Explosive New Videoconference from RoundTrips! Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Collaboration, Distance Learning, Videoconferencing.Tags: Missouri Department of Transportation, Missouri S&T, RoundTrips, videoconference
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Join RoundTrips live on Friday, October 9 from Rolla, and Macon Missouri. Be part of the action as explosives expert Dr. Paul Worsey (Professor of Mining Engineering, Missouri S&T) and engineers Dennis Brucks and Brian Haeffner from Missouri Department of Transportation walk us through the process of bringing down the Glasgow Bridge.
As part of its continual work to maintain and upgrade Missouri’s roads and bridges the Missouri Department of Transportation determined the need to replace the bridge crossing the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri. That new bridge is now set to open on October 16, but before that new bridge could be built, the old bridge needed to be removed to make way for construction of a new span connecting route 240 across the Missouri River. In this program your students will interact with the engineers who will give us technical aspects of the destruction and rebuilding of the bridge. Ask your questions about what it takes to safely destroy one bridge so you can begin to build another. You’ll see video excerpts of the bridge coming down, and explosives demonstrations by Dr. Worsey.
This program is the ninth of an ongoing series of ten programs that began during the 2008-2009 school year. It is 10/9/2009 at 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM and 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM. Register by October 2.
During this series of programs entitled Project MO-Bridge: Connecting Students to Their Future, your students will be able to learn what it takes to build a new bridge—from dream to design to construction to operation. Students will interact with experts in a wide variety of fields and learn how specific aspects of their science, social studies, and mathematics curriculum come to life in the construction of a new bridge. Archived versions of previous programs can be found at http://mobridge.more.net.
Staging Shakespeare Videoconference from RoundTrips Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Collaboration, Distance Learning, Videoconferencing.Tags: Distance Learning, Forest Park, HEC-TV Live!, RoundTrips, Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, The Merry Wives of Windsor, videoconference, William Shakespeare
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As part of its ongoing collaboration with HEC-TV Live!, RoundTrips is very pleased to announce two free videoconference programs next week on Thursday, May 14 with the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis. Each year the Shakespeare Festival provides a wonderful, free, public theater experience under the stars in the beautiful urban oasis of Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri. This year, they are producing The Merry Wives of Windsor and these two videoconferences will take you live to their outdoor performance space to see how the production comes together. As you’ll note in the descriptions, the morning program will focus on production elements while the afternoon program examines acting.
Program 1: Staging Shakespeare Outdoors: The Production Elements
Date: May 14, 2009 | Time: 10:00 a.m. CDT | Grade Level: Grades 7-12
Live from the outdoor performance space of the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, program participants will interact with the director, designers and technical production staff for the Festival’s upcomingoutdoor production of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. Audience members will tour the set and go both backstage and onstage as they find out what it’s like to design and stage a production outdoors. How do you handle lighting for the show? What about costumes and props? What happens if it rains? Where does the audience sit? Find out how all the front of house, onstage, and backstage production elements come together to create an exciting and enriching experience for the audience .
Program 2: Staging Shakespeare Outdoors: The Actors’ Perspective
Date: May 14, 2009 | Time: 1:00 p.m. CDT | Grade Level: Grades 7-12
Live from the outdoor performance space of the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, interactive videoconference participants will talk with actors involved in the Festival’s upcoming outdoor production of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. Audience members will tour the set and go both backstage and onstage as they find out what it’s like to perform a play under the stars. How does it change the characterization created by the actor? What about projection and gestures? Does it change how actors use costumes and props? What happens if it rains? What’s it like to interact with an audience in an outdoor setting? Find the answers to these questions plus more as you meet the actors working together to create an exciting & enriching experience for the audience.
Free “The Great Collaboration” Videoconference Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Collaboration, Distance Learning, Videoconferencing.Tags: bridge construction, Distance Learning, Missouri Department of Transportation, RoundTrips
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MOREnet, MODOT and RoundTrips Present: Bridge Construction: The Great Collaboration
Date: Friday, May 1, 2009 | Times: 9 to 9:50 a.m. CDT and/or 10 to 10:50 a.m. CDT | Grade Levels: 5-10 | Cost: No Fee
Program Description: How are all the elements of a mammoth construction process like a bridge over the Missouri River brought together? It takes the hard work of a great collaboration of people from diverse careers. Explore the careers of those who work in the bridge construction industry as you interact with the people constructing a new bridge over the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri. Find out during this interactive videoconference what it’s like to design a bridge, work with computer software, weld steel girders together, pour concrete, build new bridge piers, operate a crane, or run the
barge that keeps vehicle traffic flowing while the bridge is closed for construction. See construction as it happens; view pictures and video of construction done earlier this year. And ask your questions of the people who work daily designing and building bridges. Join RoundTrips live from the construction site of the new bridge going over the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri for RoundTrip’s eighth distance learning program in their continuing series of programs produced with the Missouri Department of Transportation. To sign up for this interactive videconference, contact RoundTrips at roundtrips@clayton.k12.mo.us.
