FREE: Junior Achievement's Excellence and Ethics...An Executive Speaks

In collaboration with Junior Achievement, WVIZ ideastream will present Dr. Jerry Sue Thornton, president of Cuyahoga Community College in a special distance learning program "Junior Achievement's Excellence and Ethics…An Executive Speaks. Dr. Thornton's will explore the role of ethics in school life, personal interactions and business dealings. Hosted by Berea City Schools Superintendent Derran Wimer, the program will be held on Thursday, May 22 from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.

WVIZ and JA would like to encourage all JA students and prospective students to participate in this FREE interactive distance learning program. Interested schools should contact my office by May 19th.

Thank you.
John R. Ramicone
Director of Distance Learning Services

WVIZ/NOTA

1375 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44115

phone: 216-916-6360

fax: 216-916-6361

email: jramicone@ideastream.org

FREE: Authors and Illustrators via Distance Learning

May 16, 2008

WVIZ ideastream in conjunction with the Cuyahoga County Public Library invites you and your students to participate in the Annual Margaret S. Skiff Children’s and Teen Literature Conference via a distance learning connection. The conference will be held on May 16th at the Cuyahoga County Public Library Administrative Building in Parma, Ohio. WVIZ ideastream will bring the conference to you live and FREE over the state IP Network.

The conference features four outstanding authors and illustrators: Pat Cummings, William Low, John Rocco and Denise Fleming. This is a great opportunity for your English students and art students planning to pursue careers in writing or art to listen to and interact with these successful writers and illustrators.

Plan on your student meeting one, two, three or all four of these talented authors and illustrators. Schools interested in their teachers and students participating in these programs should contact my office by May 13th. Please see the attached time schedule.
For additional information on each author and his or her books, be sure to check the listed websites.

Due to the size of in house audience and the number of schools participating in this program, remote sites will have to email questions in during the program.
Thank you.
John

WVIZ/PBS On-Demand FREE Programming

“2007-08 On-Demand FREE Programming”


Beginning May 12 through May 30, WVIZ/PBS ideastream will be offering an opportunity for you and your students to view the distance learning programs produced during the 2007-08 school year. These “On-Demand” viewings are FREE.
Here’s how it works:

Contact John Ramicone with the date and time you would like the program to air. The program will be broadcast directly to your classroom per your designated date and time.

Upon receiving the submitted program requests, a broadcast schedule of the On-Demand programming will be sent out to all requesting schools, in the event that another school would like to view the same program at the same date and time.

Programs run from approximately 45 to 60 minutes. Please keep in mind that these programs are re-broadcasts, they are unedited and view-only. Schools are asked to remain on mute during the program. Programs are scheduled on a first-come, first-serve basis, so get your requests in early. All requests should be received by May 12th.

Students and teachers should be in the classroom approximately 5 minutes prior to each program.

Programs will not be aired on May 13, 15 and 22.

Available On-Demand Programs

Career Programs (approximately 45 minutes in length)

· Careers in Accounting and Finance
(Thomas P. Dewey, Senior Manager, Earnst and Young LLP)
· Careers in TV Broadcast New
(Barbara Gauthier, WKYC TV 3 News Reporter)
· Careers in Landscaping and Landscaping Design
(Kathleen Moran, Senior Landscape Architect, Yardmaster Inc.)
· An Overview of Careers in Healthcare
(Larry Voyten, Department of Nursing Education, Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
· Careers in Print Journalism
(Connie Schultz, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Plain Dealer)
· Careers in Nursing
(Larry Voyten, and Rosemary Jolle, Registered Nurse, Department of Nursing, Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
· Careers in Medicine
(Dr. Brian Keaton, Emergency Medicine, Summa Health System)
· Careers in Healthcare Support Positions
(Karen Bitzer, University Hospitals)
· Careers in Graphic Design
(Dan Weiss, Recruiting Coordinator and Melinda Leeders, Graphic Design Artist, American Greetings Corp.)
· Careers in Cosmetology
(Staff and Students from The Ohio Academy, A Paul Mitchell Partner School)
· Careers in Law
(Frankie Goldberg and Carmen Naso, Assistant County Prosecutors)
· Careers in Sports Promotions and Events
(Staff from Hermes, Cleveland’s Premier Event Management Company)

