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A Roadmap for 'Net Navigation: Engaging and Educating Cybersafe, Cybersmart Students | |
 Angelo Bonavitacola, Marc DeBlock, Harold Olejarz |
The Internet is a powerful information and educational resource -- but effective education on safely navigating the Web gains importance daily as more and more cyberdangers surface. The Eisenhower Middle School's Tech Team innovated an effective project through which their students develop their own student-focused Internet safety videos. The success is shown in the videos themselves as fully engaged learners knowledgeable in Internet safety create and communicate video messages to illustrate cyberdangers and cybersolutions for their classmates and others.
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 How do they do it? When the Eisenhower School Internet Safety Project began with Tech Team teachers, Angelo Bonavitacola, Marc DeBlock and Harold Olejarz, joining forces to develop a sixth-grade Internet course to address these issues and to encourage students to be active learners by using the latest technology to learn about the latest technologies. To produce the videos, the students view online videos, visit web sites and discuss Internet safety topics. The students begin by developing a storyboard in ComicLife, a MAC OS program designed to create comics. Students then use digital cameras to capture images that are added to their comics. When the comics are completed the pages are exported to iMovie. In iMovie the students add voice-overs, sound effects, titles and transitions to complete the Internet Safety project.Many of the student videos have been or will be shown on ETV, Eisenhower's morning TV show. ETV is broadcast to the entire school and the town of Wyckoff. In addition, the videos are posted on a resource web page that includes links to sites with information and other videos on Internet safety. This Internet Safety web site was also used in a presentation to seventh-grade parents. During the presentation it was suggested that parents watch the videos with their students and use the experience to begin a dialog on the issues raised in the videos. | |
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Nortel LearniT's Technology-integrated, Cybereducation ResourcesNortel LearniT-created online safety video tutorials and video production video tutorials cover Passwords, Identity, Cookies, Spyware, Firewalls, Viruses, and Wireless (how to set up and secure your network).Nortel LearniT's cybersafety lesson plans (located on its English/Language Arts lesson plan menu) include: Cybersafety; Viruses, Popups and Spam; Cyberbullies; Cybersafety--the Dark Side; and Web of Deceit (Internet information that is biased, false, or with misleading or hidden messages). Nortel LearniT video skills training tutorials on video production including capturing, editing, titles and effects, and exporting videos using the iMovie technology used by Eisenhower School, may be found on the Video Production home page. | |
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Webb Bridge Principal Elizabeth Fogartie opened the first day at her location by announcing that the Nortel LearniT-sponsored change would take place.
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Fast Track to Informed Career Choices: Nortel LearniT and Graham Middle School |
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Eighth graders at Graham Middle School (GMS), NC, connected recently with Nortel Research Triangle Park (RTP) employees on today's choices and tomorrow's opportunities. This first event in the Nortel LearniT Alamance Burlington School System (ABSS) educational partnership emphasized good decision-making in the opportunities you seize and the way you face challenges. Key event organizers include Edgar Murphy, Nortel LearniT; Paul Grooms, Nortel LearniT Ambassador; and Adam Rose and Anshuman Mukerji, both Nortel New Grad Leadership program participants. See sample events and detailed daylong schedule. The sessions were such a big hit with the students that Assistant Principal Villines had to several times call a stop to the Q&A so that they could move on to other groups! The school has already invited Nortel back to talk to next year's eighth graders. Keeping up the momentum, Nortel LearniT training with GMS science and math teachers on curricular integration of 21st century technology is planned for late May/early June 2008.
The event had a powerful impact on Nortel LearniT Ambassadors and school administrators, too! Hector Rosado, a Nortel Customer Service Account Manager for C&W/TSTT Caribbean Operations said "I received one question, that really made me think. One young man, asked me, "Had you ever thought about dropping out?". This reminded me of all the challenges I faced at his age and during my high school years. I wondered what difficulties this new generation will face and if we are ready or equipped to deal with their difficulties." From GMS Principal Teresa Faucette: "This forum allowed our students to hear career advice from presenters. It was great for our students to interact with these diverse professionals. Our students appreciated their candidness with past struggles, challenges and successes. One of the most beneficial outcomes of this forum was the realization that students do not have to be certain about a career path at this point." |
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Nortel LearniT Ambassadors, at left: First Row: Tatiana Lucarelli, Damon Parrish, Amber Maldonado, Brandon Williams, Cory Green Second Row: Adam Rose, Derrick Nixon, Hector Rosado, Anshuman Mukerji,Jennifer Forney, Sparkle White, Angela Briggs Third Row: Daniel Potucek, Danna Hourani |
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School and Nortel LearniT Leaders, at left: (L-R): [Name], Carol Feddeman,former Nortel employee now a GMS teacher; Paul Grooms, Nortel LearniT Ambassador; Tyronna Hooker; Principal Teresa Faucette; Lisa Brendel; Asst. Principal Ron Villines; seated Virginia Royals |
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| NIA/Nortel LearniT Web Chat Authentic Learning/Authentic Assessment May, 2008 |
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In addition to his recent publications, Caught on Video" in the April 2008 issue of Technology & Learning and "4 Weeks to a Flatter You" in PBS Media Infusion, Bob has his own podcast and blog ("Bit by Bit") on classroom technology integration. Web Chat topics
Bob shared personal classroom implementation from "Web 1.0 Classroom web site" to Web 2.0 blogs and podcasts. He related the success of using MIT's Scratch program in the computer lab to illustrate the benefits and successes of allowing students to create authentic products that have real purpose. He covered how the new video technology advances not only support further engagement and partnership with students, but also are an excellent tool to capture their authentic learning experiences, i.e., to name just a few, students may be "caught on video"/ catch themselves on video to:
Join the web chat and learn even more! Bob Sprankle has taught at Wells Elementary School in Wells, ME, for the past 12 years and recently became the Technology Integrator, serving students K-4. He was awarded Maine's Technology Teacher of the Year in 2006 from the Association of Computer Technology Educators of Maine (ACTEM). From Bob's welcome page you can link also to his school and classroom web sites. Watch for Bob's upcoming article in late June focusing on the next steps: Democratization and "Crowdsourcing". | ||
Bob Sprankle, educator, technology integrator (and innovator) and the 2006 Maine Technology Teacher of the Year was the special presenter for the May Nortel LearniT/National Institute of Aerospace Web Chat: Project-based Learning: Authentic Learning/Authentic Assessment. 
