22 Videoconference Content Providers under one virtual tent! Visit museums, science centers, cultural centers and aquaria around the world during this exciting one-day adventure! Take a look at all of the fantastic virtual sessions that the providers have created for the carnival! 22 lucky MAGPI schools will be able to participate in the program as interactive videoconference sites -- getting one-on-one attention via video from one of our content partners. Everyone else will be able to view the live webstream and interact with the content providers via Twitter. What a great way to preview interactive videoconference programs from these fantastic content providers!
HOW TO GET INVOLVED:
Interactive Videoconference Sites: We’re looking for 22 MAGPI classes that want to take a virtual ride with a content provider. Each participating content provider has prepared a 20-25 minute “mini-lesson” that showcases their organization’s virtual field trips. Interactive video conference schools will have an opportunity to participate one-on-one with the content provider during their session. All IVC sites must be MAGPI members and have H.323 videoconference equipment.
Interested in being an interactive videoconference site during the Content Provider Carnival? Send Heather Weisse Walsh an email indicating the name of your school, your school district, your IU (if applicable), the name of the session you’d like to participate in, and why you’d like to participate as an interactive site in that session. Please send your message to hweisse@magpi.net NO LATER than September 30, 2010. Selected schools will be notified the first week of October.
Webstream Sites: Anyone with an internet connection will be able to view the webstream for each program and send questions/comments via Twitter! Look for more details in October!
CARNIVAL LINE-UP
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM ET
Seeds on the Go | Royal Botanical Gardens
audience: grades 3-5
Are all seeds the same? If not, how are they different? Why are they so different? Along with the Royal Botanical Gardens, students will explore a variety of seeds categorizing them based on their appearance and link that to the way they are dispersed. Students and the teacher will participate in a role play to help illustrate why dispersed seeds have an advantage.
World War Two - Life in Britain and the Use of Propaganda | National Archives
audience: grades 5-6
The session will begin with an introduction to The National Archives in London (who we are, what we do and some examples of famous documents from our collection). Students will then have the opportunity to look at some documents we have relating to World War Two, to find out more about what life was like at home, on the home front, for people in Britain. They will also have the chance to see some documents created by the Ministry of Information (a British Government department) during World War Two, that were used as propaganda. This may include posters, photographs and film clips, to consider what messages the Government thought were important to put across to people in Britain during World War Two and the students can consider whether they think that such propaganda was effective.
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM ET
Outdoor Education | Hartley Outdoor Education Center
audience: teachers
In this session, educators will learn about all of the virtual outdoor education field trips schools can take. Here at Hartley, we do a wide range of programs, including anything from our farm animal program to caterpillars and leaves. Join us and learn about all of the opportunities we provide your students and teachers.
Lure of the West | Smithsonian American Art Museum
audience: grades 6-8
As both a place and an ideal, the American West retains a powerful allure in popular culture. Explore depictions of the people, lifestyles, and landscape of the nineteenth-century West to better understand this dynamic period of history with the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM ET
Discovering the Past | Beacon Museum
audience: grades 2-3
The West Coast of Cumbria has a rich and diverse history, by listening and interacting with the evidence, you will have the opportunity to find out about Whitehavens involvement in the horrific Slave trade, what was it like to live in the Victorian times? And just how did people survive the dark days of World War II. Enjoy this session with the Beacon Museum in Whitehaven, UK!
All About Spiders | The Center for Puppetry Arts
audience: grades k-2
This session will highlight a sample IVC program from the award winning Center for Puppetry Arts' repertoire of PreK-12 offerings. See how puppetry can be used as a teaching tool to enhance life science in the classroom. Participants experience hands-on fun as they build a Spider Marionette while learning fascinating facts about spiders.
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM ET
Distance Learning Jambalaya | The Cleveland Institute of Music
audience: teachers
This session provides a lively overview of interactive videoconferencing programs at Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM). Ideal for novices, each session includes video clips of CIM programming, hands-on activities and ample time for group discussion.
Up Close and Palaeo Jr. | The Royal Tyrrell Museum
audience: grades 2-4
Just how big was the biggest dinosaur? What sort of plants did Triceratops like to eat? Did trilobites live during the Age of Dinosaurs? Questions like these, and more, are answered as a Science Educator from the Royal Tyrrell Museum tackles your students' toughest palaeontological ponderings!
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET
Life’s a Carnival! | HEC-TV Live!
audience: grades 9-12
HEC-TV Live! is the first fully interactive television program to combine the power of live broadcast, Internet streaming, and video conferencing to bring experts from around the world face to face with students in classrooms and viewers at home. Integration of technology, multimedia and instructional resources are the very basis of HEC-TV Live! This is not your grandfather’s videoconferencing; this is a television program that is also a videoconference. Each program has pre-produced pieces that include video, music, and stills. These pieces are created in conjunction with the artist, organization or expert that we are partnering with for that particular program.
