2003-2004 Collaborations

Heckscher Museum of Art Exhibit
Long Island Best's: Young Artists at Heckscher

See the work of some of Long Island's best artists!

RED GROOMS EXHIBIT AT HECKSCHER

The Greater Long Island Wheelchair Athletic Club (GLIWAC)
The Greater Long Island Wheelchair Athletic Club (GLIWAC) is a not for profit organization which brings both adolescent and adult wheelchair bound athletes together. Their purpose is to provide an opportunity for "disabled" athletes to have a place to play competitively. They are the only team of such nature in New York State and must travel great distances to meet with other teams. This collaboration will help bring more awareness to the organization. We intend to create technology that will enable GLIWAC to reach out to the population in a more efficient way. This awareness will not only reach other wheelchair bound athletes and encourage them to join in, but also let the public learn about them on a more personal and complete level. As a result, GLIWAC may also receive more attention for their fundraisers which will allow them to travel more often to compete.

Please contact Julie Haring at mmiu@optonline.net or Dani Podolsky at danigirl0@aol.com for more information.

Collaboration members: Julie Haring, Dani Polodsky, GLIWAC

What is a Citizen?
Many students learn the responsibilities of citizenship in their very early education, but these key elements are no longer emphasized at the secondary level. This collaboration will bring together elementary and secondary students to explore the role of a U.S. citizen, and what it means to be an American. A goal of this collaboration will be to make history real for students, and to show students how history affects their lives today. Students of different age groups will explore the different elements of being an American citizen. Students will take an active part in the learning process by being educated by their classmates, teachers, and students of other ages. We will have students express their beliefs through the arts, share their talents and have the opportunity to learn about their country, and what it means to be an American citizen, the role of social studies in their lives will take on a much more tangible meaning.

Please contact Jill Bongiorno at jillbongiorno@msn.com for more information.

Collaboration members: Jill Bongiorno and Julie Wolf

ETC
The ETCafe (Educational Technology Café - http://eev3.liu.edu/ee2004/etc) is a collaborative team effort born from a vision of an internet/coffee bar. The vision is a breed of rare character. A place that defies the staff room/teacher center we have all grown to bear with. Imagine going to a place to learn how to incorporate technology into the classroom that's a cool, relaxing place that's aesthetically relaxing. Our vision for the ultimate place to learn technology is to create a Café much like Borders Books. A place where you are surrounded by inspiration, advice, tips in a non-intrusive, non-intimidating atmosphere. Please contact Damon Vogel at DVogel@Southampton.liu.edu

My Personal Voyage
This collaboration will allow students who are diagnosed with Learning Disabilities to share their stories so that they don't feel that they are alone. The focus will be on middle school students from local schools who have diagnosed Learning Disabilities, working through their schools SEPTA chapter. I hope to include a website/resource center sharing students' stories of personal success so that they feel there are other students like them. This site will also include stories from famous people diagnosed with L.D.s and a student resource center where students will have space for discussing with others.

Please contact Yonatan Koch at ykoch@ldwriter.com for more information.

Collaboration members: Yonatan Koch and Heather Paganica

Project Linus
"Project Linus is a 100% volunteer non-profit organization. It is our mission to provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need through the gifts of NEW, HOMEMADE, WASHABLE blankets and afghans, lovingly created by volunteer blanketeers." (copied from projectlinus.org) As a collaboration, we would like to enable children to participate in the development of a quilt, even if they are not able to make a quilt in person. We are going to create a website that will give resources to help people find information on making a quilt, create an area where we can compile pictures drawn digitally and then transfer them to material to be sewn, and hopefully, be able to create an area where pictures of these quilts that were made by Project Linus can be posted and maybe give a little information about the quilters or the steps that the quilt took as it evolved. The last step is so that maybe the children who receive a blanket can go and find out a little about the hands and the hearts that touched their personal blanket. We hope to do Project Linus in two stages. The first will be a timed collaboration. It will have a start and an end. The second part, if all goes well, will be ongoing. That will be mostly the web involvement and the history of the personal quilts.

Please contact Carolyn Strauch at missstrauch@yahoo.com for more information.

