1) HEALTHSPACE CLEVELAND FREE PROGRAMMING! - CORRECTED
2) UNIVERSITY CIRCLE CAREER SERIES
3) THANKSGIVING - SPENDING TIME WITH A PILGRIM
4) CHINESE-AMERICAN HISTORY VIDEOCONFERENCE/WEBCAST
5) SOITA TELETECH TUESDAY PD TEACHERS PROGRAMS
1) HEALTHSPACE CLEVELAND FREE PROGRAMMING! - CORRECTED
Last week, I sent you the update below. A few corrections are as follows. The funding is from Henkel Corporation, not the Nord Family Foundation. To request a class, just go to the healthspace Cleveland website, www.healthdl.org, and follow the instructions to send in a registration request. Any school from Lorain County will automatically qualify for the funding. This will be given on a first come, first served basis. To find out if there is any funding left, you can call Charlene Brady 216-231-6900.A Grant through the Nord Family Foundation has provided the Health SpaceCleveland with funds to offset the cost of providing programming to schoolsinside Lorain County. Don't miss out. These funds are limited and are on afirst come first serve basis. Contact Bill Thomas atbills@healthspacecleveland.org, 216 231-6831. Be sure to mention you'd liketo utilize the grant funds from Nord for your programming.
2) UNIVERSITY CIRCLE CAREER SERIES (Attachment “Careers of Consciousness.pdf”)Hello Friends.UCIC is making an attempt to coordinate an ongoing Career Series on at least2 Wednesdays a month. It will regularly begin in January, but we are doing our initial trial programs in November - December. The Career Series will have three strands - Careers of Consciousness; Creative Careers and Careers of the Future. These are intended to be multi-point connections with 2-3 sites. I hope you are interested in signing up for a few programs. Let me know! <
3) THANKSGIVING - SPENDING TIME WITH A PILGRIM
(Attachment "Pilgrim flyer.pdf")Please see attached (Pilgrim flyer.pdf) below an opportunity for your schools to participate in a Thanksgiving Distance Learning Session. The attached flyer explains the session in more detail. Please let us know if you have any schools interested in participating by November 10th.Thanks,______________________LuAnne JacksonTechnology DirectorTCHESC834 East High AvenueNew Philadelphia, OH 44663phone: 330-308-9939 ext. 250cell: 330-243-4538fax: 330-308-0964www.tchesc.org
4) CHINESE-AMERICAN HISTORY VIDEOCONFERENCE/WEBCASTThe Orange County Department of Education is looking for up to four middle school or high school classes to participate in an interactive videoconference with Icy Smith author of The Lonely Queue: The Forgotten History of the Courageous Chinese Americans in Los Angeles. The event is scheduled for November 15, 2005 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. The videoconference will explore themes of discrimination, immigration and cultural diversity through the experience of Chinese-Americans in Southern California over the last 150 years. Icy Smith will present photos and stories from her book to reveal the compelling history of the Chinese from their first arrival in the 1860รข€™s to the present day. Students will be able to interact with Ms. Smith throughout the event from their own school sites. Please contact Michael Guerena at mguerena@ocde.us to register your class to participate in this free interactive videoconference. We request you register your class by November 2 to guarantee participation. This session will also be available as a streaming webcast. Classes participating in the webcast will have the ability to watch the program, but not interact with the author. The webcast can be accessed on the day of the event from http://vc.ocde.us. Please test your connection at our webcast test site at http://vc.ocde.us/webcast. The computer being used to receive the webcast will need to have the free Quicktime player installed. To participate in the webcast please contact Patricia Wade at pwade@ocde.us. This is just one of many great opportunities to connect students with real world learning. For other events and programs please download our 2005-2006 Interactive Learning brochure from our web site at http://vc.ocde.us. -----Michael GuerenaProgram Specialist, Educational Technology Orange County Department of Education714-966-4087
5) SOITA TELETECH TUESDAY PD TEACHERS PROGRAMS
The following programs are being offered through SOITA at a cost of $50 each:November 1 - PowerPoint: Using Hyperlinks and Action Buttons (offered twice: 1:30 to 2:30 and 3:30 to 4:30) "If you are tired of making linear PowerPoint presentations and would like to make them interactive, attend this TeleTech to see how action buttons and hyperlinks can work for you. Suggestions will be given for classroom project ideas using action buttons and hyperlinks as well."November 8 - OGT Resources for Math and Science (offered twice: 1:30 to 2:30 and 3:30 to 4:30) "This session will explore multiple math and science resources available to teachers and students in preparing for the OGT. The resources include standards-aligned lessons, the OGT website for students, the new Learning Express Library, previous online OGT samples, as well as numerous websites that have supplementary materials and activities that address various components of OGT testing." November 15 - Creating Student Resource Pages Using Moodle (offered twice: 1:30 to 2:30 and 3:30 to 4:30)"Many teachers think of Moodle as a tool for those who wish to teach online courses. However, there are other uses for Moodle such as a resource page for students. We will highlight those pieces of Moodle that would be useful for teachers to develop as an additional resource/teaching tool for their students. Highlights may include assignments, quizzes, links to web sites/other resource files, or journals."December 13 - Adding WOW to Your Web Page (offered twice: 1:30 to 2:30 and 3:30 to 4:30)"Your school has a basic Web site but you would like to jazz it up with calendars, dynamic banners, slide shows, menus, current events and other goodies to keep visitors coming back. This interactive video session will highlight a number of strategies and techniques you can use enhance your school's Web site beyond the basics."Cost is $50 per site/per session. Click on http://www.soita.org/Events/TeleTech_Reg.pdf to download a registration form that lists all TeleTech offerings for the remainder of this calendar year. The form is an interactive PDF and you can complete it and either fax it back or return it by e-mail. Please call or e-mail if you have any questions.Thanks!Bob Stricker SOITA 150 E. Sixth StreetFranklin, OH 45005Phone: 937.746.6333 or 800.964.8211http://www.soita.org
