Welcome back to school

Welcome back to school!

Insight would like to welcome all teachers and students back to school. We would like to give a special welcome to all the new teachers in our area schools. If you are one of these new teachers, please know that Insight wants to help you as you begin this most fulfilling responsibility. One of the things we do is to bring you hundreds of hours of commercial free and copyright cleared educational video programming each month available for recording in your library. Many of these programs address some of the same subject areas and learning goals that your curriculum plan addresses. If you are a new teacher, Insight would love to share with you how Cable in the Classroom can enhance your teaching. Give Kay Zoretic a call at 796-8204 to learn more or email her at kzoretic@insight.com.

Access Learning is a magazine and programming guide published by Cable In The Classroom, and mailed FREE-OF-CHARGE to your school library courtesy of Insight. This resource provides you with the schedules of the educational programs offered per month from over 35 programming networks participating in Cable In The Classroom. The magazine has an at-a-glance monthly calendar highlighting the programming. Also included are the web addresses for each of the cable networks and directions to help you obtain their support materials online!

Don’t have time to read Access Learning this month? View the program highlights online! http://ciconline.org/AboutCIC/Publications/accesslearning.htm.

Each month Access Learning has an educational theme with articles helpful to educators. The July/August issue has articles regarding online professional development. Cable in the Classroom is acquiring examples of high-quality online professional development opportunities. Be watching for a rotating catalog of great opportunities to expand your professional knowledge and skills, with course descriptions, links, and samples of selected coursework at: http://www.ciconline.org/enrichment/development.

Click Here for a complete channel lineup of participating cable networks available on Insight.

All over Bowling Green – Warren County, students are beginning their school year as kindergarten students. Insight was on campus to help Rockfield Elementary welcome students back to school as part of our partnership through the BG Area Chamber of Commerce Business-Education Partnership Program. While a few parents watched a bit nervously, the kindergarteners happily entered school, eager to start learning.

We have a new logo for our Insight Project USA program! You’ll be seeing this logo on all our materials to the schools, cable television ads, etc. In the logo the people represent the leadership team and students as whole working together. The handprints in a circle represent the volunteerism that takes place through their projects. We appreciate Philip Madison, Production Specialist at Insight, for designing our new logo.

Insight Project USA is a leadership program in which your leadership team devises and carries out volunteer projects and motivates your student body to make the project successful. The winning team is the team that provides the best leadership. Insight is making plans for this year’s Insight Project USA and will be hosting an orientation in October. Be watching for information so that your school can participate in this “easy to do” and “good for your students” activity. Area schools won $2,250 last year as a reward for their student’s leadership skills! We hope you will join us.

More information on Insight Project USA is also available on this website’s home page under the left menu bar- “PROJECTS”, “Insight Project USA”. If your school would like to participate this year, please register online on the home page under “PROJECTS”, ”Register To Participate”. I will be sure to contact your school so you will not miss this valuable opportunity.

Many of our schools are now receiving these digital channels (FOR FREE FROM INSIGHT). If you haven’t signed up and if your school’s wiring permits, we will be happy to bring it to your library. Sign Up For Insight Digital in your school!

In the old days, teachers had to use video programming as it aired. (It's hard to believe, but true!) Primary teachers often planned their day around Reading Rainbow because the taping capability had not been made possible. That meant that to view educational programming, students had to watch the entire program at one sitting. Also, there was no way to “rewind” and look at something a second time. Educational programming can be used much more effectively today. Only showing 15 minutes or less at a time and then having a time for discussion, questions and answers, reviewing, etc., makes learning with video more educationally sound. The teacher’s lesson is still the focus of the classroom and the video is a tool – used to enhance the lesson. So, for the most effective teaching, break your video instruction into small learning units interspersed with teacher input.

Remember – bookmark Insight’s CIC website to check our newsletter periodically.

This site is a valuable resource to locate participating CIC channel numbers, view the current newsletter and look at past newsletters!

Insight will be working with some demonstration classrooms in the near future. Students will have an opportunity to see and talk to students in other parts of the country in “real time”. Plans are in the works to set up a “virtual visit” between some primary students in Bowling Green/Warren County and students in a Pueblo village school in Arizona. Students will learn about life and school in each other’s environment and how life is different in each area. We would also like to set up a “visitation” between students here and in another part of the world.

To look at some of the projects that have been created for use with Project Cam, go to CIC Project Cam to see a description of the programs. Anyone interested???? If so, call Kay at 796-8204 or email her at kzoretic@insightbb.com.