Grades Pre-K-12:National Distance Learning Week

Save the Date: November 10-14, 2008

Mark your calendars! National Distance Learning Week (NDLW) is coming November 10-14. This initiative of the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) generates awareness and appreciation for distance learning within the areas of PreK-12 education, higher and continuing education, home schooling, as well as business, corporate, military, government, and telehealth markets. During NDLW, you will be able to participate in a variety of online events. For example, Florida Virtual School will be hosting several open house sessions during this week. As a stakeholder in PreK-12 education, we hope you will join us!

Keep an eye out for webinars at http://www.ndlw.org/learners.html=20

If you would like to host an event during NDLW, please contact Jan Zanetis at jan.zanetis@tandberg.com or to post an event: Stephanie Janes sjj25@drexel.edu.

For more information, visit us at http://www.ndlw.org/

From Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay: World War II in the Pacific TEACHER WORKSHOP

The National WWII Museum, "America's National World War II Museum," explores the lesser known theater of World War II: the Pacific. Topics include geography, strategy, battles, and chronology. Receive classroom-ready lesson plans and discuss teaching strategies with the museum's education staff.

Program Format

Museum education staff will review the materials in the workshop packet, lead teachers through several lesson plans, and present video of the war in the Pacific, including veterans' oral histories. Teachers will debate several discussion questions meant to show students the relevance of this history to their lives.

Cost per Site: $200.00

Register for this program on the CILC PD Market Place at
www.cilc.org/c/education/professional_development_center.aspx

Alan Gauthreaux
alan.gauthreaux@nationalww2museum.org
The National WWII Museum
945 Magazine St.
New Orleans, LA 70130
United States
(504) 527-6012 ext. 351
Fax: (504) 527-6088

Learn Flash from Author/Computer Illustrator Bill Dallas Lewis

Flash is really fun, but it's really complex. Bill Dallas Lewis has taught Flash to many audiences: 5th and 6th graders, the Senior Graphics Designers in New York, the Graphics Specialists of the United States Coast Guard in Petaluma, CA as well as designers at The Gap in the Bay area. Bill not only teaches Flash, he shares with you how you can integrate it into your classroom, school or school district. Flash makes any curriculum come to life.

Times and dates are set to meet your needs. Contact the author directly to negotiate the cost at sillbill@well.com

Cost per Site: $1,200.00 for 2 - four hours

Rebecca Morrison
rmorrison@csd.org
Cooperating School Districts
1460 Craig Road
St. Louis, MO 63146
United States
(314) 692-1274
Fax: (314) 872-9128

Taken from the CILC Weekly Updates at www.cilc.org

Customized Visit & Dynamic Writing Instruction with Nonfiction Author Carolyn Lesser

Hop aboard Carolyn’s magic carpet and see how she uses the research tools of travel, exploration of the outdoors, the library, the Internet, and the personal interview. Enrich your best practices by inviting Carolyn to renew and inspire enthusiasm, energy, and creativity in writing, speaking and exploration in your school.

This program is offered to give the most flexibility to planners and educators. Embedded in this videoconference (series) is total control over the content, the number of presentations, the issues and concerns most important to your district or schools, making your enrichment dollars pinpoint accurate at addressing your needs. Collaborative planning is one of the riches of this custom planning as it brings the element of support and professional development for the efforts of educators concerning writing. It is a real collaboration between educators and an author. To view some of the possibilities, visit Carolyn’s website for presentation options (www.carolynlesser.com).

Let Carolyn develop a custom collaborated presentation for your corporation or educational program.

Available with the customized program:
- Videoconference with participants for revision
- Have the author critique individual hard copies of written work
- Tailored writing assignments to different areas/units of study across curriculum disciplines
- Any other customization as requested

Cost per Site: $1,000.00

Registration for this program is through the CILC Professional Development Market Place at www.cilc.org/c/education/professional_development_center.aspx

Rebecca Morrison
rmorrison@csd.org
Cooperating School Districts
1460 Craig Road
St. Louis, MO 63146
United States
(314) 692-1274
Fax: (314) 872-9128

21st Century Skills- What are they and why I should care?

