BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:649749:Event:354937 DTSTAMP:20260406T111345Z SUMMARY:PBS & CR20: Early Childhood Literacy: Resources & Strategies DESCRIPTION:RECORDINGS:\nElluminate recording: https://sas.elluminate. com/p.jnlp?psid=2009-07-09.0835.M.C7019E4E4FF762E6585A112B534140.vcr\n Audio: http://audio.edtechlive.com/cr20/earlychildhood.mp3\nChat: http ://audio.edtechlive.com/cr20/earlychildhood.rtf\nPortable Video: http: //audio.edtechlive.com/cr20/earlychildhood.mp4\n\nDate: Thursday, July 9th, 2009\nTime: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day) (int ernational times here)\nLocation: In Elluminate. http://tinyurl.com/pb scr20 If you haven't used Elluminate before, you can make sure your co mputer is configured correctly to enter the room by going to http://ww w.elluminate.com/support.\n\nPBS Teachers and Classroom 2.0 are deligh ted to have PBS KIDS producers and educators join us to share a wide a rray of content and strategies designed to help teachers of young chil dren improve their students' literacy skills. Scott Cameron, Director of Education and Research at the Sesame Workshop, will discuss the edu cational goals of the new Electric Company and how the on-air and onli ne resources can be used in the classroom.\n\nEducational consultant J ulie Wood will focus on best practices in reading and language arts in struction in 1st-4th grades, discuss her involvement with PBS KIDS' Ra ising Readers initiative and share ideas for using Raising Readers on- air and online educational resources. They will be joined by Heather D zikiy, a teacher who has demonstrated innovative and effective use of PBS KIDS content in educational settings, and Jennifer Rodriguez of th e PBS KIDS team who will present PBS KIDS Island, an innovative websit e that serves kids, parents, caregivers and teachers.\n\nAbout Our Gue st Speakers\n\nScott Cameron oversees the educational integrity of new projects in development at Sesame Workshop. This includes The Electri c Company project, which encompasses the TV show, Broadband games, the magazine and outreach activities. A former English teacher, Scott has worked in children's educational media as a curriculum specialist, re searcher and writer. In the mid-1990s, he was part of the team that de veloped the Israeli-Palestinian Sesame Street co-production. He also w orked on the Mexican, Canadian, Polish and Japanese versions of Sesame Street and was the Director of Content for the series Sesame English, which combined classic Sesame Street segments with new narrative mate rial to teach English to non-native speakers.\n\nA national educationa l consultant, Julie M. Wood, Ed.D. served as a faculty member and form er Director of the Jeanne Chall Reading Lab at the Harvard Graduate Sc hool of Education. Wood's writing has been featured in Instructor Maga zine, Scholastic Administrator, Harvard Education Publishing Group, Te acher Radio (on www.Scholastic.com) and the journal, Language Arts.\n\ nHeather Dzikiy is in her fifth year of teaching at Sykesville Element ary School, a National Blue Ribbon Award winner in DuBois, Pennsylvani a. She has taught third, fourth and a multi-age class of both grades. In addition to teaching in her district, she also serves as a mentor t eacher and teacher trainer in the areas of technology integration, dif ferentiated instruction, and data interpretation.\n\nJennifer Rodrigue z is the editor of the Between the Lions, SUPER WHY!, Sesame Street, M artha Speaks, and WordWorld websites on PBS KIDS.org.\n\nFor more info rmation visit https://www.classroom20.com/events/pbs-cr20-early-childh ood DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090709T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090709T210000 CATEGORIES:pbs, webinar LOCATION:Elluminate WEBSITE: URL: CONTACT: ORGANIZER;CN="Steve Hargadon":https://www.classroom20.com/profile/Stev eHargadon ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/1984511912?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Bernie P reston":https://www.classroom20.com/profile/BreniePreston ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN=Karen:htt ps://www.classroom20.com/profile/Karen388 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="jocelyne Lowe":https://www.classroom20.com/profile/jocelyneLowe ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Shannon Nelson":https://www.classroom20.com/profile/ShannonNelson ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Lisa Wen zel":https://www.classroom20.com/profile/LisaWenzel ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Joan McM anaway":https://www.classroom20.com/profile/JoanShinrock ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="George M ayfield":https://www.classroom20.com/profile/GeorgeMayfield ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Heather Logan Weiler":https://www.classroom20.com/profile/HeatherLoganWeiler ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Peggy Ge orge":https://www.classroom20.com/profile/pgeorge1 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN=Elena:htt ps://www.classroom20.com/profile/Elena93 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Amanda W est":https://www.classroom20.com/profile/AmandaWest ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Steve Ha rgadon":https://www.classroom20.com/profile/SteveHargadon ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Candace Ferguson":https://www.classroom20.com/profile/CandaceFerguson ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN=Michelle :https://www.classroom20.com/profile/Michelle90 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Melissa S Johnson":https://www.classroom20.com/profile/MelissaSJohnson ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Rita Me issner":https://www.classroom20.com/profile/RitaMeissner ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Nan Bar ron":https://www.classroom20.com/profile/NanBarron ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Kathryn Korty":https://www.classroom20.com/profile/KathrynKorty ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Govinda Prasad Panthy":https://www.classroom20.com/profile/GovindaPrasadPanth y ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Amy Bau mgart":https://www.classroom20.com/profile/AmyBaumgart ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="lou leo nards":https://www.classroom20.com/profile/louleonards END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR