Volume VIII Issue 2

Prepared for our Educators by Insight Communications, 515 Double Springs Road, Bowling Green, KY

Winter, 2004

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   A Word From

                      

As an educator, you have one of the most important jobs in our community. Insight recognizes that and wants to help. As the education coordinator for Insight, I'd like to meet with you to learn more about and the challenges you face and brainstorm ways that Insight’s unique resources and professionals can help you offer your students the best possible learning opportunities.

For more than a decade Insight has been supporting education in Bowling Green-Warren County with free access to high-quality educational programming and technology, including:

  • Video programming that is commercial-free, copyright cleared and aligned with standards
  • Local website cicbg.home.insightbb.com with access to:
    • Insight “In The Know” quarterly newsletter
    • Insight contest information/forms
    • Feedback
    • CIC channel information
    • A link to online support materials and lesson plans for educational programs, accessible through www.ciconline.org
    • Links to web sites for teachers and students that contain age- appropriate, curriculum-driven content etc.
    • Unique uses of streaming video and interactive web sites as teaching tools
  • Demonstration projects that will document how technology can positively impact teaching and learning
  • Various contests, activities and events throughout the school year that are designed to enhance your curriculum.

I hope you will contact me at 796-8204 or kzoretic@insightbb.com to discuss how we can work together and make a positive contribution to the students in our community.  I’ll be happy to come meet with a curriculum group or an entire faculty.

Regards, Kay Zoretic, Cable in the Classroom Coordinator, Insight

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


                                                                                     

 

Local Educators Visit C-Span

 

 C-Span invited several teachers and Cable in the Classroom Coordinators from around the nation to come to Washington this past summer to explore ways of using C-Span’s “Road to the White House” to teach students what to watch for in the political campaigns, how to distinguish “spin”, and how to listen and compare what the candidates are saying about the same issues.  Insight will be sending information to the media specialist in each school regarding special activities we are planning before the 2004 November elections.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kay Zoretic, Brian Lamb of C-Span and Dr. Meg Crittenden

 

Insight Project USA--Win CASH for YOUR school!

Area high schools, middle schools and elementary schools are participating in our leadership program, Insight Project USA.  There’s still room for those who would like to participate but have not signed up!  High school students should be aware that college applications are more highly viewed when students can document examples of leadership and volunteerism.  Insight Project USA provides your students with both!  Your leadership team will have the opportunity to plan, implement, evaluate service projects and motivate the student body of your school to participate.  As a bonus…YOUR group can win if their activity is chosen as demonstrating the best leadership!   Sign up today by selecting the Insight Project USA link on our website or email/call me at kzoretic@insightbb.com  or 796-8204. 

 

 

Text Box:  and the winner is . . . Lori Frint, kindergarten teacher from Rockfield, was the lucky winner of Insight’s Waiting for Winter basket of goodies.  “I’m so excited”, Lori said, as she looked through the basket of flavored coffees, teas, biscottis, cookies, soup mixes, popcorn and other winter time goodies.   “Insight has made my day!”  

 

 

 

 

 

Register for This Issue’s Teacher Appreciation gift!

Be sure to email Insight, telling us what you especially like about the newsletter – or what would be helpful to you in future issues.    Insight wants the In The Know newsletter to benefit YOU therefore we want to hear from you!  To enter, click here and Kay will put your name in the hat for the next drawing.   We have all kinds of goodies for you – a tee shirt, porcelain mug, travel mug, and items from some of the networks such as a C-Span wind-breaker shirt, A & E and History Channel Pens, etc, plus a gift card from one of your favorite stores!  Help us help you and win a treat in the process -  it doesn’t get any better than that!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: The Ancient World: Segments include: The First Great Migration;  Petra: Secrets of the Red City;   The Maurya Elephant Army;  Spartan Warriors. Airs: 1/3/04, 3/26/04, 5/21/04 at 5:00   From Medieval Times to Today:  Segments include:  Medieval Times;  Invasions and Empires;  Great Zimbabwe: The Lost City;  Galileo's Telescope Airs: 2/6/04, 4/2/04, 5/28/04 at 5:00 a.m. (CT)   World Geography: Segments include: Geography of Latin America; Geography of Europe and Russia;  Geography of Africa;  Geography of Asia and the Pacific Airs 2/20/04, 4/16/04, 6/11/04 at 5:00 a.m. (CT)   Motion, Forces, Energy, and Electricity: Segments include: Monster Masses in Motion;  Calculating Average Speed;  Coasting Through Roller Coaster Physics;  Bridges: A Heated Issue;  Exploring Lightning. Airs: 2/27/04, 4/2 3/04 at 5:00 a.m. (CT)   Insightful Questioning is included in each video segment! Text Box: t TLC programming is adapted from Discovery Channel material, but with vocabulary and concepts more suitable for elementary students.  Each half-hour program consists of several short segments so you can easily incorporate one or more of them into your existing lesson plans.  The programs are commercial-free and can be taped and used in your classroom for up to two years.  

