Carolyn Lesser Videoconferences Open for 2009-2010 Monday, September 28, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Distance Learning, VLC Programs, Videoconferencing.Tags: New Links to New Learning, videoconferences, Carolyn Lesser
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Carolyn Lesser
St. Louis author Carolyn Lesser continues to connect to students and teachers over videoconference live from Cooperating School Districts.
Carolyn works with students in second through twelfth grades, as well as professional development with their teachers. She offers a variety of distance learning programs, including nonfiction prose or poetry, journalism, and play writing. Past topics she’s covered are butterflies, polar bears, global warming as well as ancient China.
An avid traveler, explorer, observer and teacher, Carolyn uses her experiences from her trips around the world to motivate & encourage students participating in her interactive videoconferences. Questions on Carolyn’s programs? Contact Rebecca Morrison at CSD.
Cultural Festivals + New Links to New Learning Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Collaborations, Distance Learning, Videoconferencing.Tags: Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain, National Endowment for the Arts, New Links to New Learning, The Big Read, Twitter, videoconferences
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Cultural Festivals received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to host The Big Read in St. Louis. Cultural Festivals is one of 269 nonprofits–including arts, culture, and science organizations; libraries; and municipalities–to receive a grant to host a Big Read project between September 2009 and 
June 2010. The Big Read gives communities the opportunity to come together to read, discuss, and celebrate one of 30 selections from U.S. and world literature. The Big Read in St. Louis will focus on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Activities will take place Beginning on October 10, 2009 with The Big Read Festival through February 2010. New Links to New Learning is excited to share that we will be teaming up with Cultural Festivals to bring interactive videoconferences to schools this winter. As more details emerge on this collaboration, I’ll be sure to share them with you!
To see updates on Cultural Festivals, follow them on Twitter.
Free Smithsonian American Art Museum Videoconferences Monday, July 13, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Internet safety, Videoconferencing.Tags: Creative Commons, Distance Learning, Flickr, Smithsonian American Art Museum, videoconferences
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Can't take your students to D.C. for a field trip? Try a VC!
Here is a list of recently updated videoconferences from the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. All the videoconferences are free, and available upon request, though on certain days. Videoconference presenters guide your class on a tour of artworks in the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection. Visit www.cilc.org for more specific details on each program.
America’s Signs & Symbols
Availability: By Request/On Demand ONLY – specific days available
Audience: Education: Kindergarten, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Contemporary Craft: Clay, Fiber, Glass, Metal, Wood
Availability: By Request/On Demand ONLY – specific days available
Audience: Education: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Found Object Artwork
Availability: By Request/On Demand ONLY – specific days available
Audience: Education: Kindergarten, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Free Within Ourselves: African American Artists
Videoconference presenters guide your class on a tour of African American artworks in the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection. The lives of African American artists lend insight into the historical, social and cultural context of the artworks.
Availability: By Request/On Demand ONLY – specific days available
Audience: Education: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
To See Is To Think: Visual Literacy
Videoconference presenters guide your class on a tour of artworks in the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection. Students learn the literal language of art and consider the many choices artists make when creating art.
Availability: By Request/On Demand ONLY – specific days available
Audience: Education: Kindergarten, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Also, if you visit the museum’s education website, you’ll find student created podcasts.
Think ahead for 09-10 Monday, May 11, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Distance Learning, Videoconferencing.Tags: videoconferences
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I know the school year is wrapping up (already!) and many are going on summer vacation soon. I just
wanted to remind our readers that free videoconferences, from content providers like the Lee Richardson Zoo and NASA, fill up very fast during the school year. This is a great time to plan ahead and put in requests for fall programming!
What we’re Working on for Videoconferences in 2008-09 Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Collaboration, Distance Learning, Tech PD, VLC Programs, Videoconferencing.Tags: author visits, Carolyn Lesser, Cooperating School Districts, Crucial Conversations, Mental Health, New Links to New Learning, professional development, student dialogs, Tech PD, technology in education, videoconferences, Virtual Learning Center
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We are working to get the 2008-2009 New Links videoconference programs lined up! Lynne Lang and I have discussed the Mental Health series and I’m really excited about what we’re working on. Carolyn Lesser will be debuting a new “menu” of programs available in the fall. We’ve talked with Terry Freeman about revamping the Crucial Conversations program with high school students. I have my own author visits lined up- and will hopefully be able to share these talented writers with students! What are the specifics? What are the changes? Stay tuned… but to refresh your memory on 2007-2008 offerings, click here. If you have a suggestion of a topic cover or person to contact for a videoconference, let me know! There is a world of possibilities…
June 12 note: Pat McKissack’s Creative Writing dates have been published on her blog, Can You Imagine? To check those out, visit: www.authorvisit.wordpress.com
What are students searching for on the web while at school? Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Links.Tags: eSchool News, Internet, students, tech in classroom, tech lessons, videoconferences, World Wide Web
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Stephanie shared this interesting article with me from eSchool News.
