Free! When Can I Kiss You?

When it comes to dating, decision making, sex, drinking, sexual assault, and the safety of teens, how do you find the right school assembly to best protect your middle school and high school students? You definitely want a speaker, author, and expert who understands teenagers, school cultures, and parents. With such sensitive issues, you must have an understanding, engaging, and entertaining approach for both students and parents to be captivated.
Picture the presentation beginning with your students rolling in the aisles from laughter and then just minutes later the audience completely mesmerized in silence as they listen to a brother share the personal story of his sister’s rape. Mike Domitrz (award winning author and Founder of The Date Safe Project Inc) understands students want to be entertained and schools want an expert who will make a positive and long lasting difference in the lives of their students. Everyone wants a compelling and powerful program that each person can relate to in a meaningful manner. For this reason, Mike takes your students on a journey from hilarious laughter to hard-hitting questions and then provides the answers each student can use in his or her own life.
Host Site: Rocky River High School

Sponsor: Parent to Parent Network

Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010 Time: 11:20 – 12:20 p.m.

Transmission (View Only): NOTA/eTech Ohio and Live Stream from WVIZ

For more about Mike Domitrz’s programs and educational materials go to www.DateSafeProject.org

Schools interested in participating in this educational opportunity, via distance learning or live stream, should contact John Ramicone at 216-916-6360 or john.ramicone@ideastream.org by April 28th.

Grades K-12: Living with a Star: NASA's New Solar Dynamics Observatory

Learn about NASA's newest Earth orbiting telescope, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO.  The SDO is a telescope specially designed to study the sun from space, and will help us learn more about our star than ever before.  Join Marc Wetzel at McDonald Observatory on May 7th, to study the images relased by the mission, and also make a live observation of the sun with telescopes at McDonald Observatory!

Friday, May 7 at 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. CST.

Contact Lori Hamm at lhamm@esc11.net. 

Grades 2-8: Keeping Kids Safe Online

We tell our children never to talk to strangers in person, but we don't do a good job of telling them not to talk to strangers on the Internet. The Internet is an amazing tool for research, entertainment, education, and much more, but parents and teachers should be aware of the risks and take steps to minimize them. There is a lot more awareness about online dangers now, but we still need to be reminded that working on a computer is not like watching a TV. On the Internet, kids aren't just watching. . . they can be interacting with other people.

One of the most surprising findings is that less than 10 percent of online sexual solicitation or harassment is ever reported to authorities-- and that only a small percentage of families even knew how to report such incidences. Do you know what to do?

Please bring your students to the "Keeping Kids SAFE Online" videoconference so they can be reminded ( in a FUN way) how to use the Web with safety in mind.


TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010 - "Keeping Kids SAFE Online"
Presenter: Michael Snyder, with Computers Plus

REGISTER online for videoconferences: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/registration.htm

Target audience: students in grades 2-8
Times: 9:00 - 9:45; and 10:00 - 10:45 AM (CENTRAL time zone)
Format: 45-minute session [formatted into 25 - 30-minute presentation, and then 15-20 minute Q & A]
Cost: $75 per site
Questions: Chandra Allison, at (615) 322-6511 or email chandra.allison@vanderbilt.edu

Grades 5-12: Haiti

Presenter Jane Landers will discuss how French Saint Domingue (HAITI) became the richest sugar colony in the world and how its oppressed slaves accomplished the revolt that led to Haitian independence. Presenter Colin Dayan will discuss current events in Haiti and discuss what is needed to provide real help to Haiti. On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti and devastated the capital city, Port-au-Prince. Colin says the best aid for the earthquake-ravaged nation of HAITI is to empower the Haitian people.

Haiti, in the West Indies, occupies the western third of the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. About the size of Maryland, Haiti is two-thirds mountainous, with the rest of the country marked by great valleys, extensive plateaus, and small plains. Haiti was the first independent nation in Latin America and the first independent black-led republic in the world when it gained independence as part of a successful slave rebellion in 1804. Despite having common cultural links with its Hispano-Caribbean neighbors, Haiti is the only predominantly French-speaking independent nation in the Americas. Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 2010 - "HAITI"
Presenters: Colin Dayan and Jane Landers

Target audience: students in grades 5 -12
Times: 9:00 - 9:45 and 10:00 - 10:45 AM (CENTRAL time zone)
Format: 45-minutes formatted into 30-minute presentation, and then
15-20 minute Q & A
Cost: $75 per site
Questions: Chandra Allison, at (615) 322-6511 or email chandra.allison@vanderbilt.edu

FREE Grades 7-12: Shakespeare Outdoors (two separate programs)

HEC-TV Presents: Hamlet

Ever wanted to know what it's like to be part of a professional theatre? To go inside the rehearsal space and ask actors, directors and technicians questions while they work? To find out about their creative process? To see how a theatre production comes to life? Ever wondered what new challenges and opportunities await you when you stage that production outdoors? You can find the answers to these questions and more when HEC-TV Live! takes you behind the scenes of the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis.

Live from the outdoor performance space of the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, program participants will interact with director Bruce Longworth and various actors of the Festival’s upcoming production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Actors joining us will include Jim Butz who is portraying Hamlet as well as other members of the cast. The program will focus on the text of Shakespeare’s masterpiece and what it means to bring it to life in an outdoor production. Cast members will perform scenes from the play. Ask the director and actors what it’s like to speak Shakespeare’s language. How do they determine how to interpret the script and create their character? How does it change the acting and directing process to produce the play outdoors? Once you have registered for the program, we will send information about the scenes from the play to be performed so your students can read those sections in advance.

5/17/10 11:00 - Noon

Production Elements & Careers:

Ever wanted to know what it's like to be part of a professional theatre? To go inside the rehearsal space and ask actors, directors and technicians questions while they work? To find out about their creative process? To see how a theatre production comes to life? Ever wondered what new challenges and opportunities await you when you stage that production outdoors? You can find the answers to these questions and more when HEC-TV Live! takes you behind the scenes of the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis.

Live from the outdoor performance space of the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, program
participants will interact with various designers and technical staff helping stage the Festival’s upcoming production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. 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? Meet the theatre professionals who answer these questions and more every day in their career. 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 attending.

5/18/10
11:00 - Noon or 2:00 - 3:00

Helen Headrick
utilization@hectv.org
3655 Olive St
St Louis, MO 63108
United States
Phone: (314) 531-4455