 

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Text Box: t Check the Nick Calendar for specific programming.    

 

Text Box: “My Family is Different; I’m Adopted” - This program will help you teach your students to have sensitivity to the differences of others.  ·         Airs: 1/26 at 5:00 a.m. (CT)   “What Are You Staring At?” - This program will help you teach your students to have sensitivity to the differences of others.  ·         Airs: 1/28 at 5:00 a.m. (CT)

 

 

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Text Box: t Get detailed information about the availability of Teachers’ Guides and programming for Biography.   Elementary teachers can often use portions of these biographies as well as some of the programming from A&E and The History Channel with a bit of special planning.

 

 

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Text Box: t The History Channel Calendar of programming aired daily at 6:00 a.m. (CT)

 

Text Box: t You can see the A&E Calendar of programming every morning at 7:00 a.m. (CT)   Register at A&E’s website to request an “Idea Book” (IT’S FREE!) from A & E which has programming calendars for the entire semester for both A & E and The History Channel,   http://www.aetv.com/class/theideabook/index.html      

 

           

 

 

 

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Always check the Upper Grade Level Material for Subject Matter in Your Curriculum

Two good ways to use material you deem as “too difficult for your students” - that is a little too mature (in vocabulary, sentence structure, etc) is to…

 

1.)    Use ONLY short sections of the video that relate well to the point you want to enhance or explain.  Stop and rephrase the material in a simpler manner.  Students may well learn new vocabulary as you do this.

 

       2). Use bits and pieces of the video as above, except, eliminate the audio and use your own explanation

            as you have the students view the material.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Insight is combining forces with WKU and producing a video featuring two of Kentucky’s wonderful African American authors.   We are inviting middle schools and high schools to choose two students to come to a special “private” interview session with the authors to ask questions that have been discussed in class.  Insight hopes to provide teachers of literature/social studies or composition with material to be used in class to spark discussion of issues faced by African American authors, and/or women authors. 

 

If you are a teacher interested in participating in this opportunity with your students, contact Kay (796-8204 or  kzoretic@insightbb.com) as soon as possible.  We will be accepting only two students from each school, so you need to act quickly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


  

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Middle schoolers will have an opportunity to interview Marie Bradby, author of  Mamma, Where are You From?, More Than Anything Else, and Once Upon a Farm.   Marie’s presentation will be at Bowling Green Public Library on Tuesday, February 17th at 4:00 p.m.     Text Box: Crystal Wilkinson is an African American author from Kentucky.   Her books are for the older reader and 3 students from each of the four high schools will be invited to come interview her.   Crystal’s presentation will be at Java Café on the WKU campus on Thursday, February 19th at 7:00 p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 Media Specialists have received material about the contest to select the lucky students and will be passing it on to teachers of literature, composition and social studies.  Contact Kay at 796-8204 or  kzoretic@insightbb.com for more information.  The video that results from these tapings will be aired on Insight’s Channel 5, and copies will be sent to each school for future use.

 

 

 

 

 


Text Box: A & E and the History Channel have prepared an entirely new lineup of programming for their contribution to education through Cable in the Classroom.  Every morning at 5:00, The History Channel brings you an hour long commercial-free educational program that is copyright cleared for an entire year.    Sign up for “The Idea Book” and A&E will send you this booklet containing all the programming for both A&E and The History Channel for this semester, along with lesson plans for many of the programs along with wonderful teaching ideas.   All of this is FREE, you just click on this link and tell them where to send it http://www.aetv.com/class/theideabook/index.html.

