2009 Fall Conference
U.S. and Global History Theater
Friday, 11.6.09
Holiday Valley
Yodeler Lodge
EllicottvilleNY 14731
The fall conference of the WSTCSS is a high octane one day event geared to be a powerhouse of professional development and advanced networking. Riveting classroom projects, special technology tools (Elluminate, Twitter, Second Life), town halls, history techniques, and testing; cemeteries, poetry, maps, social studies and more social studies.
2013 Teacher’s Survival: Personal Forecasting and Planning for the Approaching Crisis Era
Presented By:
Dr. Geoffrey Pierce (GST BOCES)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 09:00 AM
- 10:00 AM At Training Center
Description:
French philosopher Étienne Bonnot de Condillac claimed society moved in the cyclical stages of development, expansion, and deterioration.Like cyclical historians that would follow him, Condillac believed a society must be purged at the end of a cycle in order to enter a new era of prosperity. Contemporary cyclical historians also operate under the premise that society cannot advance without the self-generating occurrences of catastrophe, horrific external events, economic depression, or even war. We guess you might say we Americans are on a predictable bearing to “wipe the slate clean” or “pay the piper,” if you will.
Cyclical historians understand that we are on the cusp of another societal turning point. This turning point will probably not occur without a tumultuous reeling that no American under the age of 90 will have ever experienced. Such a purging occurs approximately every 80-85 years:
American Revolution (1773-1789): A reckoning resulting in independence and a
Constitutional democracy.
Civil War (1860-1865): A reckoning resulting in the abolition of slavery and blueprint for full equality.
Global Power (1929-1945): A reckoning resulting in federal expansion and superpower status.
Current Crisis Era (2007-2020 Approx.): ______________________________.
Think to your lessons learned in American history and look again at the previous three crisis eras and resulting reckonings. Can you think of events in between these crises that generated the same kind of sweeping changes, accompanied by social, political, and even military suffering? Probably not. This is because the cyclical nature of a crisis era is pre-positioned by the passing of time, and little from hell or earth can undo events that were put into delicate motion generations ago.
21st Century Promethean ActivClassroom
Presented By:
Andrew Ziemba (Logical Choice Technologies)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 1:15 PM
- 2:15 PM At Mezzanine
Description:
In this hands-on, fun-filled session, participants will explore the "21st Century Promethean ActivClassroom," featuring as its centerpiece the Promethean ActivBoard. Using award-winning Promethean lesson-design software, we will explore sample teacher-made lessons and activities that help students maintain focus and make teaching and learning truly interactive, collaborative, and enjoyable! Additional peripheral devices including the wireless ActivSlate and the fully-integrated ActivExpression student response handheld devices complete the Promethean ActivClassroom for a combination that can't be beat!
Ask Not What You Can Do For Your Local History Museum, But What Your Local History Museum Can Do For You
Presented By:
Kerry Lippincott (Chemung Valley History Museum)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 09:00 AM
- 10:00 AM At Patrol Room
Description:
When was the last time you visited your local history museum? Using examples from the Chemung Valley History Museum, the session will show how local history museums can be a resource inside and outside the classroom. Topics to be discussed will include oral history training, DBQ's, History-To-Go Loan Cases, History Day, and Jr. Curators.
Capturing History Alive – WWII Stories
Presented By:
Jay Tennies Steve Appleby (Eldred WWII Museum)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 1:15 PM
- 2:15 PM At Patrol Room
Description:
Capturing History Alive will look at the importance of personal stories in telling the history of World War II. Our session will use the story of Medal of Honor recipient Col. Mitchell Paige as a way of examining the ways in which personal stories open doors to engaging students in the study of World War II. The session will also include a discussion about ways to involve students in gathering, researching, and telling World War II stories.
