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Congratulations to the Edinburg CISD CTE ZOLT-N Campaign Winners of the 1st Annual TETN Team Challenge
The 1st Annual TETN Team Challenge, a project based learning event and videoconference series,utilized collaborationsbetween the Texas Education Telecommunication Network (TETN) and Regional Education Service Centers to reach schools throughout the state. Through video conferences with experts and classroom team collaborations, students created a marketing campaign for a fictional product. TETN provided connections to experts throughout the course of the project and a panel of industry professionals to evaluate student performances for the final project. In the end, Edinburg CISD put together an impressive campaign that utilized print, radio, television, and internet media to promote a fictional tablet computer. Their exceptional content is highlighted at http://www.tetnplus.net/teamchallenge
Upcoming State-Wide Video Conferencing Programs February 2, 2012 - 10:00am - 11:15am Reading Discovery featuring Mrs. Bush’s Story Time Audience: Grades 4-8 Once again The Education Department of the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum will be hosting a free videoconference entitled, “Reading Discovery featuring Mrs. Bush’s Story Time.” This storytelling event is for 4th – 8th grades. Join us in an interactive presentation of Mrs. Barbara Bush reading to students. Free books of the chosen book are given in the order of registration (first come, first served) and verified school participation. Registration will close Wednesday, February 1, 2012. Registration form is located at the bottom of this email.
The program will be available 3 ways. Please complete the registration form for any of these 3 methods!
Please note:In order to be considered an “interactive” site, you must choose the videoconference option and you must submit up to 5 questions on the registration form by Thursday, January 19, 2012. Have your questions ready before filling out the registration form. All interactive sites will be notified of their questions chosen by Thursday, January 26, 2012.Most sites will be “view only”. Participants should select the appropriate link below to register: Reading Discovery with Barbara Bush (Please complete a registration form for each method or time of viewing.) Non-Texas Resident Reading Discovery with Barbara Bush If you have any questions, please contact Kimberly Taylor, Erate/IVC Content Administrator, for Education Service Center, Region VI. February 3, 2012 - 9:00-9:45 AM CST Animal Weather Predictors Audience: Grades K-8 Register: Click here to register Pre-program and Post-program guides will be available upon request. Contact Scott Patterson at (214) 428-5555 ext. 8 or Sciencecast@natureandscience.org for this additional information. February 15, 2012 - 10:30-11:30 AM &1:30-2:30 PM Give Me 5: Five Ways Students Can Use The Web to Enhance Their Community Audience: Grades 7-12 Live from Dublin, Texas...Five Web tools, five ways to help your community! Join Cindi from the National Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame as she visits with Dublin High School students on-site at Old Doc's Soda Shop and Dublin Bottling Works. Learn how the students researched, produced, created, problem solved and published digital content to support their local cultural treasures. The Dublin students would like to teach your students how they use Web 2.0 and social media tools, create video podcasts about museum artifacts, and produce QR codes for tourists and visitors to access. Learn how you can make a difference and apply your curriculum content to your local community just like they did! This conference will include real-time interaction elements. Students will get the most out of this program if they have access to laptops, cell phones, or other Internet-enabled device. (Recommended but not required) To register select the desire session below. Register deadline is Feb. 10. Interactive sites will be notified on or by Feb. 13. If you would like for your site to be considered as an interactive site, please complete this form. If your site would like to ask questions during the conference, they can be posted on our back channels. Click here for the 10:30 back channel and here for the 1:30 back channel. February 16, 2012 - 10:30-11:30AM & 12:00-1:00PM A Conversation with John Adams Audience: Grades 2-8 The Education Department of the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum will be hosting two free videoconferences entitled, “A LIVELY & REVOLUTIONARY CONVERSATION WITH AMERICA'S SECOND PRESIDENT, JOHN ADAMS”. This storytelling event is for grades 2nd-8th. Join us as the historical figure of John Adams, portrayed by George Baker, will present his views of the nation, history and family life in a humorous and inspiring tale as the father of American Independence and the second President of the United States. Learn memorable lessons in early American politics. To register complete the form here. For more information contact Kimberly Taylor, IVC Facilitator, at Education Service Center Region VI. Visit the "Student Programs" page to see past program offerings. Professional Development Opportunities February 22, March 22 - 4:00 – 6:30 PM CT House Bill 2038 - Concussion Training Audience: athletic trainers, athletic directors, coaches,