Careers in the Performing Arts (approximately 55-60 minutes in length)

· Recipients of the Cleveland Arts Award
(Composer Lewis Nelson, Director of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Visual Artist Christopher Pekoc)
· Presenting and Producing Concerts and Musical Artists
(Brendan Ring, Owner of Nightown and Cindy Barber, Owner of Beachland Ballroom)
· Cast of Wicked
· Cast of The Color Purple

Town Hall (approximately 55-60 minutes in length)

· Ben Stein
(Economist, Actor, Author)
· Charles C. Mann
(Journalist and Author, “1491: New Revelations of the Americans Before Columbus”)

Master Moments: “A Series of Conversations with Master Artists” (approximately 50-60 minutes in length)

· “The Drowsy Chaperone”
(Bob Martin, Tony Award winning book writer and Tony nominated Actor)
· “The Color Purple”
(Alice Walker and Marsha Norman, Pulitzer Prize Winners)
· Marvin Hamlisch, Composer and Musical Director

Other Special Programming: (approximately 55-60 minutes in length)

· Author James Loewen
(Lies My Teacher Told Me About American History)
· “Beat the Streets: Gangs Aren’t the Answer”
(featuring officials from the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office, Cleveland and Warrensville Hts. police departments)
· “Internet Safety for Youth”
(featuring officials from the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office, the Berea and Rocky River police departments)
· “Buckeye Bicentennial”
(Roots of American Music for Elementary Schools)
· “Unchained: From Slavery to Civil Rights”
(Roots of American Music for Middle Schools)
· “American Heroes”
(Roots of American Music for High Schools)

Interested schools should contact my office at john.ramicone@ideastream.org

Be sure to take advantage of the opportunity to
view a program you may have missed or to view a program again.

FREE: IT'S ELECTRIC! The Lorax

Date: May 28, 2008
Time: 1:00 p.m. EDT - 2:15 p.m. EDT
Grades: Middle/High School Students
How to Participate: Interactive H.323 Videoconference Participant (Internet2 Connectivity Required for this). THIS PROGRAM IS OPEN TO MAGPI AND NON-MAGPI MEMBERS.
Cost: Free!

Program Description:
Methacton High school has an electric car and has recently built a solar photovoltaic solar cell array to charge the car. This program will show how battery electric vehicles work, how solar cells produce electricity and the practicality of using renewable energy to charge an electic vehicle - - from both student and teacher perspectives.

The car itself has a fiberglass frame, three wheels and runs on 17, 12-volt lead, acid-gel batteries. The car, with the batteries, weighs 2150 pounds. The three wheels make it lighter, producing less friction, which demands less energy. The Lorax has a three phase AC induction motor. The Solectria controller takes the 204 volts from the batteries and converts them to a three phase AC pulse to make the motor run. It has 700ft/lbs. of torque at the drive wheel. The car has been driven at speeds of up to 80 mph. The first part of the presentation will focus on its design and performance.

This is an 'open forum' videoconference event - - students and teachers are encouraged to ask questions throughout!

About Methacton High School's Electric Car Club:

The goal of our club is to educate the public one car at a time. The program will focus on how the electric car was built, how it works, the positives and negatives of this particular car and how we are using solar energy to charge the batteries. Our goal was to no longer be dependent on the local utility company (which provides nuclear energy) and make the car totally renewable. Any background information that teachers could provide on these topics would allow their students to have a greater understanding for the material being discussed.

More Information/Registration: http://www.magpi.net/programs/lorax.html. Registration to be an interactive videoconference site in this event is available on a first-come, first-serve basis and is limited.