Google Education Applications
Presented By:
Jason Kathman (Jamestown Public Schools (MS))
This Presentation Is Offered Multiple Times
Session #1:
11/06/2009 10:10 AM
- 11:10 AM At Mezzanine
Session #2:
11/06/2009 3:35 PM - 4:35 PM At Mezzanine
Description:
Google is offering a free suite of applications for schools that allows students, faculty, and administrators to work and collaborate online. This session will give an overview of how Google documents, email, web sites, calendars, and contacts are being used in the classroom. The session will also give a brief overview of the technical side of setting up your school with Google and their servers.
Great ideas in History – Peanut Butter and Chocolate -- Science and Social Studies
Presented By:
Chuck Hanley (ASSET Project Cornell University)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 3:35 PM
- 4:35 PM At Falcon Room
Description:
Science and Social Studies –That’s right! The ASSET Program at Cornell University aims to bring them back together. This SEPA funded project from the National Institute of Health will get students questioning and discussing the impact science research will have on our democratic institutions in the 21st Century by using an innovative short curriculum exercise in the classroom.
Comprised of simulations and role playing exercises tested in classrooms, this unit is aimed at civics and government classes, but could be scaled for AP classes or even an enthusiastic 8th grade Social Studies classes. Also this unit would be an excellent interdisciplinary project with a Science teacher at your school. Not a one size fits all program, the ASSET staff will work with the teacher to tailor the exercise to the teacher’s classes.
No science background? No problem. Relevant Science background will be provided.
The program will provide Social Studies teachers with free, fully documented and supported activities. Among these will be teacher guides, classroom materials, training and support. Summer workshops featuring the development and utilization of the teaching modules will be offered at Cornell University to familiarize teachers with this innovative curriculum unit. These teachers will then bring this unit back to their classrooms for testing and modification.
Today’s workshop will outline the program and what it provides the teacher, and the schedule for implementation.
Integrating Social Studies and Language Arts Skills: A Cross Cultural Project
Presented By:
Kim Austin Christina Spontaneo (Jamestown Public Schools)
This Presentation Is Offered Multiple Times
Session #1:
11/06/2009 09:00 AM
- 10:00 AM At Family Room
Session #2:
11/06/2009 3:35 PM - 4:35 PM At Family Room
Description:
Are you looking for a way to address your social studies objectives and integrate language arts skills? Come join us while we share our TAH project. We have developed an integrated cross curricular social studies unit in which our second and third graders were expected to recognize the similarities and differences between the communities of Jamestown, NY and a typical community in Puerto Rico. We will share with you some ways that you can motivate your students by incorporating reading and writing skills, technology, and critical thinking strategies as you strive to meet both your ELA and Social Studies objectives. By highlighting homework share, Comic Life, I-Photo, and Pages we are hoping to help you return to your classroom with some creative student centered projects that can be modified to fit your curriculum.
Local Primary Source Documents in the Classroom
Presented By:
Pam Brown Michelle Henry (Jamestown Schools & Chautauqua County Historian)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 1:15 PM
- 2:15 PM At Family Room
Description:
This session will focus on the use of local government primary source documents in the classroom. Michelle Henry, Chautauqua County Historian/Records Management Coordinator will present examples of primary source documents found in the County Archives and Pam Brown, Jamestown City School District Records Management Coordinator will present primary source documents found in the school’s permanent and archival records.
Lost Neighborhood Project: Local History
Presented By:
Jeff Kresge (Jamestown City Schools)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 11:20 AM
- 12:20 PM At Training Center
Description:
The Lost Neighborhood Project of Jamestown, NY One way to engage the students in the love of history is to allow them to become historians themselves. In the Lost Neighborhood Project of Jamestown, students discovered what it means to actually become historians and uncovered a vital piece of local history in the process. Using photographs, documents, oral histories, community resources, and awful lot of creative thinking, 15 students took instructors Pam Brown, Grace Johnson, and Jeff Kresge on an amazing journey that truly transformed the classroom into a place of investigation, questioning, pushing the limits, and ultimately joy in the process of understanding. Students began by studying archival materials, deciding as a group on a topic no one (including the instructors) knew much about, and set upon a path of discovery. The students learned about the history of an area, but also learned about teamwork, the trials and tribulations of being a historical researcher, how to conduct interviews, website creation, blogging, teamwork, time management, and public speaking. The results can be seen at the group’s website, http://www.jamestownpublicschools. org/podcasts/99jkresge/Lost_Neighborhood/Lost_Neighborhood_Home.html.
