Friday, October 24, 2008

Digital Video Collection & Nat'l Underground Railroad Freedom Ctr. **FREE**


Join us for a free, interactive video conference professional development workshop for teachers, librarians, curriculum coordinators, guidance counselors and technology coordinators. CEU certificates will be provided. Digital Video Collection and National Underground Railroad Freedom Center: Learn What’s New! October 29, 2008, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Explore the recently added collection of digital content on slavery and legacy of courage, cooperation and freedom embodied in the history of the Underground Railroad from The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, and discuss resources to enhance this video collection. We will be connecting to the Freedom Center for this program and will get to learn more about this fairly new museum treasure in Ohio. Our hosts will be Richard Cooper, Interpretive Services Manager, and Linda Johnson-Towles, eLearning Project Manager. Learn about the Easy Search feature for the INFOhio-delivered OAIMC Digital Video Collection of 322 videos, explore new features of the collection and get an update on other new videos. It is easier than ever to keep up-to-date on new videos as they are added by subscribing to the newly available RSS feed. The session presenter is Tony Marshalek, INFOhio Content & Collection Development Specialist. To schedule this video conference, e-mail Melissa Higgs-Horwell, Distance Learning Coordinator at the SCOCA ITC, melissah@scoca-k12.org, with your contact information, video conference contact person, site name, IP address and troubleshooting phone number. Or, fax the form below to740-289-2082, attention Melissa. School Building: ________________________ District:_________________________ Address: _____________________________ City: ________________Zip:_________ Person coordinating the video conference: _______________________________________ E-mail address: ______________________________________________ Phone number at the site: (_____)_______________ IP Address _________________________ Name of system on state database ______________________________________________ Please note: We will send confirmation, connection information, handouts, evaluation forms and participation certificates to the person coordinating the video conference. If there are any additional questions, please contact Melissa Higgs- Horwell, melissah@scoca-k12.org, phone: 800-634-8828.