Film students on the first day of school, asking them what their goals are for the school year.
Ask a student to demonstrate how to solve a math problem and capture his exact process (rather than just the answer).
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 Video simulcast between Washington, DC and Richardson, TX Nortel campus participants
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Are you hosting a Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work (TODSTW) event and looking for ideas on what to do? Well, we're here to help! Nortel LearniT has worked closely with Nortel TODSTW organizers to support a fun, effective and cohesive company-wide initiative. As seen in the faces of the young people shown on the left, a Nortel LearniT technology-infused visit to a Nortel campus is an exciting event! We've developed this web site as a central location for information, sample agendas, and tried-and-true engaging activities of various types and lengths--tailored to work well with the young visitors to our corporate environment:
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Every Day is Earth Education Day at Nortel LearniT |
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Nortel LearniT's curriculum supports Earth Day and environmental education and awareness every day! Resources include environmentally-focused Lesson Plans and Activity Guides for all ages:
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 The Creating Career Bytes Toolkit takes you step-by-step through a Career Bytes project--student produced short video interviews with professionals that showcase how they reached their career goals. Career Bytes projects encourage the kids who create and view the videos to explore technology-related careers and provide engaging video interview and video technology experience. Discover How to Use Career Bytes with Your Students, then view the Career Bytes Step-by-step Overview. To get your project going, explore our video resource section that shows the why's and hows of Career Bytes (in student-produced videos) and offers a link to all Career Bytes videos; map your Career Bytes success using the blueprint guides for creating Career Bytes; and use the practical tools organized by production stage. See our Career Bytes Site Map for an index to all of our resources. | ||||||
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Nortel LearniT and Curriki Partnership Announcement
Nortel LearniT has joined forces with Curriki to further develop and enhance educational curricula through a community of collaborative contributors. Nortel LearniT resources are now available at Curriki, a web site that shares our mission as a global learning initiative to provide free, accessible, ready-to-use, educationally excellent, project-based materials online. Together we can build upon our individual efforts to provide resources AND the environment to enhance their value to teachers and their students.
Read about the announcement and the commitment of Nortel President and CEO Mike Zafirovski and Sun Microsystems co-Founder and Chairman, Scott McNealy. Hear the podcast (mp3 format) in which Mike Zafirovski and Scott McNealy, introduced by Greg Farmer, Nortel Vice President, Government and Community Relations, discuss what can and should be done to use technology to bridge (and eliminate) the digital and educational divide and describe the curriculum collaboration directed toward transforming this vision into reality.
Be sure to take a peek at:
- Nortel LearniT's Curriki partner page at http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Demo/nortellearnit
- the sample courseware page at http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Demo/learnitcourses
- more information about the partnership at http://www.nortellearnit.org/LearniT/Featured_Partner_-_Curriki/
Nortel LearniT and Curriki share a joint goal to reach learners around the world to share the skills and opportunities that technology can bring to their learning and their future. Nortel LearniT creates and disseminates--through our web site (http://www.NortelLearniT.org/)--practical and innovative lesson plans, online learning opportunities, and resources for teachers, students, and learners of all ages. In the coming weeks and months a number of Nortel LearniT resources and sponsored projects will be available through Curriki.