Lucille Ball-the Accidental Feminist
Presented By:
Lucy Studd (Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Center)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 09:00 AM
- 10:00 AM At Mezzanine
Description:
One of the most powerful personalities in the world of television, Lucille Ball virtually defined an era of entertainment. She established herself as a brilliant comedienne, built a Hollywood empire, and even shot down a few antiquated notions about women. “I Love Lucy” was produced in the fifties, when a married couple couldn't be shown in bed together and no one ever said the word "pregnant" on television. Lucille Ball as Lucy Ricardo was one of the first feminists, breaking barriers ranging from inter-ethnic marriage to appearing pregnant on TV. Lucy Ricardo was a very quick thinker with rebellious qualities, not quite the subservient housewife of the fifties. She wanted to get into show business but her real life husband Desi Arnaz, as Ricky Ricardo, usually tried to prevent this from happening. Even with Ricky's objections, she often outsmarted him. Lucille Ball became one of the few women business moguls to run a motion picture studio. We hardly noticed. Why? We were too busy laughing! Maybe that's why, fifty years later,
we still love Lucy……..
Make Social Studies Sing: Integrating Music and Social Studies, Grades 3-5
Presented By:
Rachelle Moyer Francis (Eggert Elementary, Orchard Park)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 10:10 AM
- 11:10 AM At Family Room
Description:
Use the power of music to instill facts, cultural understanding and values in your upper elementary social studies students. We will utilize the endless resources of Youtube and Teachertube to illustrate and enrich your study of countries and historical periods. You do not have to be able to sing or read music to do this!
Making Woman’s History: Local Women in the Suffrage Movement and the Classroom
Presented By:
Traci Langworthy (Jamestown Community College)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 2:25 PM
- 3:25 PM At Patrol Room
Description:
As the end of the 19th century drew near, Chautauqua County was the center of a vibrant local campaign to win women the right to vote. Under the leadership of Elnora Babock of Dunkirk, the county’s Political Equality Club boasted the largest membership of any such club in the nation. Noted suffrage leaders Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Rev. Anna H. Shaw, and Carrie Chapman Catt regularly inspired audiences at Lily Dale, Chautauqua Institution, and local suffrage conventions. This session will highlight local women’s contributions to the movement, from the 1880’s until the ratification of the 19th Amendment, as well as share some “teachable” primary sources. Among the documents to be examined are local newspaper accounts of “militant” suffragist and National Woman’s Party member Edith Ainge of Jamestown. Would local suffrage sympathizers support Ms. Ainge when she picketed the White House and went to jail for the cause? Or, would they chastise her for going too far? In studying local history, students inevitably stumble onto American history. And often, it’s the stories of real people in our own communities that leave the most lasting impressions.
Remains To Be Seen: A study of gravestone architecture and religious symbolism of WNY
Presented By:
Craig Braack (Allegany County Historian)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 2:25 PM
- 3:25 PM At Mezzanine
Description:
Braack will cover the evolution of material used by stone-carvers from indigenus field stones to white marble and finally the granite of today that reflects the historical development of western New York. Stressed will be use of religious symbols as teaching mediums from the grave. Ideas on getting students interested in local cemeteries with such things as gravestone rubbings, working on family histories in local cemeteries. Research ideas include: family interviews (stressing primary historical material and techniques), school libraries, local historical societies, local historians, genealogy websites, etc....