Collaboration members: Stephanie Castiglia and Carolyn Strauch

New Collaboration: My Life!
My Life!!! Is a collaborative project designed to truly integrate self learning, technology, and the school/home. The team will create a prototype web site and sample lesson/unit plans which teachers, students and parents can use and customize for any grade level. Throughout the school year the students will be exposed to a range of technologies, software, web sites, and academic ideas. Students and teachers will digitally document (through a personal web page/journal) highlights of their year in school and at home.

The My Life!!! journal will be filled with individual and group work covering every discipline, offering a wonderful blend of traditional and authentic/alternative assessments. As well, the journal will allow children to personalize their site with lists, photos, video, sound bites, links and reflections about their favorite things in life.

The power of My Life!!! is letting each child follow their own interests – recognizing essential questions, developing deeper levels of knowledge to universal understandings, and achieving higher levels of critical thinking - all stemming from their personal interests, background knowledge and own style of learning. The result will be an educational journey that creates a community of learners (students, teachers, parents, family and friends).

Please contact: Marc Engel at LoveToTeachinNY@aol.com for more information.

Collaboration members: Marc Engel

Web Quest: Rescuing Marine Wildlife at the Riverhead Foundation
This goal of this collaboration is to design a Kindergarten - 1st grade web quest to be utilized by students and teachers. The web quest is intended to focus on student understanding of the importance of marine life rescue and rehabilitation as well as understanding of how students, themselves, can become active participants in the preservation of our marine environment. This collaboration with the Riverhead Foundation will also allow students to partner with trained marine biologists and conversationalists, providing students insight as to how this important work is accomplished. The final product of this collaboration will be a simple designed web quest requiring students to "research" different endangered marine life animals. Through their research, students will be able to "rescue" different marine animals. Students will also have ongoing communication with marine biologists at the Riverhead Foundation, and will track the progress of rescued marine wildlife.

Please contact Julie Wolf at julsiewolf@hotmail.com

Collaboration members: Julie Wolf, The Riverhead Foundation

East Hampton Softball
The purpose of this project will be to provide an avenue for information on the East Hampton Softball players and program to be provided to all others who may find a need for it. This may include college coaches, family and community members, distant relatives, as well as the individual student athlete and their coach. The information being relayed will include data such as real time game tracking, live and taped video segments, player stats, as well as team standings and schedules. The project will also include a video documentary of the 2004 season, including the spring training trip to Disney's Wide World of Sports, in Orlando Florida. The site will serve as a resource at many levels, serving the student athlete, parents, distant family members, coaches, and colleges. Site is http://eev3.liu.edu/ee2004/ehsoftball/.

Please contact Chris Merkert at mrmerkert@msn.com for more information.

United States Regions
Many of us already know finding information on the internet can be very easy and also very difficult. The purpose of the Regions of the United States collaboration is to provide an educational resource for parents, teachers and students. Our website will provide an easy means of conducting research on the internet. We will provide parents, students, and teachers with ideas, lesson plans, links to other websites, and all the basic information you will need to know about the regions of the United States. Please feel free to explore our website to see how easy it is to navigate through it. This collaboration will be kindergarten through fifth grade friendly. Children and adults of any age in the grade level range will be able to find the information that they are looking for quickly and accurately. The intended end-users of our collaboration will be teachers of all elementary grade levels, parents of elementary and even middle school students, and students of all elementary and some secondary grade levels. We hope in the end this website will also be a resource for other websites on the internet.

Please contact Jen Zarcone at JSZ108@aol.com for more information.

Collaboration members: Nicole Bevilacqua, Renee Goldstein, Jennifer Novack, Erin Reilly, Lisa Wischerth and Jennifer Zarcone

Unsung Heroes
The purpose of our collaboration is to point out and recognize the positives from everyone within our community and schools, reflecting on the individual's emotional growth, character and empathy, acknowledging each as a positive role model. Our collaboration will help bring our communities a little closer, giving recognition, rewarding the positives everyone perform daily. Our collaboration will work with students in Elementary School, Middle School and High School, and on the College Level. At the conclusion of our collaboration, we will institute the program or club at a focused school or community center within our community. We are hoping to encourage positive actions and enhance community spirit, by recognizing the Unsung Heroes within everyone. We believe our project will set in motion individuals to work and commit good deeds within their community.

Please contact Unique Wilson at quani06@hotmail.com for more information.