Nortel LearniT and Durham Public Schools (DPS) 21st Century e-Teaching Partners
Nortel LearniT and DPS in e-Teaching initiative Latest News: Nortel LearniT Visits DPS Hillside New Tech High SchoolDurham (NC) Public Schools teachers are the first e-Teacher certification participants in a new partnership with Nortel LearniT, the signature community relations initiative of Nortel for inspiring learning through the power of technology. Teachers of grades 3-8 gathered for a Nortel LearniT training on June 14, 2007, to build technology infused lesson plans. View video interviews of participants discussing their experience of building project-based interviews with Nortel LearniT's lesson plan guidance. A focus is the strong point of how this approach serves students at all learning levels and excites them! View the list of the DPS 21st Century e-Teachers who participated and the lesson plans they created. Lesson plans written by the DPS teachers, and now available on Nortel LearniT are: Watch this space as many, many more are added!
| Transforming education...inspiring learning The initiative brought technology facilitators, media specialists, curriculum specialists and others together with the teachers to integrate technology into the plans in ways that engage students.
Making an Impact In addition to teacher stipends for participating, the teachers' schools receive technology to deliver these and other lessons. The technology includes digital cameras, web cams and other tools to enhance learning. As a native of Wake County and graduate of its elementary, middle, and high school system, Gail Lanier notes that, just as Nortel does corporately, she also directly "wants to give back, knowing that technology will be the key differentiator here in North Carolina." The teachers "all play a huge part in making sure that you can keep up with technology. The greatest gift we can give as educators is to …our ability to learn and pass that learning on." In recognizing the teachers and accepting the technology presented by Nortel, DPS Project Manager for RIO/Destination Success Hillary Alexander said, "We're really excited about accepting these gifts. As a teacher, I would have loved to have had this equipment. "This is great what you are contributing to us...WE really appreciate it and OUR KIDS will benefit!" As another extension of this teaming, DPS teachers and Nortel employees may partner in Nortel's voluntary technology outreach where Nortel employees work with the schools in the Nortel LearniT Ambassador program. Teacher Participants and Their Accomplishments
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Nintendo's Pokémon Goes to School: Engaging Students in Mathematics, Science, Engineering and Technology Learning |
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The National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), Nortel LearniT and Nintendo of America have teamed to develop Master the Science, an interactive, Internet-accessed learning inquiry including the familiar Pokémon characters to engage students in a program that incorporates science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) themes into activity units for elementary and middle school students. This teaming of three nationally-recognized, award-winning educational materials developers empowers teachers and students with easily accessible standards-based tools. The learning games allow students to “Master the Science…Master The Game” by joining with Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl and other characters in exploring the dimensions of time and space. The collaboration provides an opportunity for children to learn 21st century science using 21st century tools with characters they know. Capturing learners' imaginations via recognizable characters and symbols is just one ingredient in generating effective, engaged learning. Learning standardsEach Master the Science lesson plan is tracked to national standards, including the National Science | |||
| Nortel LearniT Lesson Plan Model: Timekeeping by the Sun The free lesson plans are designed according to the Nortel LearniT 6ES constructivist model that includes the attributes Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate, and Extend and tracks the plan to established Standards. The Timekeeping by the Sun lesson helps students explore ways to tell time using the Sun and other natural sky objects. Students experiment with a shadow stick (a gnomon), observing relationships between the Sun's position in the sky and the length of the shadow cast by the gnomon. The students' inquiries center around the image of the Pokémon character Piplup and the shadow cast by the sun behind Piplup. Their observations are documented using linear measurement and digital images. Through Internet resources, students will learn more about the Sun-Earth relationship, shadows, and early timekeeping devices. Students may extend this lesson by creating their own timekeepers and practice using stars and the Moon to tell time. |
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Learning Games' Award Winning Approaches to Engaging Learners For some three decades, since the inception of educational software in the 1970s, educators have adopted the educational game platform for stimulating interest in learning. To optimize learning success, educations have employed inquiry-based software to involve students with the activities of a well-defined character, making decisions and learning about those characters' environment...and their own. In this vein, NASA NIA is long recognized for award-winning educational endeavors, including programs in its NASA’s Kids Science News Network™ which span the education horizon from grades K-12, through 13-18, to adult (lifelong) learners and have won more than 60 awards including 9 Emmys. Ninetendo's Pokémon Pokemon learning league, also a provider of standards-based interactive animated lessons, is the 2007 winner of the Eddie Award in the multisubject web site category (mathematics, science, language arts, and life skills with additional curricular connections with social studies and library/technology). Just two months after release, interest is already high in the educational progam with Nortel LearniT hosting site statistics showing over 6000 visits to the game site worldwide from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, India, Ireland, South Africa, Pakistan, the Phillippines and many, many others. | |||
| 21st century technology enhanced learning Nortel LearniT is Nortel's Signature Community Relations initiative. Nortel employees use Nortel LearniT resources in volunteer initiatives worldwide. |
To provide these programs, Nortel fosters volunteer outreach as a part of its employees' work process and with in-kind technology contributions. Here we share with you the success stories of the diverse ways in which Nortel employees use their skills and Nortel LearniT's resources to empower others with 21st century skills. View our ambassadors': Nortel LearniT volunteer programs represent the diversity of our employee talents and the locales in which Nortel is located. Geographically, our effort crisscross the globe from Canada to Morocco to India to Marrakech. Volunteers design and create learning centers in large cities and rural locations, train the centers' teachers and learners in using technology, and build everything from wireless networks to walls to specialized learning tools. They translate websites...and transform lives... and find themselves transformed through these contributions! |
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Nortel LearniT Resources | View our: Technologizing Tips resource example
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The enrichment of students of all ages through the power of the Internet was the subject matter of a recent Nortel Capitol Hill policy briefing. The briefing was aimed at explaining some of the private initiatives taking place to enhance online learning and the role public policy plays in pushing greater funding and availability for science and technology curriculum. Presenters at the Briefing included Congressman Bart Gordon (D-TN), chairman of the House Science and Technology Committee, Bilel Jamoussi, head of Strategic Standards for Nortel's Chief Technology Office, and Dr. Barbara (Bobbi) Kurshan, the Executive Director of Curriki. View the video of this event.
Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN), told the audience of his committee's efforts to push forward legislation to increase funding for math and the sciences. Gordon pointed out that legislation his Committee passed earlier this year, which is now in a Senate-House conference to work out languauge differences, includes some additional important provisions, such as creating a new generation of teachers by offering science and technology graduates a $10,000 bonus if they commit to teach for five years. "We all need to understand the importance of encouraging those intererested in high tech, to teach those subjects." Gordon told those in attendance. "It is important to our country, our next generation and to the ability of the U.S. to retain its leadership in the critical technology arena." Presently, Gordon said, the greatest majority of those teaching high tech courses do not have high tech degrees but, rather, "fill in" the gap from their areas of expertise, such as coaching and reading.
Dr. Bilel Jamoussi, who manages Nortel's participation in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program, an initiative that will provide hardware and wireless connectivity for millions of children in impoverished nations, discussed the importance of the program and the impact it will have on developing countries, Dr. Jamoussi passed the OLPC laptop, known as the XO around for the attendees to explore. Dr. Kurshan discussed the work to build a global community with a web-based open source tool known as Curriki. This project allows teachers, students, and other educators to participate in the design and sharing of curriculum and learning resources.
Nortel's community relations initiative, Nortel LearniT has recently partnered with Curriki in the world of Internet based education. Together they are working to empower users to collectively benefit from both of their models and access their resources simultaneously. View Nortel LearniT coverage of the briefing, including the Curriki presentation; OLPC Presentation; a slideshow of the afternoon's events; and a descriptive photocollage of pictures from the event.
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| Curriki | One Laptop Per Child | Nortel LearniT | Event Coverage and Resources |
Curriki is a community of educators, learners and committed education experts working together to create quality materials to benefit teachers and students around the world. Curriki's online environment supports "development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them." Curriki describes its effort as "an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. The Curriki name combines 'curriculum' and 'wiki'. Curriki's technical platform is based on the advanced collaborative, open source x-wiki software. It allows educational users to upload and share their resources and curricula. Curriki is the result of work done for the Global Education and Learning Community (GELC), an online project started by Sun Microsystems to develop works for education in a collaborative effort. The leadership team consists of people with a long-time commitment to exploring the use of technology to improve education." | One Laptop Per Child's goal is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves. OLPC is a nonprofit organization which communicates its mission as "providing a means to an end-an end that sees children in even the most remote regions of the globe being given the opportunity to tap into their own potential, to be exposed to a whole world of ideas, and to contribute to a more productive and saner world community." The five principles of OLPC are:
| Nortel LearniT is dedicated to open source approaches, applying them in its curricular development and in its technology applications. Nortel LearniT and Curriki, the brainchild of Sun Microsystems' founder, are forging a powerful partnership for global education, in a joint mission to "transform teaching and learning in the 21st century." | Curriki PowerPoint Presentation One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Presentation View Nortel LearniT's continuous loop slideshow of the entire event!!! View our Policy Briefing Photocollage
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Being Cybersafe Means Being Cybersmart
Knowing what dangers lurk online is especially important as students head back to school. Responsible computer use is not just about good Internet etiquette. Being aware of the ways other users can maliciously use information about them or simply invade their privacy are valuable lessons for students to understand as they interact more frequently online. Social networking and other forms of 'instant publishing' online have made it even more important for all users to be literate in the language of Web 2.0.
Teachers might want to consider using the Nortel LearniT lesson plan series on Cybersafety and our Online Safety video tutorial series as a way to introduce the topic to their students, adding cybersafety to the back-to-school shopping cart! These are all directly available to use in your classroom. Our cybersafety series consists of individual modules for building a strong cyberIQ.
Cybersafety Lesson Series
The Cybersafety lesson series engages and involves learners in five modules that can be tailored to be age-appropriate. All lesson plans can be saved and modified as needed:
- Cybersafety Lesson Series: Introduction is the first in the Nortel LearniT Cybersafety Lesson Series, launching student exploration of a broad range of guidelines on Internet safety (such as safeguarding your identity, "talking to strangers", passwords, etc.).