administrators, school nurses, and health care professionals National and International Collaborators
Don't miss this exciting opportunity on May 3, 2012 from 6am EDT to 6:00pm EDT (UTC -4) to interact with schools from around the world. The schedule of VJ Teams and content themes is now posted on the website. This is your students' chance to interact with VJ teams as an interactive presenting site around a particular content theme in front of a live global audience! This year's VJ Teams and content themes are:
How to Register to Be a General Participant Site: Just one easy step!! How to Submit an Interactive Presentation Proposal How to Be a View Only Site Timeline: Also, be sure to sign up for the Megaconference Jr. list-serv at to stay tuned for all the most recent announcements about this year's event. To subscribe, go to: http://www.megaconferencejr.org/content/contact-information
History in the First Person: Stories of the Civil Rights Movement Audience: Grades 5-10
Read Around the Planet 2012: A Celebration of "NEA's Read Across America"
February 28, 2012 8AM – 10AM CST & 11AM - 1PM CST Penn Hills High School Presents The Tuskegee Airmen Audience: Students Grades 6-12 They were the first African American aviators in the United States Armed Forces. These brave men overcame segregation and prejudice to become one of the most highly respected fighter groups of World War II. The Tuskegee Airmen’s achievements, together with the men and women who supported them, paved the way for full integration of the U.S. Military. Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum in conjunction with the Allegheny Intermediate Unit and the Penn Hills School District will present a panel consisting of national and local historians and several members of the Tuskegee Airmen. Help us close out African American History Month with an engaging presentation and discussion about this inspiring group of aviators. February 28, 2012 from 9AM – 11AM EST and 12PM - 2PM EST. For more information, please visit the conference wiki at http://tuskegee.pennhillswiki.com To register for the live webcast, please visit the online registration form at http://tuskegee.pennhillswiki.com/Registration February 6, 2012 - 10:00-11:30 AM CST Numerycles: A Special Demonstration Program Event Audience: Grades 4-12 The NUMERYCLES DEMO will take participants into the intriguing Discovery phase of the four-phase NUMERYCLES program. We will use logic, critical thinking and creativity to discover an exhaustive inventory of Necklaces and to observe an emerging pattern of colors on a 9 x 9 matrix. While still awed and reluctant to believe what they have discovered, demo participants will be introduced to the Numerycles game, and compete to discover that perhaps those funny numerycles could be right there, in their lunch money! … Not just all around in nature. NUMERYCLES is a mix-mode (on site/on line), multidisciplinary program covering four phases: Discovery, Creativity, Technology and Leadership. The DEMO will cover phase I of the program, which uses a modified Fibonacci series to generate cyclical digit series. These Necklaces, as they are called in the program, are used in phase II (Creativity) to trigger musical, artistic and literary compositions. During the Technology phase, a spreadsheet is used as a tool to attain longer and more complex Necklaces. In the Leadership phase, Numerycles apprentices become instructors, spreading knowledge and the fun of learning unchartered topics while continuing to learn themselves. More Information/Registration: http://magpi.net/Community/Programs/Numerycles
How Can You Speed Read the Blueprints of a Living Creature? Audience: Grades 10-12 Part of Penn's LRSM Materials Sciences Lecture Series Join Dr. Robert Johnson, Lab Coordinator and Lecturer in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania for an interactive presentation on how to speedread the blueprints of human life! The blueprints of a living creature are stored in long, chainlike molecules known as DNA. These blueprints are written in a code format using four chemical bases called A, C, G and T. The particular sequence of these bases determines almost everything about the creature including what type of creature it is, what it eats, what it looks like and how long it lives. We can learn an extraordinary amount about a living organism by reading the sequence of bases in its DNA. However, the number of bases in an organism’s DNA can be enormous and reading them all can be time consuming and expensive. For example, human DNA contains about 3 billion bases. The first complete sequence of human DNA was obtained in 2003 after about 12 years of work costing almost $3 billion. More Information/Registration: http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/How-Can-You-Speed-Read-Blueprints-Living-Creature
