|
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|||||||||
| |
|||||||||
| |
|||||||||
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sun-Earth Day Events
Kick Off The first event celebrating Sun-Earth Day 2005 will occur this month. more... Webcast Highlights
Virtual Design Center The Virtual Design Center at the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future conducted an interactive webcast last Tuesday. more... Tour Wants to Know
YOUR Needs The latest round of an extensive listening campaign to determine what needs schools have and how the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future can meet them took team members to Milwaukee recently. more... A Mole at the Virtual
Design Center An important chemistry concept is helping the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future improve curriculum design through its Virtual Design Center. more... Five InSTEP Teachers Earn National Board
Honors Another five graduates of the InSTEP™ program housed at the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future have achieved National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification. more... Explorer Schools Research Earns Paper
Acceptance A team of researchers at the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future have had their proposed paper accepted for presentation at next year’s annual conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). more... Happy Birthday,
Classroom of the Future! With a rather humble start in 1990 in an 88-year-old home equipped with two “state-of-the-art” Macintosh Apple 2E computers, the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future grew into the internationally recognized education facility that today serves thousands of teachers and students throughout the world each year. more... Classroom of the
Future Writer to Update Science Teachers on Mercury Mission Cassie Doty, a curriculum writer at the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future, has been invited to speak to Pennsylvania science teachers about NASA’s latest mission to Mercury. more... InSTEP Teachers on the Road to National
Board Certification Several teachers have begun work toward National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification through their participation in the InSTEP™ program housed at the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future. more... COTF Takes Part in Gaming Careers Symposium
for African-Americans Todd Borghesani, director of special projects at the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future, was a panelist recently at a symposium that promoted careers and development opportunities in electronic gaming for African-Americans. more... Virtual Design Center Names Editorial Board
Chair Dr. Dan Hickey of the University of Georgia has been named chairman of the editorial board of the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future’s Virtual Design Center. more... Classroom of the Future Researchers Present in
Chicago Two researchers at the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future will present workshops at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) annual international convention Oct. 20-24 in Chicago. more... Colorado Researcher Will Advise Explorer
Schools Evaluation The past president of the American Educational Research Association has agreed to lend her expertise to the ongoing evaluation of the NASA Explorer Schools program being conducted by the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future. more... Meteorologists to Experience STORM-E A presentation on the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future’s weather simulation, STORM-E, has been accepted at the 85th annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society. more... Internet Spurs Civic
Activism, Researcher Finds Civic activists who use the Internet become even more active in their community. That’s one finding of a study coauthored by Dr. Debbie Denise Reese, an educational researcher at the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future. more... New STORM-E Ready to
Rumble The newest version of the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future’s weather simulation, STORM-E, has just rolled out. more... Virtual Design Center
Adds AECT Two members of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) have joined the editorial board of the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future’s Virtual Design Center. more... Handhelds Get
Classroom Look A $300,000 grant from NASA will help the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future to conduct research on handheld computer technology and its use in the classroom. more... Classroom of the Future to Present to Astronomical
Society Dr. Laurie Ruberg, education outreach specialist at the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future and project manager of the Mid-Atlantic Space Science Broker (MARSSB) program coordinated at the Classroom of the Future, has learned that a poster presentation of which she is lead author will be included at the 36th annual American Astronomical Society—Division of Planetary Scientists meeting to be held in Louisville from Nov. 7-12. more... Robots Rule at Classroom
of the Future Robots ran the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future last weekend, and no one was complaining. more... Teachers Needed to
Test Materials The NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future program is seeking teachers to help test some award-winning science curriculum supplements. more... Ecology Unit Seeks
Teachers A new online ecology unit created at the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future needs teachers to help beta test it. more... InSTEP™
Grads Earn Board Certification Four graduates of the InSTEP™ program were among 64 West Virginia teachers honored recently at a ceremony in Charleston for achieving the teaching profession’s highest credential—national board certification. Members of the West Virginia Board of Education, state superintendent of schools David Stewart, and several other guests honored the teachers for obtaining this prestigious credential. more... CET’S Doty Delivers the NASA Message on MESSENGER Cassie Doty, a curriculum writer at the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future, was recently honored by NASA for training the most educators in the United States on the MESSENGER mission to the planet Mercury. more... Challenger Center Wins
Service Award For the ninth consecutive year, the Challenger Learning Center housed at the Center for Educational Technologies® (CLC) was honored for having served the most children of the 51 centers worldwide. more... Robotics Workshop for
Educators and Youth Group Leader Sept 25 The Wheeling Jesuit University Center for Educational Technologies is hosting a robotics workshop for educators and youth group leaders on September 25. Participants will learn basic techniques for building and programming LEGO® robots. The robots will be put through Mars rover and other challenges. Register for this free program by September 22. more...