Another Free VC Opportunity! Friday, April 3, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Collaborations, Distance Learning, Videoconferencing.Tags: bridge construction, engineering, Missouri River, MODOT, MOREnet, RoundTrips
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RoundTrips is happy to invite your students to join them, the Missouri Department of 
Transportation, and MOREnet for “Bridge Construction 2: Surface Structure” on April 17 at 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. Central Daylight Time. This free program, the seventh in their ten part series of videoconferences highlighting MODOT’s construction of a new bridge over the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri, will focus on the work involved with creating the surface structure of the new bridge. More information about the entire series of bridge programs can be found at http://mobridge.more.net.
If you have any questions about the program, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with RoundTrips. If you’d like to enroll for the program, please contact them via phone or e-mail.
Bridge Construction 2: Surface Structure
Date: April 17, 2009 | Grade Levels: 5-12
Times: 9 to 9:50 a.m. and 10 to 10:50 a.m. Central Time
Cost: No Fee
The bridge has been designed, public hearings have been held, and funding has been arranged. Construction is well underway with superstructure built for the bridge’s approach ramps and additional superstructure being built over the river itself. Now it is time to begin creating the surface structure. Join us live from the construction site of the new bridge going over the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri.
What are the steps in creating the surface structure? What materials are used? How is the structure welded together? How is the surface structure for the bridge connected to the bridge support system? What elements are pre-fabricated and what is created on site? How does the installation occur? What are the careers involved in building a bridge? For the answers to these and other questions, join RoundTrips for our sixth program in our continuing series of programs produced with the Missouri Department of Transportation as they build a new bridge over the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri. Interact with construction personnel as they share how they are bringing the design plans to life.
RoundTrips & MOREnet Present Internet Safety VC 2009 Friday, April 3, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Collaboration, Distance Learning, Internet safety, Videoconferencing, Web 2.0.Tags: Cyber Bullying, identity theft, interactive videoconference, Joe Laramie, learning tool, Missouri’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, MOREnet, Network Security, online predators, online safety, RoundTrips
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There is no doubt we now live in an “Internet Age.” At the click of a mouse, you can e-mail hundreds of people simultaneously, buy that long-desired vintage automobile, or create a personal profile to share with the world. With unlimited opportunities, cyberspace may well have become the new “final frontier.” How best can we explore this frontier? How can we minimize risk and maximize safety? How can we help students be secure in their Internet activities? These are important questions, and we invite you and your students to participate in this important discussion over videoconference with RoundTrips. Students will interact with a variety of experts in the field including Joe Laramie, Director of Missouri’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, and they will also have the chance to share with each other as well.
Topics in this free distance learning opportunity include online predators, cyber-bullying, identity theft and other Internet-related issues. “This is such an important issue – it is absolutely critical for kids, parents and community members to be on the same page with regard to online safety,” said Randy Raw, Manager of Network Security at MOREnet. “The Internet is a fantastic learning tool, but like any tool, people need to understand what the risks are and how to use it safely.”
This topic is popular, and interactive videoconference space is limited so contact RoundTrips early to enroll your students!
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Times: 11 to 11:50 a.m. CDT, 12 to 12:50 CDT, 1 to 1:50 p.m. CDT
Grade Level: 6-12
Cost: NO CHARGE
MOREnet, MODOT & RoundTrips Present: Bridge Construction 1 – Superstructure Monday, March 23, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Collaboration, VLC Programs.Tags: bridge, construction, Missouri Department of Transportation, MOREnet, RoundTrips, superstructure
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Glasgow Bridge construction
Date: Friday, April 3, 2009
Times: 9- 9:50 and 10- 10:50 a.m. CDT
Grade Levels: 5-12
Cost: FREE
Registration: roundtrips@clayton.k12.mo.us
Videoconference Description: The bridge has been designed, public hearings have been held, and funding has been arranged. Now the construction begins in earnest. Join RoundTrips live from the construction site of the new bridge going over the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri. Interact with construction personnel as they share how they are bringing the design plans to life. How is the superstructure for the bridge connected to the bridge piers? What kind of materials are used? How is the structure welded together? How are the supports put in place for the road surface to come? What items are pre-fabricated and what is created on site? How does the installation occur? What are the careers involved in building a bridge? For the answers to these and other questions, join RoundTrips for the sixth program in our continuing series of programs produced with the Missouri Department of Transportation as they build a new bridge over the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri.
The Black Rep Presents: The Strong Men Thursday, March 19, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Distance Learning, Videoconferencing.Tags: HEC-TV Live!, RoundTrips, St. Louis Black Repertory Company, The Strong Men
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Here’s a free videoconfernce opportunity from HEC-TV Live! and RoundTrips:
The Black Rep Presents: The Strong Men
Date: April 21, 2009
Time: 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time
Grade Level: Grades 7-12
About the Videoconference
Join us live from the rehearsal space of the St. Louis Black Repertory Company to enjoy excerpts from their touring performance of The Strong Men, a choreo-poem adapted by Ron Himes from Sterling A. Brown’s poem and other poems by African-American authors. Meet the actors and director who bring the story to life. View a performance of scenes from the show. Ask your questions of what it means to “act a part.” How do the actors prepare? How do they create a character? What does the director do? What’s it like to stage a touring production in a variety of different places? Participants will meet actors, director, and designers to discuss how the show came to life from the first phase of design to the final phase of implementation. Ask your questions of actors, directors and designers who are part of America’s largest professional African-American theatre company.