- Cybersafety: Viruses, Popups, and Spam and Oh My - computer viruses and popups, spam, and more, including hoaxes, scams/fraud, identity theft, and cookies
- Cybersafety: Cyberbullies - online bullying via e-mail, video, instant messaging
- Cybersafety: The Dark Side of the Net - Internet dangers of online predators and pornography
- Cybersafety: Web of Deceit - how to examine Web sites to research and analyze the effectiveness of information stored on a Web page. Students will create their own Web pages to demonstrate how they apply their new media literacy skills.
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These lessons can be used as:
- standalone lessons on cybersafety or as the introduction to cybersafety concepts.
- to assemble as very informative and interesting session(s) for students, parents and/or the community.
Resources for allFind current cybersafety resource lists from Nortel LearniT useful in your classroom, community center, other outreach activity, or home under the Just For You! portals for: |  |
Video Tutorials and ResourcesNortel LearniT provides engaging video tutorials and other resources to help students build their cybersmarts: |
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Information for Parents
As the primary educators, parents and children's caregivers share concerns with educators and the rest of the community in ensuring that children are cybersafe. Cybereducation and cybersafety fostered at home are critical keys to successful 21st century eLearning. There are excellent guidelines for parents and strong websites that focus on cybersafety. Nortel LearniT's role is to partner with parents and caregivers in providing resources and direction for them in successfully achieving these goals. Find more information in the Just For You - Parents portal, which is a focal point for parent resources on our website.
Cybersmart Tips from Nortel LearniT
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Nortel LearniT Sponsors Americas Competitiveness Forum, Promoting Prosperity and Economic Opportunity |
Nortel LearniT attended the Americas Competitiveness Forum, June 11-12, 2007, in Atlanta, Georgia, which convened 30 western hemisphere countries with the shared goals to enhance innovation, regional cooperation and economic growth. Forum goals and Nortel LearniT goals intertwine strongly in the areas of support for and fostering the advancement of education, cooperation, innovation, participation, and leadership. The Nortel LearniT event video incorporates miniclips from Mark and Liz's many interviews to give an overview of the flavor and focus of the Forum , including Ana Vilma de de Escobar, the first female Vice President in over 180 years of El Salvador, Franklin L. Lavin, US Undersecretary for International Trade, and Leonard L. Haynes, III, Director of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education of the US Department of Education. | Nortel LearniT interns Mark Smith and Liz Sedova set up a portable video production studio to interview attendees and document the event.
View some of the first-hand accounts Nortel LearniT captured of the Forum, including:
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Some 900 leaders from the private sector and academia met to discuss cutting-edge ideas and best practices with government ministers from the Western Hemisphere. The forum floor was populated with informative displays from participants and sponsors. |
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Do you have an idea of a career path you would like to follow? If you are unsure, don't worry! Nortel LearniT's Career Bytes segment is an online video collection consisting of short (~5 minute) videos aimed at giving high school students an idea of possible careers in the field of technology or careers that use technology in general. The Career Bytes material is an integral part of the Nortel LearniT offerings, the interview videos directly link to the Nortel LearniT curriculum and profile various professionals who discuss the way in which they became successful and how technology impacts their daily work. Career Bytes connects classroom learning with real-world experiences and provides a free, entertaining and valuable tool for high school students to explore and plan for opportunities outside of school.
Consider having your students create their own Career Bytes.
Career Bytes is a show produced by students who work along with educators and other Nortel LearniT staff to select interview candidates for the show. While the exact questions will vary from interview to interview, the overall concepts are the same. We provide a Creating Career Bytes Toolkit that give the blueprint for creating Career Bytes; the tools (organized by video production stages) and videos explaining the why's and how's of creating Career Bytes. (You can also go directly to the Creating Career Bytes Toolkit site map for a listing of all toolkit resources.)
These interviews research the interviewee's career, advice on achieving success and daily technology usage. The student hosts do a tremendous amount of research prior to each interview to help facilitate a casual, relaxed, informative atmosphere. Before the camera starts rolling the Nortel LearniT hosts usually sit down with the interview subject and get to know about them and their profession, by doing this the interview becomes more natural; connecting with the subject is vital to making the interview interesting and informative. Oh...and don't be surprised to hear the students ask questions about an interview candidate's high school experiences or classes…after all, the show does target a teen audience!
Learn about Tom Inge's career as director Ward Burton Wildlife Foundation, Halifax, County, VA, using technology outdoors and indoors. Key initiatives of the foundation are the Virginia racer project to protect water quality in the southwest VA watershed, save endangered fishes and support community develop of parks. Tom says he "grew up outdoors..." then graduated from Virginia Military Institute and later received the MS in environmental engineering from Virginia Tech. His favorite piece of "everyday tech" is GIS, the geographic information system/a mapping and planning tool "that's just taken off!" Next is the laptop for e-mail and web access. For the Ward Burton Wildlife Foundation web site, digital and web technology are used to develop and add pictures and video to the site. Windows Media QuicktimeView this Career Bytes interview with Google Engineering Director Peter Wilson, filmed at the NASA 50th Anniversary Future Forums celebration in Seattle, WA. Career advice Wilson shares includes, set yourself audacious goals; if anyone tells you can't do it--ignore them; study math and science. Future prognostications include: software devices with incredible scaling powers we couldn't imagine before. He sees many sciences,e.g., biolog, moving into being computational sciences to analyze and make sense of data and information. Real Windows
Hear about the innovations awaiting us in the 21st century from Dr. Joyce Winterton, NASA Assistant Administrator for Education, who oversees education for NASA with advice that cuts across all career roles and technologies:
"Always do a really good job where ever you are, because you never know what doors might open!"
