On Saturday, January 24th, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., the Ozarks Writing Project will host a Saturday Seminar focused on Using an Artist’s Eye (appropriate for grades K-12).
In this workshop-based seminar, you will experience research-based strategies to incorporate visual learning activities into language instruction. Leave this seminar able to help students use their artist’s eye to explore writing. OWP Teacher-Consultants Shelley Malady-Martin, Hollister Junior High School, and Michelle Keller, Hollister High School, will be the presenters. Light refreshments will be available.
The meeting will take place in Pummill Hall 308. http://www.missouristate.edu/map/BldgTemplate.asp?b=51 .
Parking will be free on Saturday. You may wish to park in Lot 22 or Lot 24. http://www.missouristate.edu/map/othermaps/parking.asp
Registration is $20. However, any TC who brings a guest(s) with them will be admitted for free! Also, you might encourage your guest to see if his/her school district is willing to pay their $20 registration fee…a bargain for such quality professional development, and participatory certificates are given for attending.
I am looking forward to seeing you. Please let me know if you plan on attending. We would love to see you there.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Monday, December 22, 2008
Exciting News
At the risk of sounding like a bragging parent, I had to share this news with my OWP community. My students participated in the Letters to the Next President project through the NWP this fall. We received word a few days ago that one of my student's letters has been selected for publication through the National Writing Project and the College Board’s National Commission on Writing. We're not exactly sure how or when it will be published, but Nick and I were both excited. Here's the link to his letter, if you'd like to check it out. The topic is pretty interesting.
Thanks, OWP! If not for the OWP, we wouldn't have even participated in this project.
Thanks, OWP! If not for the OWP, we wouldn't have even participated in this project.
Participating in a Weekly Webcast
I want to share with those who follow the blog about a recent experience with some new technology. I participated in an online discussion pocasted live on a weekly program called Teachers Teaching Teachers moderated by Paul Allison. Participants in the discussion include Sondra Perl, director of the Holocaust Education Network, and past summer seminar attendees. I was asked to describe how the seminar has impacted my my personal and professional life and the work being done on Breaking Down Barriers, a collaborative blog between my College English class in Miller, MO and an 11th grade honors English class in McCool Junction, NE. The students have created an extremeley rich body of text on this blog, which caught the attention of Sondra and prompted my invitation to be on the podcast.
We broadcasted live using Skype. I found the technology fairly simple and straight forward. We did have some tech glitches, primarily at the beginning and again at the conclusion. I am looking forward to playing some more with Skype, especially with video. I want to figure out how to stream live video over the internet and across mobile phones. The technology is there, I just gotta figure it out.
CLICK HERE FOR THE PODCAST
Holocaust Educators Network podcast on Teachers Teaching Teachers.
We broadcasted live using Skype. I found the technology fairly simple and straight forward. We did have some tech glitches, primarily at the beginning and again at the conclusion. I am looking forward to playing some more with Skype, especially with video. I want to figure out how to stream live video over the internet and across mobile phones. The technology is there, I just gotta figure it out.
CLICK HERE FOR THE PODCAST
Holocaust Educators Network podcast on Teachers Teaching Teachers.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Applications Now Ready for 2009 Holocaust Education Seminar
Just wanted to pass this info along.
Dear Colleagues,
The Holocaust Educators Network, in partnership with the National
Writing Project, announces 25 fellowships for NWP teacher-consultants in
the Rural Sites Network to attend the Memorial Library Summer Seminar on
Holocaust Education in New York City. This year, writing project
teachers may apply as individuals or in teams of two. To learn more
about the application process, visit
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/394. Applications must be
postmarked by January 16, 2009.
We hope that you will share this information with others, especially
history or social studies teachers who are part of your writing project
community. In fact, you may want to organize a site continuity meeting
to support teachers who would like to learn more about the seminar and
application process.
Happy Holidays to all.
Lynette Herring-Harris
Rural Sites Network Thinking Partner
Program Associate
National Writing Project
Dear Colleagues,
The Holocaust Educators Network, in partnership with the National
Writing Project, announces 25 fellowships for NWP teacher-consultants in
the Rural Sites Network to attend the Memorial Library Summer Seminar on
Holocaust Education in New York City. This year, writing project
teachers may apply as individuals or in teams of two. To learn more
about the application process, visit
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/394. Applications must be
postmarked by January 16, 2009.
We hope that you will share this information with others, especially
history or social studies teachers who are part of your writing project
community. In fact, you may want to organize a site continuity meeting
to support teachers who would like to learn more about the seminar and
application process.
Happy Holidays to all.
Lynette Herring-Harris
Rural Sites Network Thinking Partner
Program Associate
National Writing Project
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
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