InSTEP
Brings Worlds Together Native American culture dazzled visitors to the Center for Educational Technologies thanks to a visit from members of the Lakota Nation. The husband and wife team of Reuben and Ash Fast Horse entertained more than 120 guests over two days this week at the center as part of the “When Two Worlds Meet” event. The Fast Horses brought their Lakota tribal traditions to life through song, dance, and storytelling. The event brought culture, history, education, and technology to an audience of educators, students, and families. more... Center Hosts Native
Americans Tonight Performances by Native Americans and displays by artists and authors will highlight a celebration tonight marking the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition set for the Center for Educational Technologies at Wheeling Jesuit University. more... President Bush Joins
e-Mission at the Center President Bush watched this afternoon as flight controllers in the Center for Educational Technologies® guided seventh grade students at Southern Columbia High School in Catawissa, PA, on a distance education e-Mission™. Greg Meier, chief executive officer of the Center for Educational Technologies at Wheeling Jesuit University, and Nancy Sturm, chief relations officer at the center, traveled to Washington, DC, to brief President Bush on the center’s e-Mission distance learning programs and the use of technology, distance learning, and broadband Internet for education. Connecting with seventh graders, Wheeling Jesuit University, and the White House, the president observed students during the mission and then interacted via broadband Internet technology. President Bush greeted the students, encouraging them to study hard and to become scientists. more... Research Center Targets Today's Learners What if your child asked you—no, begged you—for more science and mathematics in his or her life? You’d probably be floored, but a new focus at the Center for Educational Technologies® at Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, WV, might make such a scenario possible. The center is aggressively expanding its market presence by transforming into a university-industry research center. This concept connects two players with different focuses but similar interests. Universities do research. Industries need research. With less government financial support available each year for universities and with private sector firms cutting back on their own research and development, the partnership makes sense. The university research then becomes market-driven, focused by the industry partner. The end result is marketable products that address formal and informal learning for K-12 students thanks to the expertise that a place like the Center for Educational Technologies offers. more... Want to Play a Game? Great! Americans love, really love, video games. More than half of Americans play one each week. The Center for Educational Technologies® is working to translate that fascination into a better student. The center, which is located at Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, WV, specializes in cutting-edge learning research. Researchers there are examining the learning sciences that go into immersive 3-D games as well as role-playing games. In particular, they’re focusing on advanced game technologies and their impact and value as learning environments for the next generation of knowledge workers. more... Teachers Ready to Get
InSTEP™ During Summer The InSTEP™ program, which over the last three years has trained more than 8,000 teachers in the latest educational technology and constructivist teaching strategies, recently kicked off its summer sessions. InSTEP, which stands for Integrating Strategies and Technology in Education Practice, had its first session the week of June 14 at the Center for Educational Technologies® on the campus of Wheeling Jesuit University. Other sessions are scheduled throughout the state of West Virginia during the summer. About 500 math, science, and technology teachers serving K-16 students are scheduled to participate this summer. Through the InSTEP model, those teachers will then hold professional development sessions in their home areas throughout the school year, passing on what they have learned to other teachers and thus extending the program’s reach. more... Center Keeps Students SHARP
with Summer Program High school students across the country across the country are debating some timely space science issues this summer with the help of the Center for Educational Technologies®. The NASA SHARP joint program activity, which is
coordinated by the center, kicked off June 14 and runs until July 23.
more... |
 |
December 09, 2004
|
| © 1999-2004 by Wheeling Jesuit University/Center for Educational Technologies®. 316 Washington Ave., Wheeling, WV, 26003-6243. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. |