Collaboration members: Catherine Gembinski and Unique Wilson

Virtual Field Trip
The purpose of this collaboration is to create an interactive website that is colorful, exciting, user-friendly, and informative to students, teachers and parents. In addition, this website will use auditory and visual stimulation to allow schools to integrate technology into the classroom. A virtual field trip would expose students to an online learning environment where it is possible to supplement the experience of “real-world field trips”. This collaboration will give parents the opportunity to experience field trips, will be able to incorporate multiple field trips into one, and will allow students whose districts do not allow/afford field trips to attend. We intend for this website to meet the New York State Standards and utilize computer and web technologies in order to create an electronic exhibition of diverse, natural, and cultural phenomena. Some technologies which we hope to utilize include images and text, videos, illustrations, photographs, hotspots, and toggle animation. Through digital simulations of the three dimensional processes of surveying, observing, and exploring, we hope to create an adventure which will increase awareness about a specific educational destination and will enable ALL individuals to participate in an exciting, easily accessible, and alternative educational experience.

Please contact Ellen Schachter at eschachter@smithtown.k12.ny.us for more information.

Collaboration members: Lauren Catania, Chris Connors, Robert Doran, Kristin Heinz, Lisa Interrante, Rob Landon, Ellen Schachter and Lauren Witte

The Traveler
The Traveler is a site created for a global community. This site is intended as a vehicle for the imagination. The steps of The Traveler draw interconnections between ideas. The Traveler is a persona who leads us to reflect connections of past and present and to envision new possibilities for the future. The Traveler offers opportunities for virtual trips anywhere, anytime, anyplace. The Traveler provides resources for investigation: stories shared connect to information and build knowledge of a particular time and place. The Traveler is a site designed to inspire us to imagine and to think about the process of a journey. The Traveler invites us to look into the future, be aware of the present, and learn from the past. The Traveler offers a community of fellow travelers a place to share experiences and stories about where we want to go, where we are now, and where we have been. Please direct comments or questions to hevans@ehufsd.org.

Journey to the Center of OTB (Outside the Box)
Journey to the Center of O.T.B. (Outside the Box) is a collaboration about a graduate cohort in the masters degree program in Educational Technology at Long Island University, C.W. Post. The site is a celebration of trials, tribulations, and milestones, as it presents the dynamics of all colleagues in the OTB TEAM.

We strive to discover all visages of our TEAM members. We attempt to depict the vivacious energy, uninhibited vision, and unparalleled creativity displayed through the productions of our fervent colleagues. Our site is not just another place to visit, it is an experience. Upon entering, the visitor is flooded with images portraying the Team experience. This creates a deluge of emotion, as well as stimulates the guest to continue the journey. From here visitors continue through the many facets of the TEAM experience. They are exposed to the inner-most secrets of the TEAM faction - the lives and experiences of each and every individual involved in OTB, as well as the conglomerate as a whole. Please email Deborah.Fleming@liu.edu with any questions or comments.

The Virtual Schoolhouse
The Virtual Schoolhouse < http://eev3.liu.edu/ee2004/virtualschoolhouse > is an interactive website that anyone can visit! There are great lesson plans that are extremely helpful to teachers, resources for parents, as well as information on a variety of “tough topics.” There is an educational links page that enables students to work on skills in a fun, educational atmosphere. Teachers can use these educational links as additional resources in their lessons. Exciting parts of this site are the individual classrooms that you can visit. Each of the classrooms has a schedule, list of upcoming events, monthly calendars, homework postings, and review sheets for tests. This site enables more parents to become involved with their children’s work. For further information you may contact Lara Bilz at laramb@optonline.net or Kristen Knatz at nitsnats@optonline.net .

Searching Suffolk Shore to Shore
Searching Suffolk Shore to Shore is a shared vision of a collaboration that enjoys the exploration and discovery of the unique places within Suffolk County. This instructive website is built upon virtual Road Trips which include historical places, wildlife, nature, and people. The website includes visual insights of scenic pictures, video, historical data and links to related websites. Searching Suffolk Shore to Shore is a magnificent website that can be enjoyed by all audiences. Whether you are a family looking for a place to visit, a school looking for an area to study, a student looking for historical data, or a nature/photography group looking for breathtaking views it can all be found in one place. For further information contact wvseeger@optonline.net.