February 9 , 2012 - 10 AM & 11:30AM ET The Positive Effects of Football on Racial Equality Audience: Grades 6-12 On Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 the Cleveland Browns will be hosting a panel discussion in recognition of Black History Month. The discussion, “Personal Reflections: The Positive Effects of Football on Racial Equality,” will be moderated by Pro Football Hall of Fame President/Executive Director, Steve Perry. The panel will include Cleveland Browns alumni: Walter Beach, John Wooten, Dick Schafrath, Reggie Rucker and Sam Tidmore. The event will include individual introductions and reflections along with a question and answer portion and is scheduled to run one hour. February 22 & 23, 2012 - 9:15 AM - 10:30 AM & 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM Pro Football Hall of Fame - Black History Month Seminar Audience: Grades 6-12 This year's seminar will feature Hall of Fame teammates Len Dawson and Bobby Bell. Dawson, a quarterback and Super Bowl MVP, was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1987. Bell, a standout linebacker/defensive end, was inducted in 1983. Both men played with the Kansas City Chiefs during the 1960s when they won Super Bowl IV. The Chiefs received notoriety as the first pro football team to fill more than half of its roster with African American players. Don't miss out on this unique educational seminar as Dawson and Bell share their unique stories about this historic moment in professional football history as well as other life events on and off the football field. KC3 Kids Creating Community Content International Contest FREE Student Programs from the KC3 (Kids Creating Community Content) Contest are now being posted on the CILC website. You can search all programs or narrow your search by category. Grades 3,4,5 Pueblo, Hometown Heroes The Medal of Honor Target Audience Grades 3, 4, 5: Pueblo Colorado has the unique title of Hometown Heroes. We have 4 Pueblo Men who have courageously served in the military and received the highest honor, The Medal of Honor. All of our Heroes received this after surviving a tremendous ordeal while serving in the United States Military. In 1993, all 4 men were photographed and came "home" to Pueblo to be honored. This project will be a project that allows students to learn about Pueblo's heros. What they did, what branch of the military they served, and how they were courageous in the face of something incredible. Also, how Pueblo has honored them. We will also be talking about "Core Virtues" and integrating courage, integrity, honor, wisdom, honesty and perseverance with our students.Running Low on H2O Target Audience Grades 3, 4, 5, 6: Concerned about the amount of scare water people go through every day? Imagine waking up one day to a world where you can't drink when you're thirsty, bathe when you're dirty, or even flush the toilet. Join us to discover a remedy to this age-old problem: Water Harvesting. Wild Hog Zone Target Audience Grades 4 & 5: You are walking in the woods one night and hear rustling in the bushes and see a pair of blood red eyes. Consumed with fear, you run home and tell your parents. They tell you it is probably a feral hog. Our presentation will provide you with important information about feral hogs, the damage they pose to people and property and how to be cautious around them. All About Windmills Target Audience Grades 4 & 5: Green energy is continuing to play a larger and larger part in the world discussion about declining natural resources, and windmills are playing a larger and larger role in helping to reduce our carbon footprint. Come with the Wylie Video Productions Team in our exciting trip to learn all about this vital part of the West Texas economy while having some fun at the same time. We will learn all we can about the history of windmills, windmill's part in shaping the frontier, and how modern windmills are a growing niche in energy production the world round. Our presentation will inform,with an engaging interactive experience you and your students will enjoy. This is an invaluable opportunity to teach young children what we are doing in our little corner of Texas to save the world. Grades 9, 10, 11, 12. The Other Side of Paradise Target Audience: Grade 9 Our program topic is about the issues of homelessness in Hawaii. Hawaii is a relatively nice place because of its nice warm weather. That may also be why Hawaii has a homeless problem. But with the governments and other organizations' help, we can help reduce the number of homeless in Hawaii. During our program, we're going to teach everyone about the issue of homelessness in Hawaii. As a reminder, only one class will be scheduled to each program and you must complete a successful equipment test before you are confirmed as an audience site. To view available programs visit: http://www.cilc.org/calendar-kc3.aspx KC3 Student Project Samples from CILC on Vimeo
Interested in developing an international video conferencing partnership. Visit http://www.ja.net/communities/schools/ videoconferencing/usukpartners.html and fill out the form. JANET, the United Kingdom's Research and Education Network, will help you facilitate introductions abroad.  |
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