About the Production
This choreo-poem displays the powerful voices and delicate humor of African-Americans who have made major contributions to American history. The Black Rep brings to vivid life some of the verses, which show how poetry can be spoken, sung and danced, and how poetry can be a window to the self and to our world. Selected poems include “The Creation,” “We Wear the Mask,” “Dedication to Fathers,” “A Cry from a Black Man,” “I, Too, Sing America,” and “Strong Men.”
Design Processes: Looking at the Math Monday, February 23, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Collaborations, Distance Learning, Links, Videoconferencing.Tags: algebra, computer simulations, engineers, Glasgow Bridge, Math, Missouri Department of Transportation, Missouri River, MODOT, physics, RoundTrips, scientific principles, trigonometry
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MOREnet, MODOT and RoundTrips Present: Building the Glasgow Bridge | Design Processes: Looking at the Math
It’s a pretty typical day in the office when the boss drops in and says, “Hey, the Missouri Department of Transportation has just informed us they’ve got a bridge over the Missouri River that needs replacing. We’d like to get that job. I’ve got the specs here on the location. Put your team together and come up with some preliminary design options we can send them for consideration.” What do you do next? Where do you begin?
How do engineers create design plans for a new bridge? What factors impact their choices most? What do they need to know about math, physics, and materials? Go to the source. Interact with engineers to find out how they look at conflicting conditions, scientific principles, and crunching the numbers. Learn how they apply algebra, trigonometry and computer simulations to create their designs.
What is it like to apply the principles of engineering to the real world of designing a specific bridge? Join us for this program, the fourth of our ten part series developed with the Missouri Department of Transportation as it builds a new bridge across the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri, to learn the mathematics of bridge design.
Connection Info:
Date: March 6, 2009
NEW Times: 9 to 9:55 a.m., and 10 to 11 a.m. CST
Grade Levels: 9-12
Cost: No Fee
Videoconferencing Bridge: MOREnet
To see a live shot of the bridge, click here.
MOREnet, MODOT and RoundTrips Present: Why This Bridge Here Friday, January 16, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Uncategorized.Tags: arch, beam, bending, bridge, bridge construction, cable-stayed, compression, Glasgow Missouri, Missouri Department of Transportation, Missouri River, MOREnet, RoundTrips, shear, suspension, tension, torsion, videoconfernce
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Glasgow Bridge Project (photos from MoDOT's website)
A new RoundTrips videoconference has been announced! Here are the details:
Date: January 30, 2008
Times: 10 to 10:45 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. to Noon
Grade Levels: 4-8
Cost: No Fee
When you travel you notice there are all sorts of different shapes to bridges that span rivers, gorges, and highways. Have you ever wondered “Why did they build that kind of bridge here?” This interactive videoconference is designed to help you and your students answer that question. We’ll explore basic bridge shapes such as arch, beam, suspension, and cable-stayed. We’ll look at the forces of tension, compression, torsion, bending and shear that act on those bridge shapes. We’ll investigate how the purpose of the bridge, its geographic location, and materials used in its construction also help determine its final design. This is the second of our ten part series developed with the Missouri Department of Transportation as it builds a new bridge across the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri. Students will see examples of different types of bridges and engage in interactive discussion and activities with engineers who design and build bridges. We’ll look at examples of bridges from around the world and the specifics of the new bridge being built at Glasgow.
To participate in this videoconference, contact RoundTrips at roundtrips@clayton.k12.mo.us.
More details on the series of programs and an archive of the first program in the series can be found at MOREnet’s website, http://www.more.net.
The Bad Plus Equals One Good Videoconference Monday, November 24, 2008
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Collaboration, Distance Learning, Links, Videoconferencing.Tags: American culture, creative process, improvisation, jazz, Jazz At The Bistro, professional musician, RoundTrips, technique, The Bad Plus, theme, videoconference
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The Bad Plus performs
What does it mean to be a professional musician? How do you put a music group together and stay together? What are the struggles, the excitements, the ups, the downs? What’s the process used to compose your own music and to create unique cover versions of other musicians’ work? How do you determine what techniques and instrumentation work best? Join The Bad Plus on January 9, 2009 at 1 PM CST as they perform samples of their unique style of jazz music live from St. Louis, Missouri! Explore the creative process of composition and performance. Consider the concepts of technique, theme and improvisation. Ask about training, instrumentation and building a career as a professional musician. Learn about the cultural significance of jazz and enjoy the music! Cost for this RoundTrips videoconference is free. Register by January 2 at roundtrips@clayton.k12.mo.us.
Learning objectives for this videoconference from RoundTrips are:
1. The participant will explore the nature of the creative process and how to apply that process to their interests in music and other aspects of their life.
2. The participant will learn about techniques and instrumentation used in jazz music and hear and see examples of those techniques and instrumentations in practice.
3. The participant will gain a greater understanding of the impact and influence of jazz music in American culture and what it means to be a professional jazz musician.
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