These are the top in-school web searches conducted by students:
1. Games, 2. Dogs, 3. Animals, 4. Civil War, 5. George Washington,
6. Holocaust, 7. Abraham Lincoln, 8. Multiplication, 9. Math Games,
10. Weather, 11. Frogs, 12. Fractions, 13. Planets, 14. Sharks, 15. Plants
Something that’s interesting to me is these are common topics teachers want for videoconferences, too: animals, weather, planets, etc. Take a second to check out the article: Index reveals what kids are searching for online .
Carolyn Connects Monday, May 12, 2008
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Distance Learning, VLC Programs, Videoconferencing.Tags: author visit, Butterfly, Carolyn Lesser, Cooperating School Districts, New Links to New Learning, playwriting, poetry, videoconferences, Virtual Learning Center, writing, writing workshop
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Last week, Carolyn Lesser was at CSD Monday through Friday conducting videoconferences with schools in Pennsylvania, Missouri, and New York. The students ranged in age from kindergarten to middle school, and topics included playwriting and poetry (inspiration).
Monday: Playwriting & Pennsylvania | Tuesday: Poetry & Missouri
Wednesday: Poetry & New York | Thursday & Friday: Poetry & Missouri
About Carolyn, in her own words: ‘I love to explore, observe, write, and photograph the wonders of planet Earth, then return to speak to inspire adults and children to explore this amazing world. I love to invent inspiring educational presentations and seminars for corporations, universities, and educators and students in creativity, writing, speaking, exploring, living fully enthusiastically, alive on the planet… I have been working with an organization called Cooperating School Districts of St. Louis.
They offer and arrange videoconferences for my custom designed, interactive hands-on writing seminars and author visits with classrooms of students. CSD also arranges all my videoconferences of nonfiction writing and public speaking seminars for educational or corporate institutions, in a professional development format, “on-screen.” ‘
Teachers, how did your sessions go?
end of the year – all over the country Monday, May 5, 2008
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Distance Learning, Tech PD, VLC Programs, Videoconferencing.Tags: authors, New Links to New Learning, science lessons, videoconferences
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The end of the school year is wrapping up in the next few weeks, and so are the videoconference requests. Remember, New Links teachers, content providers are available during the summer, too!! Camps, summer school courses, PD, I can help you get connected.
The next two weeks, however, are very busy with programs. I see Carolyn Lesser every day this week! Center for Puppetry Arts, NASA, Lest We Forget, Bill Dallas Lewis, Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw are all on the schedule. Little Green Monsters in Texas! Jiminy Crickets in Michigan! Next week has those videoconferences as well as more Butterflies from Atlanta, storytelling from Indiana, and Waiting in the Wings from New Jersey.
Want to add to my list? Contact me at rmorrison@csd.org.
Congrats to the New Links to New Learning 2007-2008 Favorite Content Provider! Monday, May 5, 2008
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Distance Learning, VLC Programs, Videoconferencing.Tags: Center for Puppetry Arts, New Links to New Learning, puppets, videoconferences
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Congratulations to the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, GA, for being voted the 2007-2008 Favorite Content Provider by New Links to New Learning schools! St. Louis educators appreciate all the hard work the staff in the distance learning department puts into their videoconferences (and the friendly, thorough service that comes along with it). As their website says, ‘the Center for Puppetry Arts uses the latest technology to offer nationwide Distance Learning programs for Pre K-12. Hands-on puppet building workshops are conducted via videoconferencing and are tailored to specific classroom topics and curriculum. The arts are infused with science, social studies, language arts and other disciplines to create a dynamic, interactive virtual classroom for a virtual field trip experience. Programs complement national curriculum standards in language arts, social studies, science, math and other areas. The Center provides a comprehensive study guide and materials list for most programs.’
Again, congratulations from New Links to New Learning members to:
Patty Petrey Dees, Distance Learning Program Director
Deborah Bowman, Distance Learning Coordinator
Iyabo Shabazz, Distance Learning Assistant
Sara Burmenko, Distance Learning Assistant
distancelearning@puppet.org
Phone: 404.881.5117 | Fax: 404.873.9907
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