East End Voyagers
East End Voyagers developed a guided tour through the Phantom Forest Walking Dunes of Montauk. This initial project will be used as a spring board to exploration and discovery of other east end locations. Additional voyages will take our audiences to the Morton Wildlife Refuge Sanctuary in Southampton, and the Big Reed Hiking Trail in Montauk. These voyages are appealing to learners of all ages. Our visitors will experience the beauty and history of the East End as well as discover the hidden treasures that the east end of Long Island has to offer. To create diversity in exploration, this project will collaborate with the work of the EEV collaboration Searching Suffolk Shore to Shore so that our visitors will have a greater variety of experiences. For further information contact Donna at etzbreak@yahoo.com .

Seasons of Learning
Teaching along with the seasons can be meaningful and fun with a bunch of creative ideas to get you started. Seasons of Learning is a collaboration website that serves as a resource for teachers to get and share ideas according to our outlined monthly themes. Accompanying each month are various thematic units and lessons that correspond with the monthly themes and holidays. There are also helpful resources and history to provide additional information for both the teacher and student through each month. Please visit http://eev3.liu.edu/spirit/SEASONS/.

Teacher Resources
The Teacher Resources is collaboration, a partnership involving teachers from different disciplines. The joint effort of this group is to provide other teachers with a centralized collection of lessons plans and useful hyperlinks. In addition, Through the TEAM Connection, future TEAM members will have the opportunity to partake in our community. Please visit http://eev3.liu.edu/spirit/teacherresources.

Poetry Project
Our collaboration is in the area of poetry. Within the collaboration we have started to collect webquests, created by us, for teachers to use within the classroom. The website is broken down by grade level and also by the poet. This gives teachers many activities on one poet. If a teacher chooses to complete an entire theme with his/her classroom they can complete a variety of activities that are technology based.

Dirty Water Ducks
The purpose of this collaboration is to use technology to raise awareness about environmental problems concerning Long Island. Some of these problems include shortage of energy production, increase in
population, pollution (air, water, and land), habitat endangerment, and water management. We hope to address these problems, possible solutions to these problems and the positive and negative impacts of each solution. In order to accomplish these objectives, this site will include, a research library containing information on environmental issues affecting Long Island in the recent years, a question and answer forum, and feedback from professionals working with these issues and links to other related sites. Please visit http://eev3.liu.edu/hhh2004/dirtyducks/ .

Half Hollow Hills Connection
HHH Connection uses the web to provide the Half Hollow Hills community with a "window" into the public school classroom. Video is used to document goings on at the Kindergarten and High School levels. In
addition, activities and interviews are staged in order to acquaint lower school and upper level students with the sorts of work that is being accomplished in those different environments. Please visit http://eev3.liu.edu/hhhconnections/.

Special Education Technology Aids
Visit this collaboration at http://eev3.liu.edu/hhh2004/SETA/. The purpose of SETA is to provide a web site that will aid educators, parents and people with disabilities in finding assistive technology sources. The philosophy behind the project is that everyone can learn given the correct technology. Communication is a key component that is mandatory for optimal learning and out theory is to shine light as to which assistive technology is available to the general public.

Recognizing Our Similarities, Respecting Our Differences
Visit this collaboration at http://eev3.liu.edu/hhh2004/respect. In today‚s society children are faced with complex and difficult situations that require them to draw strength from within. The source they will look to for this strength is their character. Good character does not develop spontaneously. Our collaborative goal is to foster
understanding, respect and empathy in children. We hope to do this through our website entitled, "Recognizing our Similarities, Respecting our Differences." Our goal is to create a site that is both aesthetically and educationally attractive to both children and their teachers.

Half Hollow Hills Homework Helpers (H5)
Visit this collaboration at http://eev3.liu.edu/hhh2004/H25/. Half Hollow Hills Homework Helpers is dedicated to helping children achieve their goals. This will be accomplished by addressing the academic needs of intermediate students by providing online resources (developed with the help of other students) that help them with their homework. Our goal is to achieve academic excellence through the use of technology. Our web site will be differentiated and appeal to all learners. Due to the vast amount of information that can be found on the internet, we feel that students become easily overloaded. Our site will narrow down subject areas and target issues of concern.