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PBS Teachers LIVE! Upcoming Webinar: Engaging Students with Experiential Science.

Join us on Tuesday, March 16 at 8 p.m. ET for the next webinar in our PBS Teachers Live! series. The webinar will feature Dr. Mae Jemison – astronaut, chemical engineer, scientist, physician and teacher – who will offer guidance to educators on how to best inspire students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). In honor of Women’s History Month, we will also be joined by Lisa Regalla, Science Editor at Twin Cities Public Television, who will discuss the new PBS KIDS program, SCIGIRLS. Lisa will highlight new on-air and online resources designed to transform the way tween girls look at STEM. For more information, go to http://www.pbs.org/teachers/webinar/.

CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG will meet and greet new friends on Saturday, March 13th at the Children’s Museum of Richmond.  He will be there as part of the Museum’s celebration of Literacy Month.   The story, Clifford the Big Red Dog,  is a children’s literary classic.   It was written by Norman Bridwell and published by Scholastic in 1963.   Now, more than 115 million copies of Clifford books have been printed.  In fall 2000, CLIFFORD debuted on PBS KIDS.  The series introduces children to CLIFFORD’S 10 BIG IDEAS which include: Be Responsible, Believe in Yourself, Be Truthful, Help Others, Share, Play Fair, Work Together, Be a Good Friend, Be Kind, and Have Respect.
There will be story reading, CLIFFORD videos, and children’s activities at the Children’s Museum of Richmond.  For more information, call the museum at 474-7070.

CLIFFORD would love to meet you.  Won’t you join CLIFFORD and your friends from WCVE at the Children’s Museum on Saturday, March 13th?

Leona, the lovable cub from the Emmy® award-winning PBS KIDS® television series BETWEEN THE LIONS, will meet and greet new friends on Saturday, March 6th at the Children’s Museum of Richmond.  Leona is the four-year-old in the family of lions who run a library like no other library on earth!  It is a magical place where children learn to read.  While Leona is not reading yet, she loves to get her paws on a good book.  She especially enjoys being read to by her parents, Theo and Cleo, and her older brother, Lionel.

BETWEEN THE LIONS is a multimedia educational initiative created to help children ages 3-7 acquire beginning reading skills and a love of reading. It is built around a curriculum that incorporates the most recent scientific research in literacy instruction.   Each episode features an engaging variety of animation, puppetry, live action, and music. The series is part of PBS KIDS Raising Readers, a national reading initiative focused on helping children ages 2-8 build their reading skills – especially those from low-income families BETWEEN THE LIONS airs weekdays on WCVE at 2PM and on WCVW at 6AM.

There will be story reading, BETWEEN THE LIONS videos, and children’s activities at the Children’s Museum of Richmond.  For more information, call the museum at 474-7070.

Leona would love to meet you.  Won’t you join Leona and your friends from WCVE at the Children’s Museum on Saturday, March 6th?

Even old man winter couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm at EdTech 2010!  Despite the not-so-perfect weather conditions, almost 500 educators braved the snow and blistery temperatures to attend WCVE Education’s annual technology conference…and everyone came home a winner!

Attendees left the two-day conference eager to share all they had learned with their colleagues.  The wide range of technologies demonstrated during the various workshop sessions are a valuable resource for teachers, library media specialists and administrators – and can easily be incorporated into any classroom curriculum.

Additionally, several lucky participants were awarded door prizes donated by several of the vendors.  Congratulations to…

• Linda C. – Huguenot High School, Richmond City
• Valerie T. – Pocahontas Middle School, Powhatan County
• Lori L. – Patrick Copeland Elementary School, Hopewell City
• Judy B. – Hybla Valley Elementary School, Fairfax County
• Laura J. – McNair Elementary School, Fairfax County
• Angela N. – Pocahontas Elementary School, Powhatan County

Thanks to everyone for their continued support of EdTech – making it another successful event!  See you in 2011!

