Free Gr. 7- 12 Martha Washington and the Decorative Arts

Learn about the Colonial Period and Martha Washington through an unusual perspective-the decorative arts of Mount Vernon. Susan Schoelwer, curator at Historic Mount Vernon, will lead a distance learning session on a variety of decorative arts-the functional, often beautiful, objects-used by the Washingtons. Students will have the opportunity to send questions prior to and during this interactive program.

We will accept ten sites for this program.  Educators will be contacted after registration about processes for submitting questions for program.

Upcoming Curator Spotlight program from the 
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History

Curator Spotlight:
Martha Washington and the Decorative Arts
Grades 7-12
Thursday, Nov. 10
10:00-10:50 CST
FREE

Register: http://goo.gl/Hqdox

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Lori Hamm
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Fort Worth, TX 76106
(817) 740-7516
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Gr. K-6 HOLIDAYS videoconferences from Vanderbilt Virtual School:

HOLIDAYS videoconferences from Vanderbilt Virtual School: December 1, 7, and 8.

Complete LESSON PLANS are available on the Vanderbilt Virtual School website for every videoconference.  Just “click” on the title of each videoconference to go to the specific lesson plan.

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

COST:   $75 for each videoconference session.  

FORMAT:  45 minutes in length.  Format is 25-30  minutes presentation and then 15-20 minutes for question and answer session.

1) THURSDAY, December 1, 2011 - "HANUKKAH"  in the HOLIDAYS  series

    Presenter: Rabbi Saul Strosberg , Congregation Sherith Israel, Nashville, TN

  TARGET AUDIENCE: Students in grades K-6

  LESSON PLAN: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/programs/holiday/Hanukkah.htm

  TIME: Two sessions: one at 9:00 AM CENTRAL TIME and one at 10:00 AM CENTRAL TIME

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2) WEDNESDAY, December 7, 2011 - "CHRISTMAS: A Visit with SANTA"  in theHOLIDAYS  series

     Presenter: SANTA, beloved by children

< 2 style='margin-top:0in'>   TARGET AUDIENCE: Students in grades K - 3

    LESSON PLAN: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/programs/holiday/visitwithsanta.htm

   TIME: Two sessions: one at 9:00 AM CENTRAL TIME and one at 10:00 AM CENTRAL TIME

2) THURSDAY, December 8, 2011 - "The Nutcracker story and the Dance of The Sugar Plum Fairy"  in the HOLIDAYS  series.  

     Presenter,  Christopher Mohnani, Dance Theatre of Tennessee

    TARGET AUDIENCE: Students in grades K-3

  LESSON PLAN: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/programs/Christmas%20Stories/nutcracker.htm

  TIME: Two sessions: one at 9:00 AM CENTRAL TIME and one at 10:00 AM CENTRAL TIME

Register soon for this Holiday FUN!!

Patsy

Patsy Partin, M.Ed

Director, Virtual School

Vanderbilt University

2007 Terrace Place

Nashville, TN 37203

(615) 322-6384

www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool

FREE “Bin Laden’s Legacy and Mistakes in the War on Terror”

WVIZ ideastream in collaboration with the Cleveland Council on World Affairs is hosting a SPECIAL current events program featuring Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, the Director of the Center for the Study of Terrorist Radicalization.  Mr. Gartenstein-Ross will discuss with your students “Bin Laden’s Legacy and Mistakes in the War on Terror.”  The program is scheduled for Tuesday, November 22 from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, the author of Bin Laden’s Legacy (Wiley, 2011), has been described as “a rising

star in the counterterrorism community” by the International Herald Tribune. He has made both academic and

practical contributions to the field.

Gartenstein-Ross’s new book reviews the first ten years of the U.S.’s “war on terror,” examining the evolution

of al Qaeda’s strategy and arguing that America’s failure to understand it has led to grave strategic missteps.

Gartenstein-Ross has also made major contributions to the study of “homegrown” terrorists, those who

were born or raised in Western societies. He co-authored two reports about this subject in 2009, including

Homegrown Terrorists in the U.S. and U.K., an empirical examination of the radicalization of 117 homegrown

jihadi terrorists that provides a new framework for understanding the impact of religious ideology. He also

studies regions where jihadi groups pose a challenge, and is known in particular for his work on Somalia. He

has presented his research at events sponsored by Special Operations Command Europe (Germany), the

Universität Tübingen (Germany), Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (Israel), National Defense University, and the

Foreign Policy Research Institute, among others.

Date: November 22, 2011

Time: 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.

Schools interested in participating in this FREE current events program, via distance learning, should

contact John Ramicone at 216-916-6360 or john.ramicone@ideastream.org by November 18th.

EXODUS from CUBA

This videoconference will be presented by David Toledo, a man who was among those Cubans that came to the United States in one of the waves of the Exodus from Cuba. We feel that the videoconference with Dave Toledo’s personal experiences will make the immigration experience come alive and touch at many areas for your students in which reading about it often is obscure. David will share his experience as an 8-year old immigrant with his parents in 1967 when they immigrated to the United States from Cuba.  David will give a historical, a cultural and a political presentation that gives context to the Cuban exodus.  (REGISTER online for videoconferences:  http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/registration.htm)

David’s parents had studied in universities in Nashville, TN before the revolution and returned to Cuba to begin their married lives in 1954.  The revolution came along in 1959 and they left Cuba 8 years later.  Having friends in the United States to sponsor them, they were able to leave Cuba, but they had to spend 4 months in Spain before coming to the United States by plane.  What was it like for an 8-year boy to suddenly arrive as an immigrant in the United States?