Set your goals high: think about pushing the envelope!
Dr. Winterton talks about the importance of and opportunities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education and related careers and how they advance those who have chosen such paths, the United States' technology capabilities and achievements, and the global economy. To succeed, you have to know about careers and your career options.
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Dietmar Wendt, President of Nortel Global Services. Mr. Wendt discusses the roles that globalization and technology have on doing business in the 21st century. Real | Windows Media | Flash Video
Brandon Oldenburg, Executive Creative Director, Reel FX. This interview with Brandon Oldenburg of Reel FX discusses his goals to create animations from a young age, and his job at REEL FX.
Career Bytes Special Edition: Capitol Hill Nortel LearniT students presented on Capitol Hill at the Tapping America's Potention (TAP) Coalition Math and Science Fair. Students spoke with US House of Representatives Science Committee Chairman Vern Ehlers (R-MI) [4:52] and US Representative Judy Biggert (R-IL) [05:05] about the importance of math and science education. Learn more about the event and Nortel LearniT's participation.
Torrence Robinson, Director of Public Affairs, Texas InstrumentsDuring this interview Torrence gives advice to students about the importance of technology and learning how to use it. Dr. Betsy Willis, Director of Visioneering
The head of the Engineering Department at Southern Methodist University discusses the Visioneering event in Dallas. Jump5, Recording Artists for Sparrow/EMI
Jump5, a group of young recording artists for Sparrow/EMI, sits down with our host to talk about the different technologies they use on tour, on their website, and for personal use. Diana Hueter, CEO of 'The Science Place' in Dallas, TX The CEO of 'The Science Place' in Dallas, TX discusses her career path, the goal of the museum, and her role as President and CEO. Lisa Sparks is an Associate Professor of Communications at George Mason University. She is also the editor of Communication Research Reports, an online Communications Journal. Dr. Sparks discusses with our host the use of PowerPoint and other technologies in her classroom.
Dr. Arden Bement, Director of the National Science Foundation. In this interview Dr. Bement explains his views on the importance of teaching Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (S.T.E.M.) education in schools. Dr. Bement also talks about preparing students for the 21st century workplace and economy.
Lauren Flaherty, Nortel Chief Marketing Officer. While sitting down with Lauren she talks about her love of advertising and marketing, and her professional experience before becoming Nortel's CMO. Tim Magner, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology. Mr. Magner compares the workforce and education of the past without technology to today's society with endless amounts of technology. In the interview he also talks about the importance of teaching technology in schools, as well as future technology plans for schools. Real | Windows Media | Flash VideoDion Joannou, the Nortel President of North America. He talks about the innovation of advanced yet vastly used technology and how it will change in the future. Mr. Joannou advises students to follow your dreams but you need to also have drive.
Dr. Robert Tolson, National Institute of Aerospace, worked on the NASA Viking Lander. While celebrating the 30th anniversary of the successful Viking missions to Mars, Tolson discussed the impact of the results collected by the Viking landers. Real | Windows Media | Flash Angelo Gustaferro, the Business Manager on the NASA Viking Lander. Gustaferro talks about the leadership and the success of the infamous Mars landing mission.Video interview with US Department of Commerce Undersecretary for International Trade Franklin Lavin at the Americas Competitiveness Forum, Atlanta, GA, June 11-12, 2007.
Real Tech has an open call to all teachers and their students to share their work with others. In addition to being a free and friendly place to store and host your student projects, we want to emphasize the instructional objectives you were targeting with them. Finally, with your permission we will create the association between your projects with other training materials that we provide AND perform and offer the alignment to the state standards of learning.
Nortel LearniT student interns in the summer of 2006 completed a hands-on training workshop with Nortel digital media professionals. The three-day training workshop focused on preparing students to return to their Nortel LearniT Centers to complete the process of building their own webcasting and digital production facilities. Real | Windows Media | Flash
A basic design rule for video production is the 'rule of thirds'. The rule is applied when framing a 'shot' or scene in a video production, so as to convey perspective, draw attention to important visual cues and to capitalize on how and why the eye perceives information. This student produced tutorial explains and demonstrates how the rule can and can't enhance a video program. Real | Media Player | FlashLearn what freeware is and how to use it. Real | Windows Media | Flash
Learn what it takes to make your computer safer from viruses, worms and hackers. Real | Windows Media | Flash
The NASA Kids Science News Network (KSNN) explores how email actually works. This creative look at the basics of video production was produced by 10, a band of passionate digital citizens reaching out to enthusiasts around the globe. Using as the 'project', a profile of a refrigerator, you will see all of the basics of video production put to work.