Scary Art | The Cleveland Museum of Art
audience: grades 7-9
Fun for Halloween or anytime—a distance learning program featuring goblins, witches, and dastardly doings! Explore otherwordly paintings and prints by Francisco Goya, Salvator Rosa, and Albert Pinkham Ryder for an art journey to the other side. Students discuss superstition in the 1600s, including the Salem witch trials, during this fun session from The Cleveland Museum of Art!
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM ET
Logging: Life of a Lumberjack! | Minnesota Historical Society
audience: grades 4-6
Students take on the roles of sawyers, bull cooks, and other lumber camp workers from a turn-of-the-century logging camp in Northern Minnesota. Students consider the difficult daily life of the lumbermen by examining photographs and objects from the era of the logging camp with the Minnesota Historical Society.
Aquavision: Fathom the Possibilities | Texas State Aquarium
audience: grades k-2
Join the Texas State Aquarium in an engaging and entertaining experience in videoconferencing! Each distance learning program features one of our eight real time cameras located around the Aquarium. Our programs follow Texas and national education standards and can be molded to focus on specific topics for your classroom.
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM ET
Visit to a Rainforest | PRISM at Montclair State University
audience: grades 4-6
Take an armchair field trip to a rainforest in Panama, and find out why Dr. Jackie Willis goes back every year to investigate the lives of ocelots and other wildlife in this rich environment during this interactive session from PRISM!
Awesome Insects | Southeast Kansas Education Service Center
audience: grades 3-5
Welcome to the world of creepy and crawly! Students will review the characteristics of insects, learn about their habitats, discuss what they eat, and explore the many physical and behavioral adaptations insects possess during this hands-on program which uses live Madagascar Hissing Roaches. Prior to this standards-based lesson, teachers will receive an information packet including activities, teacher instructions, care sheet for hissing roaches, and optional post activities. Brought to you by the Southeast Kansas Service Center.
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM ET
Say It Like You See It | Amon Carter Museum
audience: grades 4-6
Give your students an experience with fine art to enliven your creative writing instruction? Using paintings from the collection of American art at the Amon Carter Museum, an art object—describing it in such a way as to paint it with words. Through writing and sharing activities, students will practice describing objects, people, places and events using vivid, active vocabulary. The labels that accompany works of art will be sited as examples of strong descriptive writing, as well as an example of a practical application of this form of writing.
Your World and a Cell Phone | Global Education Motivators
audience: grades 10-12
Global Education Motivators will look at the world through a common communication tool that almost every student is familiar with - a cell phone. This program is loaded with visuals, questions and thought provoking comments on the effect of cell phones in their lives today and tomorrow. An opportunity is provided for cell phone interaction during the videoconference to show the cell phone more as a computer, not just a cell phone. The videoconference will show the importance and power of cell phones for positive change in the world. Students are encouraged to bring their cell phone to the session, and through a hands-on applications, they will see the future of their world via cell phones.
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM ET
Mammoth Tales | Milwaukee Public Museum
audience: grade 3
In this interactive session participants create an illustration through story to discover the Milwaukee Public Museum’s newest permanent exhibit, the Hebior Mammoth. Learn how to determine the difference between a mastodon and a mammoth as you step back in time, 12,000 years, to the ice age. Brrrr…
Videoconferencing with the National Cowgirl Museum | National Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame
audience: grades k-2
Looking for a way to share distance learning opportunities with your faculty and students? The National Cowgirl Museum provides you with a mix of upcoming program opportunities.
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM ET
Days of Knights | Philadelphia Museum of Art
audience: grades 5-7
Who used arms and armor? How was armor made? What was life like for a knight? During this session we will investigate the history, use and aesthetics of armor, including a live demonstration of armor pieces from the Kienbusch Armor collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Students will learn about the days of knights while examining arms and armor from the Medieval Era and the Renaissance.
Your Trip Around the World | The Cowles Center
audience: grades 6-8
Pack your bags and go on a virtual tour to colorful destinations worldwide, cultural treasures are uncovered while students discover world music and dance. Destinations include, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. Destinations can be chosen by the class during this session from The Cowles Center.
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET
The Emerging Technology Game | NORT2H Consortium
audience: teachers
Who said PD has to be dry and Face to Face??? Join NORT2H as we take a closer look at 9 Emerging Technologies and how you can start using them with your classroom tomorrow. This fun and interactive session is done as a game between sites and has something everyone. The NORT2H consortium provides technology professional development over videoconferencing to schools at a fraction of the cost of onsite workshops. PD is only an IP away!
Bringing the Ocean Into The Classroom | SeaTrek Distance Learning, Mote Marine Laboratory
audience: grades 4-6
SeaTrek features real-world science at Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium located in Sarasota, FL. During this presentation, SeaTrek will demonstrate some of our most popular programs, such as Sharks, Manatees and Sea Turtles. All SeaTrek activities are designed to provide a high interest experience that will take students beyond textbook activities and inspire them to learn more about the ocean.
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