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Helping
Every Child Succeed
Open Access: what the federal government is doing to help children
with disabilities
Accessible Internet
How the powerful combination of Web
accessibility, assistive technologies, and adaptive strategies can help makes
learning accessible to all
Accessibility Tools
Broadband Tools: Accessible Web design,
software accessibility features, and more
Accessible Teaching
Ways to use technology
to adapt teaching strategies to meet special needs
Accessible Media
How all classrooms can benefit from using captioning and descriptive
video.
Calendar Highlights Available Each Month!
Insight
furnishes a copy of Access Learning which contains listings and descriptions of
each month’s educational programming that has been created especially for our
teachers. The programming is copyright cleared for use in your classroom. Many
of the programs have wonderful, complete lesson plans produced by teachers
available on the programmer’s website.
If you can’t make it to the library, you can download and print out the articles to put in your plan book to read at a later time. Go to Access Learning and click on the article that you want to save to read when you have a few moments for inspiration. You can also print out the two-page highlights which serves as an at-a-glance, monthly calendar, highlighting the month’s programming. Teachers are invited to print this highlight page from the website and keep it in their plan book. Also included are the web addresses for each of the cable networks and directions to help you obtain their support materials online!
Click The Calendar to get your own copy. Keep it in your plan book so it’s always handy to you.
Faculty meetings exist for many reasons, continuing staff development being one of them. Check out the excellent one page article on the CIC website for a very worthwhile mention at your next faculty meeting. Staff Development: It's No Secret
Need to know what CIC channels Insight has on our channel lineup? Click Here for a complete channel lineup of participating cable networks available on Insight.
Insight Project USA Update…
Our Leadership team reports are rolling in! Just a reminder that if you haven’t turned in your reports, please remember to mail them to Kay Zoretic at 1909 Lyda Ave., Bowling Green, KY 42104. Blank project report forms are available on this website!
These Bristow students chose young angels off the Angel Tree and had great fun purchasing things they just “knew” their angels would enjoy. This was a “day of finalization” of several activities the students had created. They had just come from an area nursing home where they visited with and sang for the residents. You can find more pictures of the Bristow Elementary students on Insight Channel 5.
Briarwood’s
Insight Leadership Team is working to provide
assistance to a number of people and organizations. They are hoping that their
efforts will encourage students 
(and
parents, as well) to practice volunteerism in their private lives. These
students have applied for a grant to purchase tee shirts and provide a
“celebration party” for the Briarwood Volunteer group. Leadership Team members
are performing all the necessary parts of their activity from the initial grant
writing process to making posters to tell students about (and to encourage them
to participate in) their “Alive” Center activity, to sign in sheets to actually
know who comes, to planning and purchasing the tee shirts and party foods.
JoAnna Jones remarked that “although the activity is extremely large and has
many components, it is what the students chose to do and they remain committed
to carrying it out in a big way. Agencies and groups the student body will be
assisting include Meals Incorporated, Bowling Green Retirement Village, and the
Humane Society. Check Insight Cable 5 to see more pictures of these “Great
Gators”.
SEND US YOUR PICTURES! Insight is proud of these future leaders and we want to feature pictures of YOUR school’s activities! Please send your pictures to Kay with a brief description:
Kay Zoretic
1909 Lyda Ave.
Bowling Green, KY 42104
or email them to Kay!
Bristow Elementary teacher receives FREE gift from Insight!
Congratulations go to Misti Logsdon, a Bristow Elementary teacher! Misti sent feedback to your “In the Know” editor saying that she felt the Homelinks articles would be extremely helpful for her school to include in their parent communications.
If YOU would like to receive a gift from Insight, just email Kay and answer to the following question. (The answers are within this publication!)
1.) What is the name of either of the mini workshops or parent sessions Insight is offering Elementary School Resource Centers for their parents’ night?
The first five correct responses will receive a selection of premiums from several of our participating networks! Be sure to enter…YOU could be our next winner!
eLECTIONS: Teacher to Teacher
At the eLECTIONS award ceremony, Superintendent Dale Brown agreed to invite the faculties of Warren County schools to “run for president” and let Insight know the person who won the largest number of electoral votes in the game. As you can see, Winnie Cohron, Drakes Creek Assistant Principal was the winner. Congratulations, Winnie!
In Bowling Green City Schools, several teachers answered Insight’s eLECTIONS challenge and reported their votes. Amy Serrano from 11th Street is shown at the right with her basket of “Presidential snacks”. Amy was pleased with the quality of the program and also used the program with her students and shared the following comment....
“At first the teachers were interested, but soon our excitement and competitive natures spread to our students. During the last week, I heard my students in the classroom debating the major issues of this election like healthcare, gay marriages and the war in Iraq. They started to participate in the elections simulation as well. It was one of those rare educational moments of opportunities in which students were actively engaged and seeking knowledge.“
Insight’s “Cook with Your Kids” Contest Had Many Entries
We Have a Winner!
Morgan, from T.C. Cherry, was the winner of Insight’s Cook with Your
Kids contest and was presented her “big box of goodies” from The Food
Network at the school’s Chili Supper on November 18th. Morgan wrote
an essay about cooking with her mother and included her recipe for “Dreamy
Delight”. One of Morgan’s jobs is putting marshmallows on top of the finished
product.
When WBKO’s Whitney Ray heard about Morgan and the Insight contest, she invited Morgan and her mother to prepare their recipe on mid Day Live. Morgan’s classmates watched T.C. Cherry’s star in the classroom.
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!
Tom Bromer of Drakes Creek Middle and Kay Zoretic recently linked up with Jill Nyhus of CIC in Washington D.C. in a two-way video discussion about Project Cam. Drakes Creek is looking into the possibilities of incorporating the use of this fantastic technological tool to provide enhancement to their core curriculum. Project Cam will broaden teacher’s ability to teach certain subjects. With web cams and broadband access, classes in different locations can collaborate to create something relevant to their own learning experience. They can share a play or a collection of poems or they can share and compare local histories. Or they can share an environmental project conducted in two very different places! The sky's the limit—and Drakes Creek is ready to use the technology to take them there!
With Project Cam, a classroom can:
Login
to their unique, private page!Or Call Kay Zoretic at 796-8204
Share
With Your Parents
This month’s Homelinks page gives parents advice on why play is important for children with disabilities, how to pick the best toys and activities, and ways assistive technology can enable play.
Other articles give parents help with that New Year's resolution to volunteer
together as a family, including links to online resources from Nickelodeon,
Comcast, Disney's FamilyFun.com, and The History Channel.
Each month, Cable in the Classroom prepares a special page of Homelinks full of articles to help parents deal with some of the problems inherent with rearing children. Please feel free to include any of these articles in your newsletter that goes home with your students or you may want to print out the entire page.
Take a look at the
complete Homelinks
page.
Remember to bookmark Insight’s CIC website to check our newsletter periodically. The website is a valuable resource to locate participating CIC channel numbers, view the current newsletter and have access to project report forms!