Many thousands and thousands of Cubans were not fortunate enough to arrive by plane.  These Cubans took to the dangerous waters of the Florida Straits in homemade boats and rafts in a desperate reach for freedom. Through this videoconference, your students can learn the kind of price, the high price, that Cuban  people paid trying to reach for freedom. How many people took to the dangerous, shark-infested waters,  since Fidel Castro came to power in 1959,  is not really known.

The flow of refugees has continued and the Cuban population that settled in America became that much more diverse. Still today, more than fifty years after the 1959 Cuban Revolution and takeover by Fidel Castro, Cubans are entering onto the shores of America. These Cubans have also come out of desperation. After many years living under the communist regime they need to find a place to live that is more economically and socially viable.

The United States government has tried to curb the exodus by instating a “wet foot/dry foot policy, as anyone picked up by the Coast Guard is thus returned to Cuba and anyone who can make the dangerous trek without being caught is considered a new US citizen.  It is within this policy however, that "a loophole [has been created] that encourages unsafe and unregulated immigration leaving even fewer Cubans on their native island. As more and more Cubans leave the island in hope of a better life, there is question as to what will eventually become of Cuba, both while Castro is still in power and after he dies or is unlikely ousted.

New York City and Miami have seen the biggest changes as a result of exodus from Cuba. We will talk about the ways in which the exodus has affected the United States economy and the culture in these areas. What is the effect of the Cuban migration and transculturalism?  Join us for this videoconference as Cuban immigrant, David Toledo,  shares his story and students learn about the importance of the Cuban exodus both on the lives of individual Cuban-Americans, as well as the United States as a whole.

THURSDAY, November 3, 2011 - "EXODUS from CUBA"  in the Countries and Culturesseries

    Presenter,  David Toledo (immigrated with his family from Cuba),  a musician with over 40 years of musical experience

  TARGET AUDIENCE: Students in grades 5 - 12

  LESSON PLAN: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/programs/windowsontheworld/cuba.htm

  TIME: Two sessions: one at 9:00 AM CENTRAL TIME and one at 10:00 AM CENTRAL TIME

Complete LESSON PLANS are available on the Vanderbilt Virtual School website for every videoconference.  Just “click” on the title of each videoconference to go to the specific lesson plan. "EXODUS from CUBA"  in the Countries and Cultures series

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

Thanks for participating!

Patsy

Patsy Partin, M.Ed

Director, Virtual School

Vanderbilt University

2007 Terrace Place

Nashville, TN 37203

(615) 322-6384

www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool

Heart of a Hall of Famer Series: Marv Levy

Our character education series Heart of a Hall of Famer continues with Class of 2001 enshrinee Marv Levy on Wednesday November 16 at 9:00 AM and again at 11:00 AM ET. Levy led the Buffalo Bills to an unprecedented four straight Super Bowls as head coach guided Buffalo to the playoffs eight times during his tenure as the team's head coach. Join us as he talks about the traits that made him one of the game's greatest coaches.

Spots are open for the live audience or if you can't make the trek to Canton, feel free to join us through videoconferencing for a "limited interactive" broadcast. The program is open to grades 7th-12th and is FREE of charge. For more information or if you are interested in registering, please contact our Education Department at EducationalPrograms@profootballhof.com.

The Digital Generation Comes of Age- David Pogue

Free to NORT2H Members

Our next Town Hall Speaker Series program will feature David Pogue.  Mr. Pogue is a technology writer, technology columnist and commentator. He is a personal technology columnist for the New York Times, an Emmy-winning tech correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, and weekly tech correspondent for CNBC. He has written or co-written seven books in the For Dummies series (including Macintosh computers, magic, opera, and classical music); in 1999, he launched his own series of computer how-to books, called the Missing Manual series, which now includes over 100 titles covering a variety of personal computer operating systems and applications.

Join us on November 14^th as David interacts with your students about their use of technology in the digital age.

Program: 

David Pogue

Topic: "The Digital Generation Comes of Age"

Date: Monday, November 14, 2011

Time: 1:00-2:00 p.m

Schools interested in participating in this educational opportunity should contact John

Ramicone at 216-916-6360 or john.ramicone@ideastream.org by November 10th.

A program fee of $75.00 will be charged to schools not in the NOTA or NORT2H member districts.

Please process a purchase order to WVIZ/PBS Distance Learning, c/o John Ramicone, 1375

Euclid Avenue, Cleveland 44115 and fax a copy or the p. o. number to 216-916-6361.

For additional information on David Pogue please see: http://www.davidpogue.com/

Lest We Forget World War II - Pearl Harbor Day

Berrien RESA works with Lest We Forget Southwest Michigan to coordinate a series of interviews with local veterans. Each session features a panel of local veterans with a variety of experiences in each war. In this session, students will hear experiences from and interview veterans from World War II.


Program Format:
This program begins with an introduction of the veterans and participating schools.
Each veteran in the panel will discuss their memories of the war.
All schools involved will have a question and answer time with the panel of veterans.

Dates/Times		Program Date Program Time Network Time Registration Deadline   All times below are displayed in Eastern Standard Time, as specified in your profile. 12/7/2011 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM 10:35 AM - 12:00 PM 11/30/2011 12/7/2011 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM 12:20 PM - 1:30 PM 11/30/2011 12/7/2011 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM 1:35 PM - 2:45 PM 11/30/2011
Date/Time Notes		This event is offered annually on/for Pearl Harbor Day.
Connection Type(s) Available and Program Fees Request this Program Now		Interactive Cost: $50.00