Grades: 9-12 Virtual College Tour!

We have been diligently arranging for our upcoming 2007 LCDLC Virtual College Tour scheduled for Tuesday, November 20th 8:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. (Call begins at 7:00 A.M. including test time). This is a videoconference where your students can interact with presenters from six different universities in one day! The format for this event is very interactive. A 25 minute presentation is given by a representative from the university. A 20 minute Q & A session follows. Schools who wish to participate should plan to be a part of the entire day. However, this does not mean you have to have students available for each session, but it is highly encouraged. You may choose to have different students participate in different sessions as well.

Have your students visit with colleges from around the state via your IVDL system. On November 20th, students from Lorain County will visit with admissions officers to discover the course offerings, campus environment, and benefits of attending at several universities. Each 45-minute session will include a short overview of the campus, the programs available, and other related information to attending the college. Time will be provided for questions and answers so that students may ask specific questions.



The presenters schedule is as follows:

8:00 - 8:45 Lorain County Community College
9:00 - 9:45 Miami University
10:00 - 10:45 University of Cincinnati
11:00 - 11:45 The Ohio State University
12:00 - 12:45 Kent State University
1:00 - 1:45 Bowling Green State University

This event is free to members of the Lorain County Distance Learning Consortium. Non members will be charged $50. To date, I have the following schools included in the conference:

Firelands HS
Avon HS
Keystone HS
Lorain Admiral King HS
South view HS

Program Contact: Dave Miller, Lorain County Distance Learning Consortium, 440 324-3172, miller@esclc.org

Grades: 6-12 Presentation of the Warr Guitar

Bill Burke: An interactive presentation of the Warr Guitar
Date: November 19, 2007Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. ESTHow to Connect: H.323 Videoconference via the Internet2 CommonsTarget Grade Levels: Grades 6-12, Higher EducationRegistration: Registration is limited and available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please register at: http://cermusa1.wufoo.com/forms/charles-olson-tour-of-sama-registration/Fee: $49/site (payment due in advance)Description:Saint Francis University’s Center of Excellence for Remote and Medically Under-Served Areas (CERMUSA) is proud to presentacclaimed musician Bill Burke live via Internet 2 on November 19, 2007 from 1-2pm EST. Through lecture, live demonstration and performance, Mr. Burke will showcase various aspects of the Warr guitar, an 8-stringed instrument which allows him to play multiple part compositions simultaneously.An accomplished composer and instrumentalist, Bill Burke finds his vehicle of expression in the Warr guitar. Insisting that the development of a composition is a discovery, Burke pursues the truly novel rather than attempting variations on an already existent music.Bill's music can be heard nationally and internationally on stations as diverse as NPR (NYC and Echoes), Australia's FretNet, Siberia’s Penguin Radio, The Netherlands Radio Xymphonia, KMHD (Portland, OR) and numerous others.During the session, participants will also have the opportunity to interact and ask questions. A full biography of Bill Burke can be found at http://www.billburke.net/Want to learn more about the instrument: 8 String Touch Guitar – Luthier: Mark Warr 1000 Oaks, CA - visit: http://warrguitars.com/WarrRSS/Products.html. Mr.Burke’s presentation is a rare occasion for Saint Francis University, and we are pleased to share this session to remote audiences. There is a fee of $49 per site (payment due in advance) for registration. Please visit http://cermusa1.wufoo.com/forms/bill-burke-warr-guitar-nov-19-2007/ for registration and payment details. Registration is limited to the first 15 sites and is due no later than November 14. There will be two test dates, November 5th and12th, both beginning at 1:00 PM EST. More information? Please contact James Gerraughty at (814) 472-3890 or jgerraughty@cermusa.francis.edu

Grade 4-12: The History of Modern Rocketry with NASA's Digital Learning Network (Marshall Center)

This virtual tour will take your students on a journey through the history of manned spaceflight, including visits to some of the historical landmarks (early rocketry, the space race, and up to NASA's vision to returning to the Moon)

Topics include:

