Today’s forecast…Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs

Students from Avon East Elementary School, Avon Heritage South Elementary and Harris Elementary School shared the Story Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Jodi and Ron Barrett as a follow up to their Weather Unit. Mrs. McCaslin used the document camera to display the pictures as she read the story to both classes. The descriptions of the weather fronts were fun for all.

The students enjoyed hearing how the town of chew and swallow dealt with storm front consisting of pea soup fog followed by a weather front of fried chicken and coleslaw. The damage from the showering of meatballs forced the people to abandon the town of Chew and Swallow and head to a new land.
This was a great follow up to our students unit on weather as made our cold but snowy morning a little brighter. Thanks Amherst for sharing that great story with our students.

3rd graders talk about communities and enhance literacy with New York

Mrs. Karasevic’s 3rd grade class from Avon Heritage South connected to their partner school for Read Across America with a school in Ballston Lake New York.

The Avon Heritage South Students did a great PowerPoint presentation of our community and city and followed up with a reader’s theater presentation on Appelmanto Dreams. The students did a fantastic job reading and presenting our city.

Mrs. Woliner’s class from Francis Elementary School in Ballston Lake New York did a performance about their community and sang their school song. The followed the presentation with a reader’s theater presentation title Country Kid, City Kid which was loaded with props acting.

Great job students!

Regis and Kelly (Mrs. Reichert) does Read Across America with Ohio and New York…

Mrs. Friedman’s 2nd grade students from Van Etten Elementary School in New York gave a presentation on the State of New York. Each student presented fact about the state of New York. The Avon students were surprised to hear that New York and Ohio share the same state insect.

Mrs. Reichert’s played Kelly from the Regis and Kely show as she interviewed her students dress as the main characters of stories read by the students about their stories. The students highlighted the main points of the stories through questions asked by Kathy Lee AKA Mrs. Reichert. After the summary of the story the connecting site played the roll as the live studio audience and asked question about the story.
The students from both sites did a fantastic job!

LCDLC Updates February 27, 2006

See the hightlights at
http://lcdlc.lorainesc.k12.oh.us/streaming.htm

1) HONOR SOCIETY HIGH SCHOOL SEEKS MS/ELEM SCHOOL FOR MENTOR/MENTEE PROGRAM
2) CILC NEW PROGRAM OFFERINGS
3) FREE CIM PROGRAMS FOR SELECT LCDLC SCHOOLS (LIST EXPANDED)
4) LCDLC EXISTING TEACHERS MEETING DATE CHANGED
5) NEW PROGRAMMING MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
6) GLOBAL LEAP NEWSLETTER



1) HONOR SOCIETY HIGH SCHOOL SEEKS MS/ELEM SCHOOL FOR MENTOR/MENTEE PROGRAM

Dear Listserv Members,

The National Foreign Language Honor Society of one of my high schools is looking for partners to join them in a monthly videoconference collaboration whereby the Honor Society members would be mentors to elementary and middle school students who are also studying Spanish, French, or Latin.

Monthly videoconferences would be arranged between collaborating schools so that the individual mentors could work with their partners to improve conversation, reading, and grammar skills through a variety of skits, stories, and games.

If the collaborations work well, the Honor Society would be interested in continuing the videoconferences throughout the rest of this school year and into the next school year on an ongoing basis.

If you are interested, please email me.

Thank you,

Sandy Wolgast
Distance Learning Coordinator
Monmouth County Vocational School District
sandy_wolgast@hths.mcvsd.org

2) CILC NEW PROGRAM OFFERINGS

The following programs and collaborations are new offerings.

Contact information and details can be found on the CILC website at www.cilc.org.

Kigluait Educational Adventures

Meet an Iditarod and/or Jr. Iditarod Musher
Audience: Education: Pre-K Students, Kindergarten, Grade(s): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Description: Learn what it takes to be a musher in the Iditarod and Junior Iditarod. Meet their dogs and see their equipment. Come with us as we follow Richard Hum and Charlie Allison as they prepare and run in the Junior Iditarod and Iditarod.
Program Availability: By Request/On Demand ONLY

Mushing Alaska!
Audience: Education: Pre-K Students, Kindergarten, Grade(s): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Description: Experience the thrill of running a dog team across the wilds of Alaska! Come with us on a real live dog run, as we explore mushing as a form of Transportation within the culture of Alaska.
Program Availability: By Request/On Demand ONLY

COLLABORATIONS
Moon Myths
Audience: Education: Grade(s): 5
Objective of Collaboration: Our fifth graders have been investigating the phases of the moon, how they affect the way animals and humans behave, and how the moon phases effect our cycles of night and day. Is there anyone who would lie to share the integration of technology with this science content area? Janice Carisi carisj@danbury.k12.ct.us

Island of the Blue Dolphins
Audience: Education: Grade(s): 5, 6, 7
Objective of Collaboration: A 6th grade teacher is interested in collaborating with another school regarding the book "Island of the Blue Dolphins." Debbie Fucoloro dfucoloro@stclementschool.com

photojournalism
Audience: Education: Grade(s): 6, 7
Objective of Collaboration: My class is writing photographic essays using pictures they take and using them to write a feature essay.
buebelhor@gjcs.k12.in.us

Thanks!
Julia

Julia Shildmyer-Heighway
Director of Program Providers
Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC)
Office: 317-231-6529
Jheighway@cilc.org

