News From CILC

The Product Resource Center (PRC)
The PRC has been given a facelift!
Vendor logos now appear on the landing page. Each is a hyperlink to information about the organization they represent. Once on the information page, be sure to click on “Search products offered by this vendor” to find the product right for you!

New Additions!
CILC welcomes VTEL to the PRC.
Won’t you explore their new, exciting and very affordable products!

Professional Development Marketplace
CILC welcomes the following Professional Development Providers to the PD Marketplace.

Wesley Fryer
Wesley provides Professional Development workshops for educators focused on digital storytelling, the effective use of web 2.0 tools in the classroom, digital literacy, 21st century skills, technology leadership, and other topics relating to effective classroom technology integration.
View all five of his workshop offerings.

Julene Reed
Julene conducts professional development workshops for educators, administrators, and service leaders internationally. She give keynote addresses and training sessions on such topics as global education, ecology, digital storytelling, podcasting, and utilizing web 2.0 in education.
Learn more about her workshop:
Global Green Schools - "Going Green to Make a Difference"

Living Through Learning Foundation
As a nonprofit organization, our mission is to help students with chronic health conditions combat the isolation they experience when out of the classroom do to illness. We provide solutions that allow them to stay connected to their teachers, peers, and content through the technology and by teaching learning strategies.
While programs have not yet been posted to the PD Marketplace, you can email David Gordon.

Did You Know...

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• Where to find “My Favorites”
• Any page where this icon Add to Favorites is found in the upper right hand corner.
• Content Provider Program Flyers (see example)
• Professional Development Program Flyers (see example)
• Collaboration Center Contact Pages (see example)
• Academic Classes Contact pages (see example)
• Product Resource Center Product pages (see example)
• How to add pages to “My Favorites”
  
  • Log into www.cilc.org
    
  • Click on the Add to Favorites icon on the desired page.
    

Where to retrieve “My Favorites” Log into www.cilc.org Click on Go to MY CILC.ORG
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Content Dollar Bank can

• absorb your grant dollars and/or end of the year funds now
• be used in the fall for any content on www.cilc.org
• Academic Classes posted on www.cilc.org
• CILC professional development, workshops, trainings, & consulting
• Curriculum Packages
• Professional Development Programs
• Student Content Programs

Curriculum Packages can

• meet your school initiatives: Use student content and professional development programs.
• save time: Let CILC provide the list of content and professional development programs aligned to your initiatives.

New Content Providers

CILC welcomes three new content providers!

Lower East Side Tenement Museum
The heart of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum is its landmark tenement building, home to nearly 7,000 immigrants from more than 20 nations between 1863 and 1935. the museum is dedicated to using the history of its site as a tool for addressing issues that are still pressing today, including the role of immigration in American life.

• In Virtual Visit with Victoria, their first program, students take on the role of a new immigrant family in 1916 and virtually “visit” a costumed interpreter portraying 14-year-old Victoria Confino in her tenement apartment.

McWane Science Center
McWane Science Center provides teachers and students with the tools needed to make science concepts come to life. Implemented at developmentally appropriate levels, The Center can utilize experiential education to spark not just an interest, but a desire to learn about science.

• Through exciting demonstrations and fun experiments students will be engaged in learning about physical and chemical properties of matter as well as acids and bases. Their first program, Concepts in Chemistry, focuses on making connections to chemistry in the everyday lives of students so that they understand that chemistry happens all around and even inside us.

Mount Washington Observatory
Through interactive videoconferencing, your class will go live to the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire and learn about climate and weather from the people who know it best: the hardy men and women living and working in the Mount Washington Observatory, a legendary summit weather station. They'll share first-hand knowledge and experience in an exciting, interactive format.

• In Observing the Weather, find out how scientists collect data, what kind of data they collect, and how they translate the data into information we can use.
• Fundamentals of Climate enables your students to learn first-hand from the experts living on the summit of Mount Washington, a place so unique that although it is located in the temperate zone, it actually experiences the conditions of a sub-arctic climate.