moose Sun Valley schools Katie Jason Wagner and Christ Quinn learning with computers educational email teachers learn plugging in to internet boosts grades by Treena Khan education reporter teacher Michelle Bodner is taking her Grade 5 class around the Over and Over Courtesy of the the term email meant nothing to her three years it has become More important than the years i never imagined teach ing in this Bodner told a roomful of teachers last i look for Ward to it every single Bodner was one of four dozen educators who presented a series of work shops on the connected classroom to 300 teachers at the University of Manitoba last while Many teachers have yet to log on for the first like Bod have taken computers from a curiosity to a necessity in in the last three Shes found countless ways to teach her students everything from writing to social stud ies to her students Exchange email Mes sages with students around the they interviewed childrens author Laura Lee Benson and wrote her Biog they conducted internet sur Veys and coauthored stories with Peers around the i Haven done anything with the computer i Haven taught in the traditional said but kids love students Are not Only learning com Puter but standardized tests show the Sun Valley students Are also developing Reading and writing skills higher than National averages for their Grade we knew parents would be concerned about so we did our test said Joan former principal of Sun she retired last year and now teaches at the u of m faculty of in students were Given standardized Reading tests and writ ing the results were above National averages said u of m professor Beverley who administered the How much is due to computers int known for she but results from a suburban school and a Rural school without computers were much at Sun which opened 10 years teachers decided to make computers a said through a combination of the River East school the and the Parent the classrooms each have five with another computer lab in the the school gave teachers students learn touch typing and word processing skills starting in Grade and by Grade students Are creating talking books on the compute Complete with illustrations and these students have a connection with the world students never had said they Are so much More i am but during a panel some teachers at the conference wondered whether computers were an expensive and unnecessary Way to teach Stu dents the Basic would you go to a dentist who used those old drills would you go to a Doc Tor who didst use rays and cat scans asked Milton executive director of the Canadian Centre for the development of instructional computing at the University of we Are also we have to be just As with the Best technology available to and performance i was impressed by the International reputation of the professors at the u of is school of they Are first rate As teachers and As the main reason i came to the u of m from Calgary was the they inspired and provided a solid academic and practical u of m professors and staff receive highly prestigious National and International awards every for example medical 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