PBS Teachers LIVE!
Free Media and Technology Webinars
Presented by PBS Teachers and Classroom 2.0
Are you looking for ways to incorporate digital media into your teaching? PBS Teachers is introducing a series of FREE monthly webinars featuring leading education technology experts, authors, or producers of PBS programs who will share ideas on using digital media to engage students in rich learning experiences.
Scott Cameron, Director of Education and Research at the Sesame Workshop, will discuss the educational goals of the new Electric Company and how the on-air and online resources can be used in the classroom. Educational consultant Julie Wood will focus on best practices in reading and language arts instruction in 1st-4th grades, discuss her involvement with PBS KIDS’ Raising Readers initiative and share ideas for using Raising Readers on-air and online educational resources. They will be joined by Heather Dzikiy, a teacher who has demonstrated innovative and effective use of PBS KIDS content in educational settings, and Jennifer Rodriguez of the PBS KIDS team who will present PBS KIDS Island, an innovative website that serves kids, parents, caregivers and teachers.
Title: Early Childhood Literacy: Resources & Strategies
Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009
Time: 7-8 p.m. Central
How Do I Participate?: Simply sign up to become a PBS Teacher and you will receive a webinar invite the week of the event.
PBS Teachers enjoy access to all of our FREE services, including PBS Teachers Connect, an online learning community where preK-12 educators can collaborate with their peers, discuss digital media use, and “save” online instructional resources. Members of PBS Teachers can also receive discounts up to 10% at the PBS Educational Media website.
Be More: The New PBS Educational Media Shop
PBS Educational Media has launched a new website designed specifically to meet the needs of educators, librarians, and trainers in their search for educational media products. With enhanced searching capabilities Shop PBS Educational Media: http://teacher.shop.pbs.org/home/index.jsp presents a faster, easier, and more rewarding way to find media for the classroom, the boardroom, and the living room. Features of the new website include:
- Expanded product descriptions
- ISBN numbers and better grade level searches
- Quick Catalog feature which allows the user to input numbers directly from the catalog, bypassing the traditional shopping cart
- Professional, published reviews
- An expanding collection of video clips
- Links to other PBS education resources
- And we still guarantee your satisfaction with product purchase
PBS Educational Media invites you to see what's new and to sign up to receive product announcements and discounts by email. During Teacher Appreciation week there will be special pricing on Educator's Top Picks so check back often.
STORYTELLING: A TOOLKIT FOR BRIDGING DIFFERENCES
AND CREATING COMMUNITY
This Resource provides an easy to follow process in using storytelling to increase understanding across differences. It is:
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a fun way to get to know one another
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a comfortable way to address difficult topics
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a simple and successful method for appreciating differences among group members
Sharing life stories allows us to see in new ways, grapple with new ideas, and grow into more respectful and compassionate people.
Use this resource with students from middle school through college or with members of your church or community group. The activities in the resource can be completed all at once or broken up over several meetings.
A great way to build a team, handle issues associated with diversity, or discuss a recent conflict.
Download a free copy of the STORYTELLING - A TOOLKIT FOR BRIDGING DIFFERENCES AND CREATING COMMUNITY resource
Calling All Middle School and High School Social Studies Educators
The producers of the award-winning television series, HISTORY DETECTIVES, are developing a new episode of HISTORY DETECTIVES geared at a student audience (middle through high school grades). They will also be creating a Web site with interactive games and experiences to go with the new show. Now is your chance to tell the HISTORY DETECTIVES producers what shows they should make for your students. Please click on the link below and take 10 minutes to fill out the form. Help make great TV while making your voice count!
https://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?key=rp_Z9KEbie9EHvUUQs5HYTw
FRONTLINE's Digital Nation invites
Students and Educators to Contribute Their Stories
FRONTLINE's Digital Nation is a multiplatform project that includes an interactive Web site and a one-hour FRONTLINE documentary to air nationwide on PBS for early 2010. The project aims to capture life on the digital frontier and explore how the Web and digital media are changing the way we think, work, learn and interact.
Over the course of ten months, FRONTLINE's Digital Nation Web site will feature video reports from the production team, regular blog updates from the field, live online forums and other interactive tools for users to share and connect around.
Topics will rotate regularly and may focus on education and technology, online games and more. The producers will capture what they learn in the field, on the Web site and from users and present the story in the upcoming early 2010 documentary.
For more information, visit: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/us/
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