2004-2005 Collaborations

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Website: http://eev3.liu.edu/cwp2005/virtualfieldtrip/coa/vft.index.htm

CHIVY SOK
Chivy Sok confront child labor abuse and partners with the Electronic Educational Village

Chivy Sok, an advocate of international human rights, is dedicated to the advancement of peace and social justice. A child during the Khmer Rouge's killing fields in Cambodia, she lives now in California, devoting herself to confronting child labor abuse around the world. Chivy directed the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights, was the Project Director there of the Child Labor Research Initiative, and is now working on projects to advance understanding about child labor through public education and training.

On April 2, 2005, the EEV was delighted to have Chivy present to K-12 teachers, higher education faculty, and to cultural and community participants from the Village. Linked with this day was an extraordinary initiative in Herricks led by Karen Kliegman, Library Media Teacher, and Beth Williams, Art Teacher from the Searingtown School. See http://eev.liu.edu/ChivySok/ for details.

This fall, on November 14, 2005, Chivy, Bette Schneiderman of LIU and the EEV, Karen, and Beth will present at the Council for Prejudice Reduction's Reducing Prejudice: A Matter of Choice Conference at the Huntington Hilton in Melville, New York. For information on this conference and on the initiative in the EEV to play out in 2005-2006, please contact Bette Schneiderman at bes@liu.edu

EAST ENDERS
This website will be a visual and oral history of the East End of Long Island. The site will allow people to explore different facets of East End culture and the many ways of life out on the East End. Visitors to this page will learn about how and who settled on the East End of the Long Island (from the early settlers up until today's large number of Hispanic settlers). Visitors will also learn about the lives of the farmers and fisherman in the area, who give the East End of Long Island its rich heritage and uniqueness. Last, but not least, the visitors to the page will learn about how Long Island was formed and how geological features of the East End has made this area the way it is today. Website: http://eev3.liu.edu/ee0406/EEnders

Collabortion Group: Don, Mike, Greg, Chuck and Sean.

SCHOOLS THAT TRAVEL
The purpose of the Schools That Travel Collaborative Project is to create an interactive innovative model that any school (or group) traveling to any destination can apply and adapt to enrich the traditional field trip model. In addition, the Project will provide a forum for development, collaboration and publication of each group's model and its results.

The importance and value of the Schools That Travel Collaborative Project are that the interactive innovative model will make the trip more meaningful (before, during and after), will make use of diverse learning styles and give participants (students) ownership of their own learning and travel experience. Website: http://eev3.liu.edu/ee0406/STT.

Collaboration Group: Erin, Kathy, Keri, Rachel, Sarah

THE ARTISTS OF THE EAST ENDS
The purpose of the project is to create a site that celebrates the creative geniuses that were drawn to the East End. A look and a link for many of the painters, writers, and musicians who were inspired by their connection to the East End and the lasting contributions they made to the world of their art. Using the icon of the Pollack-Krasner House both as symbolic hub and home to these visual, literary, and musical creators, the visitor will be able to link to sites that will illuminate a greater understanding of these visionaries and their works. Visit the museums where their paintings hang,read the words from the novels and stories written here, listen to the music that was composed by the musicians who played on the East End. Website: http://eev3.liu.edu/ee0406/AW

Collaboration Group: Bruce, Lauren, Dawn, and Linda

JUST IMAGINE
Just Imagine is a website for students and teachers to explore as they travel through the imagination of Artists such as Picasso, Matisse, and Pollock, travel through Ancient Architecture such as castles and forts, and explore outer space and underwater. Some of the ways in which we will create a stimulating and enriched learning experience are through interactive coloring book pages, a student gallery to display works created by those who have visited the site, a virtual tour of an artist’s workspace, interactive games, and an interactive storyboard. Website: http://eev3.liu.edu/ee0406/Imagine.

Collaboration Group: Meg, Jeannine, Nancy, and Heidi

GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING
The website, Global Understanding, is based on the belief that we need to deconstruct preconceptions in order to understand and celebrate culture. It is a website designed for students and teachers to understand others in a variety of ways. The website allows individuals to better understand other cultures by exposing them to diverse perspectives through literature, interviews and multimedia technology and thus enable people to enter into another culture, way of life and/or way of thinking. After visiting the site, visitors will have the opportunity to reflect and share their experiences through a response page. Visitors will then be able to further "walk in someone else's shoes" by reading others’ reflections. The goal is to bring people together to find the common threads that exist in all humanity. "Alone We Can Do So Little, Together We Can Do So Much"--Helen Keller. Website: http://eev3.liu.edu/ee0406/GU.

