TeleTech Tuesdays from SOITA

September 2011 September 13 - Overview of Free Google Apps for Education Google Apps for Education is a free suite of hosted software designed around collaboration and communication. Offered to K-12, higher-ed, and non-profits, Google Apps for Education includes Google Docs, Sites, Calendar, Gmail, Video, and Google Talk. Learn how Google Apps for Education can save your school or district time and money, integrate 21st century skills, and help your staff and students become more productive than ever before! September 20 - Get it Done with iPad Apps for Productivity Everybody wants to be more productive, especially on the hottest tablet around: Apple's iPad. Get suggestions for apps that will allow you to create documents, organize tasks, and take notes. Be prepared to learn how to use your iPad to become more productive and get things done on the go. September 27 - You've Got Mail: It's Free and Easy to Use! Gmail is Google's email client included with Google Apps for Education. Not only is Gmail easy to use and setup, but it also provides some unique and compelling features not found anywhere else. Besides being a fantastic email client, Gmail has the flexibility to work the way you want to work; fitting your needs and work-flow. Prepare to navigate your inbox, create and manage labels and filters, and even experiment with labs. Step up to the ultimate email client: Gmail! Download Registration! www.soita.org September 21 - Free Tools You Didn't Know Google Offered Everyone is familiar with Google Docs, Calendar, and Gmail; but did you know there are tons of other lesser known Google tools you may not be aware of? During this session we will examine Google Moderator, Alerts, Scholar, and Google Body plus many, many more. Get ready to discover what you have been missing from Google! September 26 - Bring Projects to Life with LiveBinders! Looking for an innovative and interactive presentation method for your students? Are you drowning in 3-ring binders and looking for something a little more compact? Need a way to organize and share resources? LiveBinders solves all these issues and more! LiveBinders allows you to insert web pages, videos, pdfs and images into an online "binder" that can easily be organized, presented and shared. Join us to learn the basics of LiveBinders and to discuss how you can use this wonderful resource with your students today! September 28 - Exploring INFOhio's Free Resources! Searching for free, high quality, multimedia resources to enrich student learning?INFOhio offers a wide variety of resources for promoting media literacy across the curriculum. In this session we will highlight INFOhio's three newest additions: World Book's Early World of Learning, Mango Languages and ProQuest Ancestry Library Edition, as well as more resources from INFOhio's Core Collection further information check us out at Download Registration! www.soita.org

Andy Anderson
SOITA
937-746-6333
800-964-8211
andy@soita.org

Reserve Your Front Row Seat Now For MAGPI's Second Annual Content Provider Carnival!!

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM ET

17 Ways To Connect and Integrate Social Media Into Your Classroom | Digital Journey - Dr. Howie DiBlasi
audience: teachers
Explore the elements of Social Media, Bookmarking ,Networking and how it integrates into your classroom. What it is-how it works-how to get started-how to develop instructional strategies. The session will assist you in understanding the power of these tools and increase your productivity as a teacher; it will help you redesign assignments in ways that increases and assesses critical thinking skills and problem solving. Explore a variety of applications/connections with hands-on projects

Technology Toolbox, Professional Development is only an IP away | NORT2H Consortium
audience: teachers
Looking for a way to bring professional development to your staff at a fraction of the cost you would pay a provider to come to your school? Want your PD to be interactive and as if the presenter was in the room? Does the word webinar make you drowsy? Then you need to check out Technology PD from NORT2H. We provide several programs designed for classroom teachers to enhance their instruction and projects through technology. Connect to our PD studio and see PD as it should be delivered!

SOITA PD

Professional Development via Video Conferencing Announcing SOITA's 2011 Schedule of TeleTech Tuesdays Click for session details and the registration form

Cost: $50 per session for SOITA Comprehensive Member schools; $75 per session for all others. Each session is fifty minutes long. Programs are offered at 1:15, 2:35, and 3:45. Want to make a test call with SOITA? Dial 216.48.137.41 Questions? Contact Bob Stricker bob@soita.org 150 East Sixth Street Franklin, Ohio 45005 800-964-8211 January 25 Exploring Google Sketch-Up February 8 Creating Great Presentations with Free Prezi February 15 The Advantages of Social Bookmarking February 22 Creating ePubs for the iPad March 1 How Google Can Improve Your School March 8 Choosing the Best Accessories for Your Flip Video Camera March 15 Understanding Excel Conditional Formatting March 22 iPad Accessories You've Gotta Have! March 29 Getting the Most Our of Promethean Activ Inspire April 5 Implementing Google Mail & Calendar Schoolwide April 12 Comparing Office 2011 to iWork for the Mac April 19 What's New in Classroom Audio Visual Equipment? May 3 See What's New and Cool from Google! May 10 Issues in Doing a Large Scale Deployment of Mobile Learning Devices

FREE Photographs as Primary Sources: Soil Conservation Service

Videoconferencing from the Lone Star State! www.Connect2Texas.net

National Archives at Fort Worth presents a FREE Professional Development Photographs as Primary Sources: Soil Conservation Service Monday, November 15th 4:00-4:45 PM CST Images from the Soil Conservation Service (Record Group 114) can be found in the holdings of the National Archives at Fort Worth. Join the National Archives at Fort Worth for a professional development program exploring the use of photographs as primary sources. This program highlights photographs of the Soil Conservation Service from the 1930s to 1970s. Teachers will view and discuss images that will enhance students’ critical thinking skills about environmental science and American history. An overview of the National Archives and the Soil Conservation Service will be included. To download photographs for the program go to http://www.Connect2Texas.net/nara . Click here to register now!

PD Offerings from the Muskingum Valley ESC

10/12/10

Creative Problem Solving
The Creative Problem Solving Model (CPS) is a five-step process for solving problems and making decisions by using creative thinking skills and critical thinking skills.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 10/7/2010
Karen Brown, Kelly Erb
MVESC Curric/Gifted Consultants

10/19/10

Podcasting Pizzazz

Add pizzazz to your instruction using a podcast. Learn where to find them and how to use them with students of all ages.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 10/14/2010

Krissy Machamer
Maysville Local Teacher

10/26/10
Adolescent Reading
Reading is the key enabler of learning for academic proficiency across all subject areas and over all grades (Dagget, Hasselbring, 2007). Attend this session to learn instructional strategies to use to teach adolescent readers before, during and after the instruction.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 10/21/2010
Cathy Morgan MVESC Curriculum Consultant

$75.00

Leslie Charles
Distance Learning Coordinator
I bleed scarlet and gray!!!!
Muskingum Valley Educational Service Center
205 North 7th Street
Zanesville, Ohio 43701
740.452.4518 ext 133
lcharles@mvesc.k12.oh.us
www.mvesc.k12.oh.us/tap/

FREE! MAGPI's First Ever Content Provide Carnival

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.

More Information: http://magpi.net/Community/Programs/MAGPIs-First-Content-Provider-Carnival