 

                                                                                                                                                                       

 

                           

 

 

                  

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Text Box: February programming includes Save Our History: The Underground Railroad (2 Parts),   a two part program on Lincoln called In Search of History: Lincoln: The Untold Stories (2 Parts),  In Search of History: Ship of Slaves: The Middle Passage,  a documentation of African American’s struggle to be respected members of America’s fighting forces in America's Black Warriors: Two Wars to Win, Biography Close-Up: Civil Rights Heroes.  Click here for more information http://www.aetv.com/class/classcal/root.cgi?year=2004&month=1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Geographic Perspectives- Travel the world for a look at the relationship between physical and cultural geography. See how Africa has been shaped by its past and the critical role education plays in the continent's future; examine the history and importance of location of the Middle East; and learn how hardships, both political and environmental, have altered Europe's cities. Airs: Weeks of 1/26; 3/1; 4/5; 5/10; 6/14 Science Studio: Inquiry and Discovery- Explore the scientific process with a fresh look at some Assignment Discovery classics. Peer through the lens for a larger-than-life view of human and plant cells; discover how scientists are waging war against cold and flu viruses; take an action-packed tour of the physics of motion; and learn how the pursuit of gold led to the discovery of the periodic table. Airs: Weeks of 2/2; 3/8; 4/12; 5/17; 6/21 Text Box: Assignment Discovery airs on the Discovery Channel weekdays at 8 a.m. in Bowling Green.  As a service of Discovery Channel with Cable in the Classroom, each program is commercial free and can be taped and used in the classroom for up to a year.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Commerce & Culture- Around the world and across centuries, the consumption of economic goods and cultural ideals have defined — and redefined — societies. Trace the evolution of Japanese life from samurai warriors to Tokyo high-rises; look inside some of Europe's most-powerful empires, including those of Rome, Napoleon, and the Roman Catholic Church; and see how string beans and gold fund Africa's economies. Airs: Weeks of 2/9; 3/15; 4/19; 5/24; 6/28 Civilizations in Conflict Disease, conquering neighbors, internal strife — these and other hardships have changed the course of history. See how the bubonic plague helped bring an end to feudalism in medieval Europe; explore the role Western imperialism played in the demise of China's last dynasty and the destruction of African tribal culture; and examine the centuries-old religious struggles for the Holy Land. Airs: Weeks of 2/16; 3/22; 4/26; 5/31; 7/5 World History: Authority and Power How do rulers establish and maintain power? Does the scope of their authority affect their methods? Investigate the answers to these questions with a broad survey of world history. Examine the rules of Peter the Great, Machiavelli, Napoleon, and Alexander the Great; learn the role 19th-century gangs played in forging New York City's politics and identity; and visit the lost empires of Asia and Russia. Airs: Weeks of 2/23; 3/29; 5/3; 6/7; 7/12

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


          A New Online Demo for You to View    u u u

          Check out our new “Working with Cable in the Classroom” feature  See how some of our programs have

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This section contains additional links suggested by our contributing networks.

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/fry/fry.html  - Readability determiner.

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/math.html  Several good math links for elementary teachers

http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/  Get fantastic ideas from the Science Fair Central to illustrate your science curriculum or get ideas for some “on hands” experiments for your students..

http://inside.cspanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dschedule   For C-Span programming schedules:    Find out where different Democratic candidates are speaking – get streaming video and see what they are saying

 

http://www.americanpresidents.org/   - The American Presidents.-- An assortment of teacher ideas for both elementary and upper grade teachers.

 

http://www.americanwriters.org/   -  The American Writers --  Material about many famous American authors – great resource for teachers of American literature. 

 

http://www.capitolhearings.org/  - C-Span listings of Capitol Hearings to help you keep up with hearings and legislation regarding education.  This site is also useful if you are teaching government and want to help your students understand how hearings work. 

 

A & E and the History Channel have prepared an entirely new lineup of programming for their contribution to education through Cable in the Classroom.  Every morning at 5:00, The History Channel brings you an hour long commercial-free educational program that is copyright cleared for an entire year. 

 

A Few History Channel Study Guides:

 

Save Our History: The Underground Railroad (2 Parts)

In Search of History: Lincoln: The Untold Stories (2 Parts)

In Search of History: Ship of Slaves: The Middle Passage

America's Black Warriors: Two Wars to Win

 

History Channel’s calendar of programming:

http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/classcal/root.cgi

A & E information about the biography of the year contest.

http://www.aetv.com/class/

 

A & E Calendar of programming

http://www.aetv.com/class/classcal/root.cgi?year=2004&month=1

 

Lesson plan

Biography Close-Up: Civil Rights Heroes

 

http://school.discovery.com/