Reviving Ancient Civilizations with Virtual Worlds
Imagine learning about Ancient Civilizations by becoming a virtual
Egyptian. Or by building aqueducts in Ancient Rome. Nothing short of
time travel can engage students like the opportunity to explore and
create within virtual worlds. Virtual worlds are multi-user 3D computer
environments that are easily tailored to a variety of educational
purposes and content areas. The CyberCiv program connects students'
imaginations to the 6th grade social studies curriculum with virtual
travel through Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and the Middle
Ages. In this year long program, students develop increasingly complex
technology skills, work on team projects, conduct research and
contribute content to the worlds. Join us for a tour of EDUni-NY, New
York State's educational universe of virtual worlds for education. This
session will feature an introduction to the medium, a tour of the
CyberCiv worlds and a discussion of the potential as well as the
challenges of using this technology in the classroom.
Second Life Teen Grid: Simulations in the Social Studies Classroom
Presented By:
LoTempio McCarville, Rinow (Lancaster Schools)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 09:00 AM
- 10:00 AM At Falcon Room
Description:
The Lancaster Contingent will walk you through their attempt to use multi-user virtual environments (MUVES) such as Second Life/ Teen Grid in the classroom. Although they faced and continue to face many obstacles, these three social studies teachers have learned many lessons along the way. Learn what to avoid and how to present this project to administration. Learn how do deal with the obstacles associated with starting an Island through Linden Labs. Find out how they have used this medium to conduct a role-play session with other educators on Second Life’s main grid. Join a discussion of possible uses of this dynamic teaching tool. This is an on-going endeavor, so come share your ideas and how you may have used this medium in your school districts!
Social Studies in a Virtual World
Presented By:
Andrew Wheelock (Erie I BOCES)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 2:25 PM
- 3:25 PM At Training Center
Description:
Collaboration has always been at the forefront of the educational community. With the internet and the advent of Web 2.0 technologies teachers can broaden their professional network to reach across the globe. We are now in the midst of the next wave of internet based technologies often referred to as the Web 3.0 or MUVE's (Multi User Virtual Environments). These virtual world technologies not only offer teachers collaboration opportunities but allow for powerful 3 dimensional interactions. At the forefront is Second Life, a free virtual world program that has both a Teen and Adult Grid component that lets users create, chat, explore, and interact for both entertainment and educational purposes. Thus began the Virtual Pioneers, a Second Life group of social studies educators that started using Second Life to meet, collaborate, and explore historically based landmarks for professional development. This group has quickly evolved and expanded to have over 200 members reaching from the United States to Saudi Arabia and Australia. Our meetings now include guest speakers, such as Holocaust survivor Fannie Starr, Teacher to Teacher talks, like PBS's Kimmer Jameson's-We Shall Remain presentation, as well as, landmark tours of Antiquity Texas, Virtual Native Lands, the US Holocaust Museum, and Virtual Harlem to name but a few. This presentation will give participants information and resources about the Virtual Pioneers and this group's role in providing teachers with a unique way to broaden their network of colleagues and enhance their professional learning repertoire.
The Ugandan Water Project - Collision of Cultures and Compassion in the Classroom and Across the Globe
Presented By:
James Harrington (Director: Ugandan Water Project)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 11:20 AM
- 12:20 PM At Mezzanine
Description:
The Ugandan Water Project is a humanitarian organization that places rainwater collection tanks on community buildings throughout the East African nation of Uganda. There are three major goals of this project:
1. Provide safe accessible drinking water to communities across Uganda that are currently suffering from preventable diseases contracted from water-borne pathogens.
2. Strengthen communities by providing a shared resource that benefits all and is located at a community-valued location such as Schools, Clinics, Churches, and Orphanages.
3. Facilitate relationships between sponsors in the U.S. and communities in Uganda through media, interactive technology, trips and ongoing connections.
Project Director, James Harrington will share how this innovative effort is making a multi-faceted impact in Uganda that goes much farther than providing drinking water. Come and learn about the importance of engaging students here in the States with issues of social justice and compassion. Time will be spent understanding how to connect contemporary issues with cultural and political history as well as the colorful challenges that arise as a global society comes together from diverse backgrounds.
We will also share how schools from primary through collegiate level are getting students, staff and parents engaged in this project that has taken some of them to Africa to come face-to-face with those they are trying to help.