Collaboration Group: Perri, Ellen, Evelyn, and Debbie

JOURNEY THROUGH WELLNESS
Join us on a Journey Through Wellness. As physical educators we are dedicated to the promotion of lifelong fitness and health. We hope this site can be another vehicle used to provide everyone young, old, near and far with a resource to assist them in the pursuit of total health. We hope to achieve this by providing accurate information on living a healthy lifestyle and up to date news about specific opportunities available to East End Long Islanders. All aspects of health including physical, mental and social health are covered in our Journey Through Wellness. This includes information on everything from yoga to nights out on the town. We hope that you find what you’re looking for and it helps you live a healthy and productive life on the eastern end of Long Island, or wherever you may be. Website: http://eev3.liu.edu/ee0406/Wellness.

Collaboration Group: Lisa, Steve, Annmarie, Amy

EROSION AND CONSERVATION ON LONG ISLAND
The environment on Long Island has been under a great deal of stress due to rapid land development, weathering, and a variety of other factors. The purpose of our collaboration project on erosion and conservation of resources on Long Island is to increase student and community awareness of environmental issues currently facing Long Island. The website will incorporate webquests, timelines, community-based activities, research materials and much more. Students will be provided with tools so that they can examine topics such as erosion and conservation on Long Island and design and evaluate possible solutions to these problems. There will also be opportunities for students to broadcast information and environmental solutions to the community through the website. For more information visit our website at http://eev3.liu.edu/westburyII/MG/conservation/index.htm, or email Matt at Mcgorman2@yahoo.com.

Collaboration Group: Karen Goldberg, Matthew Gorman, Eileen Kelly and Rebekah Williams

CLASSROOM-TO-CLASSROOM PORTAL (CtCP) PROJECT: Fashion Portal
The goal of the CtCP collaborative project is to link two classrooms, in different parts of the world, via an audio/video Internet connection. Each group will be able to see, hear, and interact with the other group. These classrooms (groups) will be "twinned" in a similar manor that many cities and villages around the world are twinned i.e. a "relationship" between the two classrooms, more precisely, the students and teachers (and parents and guests?) in those classrooms, will be established and maintained (nurtured, exploited, managed). The Initial CtCP connection will be between Long Island, New York’s Half Hollow Hills School District (HHH) Fashion club and a similar group of students in Iasi, Romania.

"Magenta & The Magic Cloth" is an international project begun by the students in the HHH Fashion Club that brings clean water to villages around the world. It will be expanded into an electronic collaborative project in which both groups of students can participate. It is our hope that other CtCP cooperative international projects on such issues as peace, environmental initiatives, etc., can be established between two similar classrooms. CtCP projects can be anything that the educators think may be appropriate (all ages, all subjects). CtCP classrooms will incorporate technology that will include the development and access to a collaborative Web site. Contact person: Jerry Garfunkel at jerry@jeromegarfunkel.com

Collaboration partners: Jerry Garfunkel, Faye Feller, Pat Gordon, Ellen Robertson, Corinne Carriero, Bette Schneiderman, Mike Byrne, Laura Simms, Monica Willard, Steve Silverman

GRAPE NEWS!
This site is intended for college students, graduate students, perennial students, or anyone with a thirst for knowledge. Grape News! is a site where you can turn to answer your questions about wine.

Planning a party? Going to a friend’s house for dinner? Love French food, but would like to know more about their wines? This site will cover a wide variety of topics related to wine. Travel virtually to Italy, France, Australia, South Africa, Chile, California or Long Island to familiarize yourself with their wines, and learn what these environments have in common enabling them all to produce fine wine. Notice a change in your cork? Discover facts about the historic and sustainable farming of cork in Portugal, and ponder the impact artificial corks are having on this industry. What is a chardonnay? A Chablis? Is there a difference? Need a flight? Included in this site is a glossary of terms that will enable you comment on legs, and sniff bouquets like budding sommeliers. Looking for the perfect wine to pair with Lobster Pot-pie? Suggestions abound. Need a little sparkle in your life? Champagne and sparkling wines are “must haves” on festive occasions, and this site will review some of the best, the blush and the affordable. Cheers! Contact Valerie M. Field at vfieldtrip@verizon.net for more information.

