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Volume VIII Issue 1                       Prepared for our Educators by Insight Communications, 515 Double Springs Road, Bowling Green, KY                         Fall, 2003

Text Box: Working Hard to Help You! This issue of In the Know is dedicated to inform you about some of the new and exciting ways to make technology work for YOU in the classroom!   Is your school doing curriculum mapping and have you expanded those maps to include vertical planning?  Cable in the Classroom can help you plan ahead by acquiring educational video material along with lesson plans and curriculum guides provided by many of the networks through Insight and the internet.   I will be glad to show your vertical planning team how to locate and insert the resources from CIC.  It’s an easy process and it will become a valuable tool for YOU!   If you’re looking for a way to involve parents, how about starting a Parent Taping Team to record Cable in the Classroom programming in their own home!  I will be happy to come out to your school and explain the program to the staff and parents interested.  I will train the parents to set up the program and to do the recording.  It’s that easy and can provide your school with thousands of dollars of valuable, educational materials for only the cost of a videotape!    Would you like to locate internet links that have activities that will fit into your curriculum and help you set up some independent internet activities for your students?    Go to CIC’s website- http://ciconline.org/Enrichment/EnrichmentLinks/default.htm. -and you can locate many resources in a number of different disciplines.   Elementary teachers, would you like to have a fun and safe way to write to pen pals with classes in another part of the country and have a culminating activity at the end of the year?   Plan a Project Cam event with the two other classes.  Learn more about CIC’s Project Cam at   http://ciconline.org/ProjectCam/default.htm.    Find out about CLIC - http://ciconline.org/CLIC/default.htm - CIC’s online collaborative capability for educators.  See the explanation of CLIC and download the PDF file to see a tour of CLIC and see how it works.     Please call me at 796-8204 or email me at kzoretic@insightbb.com to find out more of these and other programs!                 Student from Holy Trinity Wearing Cable Technicians equipment.Text Box: Let Us Know How You Like Our Newsletter   Please take a moment and let us know how you like the change from the print format to this electronic format.  kzoretic@insightbb.com   What do you think of this format for our In the Know quarterly newsletter?  What additional information you would like to see in our newsletter?       YOU Could Be a Winner! Insight will draw a winner from all the names who have contacted us from this newsletter!  We have prepared a lovely basket of wintertime goodies for this winner.   Recommended Links –   These are just a few of the links that have been researched and are listed on the Cable in the Classroom website this month that will benefit you and your students!   http://www.mathforum.org   http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/   http://www.exploremath.com   http://www.counton.org   http://www.mathforum.org   /Enrichment/enrichmentlinks/math/web_explorations_apr03.htm   The links listed here are more fully explained on the CIC website so you can get an idea of how they can help you.             Text Box: TLC Elementary School Does Geography! This semester, geography is the topic covered by TLC Elementary School.   Click on their link to locate the schedule and download it to save in your plan book.  http://school.discovery.com/ontv/tlc.html   Areas covered are The Northeast, The South, The West,  The Midwest, Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, the Caribbean,   Tape these, catalog them and keep them on your professional shelf in your library.     Text Box: Holy Trinity Students Visit Insight   Students from Suzanne Talley’s Holy Trinity first grade class recently toured our cable office.  While there, students had a opportunity to learn about the different kinds of training required to work in the different positions at Insight.  Students had an opportunity to see customer service representatives in action, watch a pole climbing exhibition and see how the technicians in the production department produce a television program.   While visiting with the techs and installers, Bradley Wierson had an opportunity to wear the tool belt.  He was amazed at the weight of the tools the construction workers need when they are working on the lines.  Students also learned about safety on the job – thus the hard hat!   If your classroom curriculum would be enhanced by a tour of our facility, you may call Sheryl Morris, Production Supervisor at (270) 793-0902, (270) 782-8355 (fax)or email at morris.s@insight-com.com.   ~~~~~~~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Text Box: Upcoming Contests   Biography of the Year Essay Contest Students submit essays to A&E – 250 words or less explaining who made the biggest impact on the world in the year 2003 (positive or negative).  The winning student will receive a $5,000 scholarship and the student’s teacher will win $500!  Go to http://www.aetv.com/class/contests/aebio2001national.html for a complete explanation and how to enter.   TLC Trading Classroom’s Contest Select a teacher friend and the two of you along with your “hand picked” student team may win the opportunity to redesign each other’s classroom!  TLC will be furnishing $15,000 per classroom for this makeover!   An Activity for Black History Month Insight is in the process of developing an elementary through high school activity/contest for Black History Month.  We would love to have your help. Contact me at 796-8204 or email me at kzoretic@insightbb.com to find out how you can have input in the development of this activity.      Insight Project USA: Uniting Students for America   This project is designed to give your students an opportunity to develop their leadership skills and be recognized for their efforts.    We will be emailing information on this year’s Insight Project USA to the principals very soon.  If you are the contact person for your school, please email me at kzoretic@insightbb.com to receive the information direct.   As an additional resource for you and your leadership team this year, we will be conducting a workshop giving tips on “what makes a project a winner.”  Please email me if you are interested in attending.   We want to remind all the middle schools and high schools that they are eligible to enter again this year.  We would love to see the participation grow at all levels!  We look forward to hearing from every school!                  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Would you like your own “Idea Book” from A & E with a full schedule of programming and lesson plans for some of their programming?   Just click on the link and register with A & E.   Your Idea Book will arrive shortly – be sure to do it again near the end of the semester and they will send another for the second semester.