This will be a dynamic session with powerful opportunities to enrich your classes and engage your school in a transforming global project
Toolbox PRO - Teach, Communicate, Share, Learn.....From Anywhere!
Presented By:
Jason Schrage (Horseheads Public Schools)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 2:25 PM
- 3:25 PM At Falcon Room
Description:
E-Learning Content Management & Curriculum Mapping System for K-12 Schools that helps teachers and students with easy-to-use software. The tools included in Toolbox PRO give teachers the power to integrate technology directly into their instruction, which motivates students to achieve. With Toolbox PRO teachers can create/have: Student Web Lockers; Student/Teacher Messaging; Online Podcasting Tools; Teacher and Student Blogging; Curriculum maps; Class management tools; Communication tools; Media-rich assessments and activities with online grading; A collection of documents and resources for students to use in class and at home; A teacher public website.
US History through Videostreaming Resources and an iTouch
Presented By:
Rick Walters Lisa Wolski (Jamestown PS and Erie II BOCES)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 10:10 AM
- 11:10 AM At Training Center
Description:
Lisa will present an overview of PowerMediaPlus and VITAL. PowerMediaPlus and VITAL are free videostreaming services available to K – 12 educators in New York State. These services are provided through your local PBS station. The presentation will take users through a demonstration utilizing the many features videostreaming offers. In addition to the videostreaming content Lisa will connect these to an iTouch and demonstrate how to incorporate these technologies into the classroom. Rick will present the recently created 50 United States History Topic/Time Period Specific Playlists containing over 1000 video clips from the currently available 280+ films in the Power Media United States History Library. Teachers will be able to use these Playlists as their own and minimize research and prep time. He will also demonstrate the correlation of these playlists with the internet sources and primary source documents housed at [ http://www.tdhah.com ]http://www.tdhah.com.
Using Glogster in the K – 12 Classroom
Presented By:
Barbara Recchio-Demmin (Hammondsport Central School)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 11:20 AM
- 12:20 PM At Falcon Room
Description:
Glogster opens a new world of communication for students as they create multimedia posters. "Glogs" can incorporate images, text, videos, and graphics created by students, or by others. Forget the paper, markers, scissors and glue - making a classroom poster will never be the same!
Using Local Historical Figures
Presented By:
Todd Langworthy (Forestville Central School)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 2:25 PM
- 3:25 PM At Family Room
Description:
Teachers attending this session will learn about how local resources can be used to teach history. Examples including a new book written by the presenter, will show how students can use local figures from history to parallel events in the larger historical picture. A number of strategies will be shown for using the material, as well as a discussion of the popular Cushing Memorial Civil War Camp as another way of using local resources to enhance your student’s study of history. Attendees will leave with a number of good ideas to use, as well as the information for bringing their students to the Civil War camp in 2010.
Using Newspapers with Project Citizen
Presented By:
Mary Miller (New York Newspaper Publishers Association)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 1:15 PM
- 2:15 PM At Falcon Room
Description:
This overview of Project Citizen, a portfolio-based civic education program, will show how students work cooperatively to identify a public policy problem, research it, evaluate alternative solutions, develop their own public policy solution and create a plan to get their proposed policy adopted. Ultimately students develop a portfolio of their work and present their project. This presentation will conducted with a mix of discussion time and interactivity.
Using Student Guides to Improve Student Learning
Presented By:
Rick Bates (Bath Central School)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 3:35 PM
- 4:35 PM At Patrol Room
Description:
First developed 8 years ago in Bath, student guides for Global History, and now U.S. History, are helping students find success on the Regents Exam and helping teachers better prepare their students too. Now being used in over 100 school districts across the state, the student guides are a great supplement for experienced teachers and an essential tool for new teachers. Come see how this easy to use program can help your students achieve better results in Global and U.S. History.
Using VoiceThread in the K – 12 Classroom
Presented By:
Barbara Recchio-Demmin (Hammondsport Central School)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 10:10 AM
- 11:10 AM At Falcon Room
Description:
VoiceThread is an exciting multi-media, online environment that allows student collaboration in classroom projects and discussions. Rated by the American Association of School Libraries as one of the best websites for teaching and learning, it is safe, free, and user-friendly to educators and students alike.