Be sure to check out 10 for the great work they're doing with technology to improve the world.
Windows Media | Flash Tim Carter from AskTheBuilder.com demonstrates the equipment and techniques you need to film a good video. Discover a wealth of secret tips while watching this informative and humorous video. Flash Forest Park High School's presentation profiling the characteristics of today's millennial learners . A high school English project to create a Public Service Announcement, combined with the creative talents of one student, resulted in this award winning animation.
Basic Tools in Audacity is a digital audio tutorial that illustrates (in the Audacity interface) how to use Audacity's 6 basic tools: (1) Select (2) Envelope (3) Draw (4) Zoom (5) Timeshift (6) Multitool function.
Listen to teachers and students talk about how they are using technology in their classrooms.
Students and Teachers Learn About Tech, a feature story with video, highlights Nortel LearniT-empowered educational successes in a report by CTV Ottawa's leading edge Tech Now. Important: Don't miss the engaging video on learning impacts: click Launch Player (at article's left), then select Paul Brent on Nortel's Learning Tool.Learn how a 'train-the-trainer' session can prepare master teacher/trainers to work with other teachers to develop their skills to use in the classroom. Real | Windows Media | Flash
Note: The curriculum and instructional resources to deliver this training are located here.
Nortel LearniT Center at Arlington, Virginia master teacher David Welsh on using Nortel LearniT resources. David discusses the benefit of using technology and Nortel LearniT in his teaching. Real | Windows Media | Flash Video
Hear teachers at the NECC conference talk about technology in their classrooms
Teachers from all over the country visiting the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) talk about the innovative ways they are teaching with technology and the benefits of doing so. Real | Windows Media | Flash
A Middle School Science Teacher's Experience. Learn how Forsyth County School District teacher Doris Dickerson discovered how Nortel LearniT could transform her students' learning.
| Exploring the ways and means of teaching with 21st century skills is the goal of Nortel LearniT's showcase series 21st Century e-Learning Update.
The individual programs in the series will spotlight a specific technique, approach, trend or project that teachers are dealing with in their classrooms. Each program will have three perspectives looking at that topic; from the educators' point of view, the students', and a community partner or subject expert 21st Century e-Learning Update is produced by students at Nortel LearniT Centers in schools and other partnering institutions. This series provides the context to use many of the rich resources available free through Nortel LearniT or its partners. For more information on how you or your school could be a part of 21st Century e-Learning Update please contact staff@NortelLearniT.org |
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Creating opportunities for dynamic career dialogs that make a difference in young lives is a key Nortel LearniT initiative. Combining kids engaged in hands-on technology adventures with recent grads, seasoned Nortelians, and our educators generates excitement and success--recorded in video, photos, and the participants own words! We share with you:
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Telepresence Studio
Touring the Campus
| The sound of children's laughter filled Nortel's Richardson campus in early summer 2008 as approximately 200 children participated in a Take Your Kid to Work Day. Richardson's variation of having the events take place after school was out for the year was a successful "school's out" but "learning technology is in!" twist that engaged both kids and parents.Organized by the Richardson Business Councils, the event included tours and demos of the Solutions Showcase, MCS lab, Executive Briefing Center, and Telepresence Studio. In addition, the children also learned about the History of the Internet via video from Nortel LearniT's Discovering the Internet series and then demonstrated their knowledge playing Nortel LearniT's JeopardyiT game. To break up the day and add some physical activity, they learned a Nortel cheer and our Aralia staff hosted an exercise session. Read about Richardson's 2008 agenda and then view resources you might use in a similar event on your campus or in your community. The students and their parents were welcomed to campus with a free pancake breakfast, as well as a high energy opening session hosted by Black Business Council President Dan Moore and Nortel Vice President of Operations, Joe Flanagan. Thanks to a severe thunderstorm at noon, most children stayed on campus for a special kid-friendly lunch with their parent. Lunchtime also offered the students an opportunity to learn how to use the XO laptops designed for the One Laptop Per Child initiative. (According to our Leadership Edge hosts, the students wanted to spend much more time using these new computers!) The day ended with an exciting closing event hosted by Richard Piasentin, Global Pricing Leader, which included a fun and educational Telecom Skit starring members of Toastmasters and some RICH New Grads. An ice cream social provided the perfect ending to a fun filled day! Feedback from employees and children has been very positive. According to employee Paul Knudsen, "I thought it was a really worthwhile event…it was a pleasure to see so many children taking part. My son found it very interesting and now has a better understanding of what I do when I head off to work each day." Robert Stanulis said, "Everyone's favorite part was the Telepresence studio, although some kids didn't believe that it was real!" Hosts Joe Flanagan and Richard Piasentin agreed it was a great success. "It was a true pleasure to have the opportunity to speak with all the kids. It was amazing how knowledgeable and interested the kids were in Nortel's technology and how the technology is used in business today," said Flanagan. "As a technology company it's vital that we communicate the excitement and importance of what we do for society. Getting this across to our children is crucial as we strive to increase enrollment in and graduation from the technical education disciplines," added Piasentin. The group credited, with special thanks, the Richardson Business Council's planning team whose participation ensured a successful event: Laura Bernard, Beth Kolman, Dixia Molina, Fred Harris, Dan Moore, Julio Zhang, Summer Sharp and Ha Dinh. Other Nortel LearniT/Richardson-developed resources suitable for kids on campus days are found in:
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Nortel LearniT Ambassadors Bring Technology-infused Learning to Communities |
TechnologiZING Learning | Ambassador Experience Video | Success Stories | Connecting with Nortel LearniT |
In towns and cities everywhere Nortel employees are working to improve their communities by sharing their time and expertise. In their biggest effort to date to connect their employee volunteering with the commitment to build 21st century skills, Nortel has launched its Nortel LearniT Ambassador program. Introduced in late September 2007 during a week-long campaign known as Impact iT: Days of Service, Nortel employees have been out in their communities integrating Nortel LearniT resources into their volunteer service.