3) FREE CIM PROGRAMS FOR SELECT LCDLC SCHOOLS (LIST EXPANDED)

Dave,
I wanted to let you know that we still have some free sessions remaining from the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation grant. We have also added a new free offering to the roster for eligible districts. The class is Mozart: Music's Perfect Storm. (see attachment). We hope you can take advantage of these free offerings! Mozart: Music's Perfect Storm (6-12)Let's Go to the Show (pre-K and Kindergarten)Dalcroze Eurhythmics (all grades)Concert Band Coaching (all grades)String Orchestra Coaching (all grades)Jazz Band Coaching (all grades)Musical Geography of Europe (grade 6)Introduction to Classical Music (9-12)Introduction to 19th Century Music ((9-12)Introduction to Impressionistic Music (9-12)Introduction to 20th Century Music (9-12)Meet the Young Artists (9-12)Music Theory Topics (9-12)Introduction to Vocal Technique (9-12)Welcome to the Opera (9-12)Music Master Class (for all grades and college level)The eligible school districts for Lorain County are:
Clearview Local SD Lorain City SD Lorain Community School Summit Academy-Lorain Oberlin City SD Elyria City SD When you register for any free programs, please make a note on the registration page! Please call me with questions or concerns.Thanks! AdamAdam Phillips Manager of Distance Learning ProgramsCleveland Institute of MusicE-mail: axp99@case.eduPhone: 216-707-4516Fax: 216-791-3063

4) LCDLC EXISTING TEACHERS MEETING DATE CHANGED

To: LCDLC Existing Teachers
From: Dave Miller
Date: 2/22/06
Subject: Changed in-service date

Existing LCDLC Teachers – Several of you have notified us that our original meeting date for our second in-service scheduled for Thursday, March 9th conflicts with proficiency testing. As a result, we are CHANGING your scheduled in-service date to Thursday, March 23rd, 8:00 A.M. to 3:30 P.M. We will meet once again at the Lorain County JVS in the lower wing as we did at our first meeting.

At our meeting, we’ll be finalizing your three lessons or projects. If you’ll be applying for graduate credit, you’ll need to complete your three lessons and have the three lessons documented on our website by Monday, April 3rd. At our in-service, we will give you the majority of the day to complete your three projects. You should plan to record your video promo during the day, as well as complete the lesson plans.

Finally, we’re gearing up for our year end showcase scheduled tentatively for May 16th, 2006. Last year we had 18 presenters with clips. We’ll want to showcase some of our best projects again this year, including some of our new projects this group has been creating. At our meeting, we’ll discuss how we’ll be showcasing a few of your projects, as well as other IVDL uses you may have participated in this year that you’d like to share. We’ll need video footage of these sessions, so be sure to tape any sessions that you think might be good to share at this year-end meeting.

*Please RSVP your attendance so we can reserve you a lunch. I look forward to hearing from you.

Dave Miller
Director of Distance Learning
Lorain County Distance Learning Consortium
ESC of Lorain County
1885 Lake Avenue
Elyria, OH 44035
440 324-5777 ext 195 Office
440 610-0782 Mobile
dave.miller@leeca.org

5) NEW PROGRAMMING MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC

From: Nadje Noordhuis [mailto:nnoordhuis@msmnyc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:12 AMTo: undisclosed-recipients:Subject: VIDEO EMAIL! From Manhattan School of Music's Distance Learning Department

Manhattan School of Music's Distance Learning Department is proud to present VIDEO EMAIL:A demonstration of our live, interactive Videoconference Programs for K-12 StudentsPlease give us 5 minutes of your time to view our video clip of our "Music, Melody & Me" program - a spirited introduction to the musical instrument families.Video clip available for WINDOWS platform only - apologies to MAC users in this interim time. http://nyit.viditalk.com/view/?id=J9ZQPH8ARDDSTF92Q6N9For program listings and additional information, please visit www.msmnyc.edu/special/distancelearningEnjoy!
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Nadje Noordhuis
Program Coordinator, Recording and Distance Learning Department
Manhattan School of Music
120 Claremont Avenue
New York, NY 10027
Tel: 917-493-4488

6) GLOBAL LEAP NEWSLETTER

Global-Leap/Videoconferencing in the Classroom February 2006

Please see the attached newsletter

Miami Florida, How does your garden grow?

Mrs. Miekle’s students connected with their partner site from Miami Country School in Miami Florida to compare the growth of their beans and lettuce sprouts. Each class shared the amount of sprouts, and their average height. The plants at Avon Heritage North are grown indoors using plant lights while Miami’s plants are grown outdoors with natural light.

To our surprise, the beans in Avon are taller that the beans in Miami Florida. The lettuce plants had opposite results. Miami Florida’s lettuce spouted 90% of their seeds while Avon’s had less than 20% sprouted. The classes will connect again in two weeks to compare their results again.

One of the highlights of the conference was Avon’s snow storm. The students from Miami Florida were excited to see the snow and to hear our students frustration with indoor recess. While the students from each site would love to trade places for the day, it is safe to say that the grass is greener in Florida.

The classes will move their lettuce plants to their earth boxes this week. The students in Avon predict that their lettuce plants will grow much faster in the Earth Box. In two weeks the students will know the answer to their hypothesis.