This workshop will show you, step-by-step, how to set up an account, navigate through VoiceThread, and create some exciting, content-specific lessons for all learning styles and grade levels!
Web 2.0 and the Classroom
Presented By:
Jeff Kresge (Jamestown Public Schools)
This Presentation Is Offered Multiple Times
Session #1:
11/06/2009 1:15 PM
- 2:15 PM At Training Center
Session #2:
11/06/2009 3:35 PM - 4:35 PM At Training Center
Description:
As the number of Web 2.0 applications expand our capability to share, distribute and jointly work on projects of all varieties, how can we use these tools to help learning in the classroom? This session addresses the types of collborative tools available and demonstrates how they can be of great use in the classroom.
What Can We Do for You? -- A Teachers’ Guide to Fenton History Center : Tours and “Moving Museum” Programs
Presented By:
Fran Fair (Fenton History Center)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 11:20 AM
- 12:20 PM At Patrol Room
Description:
Guided by the Fenton History Center’s mission to provide educational and cultural opportunities for its many visitors, our Education Department offers numerous classes and tours designed to meet New York State curriculum requirements. Our programs utilize local artifacts, historic documents, and photographs to promote students’ understanding of the concepts presented by our museum educators. When possible, they also include interactive, multi-sensory activities. Whatever the grade level, we have programs to enrich your Social Studies curriculum.
Join us to discover the many unique learning experiences Fenton History Center has to offer. Consider a Holiday Tour featuring the season’s historic and ethnic customs around the world or perhaps a General Tour of the Fenton Mansion including our newest exhibit, “Intersections - The Underground Railroad in Chautauqua County”. Investigate “Artifacts as Evidence”. Learn about our “Moving Museum” classes including fourth grade “Local Lore Comes Alive” and “Hands-On Civil War” for the upper grades. Become acquainted with our resources for custom programming to meet your specific needs. Having the contents of an entire museum collection and research library readily available provides unlimited possibilities. Let us know what we can do for you!
What You Do Matters: The Importance of Genocide Education in Repairing the World
Presented By:
Drew Beiter (Springville Griffth CSD)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 11:20 AM
- 12:20 PM At Family Room
Description:
As we celebrate the 80th birthday of Anne Frank, our thoughts focus on the past as they do the future. This multimedia workshop will emphasize the importance of Holocaust and Genocide Education around the world, including the moderators recent experiences traveling to Poland and Rwanda-as well as what teachers have done here in the United States to respond to Darfur.
It is hoped that upon its conclusion, participants will have a renewed hope about the power of their efforts in making the world a better place. (For those interested, teaching materials will also be made available on the Holocaust and Darfur.)
When your Students ask about WAR, JUSTICE and DIGNITY... What will YOU answer?
Presented By:
Russ and Debby Woglom (American Red Cross)
Session #1:
11/06/2009 10:10 AM
- 11:10 AM At Patrol Room
Description:
Exploring Humanitarian Law (EHL) has helped teachers in over 70 countries empower their students to:
• Respect human life and dignity
o Navigate ethical dilemmas
Act as global citizens
Please join us to explore the multimedia curriculum available to educators on the newly-launched EHL web site with 30 free hours of material! The curriculum is designed to fit into a wide range of disciplines, such as social studies, history, world literature and civics. It also adapts well to psychology, sociology and language courses. EHL uses primary source materials—news accounts, testimonials, photos, videos and case studies—to bring real events and people to life in the classroom. The modular format allows teachers to use the curriculum in whole or in part and integrate resources seamlessly into current lesson plans. According to one Ohio teacher using the program, “EHL and the critical thinking it promotes have empowered students in their ability to understand the world. Rather than despair and give up because of the chaos that is reported on the news, they are reassured by the discovery that there are rules in conflict, and universal standards for dignity.” The American Red Cross will hold an expanded teachers training on EHL in Corning NY on November 19, 2009.