Efforts range from individual employees speaking to their families and friends about the Nortel LearniT.org resources to working as a group to train teachers, students and other citizens on how to use technology tools in meaningful ways in the pursuit of their education or training. Designed to be flexible toward where and in what way employees seek to engage, or are already involved, in community service, Nortel LearniT Ambassadors serve the groups, organizations and schools that touch the lives of the people of their home towns. This approach is producing a diverse set of ways in which Nortel employees can enhance the type of volunteering that they are most familiar and comfortable with performing. Nortel LearniT is Nortel's Signature Community Relations initiative designed to provide effective, flexible support to Nortel volunteer ambassadors and they reach out to contribute in their communities in diverse ways. Key focuses are building individual, educational and community capacities by pairing 21st century technology skills with the needs of millennial learners. TechnologiZING Learning:Each Nortel LearniT key resource section progressively "drills down" to provide practical, hands-on information and "maps to the learning territory" for volunteers, teachers, students, parents, and community leaders. Nortel LearniT's key access points of Lesson Plans and Guides; Video Tutorials - Technology Skills; and Resources and Best Practices are further organized in numerous ways, including Lesson Plans Organized by Technology and Lesson Plans Organized by Grade. Just for You Portals open Nortel LearniT pathways created especially for: |
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Helping these teachers transition from being content consumers to producers so that they can support similar skills in their students was emphasized through the training. During the program (see agenda) delivered by National Institute of Aerospace master teacher Sharon Bowers and Nortel LearniT student intern Liz Sedova, participants walked through a hands-on project to use digital imaging and digital video as a core learning activity within classes such as Math, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts and ESL classes. View the workshop's introductory PowerPoint overview. The workshop training team consisted of Lawrence Saunders and Paul Grooms (Nortel LearniT ambassadors); Ron Villines (GMS assistant principal); Michael Connet, Nortel LearniT Chief Academic Officer; Hector Rosado, Nortel LearniT ambassador; Edgar Murphy; Sharon Bowers, master teacher; Liz Sedova, Nortel LearniT intern. |
The teachers were challenged to evolve their thinking into student centered, project based learning with technology as a tool to engage and facilitate students ability to learn and synthesize core concepts into examples that demonstrate their understanding The teachers' tools for these tasks included their Nortel LearniT Mobile Camera Toolkit, which Nortel LearniT provided for their use, and Windows Movie Maker, to make their own short video (fully equipped with audio, titles and transitions) based on an educational theme they were assigned. These themes included: "The history of Graham Middle School", "21st Century eTeaching", "Dream Big", "Science is everywhere at GMS", and "You use math every day". The teams of participants did a great job and their hard work was showcased at the end of the day.
The workshop presentations provided not only learning experiences for the day but also learning materials for teachers to share with their classes, including: a digital photo safari; a video storyboard template; and technologi-ZING your lesson.
To attune participants to millennial learners, the presenters shared videos titled Pay Attention; A Vision of K-!2 Students Today; It's Ringing; and Nortel LearniT's Shotlists and Storyboards and The Rule of Thirds. In order to facilitate monthly training workshops, participants were provided their own Nortel Multimedia Communications Server account and were trained on its installation and use. The virtual training workshops will allow participants to continue to build their skills with the goal to have the teachers create, implement and present a Nortel LearniT 6E's lesson plan to their peers and to share the lesson plan through Nortel LearniT. Read more about other Nortel LearniT/DPS initiatives and about another Graham Middle School initiative, a career outreach. View the News of Orange County report of another Nortel LearniT outreach, courtesy of Nortel employee, Lawrence Saunders, who also supported the Alamance training. |
A project begun by Nortel LearniT Ambassador Paul Grooms has grown into a year-long commitment by teachers in rural North Carolina to develop their 21st century skills. The project begun as a volunteering effort by Grooms has evolved into a professional development process to work with 12 teachers from Graham Middle School in the Alamance Burlington School System. The Nortel LearniT 
