Megaconference

[Anika Trahan <>]

What do Steven Spielberg, the National Football League and YOU have in common? MAGPI, that's what! 

Register today for next week's exciting line up of programs!

TUESDAY October 9^th

 

Careers in the NFL

Grades 9-12 students; community college students

The Pro Football Hall of Fame examines the importance of education and the hundreds of careers available on and off the field with the National Football League. A short film on the San Francisco 49ers, examining the wide variety of careers with the organization, demonstrates the breadth of opportunities in the League. The interactive presentation and discussion that follows the film opens students’ minds and ideas to the world of the NFL that exists beyond the gridiron.

Enhancing Instruction with Virtual Field Trips

11:00AM-12:00PM EDT

http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/Careers-NFL

 

MAGPI Professional Development: Enhancing Instruction with Virtual Field Trips

K12 Educators

How’d you like to take your class to a marine lab to observe researchers interacting with sharks? Or, how about a tour of a museum—located 2,000 miles away?

Virtual field trips via H.323 videoconferencing are perfect ways to expand learning environments without leaving the classroom! MAGPI will show you how to use the CILC, MUSE and VC Content Provider databases to find content providers, and how MAGPI's Lunch with the Content Providers and Preferred Content Provider Discount programs can make yours a classroom without walls.

3:15-4:15PM EDT

http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/Enhance-Your-Teaching-Virtual-Field-Trips-1

 

WEDNESDAY October 10^th

 

MAGPI Professional Development: What is New in Multimedia Services?

K12 Teachers, Higher Education Faculty, IVC Integrators

MAGPI engineering staff offers an exclusive guided tour of MAGPI Multimedia Services and the offerings available exclusively for MAGPImembers, including high-capacity HD videoconference bridging, desktop and mobile videoconferencing options, and streaming, recording and archiving services available on the MAGPI Video Center. They also will highlight exciting new multimedia offerings, such as LOLA—the new LOw LAtency, audio andvideoconferencing technology that enables real-time, simultaneous, live musical performances across long distances.

Get the inside scoop on how to reserve these services and any associated costs in this can’t-miss session!

10:00am - 11:00am

http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/What-New-Multimedia-Services

 

IWitness: Using the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive

Educators grades 7-12; librarians

Founded in 1994 by film director Steven Spielberg as the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute is dedicated to overcoming prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry—and the suffering they cause—through the educational use of the Foundation’s visual history archive.

 

IWitness is a free online learning application that offers opportunities for educators and students ages 13-18 to access and engage with more than 1,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses.

 

Awarded Best Website for Teaching and Learning 2012 from the American Association of School Librarians, IWitness online activities are designed to foster critical thinking across a variety of subjects and topics. By participating in multimedia activities centered on testimony, students delve deeply into learning that meets a variety Common Core and ISTE standards, and integrates 21st century skills such as information, media, and digital literacies.

 

IWitness is a transformative learning resource. The transformation occurs when students make an individual connection with any single voice in the USC Shoah Foundation’s visual history archive. Using the embedded tools in IWitness, students do more than just watch and listen to testimony, they interact with it. IWitness activities use the flexible four-C scaffolding process: Consider, Collect, Construct, and Communicate to engage student participation. Through the 4Cs, students respond to videos, search for and save testimony clips to use in their own multimedia projects, and discuss their learning with classmates.

3:00pm - 4:00pm

http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/IWitness-Using-USC-Shoah-Foundation-Visual-History-Archive

 

THURSDAY October 11th

 

You, Conflict Resolution, Your Community

Grades 9-12 students; community college students

Conflict is part of life. People experience conflict in all aspects of their lives, from very mundane details of daily life to deeply personal losses. Those who have the ability to handle these conflicts by communicating effectively with others and using the language of peacemaking are at a tremendous advantage over the rest. Good conflict resolvers contain trouble; they do not avoid it. They can even turn negative situations into positive situations by focusing on resolution and working toward a better future rather than criticizing a flawed past.

 

Through identifying and exploring the elements of conflict—perspective, power, emotion, interests—individuals improve their ability to address conflict in their lives and in their communities.

 

You, Conflict Resolution, Your Community explores different constructive—and destructive—methods for managing and resolving conflict. In this engagingly interactive videoconference, students will examine typical conflicts they face, such as school-based disputes, family problems, and relationship issues, and assess how to resolve them constructively, and, indoing so, learn the basics of interest-based negotiating.

11:00AM - 12:30PM

http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/You-Conflict-Resolution-Your-Community

 

The Social Side of Videoconferencing: Enhancing Collaboration and Moderating

K12 Educators

So, you’re connected... Now what? How do you get students to talk?

MAGPI examines the role of the moderator and the processes for building collaboration into videoconference activities and projects: from integrating asynchronous collaboration tools (blogs, wikis) into acquainting processes; to initiating and maintaining dialogue through social networking(Facebook, Twitter and other tools); to planning agendas and keeping thingsmoving during class-to-class connections. This is a session IVC integrators and educators should not miss!

3:15PM - 4: 15PM

http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/Social-Side-Videoconferencing-Enhancing-Collaboration-and-Moderating

Anika Trahan

MAGPI Manager of Educational Services

University of Pennsylvania