* Early and Modern Rocketry
* The Space Race
* Propulsion Systems: What Makes a Rocket Fly?
* Destinations: Moon, Mars, and Beyond
* Virtual Tours of Historic Spacecraft and NASA Facilities

Instructional Objectives: Science (NSE) Standards
• Unifying Concepts and Processes
• Science as Inquiry
• Physical Science
• Science and Technology
• History and Nature of Science

This program is available by request/on demand ONLY
Cost: FREE

Scott Anderson
scott.c.anderson@nasa.gov
One Tranquility Base Drive
Huntsville, AL 35805
Phone: (256) 544-5881
http://nasadln.nmsu.edu/dln

Inside the Artist’s Studio with Tony Tasset: All Things Must Pass

What does it mean to be an “artist?” Where do your ideas come from? How do you choose the best way to express those ideas? How do you respond as people react to your work? How does your work change over time? Explore these questions and more with artist Tony Tasset as you interact with him and works from his current exhibition All Things Must Pass now showing at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, Missouri. Designed to stimulate critical thinking about art and the artistic process, this program gives you a chance to go inside the mind of the artist as you react to Mr. Tasset’s works in the exhibition and explore the processes that created those works.

According to the artist:
“My work is intended to speak to the widest possible audience. I tap into universal themes and emotions through common pictorial languages. To this end I employ familiarity, humor, craft, sentiment, confession and shock. I make iconic images about the current cultural moment from an individual perspective. I commonly deal with themes such as birth, death, family, nature, beauty, love, fear, loss, desire, the body, culture, politics, morality, irony, sincerity, and America. My practice makes use of many different mediums and styles. No medium is superior to another, but the choice of medium and style is meaningful. The idea driving each project dictates the material choice and presentation. I sample or am inspired by a broad array of sources, including: Michelangelo, Norman Rockwell, Bob Dylan, Process Art, Feminism, Cappucine Monks, Television Commercials, Nature, Catholicism, vernacular traditions and childhood memories. Some work employs my family or myself as subject. I blur distinctions between reality and fiction. I search for a meeting place between the intimacies of my life, my individuality and the zeitgeist of a populace. I critique my culture and myself. Artistic and moral positions are contextual. In my work, I attempt to reveal truth.”

Tony Tasset has been an important and influential conceptual artist since the mid 1980’s. We invite you and your students to join us for an hour of exciting discussion and exploration of the ideas expressed in Mr. Tasset’s artist statement for All Things Must Pass. Tied to Missouri Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) and National Standards in Visual Arts, this interactive program challenges students and teachers to explore their concepts of art as they engage with examples of Mr. Tasset’s provocative and evocative works.

Exhibition Description:

From October 6, 2007 through January 13, 2008, Laumeier Sculpture Park will present an important solo museum exhibition by internationally-recognized artist Tony Tasset. All Things Must Pass will fill Laumeier’s indoor galleries and extend to our outdoor galleries with a new, commissioned, monumental outdoor sculpture. The exhibition, the first to showcase Tasset’s work in St. Louis, will include selected works from the past decade, recent work, and new work. A broad range of media typical of Tasset’s practice—video, photography, and a variety of approaches to sculpture will be featured.

Tasset frequently uses his environment, his family and himself as subject and inspiration. His work, employing wisdom and wit, continuously contends with the trappings of modernism, postmodern theory, pop culture, and the human emotions associated with love, loss, frailty and beauty. In recent work he has turned to the dual nature of his own existence—an urban artist/public figure as well as a suburban-father-with-garden. Using this deeply personal source material, he creates objects and images that are at once ironic, earnest, and decidedly humanistic. Tasset describes his work as an exploration of the “conflicts of the ego and the difficulty in expressing certain sentiments in a postmodern environment where truth is relative, and in a culture of consumption where emotion is a commodity.”

Artist Information:
Tony Tasset received his BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati and his MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago (1985). He is currently a professor of art and design at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Tasset has exhibited his work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; and Camerawork, London among others. He has lived and worked in Chicago for over fifteen years.