Collaboration Partners: Valerie M. Field, Maria Alfano, Mike Buonagurio, Kim Richards

HIP-HOP HISTORIANS: TEACHING AND LEARNING THE BASICS OF RESEARCH
Could there be a better way to engage youngsters in the research process than by having them use technology as their guide and one of the most influential movements of the twenty-first century as their topic? Absolutely not! That is why our collaborative partners have created the Hip-Hop Historians. Our goal is to produce a virtual research tutor that can be used to walk any student, Middle School and up, through the research process. As the students use the virtual guide to brainstorm topics, research information and organize their information into extraordinary essays, they can view the modeled process via a multimedia look at a group of Middle School Students who have used the virtual guide to explore the history of Hip-Hop. The Hip-Hop Historians Website will provide teachers with an engaging way to teach their students the research process. Students in turn, will be able to use the interactive guides to navigate through this process and thereby gain a better understanding of the proper way to research. Contact: For further information contact Mike Villanti at metsys123@aol.com

Collaboration Partners: Heather Ciccone, Brian Hoffman, Mike Villanti, Mark Achilles

LONG ISLAND VIRTUAL TOURS: TOUR #1 - COLD SPRING HARBOR
The mission for this collaboration is to bring virtual field trips, about Long Island historical, cultural, environmental, and educational locations, directly into the classroom via the Internet. Many school districts have drastically cut back on the amount of field trips that a class may take, i.e. if any at all. Long Island has an abundance of places of interests that align with our New York State K-12 standards. The partners in this collaboration, K-12 teachers themselves, decided to choose some points of interest and virtually bring them to classrooms at no cost to school districts. Clearly, a virtual field trip isn’t the same as being at the location; however, it can still be very informative and interesting. Teachers and also use this site as a preview for students and their parents of an actual field trip that is going to take place. Students can view these virtual field trips and then collaborate with their teacher to decide on a particular trip. Families can use this site to learn more about possible local trips that they can make. Tour #1 focuses on the Theodore Roosevelt Audubon Center and Sanctuary in Cold Spring Harbor. This Center, that is located on land that was donated by President Teddy Roosevelt’s family, is a wonderful field trip. On our Virtual Tour, students will be able to hear and see many of the birds that are located at the Center/Sanctuary. On the Web site visitors will be able to hear questions and answers about the many animals that exist at the Audubon Sanctuary. The Internet-based tour will preview the beautiful grounds along with some of the fun activities that children can enjoy during a real visit.

We encourage individuals or groups that would like to add additional locations to this website to contact any of the partners listed below. It is our hope that the continued development of this EEV project will result in a wonderful resource for students, teachers, parents, and residents of Long Island and beyond. We would be very interested and look forward to hear your ideas.

Collaboration Partners: Geralyn Schroeder [Geralyn@optonline.net], Ken Smith [shmoves@hotmail.com], Michelle Ring [sillie55@nyc.rr.com], Stacey Leckler [bratt@aol.com], and Greta Villanueva [sunshine11956@aol.com]

THE 'UMBRELLA PROJECT"
The goal of this project is to provide a behind-the-scenes look at the kinds of activities and interactions that take place in the creation of a major collaboration. It is called The Umbrella Project as the partners in this project will capture information about many different collaborative projects, ergo, under the one umbrella. The Umbrella Project captures both digital audio, photographs and video of graduate students who are working in small collaborative groups in developing project-based, multimedia, pedagogically anchored Web sites and activities. These students, most of whom are K-12 teachers, are completing a Master of Science degree in “Computers in Education;” their program is called T.E.A.M. (Technology, Education, and Multimedia). The audio and video from The Umbrella Project, much like the “Making of” background segments that are commonly included with commercial DVD movies, will supplement the written description of the various collaborative projects that are highlighted within the Electronic Educational Village (EEV) Website. Additionally, The Umbrella Project will record actual collaborative team members’ audio descriptions of their projects; these audio files will be connected to the written project descriptions on the EEV Website. Contact: Jullie: mmiu@optonline.net or Jerry: jerry@jeromegarfunkel.com

Collaboration members: Julie Haring, Jerry Garfunkel

THE GREATER LI WHEELCHAIR ASSOCIATION
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.

Website: http://www.gliwac.org/Lightning.htm

Collaboration Group: Stephanie Castiglia, Catherine Gembinski, Unique Wilson, Julie Haring and Dani Podolsky

New Collaboration: My Life !!! - Our Life !!!
My Life !!! - Our Life !!! is a collaborative project designed to truly integrate self learning, technology, and the school/home. Its main goal is getting children to reflect on their lives and their world, and help them develop skills to live and work and be happy in a digital age.

The team will create a series of Web Quests, lesson/units and authentic assessments, 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 or class page) highlights of their year in school and at home.

The first Web Quest that is currently being completed is Indian Moons !!!, an innovative Web Quest on Native American Nations and culture right at the time of the Europeans beginning their colonization in America. This Quest has various sites, books, and multi media that are researched, with numerous authentic assessments that the students both solo and in teams create. The draft of this Quest is found at http://eev3.liu.edu/cwp2005/me/InMoElemFrameSet.htm.