FREE: Inner World Discovery Program

Date: Friday, May 16, 2008
Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 am. ET
Target Audience: High School Students

Designed by St. Joseph's Medical Center emergency room doctor Phillip Silverstein, the “Inner World Discovery” program is a multimedia journey through the human body. With Dr. Silverstein as their guide, students participating in this session will experience the wonder, intricacies and elegance of the human body’s immune system. This interactive videoconference presentation with Dr. Silverstein will make the complexities of understanding the immune system accessible to students, and will make real the devastating effects of HIV. The program, a curricular supplement, is scaled for high school and community college health and science classes.



We encourage students to generate questions about the immune system, HIV and/or AIDS before participating in this videoconference.More information/registration: http://www.magpi.net/programs/innerworld.html

How to Participate:

• Interactive Videoconference Site: In order to be an interactive videoconference site for this event, your site must have H.323 videoconferencing capabilities. Your site must also be connected to your national high speed research and education network (i.e. Internet2 in the United States).
• This program is open to MAGPI and NON-MAGPI MEMBERS Have your high school students explore the Immune System through this interactive multimedia videoconference presentation!

Grades 9-12: A Conversation with Mark Dion

A Conversation with Artist/Archeologist/Naturalist/Flea Marketer Mark Dion
Part of the new MAGPI/Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage Partnership Series!
Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. ET
Target Audience: High School Students, Higher Education Institutions, Public/Cultural Institutions
How to Participate:
Interactive Videoconference Site: In order to be an interactive videoconference site for this event, your site must have H.323 videoconferencing capabilities. Your site must also be connected to your national high speed research and education network (i.e. Internet2 in the United States).
Watch the webstream! See the webstream instructions on the website! (Registration is NOT required for this option)
This program is open to MAGPI and NON-MAGPI MEMBERS
Description:
Celebrated artist Mark Dion began a historic journey last November to retrace the trips of noted 18 th century Philadelphia botanists John Bartram and his son William. Dion’s trip is in preparation for a site specific art exhibition at Bartram’s Garden, America’s oldest living botanic garden. Join us for an inspiring conversation with him about his project and travels!
The exhibition Travels of William Bartram – Reconsidered will examine the history and culture of the Bartrams. Using their travel journals, drawings, and maps, Dion is retracing their exploratory journeys including, specifically, William’s expedition to northern Florida. The artist and his companion “explorers” are often traveling in the same ways the Bartrams did: by horseback, boat, and on foot.
Dion is collecting specimens and man-made artifacts found in the landscape, which has clearly changed a great deal since the Bartrams’ travels 200 years ago. In keeping with Dion’s longstanding interest in “mail art,” he will send his findings back to Bartram’s Garden. The artifacts and specimens will be installed in souvenir cabinets that Dion is designing and building for the exhibit in John Bartram’s historic house.
“This is an exciting opportunity to combine the physical beauty of history and science,” said Dion. “To me, this is the quintessential exploratory road trip: part Lewis and Clark, part Jack Kerouac, part Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, and part Borat.”
More Information/Registration: http://www.magpi.net/programs/dion.html

Meet Congressman Zack Space **FREE**

Congressman Zack Space has agreed to meet with our schools via video conferencing on Thursday May 1st from 8:30 - 9:20 a.m. Congressman Space continues to fight for issues that are critical to the economic development of the 18th Congressional District. Zack highlights the importance of re-establishing an honest, transparent government in order to return Americans' sense of trust in government and in their public officials. Please join us to discuss key issues with our Congressman. To register for this event, go to www.tchesc.org and click on VC Scheduler.If you have any questions, please contact us. There is no cost for this video conference and we would like to have a big turnout for Congressman Space since he has graciously agreed to reschedule this session. Since we have more time to get this information to your teachers we are hoping to have a better response. Please make every effort to see that all teachers get this notice, especially the government teachers.Thanks for your interest and support!

Marilyn Roder & Michele Carlisle

Tuscarawas-Carroll-Harrison ESC

834 E. High Ave.

New Philadelphia OH 44663

330.308.9939 x251 Phone (Marilyn)

330.308.9939 x220 (Michele)

330.308.0964 Fax