Good news! Because the snow may have put a damper on story submissions for the PBS KIDS GO! Writers Contest, we have extended the deadlines for both WCVE and WHTJ.  The new deadlines are March 3^rd (for WHTJ) and March 19^th (for WCVE.)

So put on your thinking caps and send us your original stories!  It’s not too late!

Rules and entry forms for WCVE and WHTJ can be found on their respective websites.

WCVE Education faces the same economic challenges as everyone, and is not immune to budget cuts.  For this reason, it has become necessary to end the ITV broadcast schedule earlier than anticipated.  Please note the last day of ITV broadcasts for the 2009-2010 school year is now March 12, 2010.

In the meantime, be sure to check out Classroom Clips, WCVE Education’s video streaming site.  This on-demand media is designed to support students’ instructional needs, and can be streamed or downloaded.  Available to educators free of charge, the wide range of educational content – including topics such as history, government, science, and art – is correlated to Virginia’s SOL and is a perfect complement to the classroom curriculum.

For questions about Classroom Clips, contact Stewart Smith at 804-560-8138 or ssmith@ideastations.org.

Calling all educators and those interested in teaching and learning! This professional development conference brings together the world’s best thinkers, practitioners, and more than 8,500 educators to share their passion for teaching and learning.

This two-day experience for educators happens March 5-6, 2010 at the Hilton New York in New York City.  Full line-up, sign-up for email updates, and details can be found at ThirteenCelebration.org.

The PBS KIDS GO! Writers Contest is now underway!  Kids in grades K-3 are encouraged to put on their thinking caps and put pen to paper.  WCVE PBS and WHTJ PBS are looking for original works…written and illustrated by the entrant.

Stories can be fact or fiction, prose or poetry – and each grade level will be judged separately.  Because the goal of the contest is to encourage, challenge and reward effort, every child who submits an original story will be recognized for their participation with a Certificate of Appreciation.

Rules and entry forms for the WHTJ PBS contest can be found at the WHTJ website.  All entries must be received by February 26, 2010.

WCVE PBS contest rules and entry forms are available at the Community Idea Stations website.  The deadline is March 12, 2010.

Tell us…What story ideas do your young writers have?

In 2010, CLIFFORD will celebrate ten years on PBS.  To commemorate this special occasion,  PBS KIDS® and Scholastic Media have selected Monday, January 18, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service,  to begin their Be Big With Clifford: Ten Days, Ten Ways event.  This celebration will showcase, over a 10 day period, Clifford’s ten BIG IDEAS, highlighting key life lessons that will help children learn social and character building skills.   Clifford’s mission is to “invite everyone, big and small, to take action and raise awareness for how his BIG IDEAS can make the world a better place.”

The BIG IDEAS featured each day are:

January 18 – Help Others
January 19 – Have Respect
January 20 – Work Together
January 21 – Be Kind
January 22 – Be Truthful
January 25 – Believe In Yourself
January 26 – Play Fair
January 27 – Be a Good Friend
January 28 – Share
January 29 – Be Responsible

To make this celebration even more special, the Community Idea Stations is partnering with The Great Big Greenhouse to bring everyone’s favorite dog, Clifford, for a visit.  He will be at The Great Big Greenhouse on Saturday, January 23 to meet and greet his fans.  Appearance times are 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 12 Noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m., and 3 p.m.  There will be children’s activities and a book give-away, while supplies last.  Plan to join us for a day of fun with the “Kids Day in the Garden”.

Tell us…What can you do to make the world a better place?

ATTENTION! Teachers, library media specialists, ITRT’s and administrators…time is running out! Don’t miss the opportunity to discover new and exciting ways to bring technology into your classrooms!

Register for EdTech 2010 is just a click away! Several exciting sessions are planned, including Join the Pod: An Introduction to Podcasting for Educators, Learning with New Discovery Education Streaming, Math Lessons: Make Them Futuristic, Fantastic and Fun and Role of an Administrator in 21st Century Skills Implementation. Please check our website to see the preliminary schedule.

This is one conference you won’t want to miss! Register now!

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