How much of our curriculum is centered on authentic problem-solving, teamwork and information literacy? Administrators and educational leaders need to rethink our K-12 education using 21st Century Skills to help students be successful in the global economy. We will assist you to integrate and implement the use of Digital Tools to:Collect, Retrieve, Interpret, Present, Organize and Manage informationEvaluate the quality, relevance, and usefulness of informationGenerate accurate information through the use of existing resourcesDevelop Information, Communication, Thinking and Problem-solving skillsCreate Interpersonal and self-directional skillsUse Digital Age Literacy to promote Inventive Thinking ,Effective Communication and High Productivity

Program Length:1hr 15 min

Cost per Site: $225.00

10 Rules for Revolutionaries in the 21st Century Classroom

Our students deal with an enormous number of sensory inputs on any given day. Helping them focus attention is a critical first step when engaging students. Getting their attention is only the first step. Learn how to keep your learners' interests piqued so you can keep them engaged. Find out what it will take to compel students tod o things differently and how to engage with ideas, information and each other, on terms they define for themselves.Our Digital Kids learn from watching, showing and sharing with others who care as much as they do. Discover what social learning is all about and how to allows students latitude with social learning and give learners a sense of feeling personally engaged.To provide a 21st Century learning environment, we need to engage learners in the active negotiation of new knowledge so that new learning will be relevant to each and every contributor and will provide a memorable learning experience. If we learn how to change the learning environment then the greater the likelihood students will remember what they've learned.Learning is unique to each individual, and we need to discover how to give the learners the skills to decide where to engage. In today's socially networked world, it's important to help students feel connected to the community.

Program Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Cost per Site: $225.00

Howie DiBlasi

howie@frontier.net

928 River Walk

Georgetown, TX 78633

(970) 749-0760

Fax: (512) 819-0627

FREE: Virtual Paleotrek: Paleontology in the Comfort of your own Classroom

How could a “virtual field activity” work in your science classroom? What elements would it need to be a successful addition to your curriculum? Join geologists and paleontologists from the Saint Louis Science Center as they seek your feedback on a pilot “virtual field activity” program they are developing as part of their Paleotrek program in Montana. Help the experts plan future virtual field trips that your students could be a part of. Partner with other science educators from across the country in a professional conversation about what has worked with field activities in your classroom and what you’d like to do even better.

We are offering three different videoconference sessions for your participation. Each of the sessions will include:

• Interaction with geologists, paleontologists, and teachers participating in the Saint Louis Science Center’s Paleotrek program in Montana
• Participation in “virtual” field activities taught by geologists and paleontologists from the Saint Louis Science Center during their field program, Paleotrek, in Montana
• Sharing your successful field activities with teachers engaged in the conference
• Professional conversation on how best to include field activities in the science classroom
• Professional conversation about the strengths and weaknesses of “virtual” field activity experiences and how best to incorporate them into the science classroom
• Evaluation of the “virtual” field activity you participated in

You are invited to join any or all of our videoconferences. Please look over the dates and times below and see which professional conversation and virtual field activity pilot experience works best for you to join. Know other colleagues who might be interested also? Be sure to share this information with them.

Tuesday, June 17—11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Central Daylight TimeVirtual Field Trip Activity: Go to the Science Center’s Montana field site. Learn about the use of topographical maps, fossil identification and prospecting in the Montana badlands.

Wednesday, June 18—11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Central Daylight TimeVirtual Field Trip Activity: Participate as the Science Center explores fossil microsites. Interact as they prospect and collect the fossils that make up microsites.

Thursday, June 19—11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Central Daylight TimeVirtual Field Trip Activity: Engage in field orienteering using GPS technology. Interact with Science Center experts and teachers as they excavate an actual dinosaur fossil.

Program Format

• Interaction with geologists, paleontologists, and teachers participating in the Saint Louis Science Center’s Paleotrek program in Montana
• Participation in “virtual” field activities taught by geologists and paleontologists from the Saint Louis Science Center during their field program, Paleotrek, in Montana
• Sharing your successful field activities with teachers engaged in the conference
• Professional conversation on how best to include field activities in the science classroom
• Professional conversation about the strengths and weaknesses of “virtual” field activity experiences and how best to incorporate them into the science classroom
• Evaluation of the “virtual” field activity you participated in

Tim Gore

roundtrips@clayton.k12.mo.us

School District of Clayton#2

Mark Twain Circle

Clayton, MO 63105

(314) 773-6934