The power of My Life !!! - Our 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 and creative 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

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 will also be adding two webquests (and hopefully in the future more) onto the site the we hope educators will use in there classroom that has to deal with the regions of the United States. One which deals with creating a travel brochure, the other having to do with an and individuals trip over to Ellis Island. 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

Project Freedom
Project Freedom focuses on the following key questions:

What does freedom mean to a kindergarten student?
What is freedom to an eighth grader?
How has the meaning of freedom changed throughout American history?
Who enjoys freedom today, and who is still fighting for it?
How can discovering the true meanings of freedom aid us in uniting as a classroom community, school community and internet community?
How has freedom for some negatively impacted freedom for others?

So far Project Freedom has been successful. Julie Wolf’s kindergarteners have made a Martin Luther King, Jr. iMovie, Freedom Quilt, Freedom Mural and Freedom PowerPoint.

The 8th Grade aspect is more of an overview of the story of American Freedom. 8th grade American History students are participating in a yearlong project called Project Freedom. During the school year students will look at freedom from a variety of perspectives throughout American History. The aim of this project is for students to uncover the real meaning of freedom, not as a timeless truth, but, as a value whose meaning and scope are constantly changing.

How will Project Freedom Work? Each student will construct their own Freedom Book, entitled "The Story of American Freedom." The books will contain a cover page and an additional Freedom Page for every Freedom question they answer. Links to the Freedom Pages can be found at http://eev3.liu.edu/cwp2005/jb/instructions.htm. At the end of each 8th grade unit (i.e. Government, The Last Frontier, Industrialism, Immigration and the Progressive Era, Imperialism, Progressivism, World War I, the Roaring Twenties, The Great Depression and the New Deal, World War II, The Cold War, Civil Rights and Modern America) students will be instructed to answer questions about freedom, related to the time period, and, by doing so, learn what freedom meant to the people living during that time in history. As the year progresses students will discover that the meaning of freedom has changed and expanded from freedom for some to freedom for many. They will understand the concepts of and differences between political, economic, social and individual freedom. The final component of Project Freedom will require students to define what freedom means to them. Students will describe freedom with both words and images that they take with digital cameras. Through this element of the project, individuals will be encouraged to define freedom in its most personal context and share their vision with others through meaningful interaction, effective communication and collaboration. In doing so, they will attribute their own meaning to the concept of freedom.

What Will Be the Outcome? Toward the end of the school year students will compile their answers to the unit questions on freedom and create a digital movie using either iMovie or Moviemaker2 to describe the “Story of American Freedom,” and what they have learned. The movie will commence with the digital photo that they took, which exemplifies their personal view of freedom. Each student will narrate this portion of their film, indicating what freedom means to him or her. This will serve as both a review of 8th grade topics in American History and as a creative technology project. Above all, students will have gained immense knowledge on the topic of freedom and its importance in both American History and their own individual lives today.

Freedom Continues: By the end of next semester our aim is to facilitate increased interaction between our classes. We also hope that the knowledge that we gain about the true meanings of freedom will unite us as a classroom community, school community and internet community. Project Freedom not only seeks to integrate technology in influential ways, but also seeks to allow learners to spread their ideas and findings through a variety of means designed to change the way children interact as global citizens. We will continue to integrate this theme in various capacities, including a possible joint visit to the United Nations.

Our Project Freedom website is still a work in progress, however, it can be accessed at http://eev3.liu.edu/cwp2005/projectfreedom/freedomsite.htm.

Paper Dreams
This collaboration’s goal is to take the art of Origami, share it with students in school, and have it serve a second purpose. The plan is to create an “Origami” tree where selected workshop students (in Origami) will create “pouch origami” like a cup where students can place thoughts, words of encouragement, or intentions (depending on the season) into the Origami pouches. Students will be encouraged to read the tree and reflect on what they read. Some of the other goals for Paper Dreams is to have other classes participate, with the writing of the thoughts and words of encouragement. Also, I hope to have some students and classes participate in the actual folding of Origami, by turning Origami into a mathematical lesson on angles and fractions.

Member: Carolyn Strauch

Escaping School: An Interactive, Virtual Math Game
The purpose of this collaboration is to create an interactive math website that is colorful, exciting, user-friendly, and informative to students. In addition, this website will use auditory and visual stimulation to allow schools to integrate technology into the classroom as well as encourage students to want to do more math problems. An interactive, virtual math game will expose students to an online learning environment where it is possible to supplement the experience of standard “real-world applications” often presented in school textbooks with more interactive and exciting situations. Escaping School will encourage students to want to experience multiple math problems by incorporating them into an adventure through three dimensional digital simulations. We intend for this website to meet the New York State Standards and utilize computer and web technologies. Some technologies which we hope to utilize include images and text, videos, illustrations, photographs, hotspots, and toggle animation. It will enable ALL individuals to participate in an exciting, easily accessible, and alternative educational experience.

Please contact Kristin Heinz at kh57@aol.com for more information.

Collaboration members: Lauren Catania, Lisa Interrante & Kristin Heinz