Oh, The Places You’ll Go

1. Oh, The Places You’llGo Taking students places you never thought you could By Mike Bayba, Erie 2- Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES mbayba@e2ccb.org

2. Agenda • Introduction • Teaching via DL • Electronic Field Trips • Special programming opportunities • Creative uses of Interactive Video • Co-teaching/mentoring • Locating videoconferencing opportunities

3. Distance Learning – what is it and what can you do with it? What is Distance Learning? • Online Learning – Asynchronous Learning ANY TIME ANY WHERE learning • Interactive Video – Synchronous Learning REAL TIME FACE TO FACE learning • Distance Learning Classroom • Portable Videoconferencing devices • Blended learning – a combination of both

4. BOCES Role – We focus on Interactive Video • Recruiting – Mike Bayba and district staff • Training – Mike, Brian Straight and Chris Mason • Technical Support – Brian, Chris and Mike • Material Support – Melissa Wilson, Rose Snyder • Administrative Support – Barb Siemaszko and Mike, and district staff • Scheduling – Rose, Chris, Mike and Brian

5. Teaching via Distance Learning • What does that mean? • Connecting to other schools to teach your course to your students as well as students from other districts • Meeting new students, administrators, guidance counselors and aides • Challenging yourself to teach on television (could mean a wardrobe upgrade!!!) • If you are interested, see Robin Kayner

6. Electronic Field Trips: Where can Videoconferencing take you? • Buffalo Zoo 72.43.196.130 • The Paley Center for Media (formerly the Museum of TV and Radio) • The Farmers’ Museum • NASA • Philadelphia Museum of Art • COSI (Center of Science and Industry) • Baseball Hall of Fame… and many others

7. Special Events Programming • Past presentations: • Milkweed author Jerry Spinelli • Lois Lowery, Number the Stars author • Future possibilities: • Gail Jarrow, author of Robert H. Jackson biography • Jonathan Mooney presentation from Chautauqua Lake • Career Awareness workshops from Genesee CC

8. College CollaborationsThe Michelangelo Project Pre-service Teacher students being able to observe a REAL classroom live, then debriefing with the REAL Teacher about the lesson and all the accompanying stuff that happens every day in the REAL classroom. You can be a part of training a new generation of classroom teachers!

9. Creative ways to use your Polycom Prospective employee interviews Teacher support meetings (i.e.inter-district department mtgs.) Legislative/Lobbyist meetings (Chautauqua Co. School Boards) College Collaboration (Michelangelo Project, ask the expert, student teacher observations)

10. Creative ways to use your Polycom Satellite Teleconference downlinks (i.e. SED, Colonial Williamsburg) Guest Speakers/Performers Electronic Field Trips (NASA, Ward Melville Heritage Organization) Classroom to Classroom collaborations

11. Taylor J. Putney • Reactive Teaching • Proactive Teaching

12. Technology • SMARTBoard • Polycom

13. Skepticism • Square Peg…Round Hole? • Are we doing this just to do it?

14. Two Main Uses • 1) Field Trips • 2) Collaboration

15. Field Trips • Buffalo Zoo

16. Field Trips • Metropolitan Museum of Art

17. Collaboration • Observation of Falconer and Panama • Who teaches what? • Who benefits? • Students • Teachers • How does the learning gap shrink? • In an interesting way…

18. Moving Forward • Collaborations with • Falconer • Panama

19. How do I find these things? • Your district should work with your BOCES DL COORDINATOR to coordinate dates/times and funding • http://www.vccontentproviders.org/searchprogram.php • http://www.cilc.org/c/education/content_provider_programs.aspx