College Call-In 2009
Airs Thurs., Feb. 26 at 8:00 PM
Presented in collaboration with the San Antonio Education Partnership, KLRN’s College Call-In 2009 connects parents and students with college admissions and financial aid counselors during a live, televised event. During the broadcast, parents, students, teachers, and school counselors are encouraged to use the call-in number to learn answers to their college-related questions. New this year, questions can also be emailed. The program includes interviews with leaders from local colleges and universities, current college students, and professionals. Additional support for College Call-In 2009 is provided by Our Lady of the Lake University, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio Credit Union, Schreiner University, Texas A&M Kingsville System Center San Antonio, the University of Incarnate Word, and the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Roadtrip Nation
It all started with four friends and one dilemma—“What do I want to do with my life?"
Fresh out of college and unsure about the career paths in front of them, they were determined to expose themselves to more than just the traditional life roads. They hopped in an old RV, painted
it green, and hit the road to talk with inspiring people from all walks of life to find out how they
came to do what they love for a living.
Today, Roadtrip Nation has evolved into a PBS series, three books, an online community, and a student movement. Every year, a new group of students are sent on the road to explore the world outside their comfort zone, talk with individuals who chose to define their own road in life, and share their experiences.
GED Connection
Airs Saturdays at 7:30 AM on KLRN
http://litlink.ket.org/index.html
PBS TeacherLine of Texas
Have you thought about taking an online course, but wondered if online learning is right for you?
PBS TeacherLine of Texas offers a FREE Orientation Course, "Practice Learning Online with TeacherLine" to prepare for online learning.
At the end of this course, you will be familiar with:
- The importance of time management and the self-discipline required to be a successful
online learner.
- Skills for navigating course content quickly and efficiently.
- Strategies to improve the quality of your participation in an online learning community.
- Where to go for help.
- Resources available through PBS TeacherLine.
*In order to take the course, you must first join PBS TeacherLine. Click to Join for free.
PBS interviews Directors of Instructional Technology, Bruce Ellis (Dallas Independent School District) and Miguel Guhlin (San Antonio Independent School District) about the PBS TeacherLine programs they've implemented in their districts.
http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=fcac7694cf648430358c
PBS TeacherLine courses are approved by the Texas State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) and count towards required CPE hours.
District course licensing and ELL/ESL courses are now available! Contact us for more information: hcustard@klru.org or 512-232-9406.
Special station pricing is available for individual course registrations. Call Malinda McCormick at 210-270-9000, to register for your course at lower rates than nationally advertised!
Free Orientation Course
Take our free, two-hour orientation course, "Practice Learning Online with TeacherLine" to prepare for online learning. Enter the course through your My Courses page.
At the end of this course, you will be familiar with:
- The importance of time management and the self-discipline required to be a
successful online learner.
- Skills for navigating course content quickly and efficiently.
- Strategies to improve the quality of your participation in an online learning community.
- Where to go for help.
- Resources available through PBS TeacherLine.
*In order to take the course, you must first join PBS TeacherLine. Join for free.
PBS TeacherLine Courses
If you’ve never taken an online course, now is the time! PBS TeacherLine's high quality, standards-based graduate-level courses offer teachers the professional development opportunities in an accessible online format that makes learning fun, flexible and collaborative. Earn training or graduate credit while gaining strategies and resources to bring directly to your classroom.
Fall Term courses are open for enrollment, so browse our catalog to choose the one that's right
for you! Below are two favorites:
 = Teacher Favorite
 = Classroom Link
TECH522 Online Facilitator Training I: Mastering the Skills of Online Teaching 
Subjects: Instructional Technology
Grades: Kindergarten-12th
Hours: 45
Online facilitators take on many important roles and, thus, wear different managerial, technical, social, and pedagogical hats. Effective facilitators must know how to provide formative feedback,
offer technical guidance, foster community, and communicate 'from the side' in a way that encourages learners to construct knowledge together. This course will formally introduce you to
those roles and provide you with the opportunity to try on and practice wearing several of these hats. Through research-based articles and readings, discussions, collaborative projects, and other interactive experiences, you will have multiple opportunities to build and master online facilitation skills. A simulation environment (Facilitator Training Lab) will give you an opportunity to practice specific facilitator skills. To synthesize all your learning, you will create a case study based on the experiences of a hypothetical online facilitator as your final project.
PBS TeacherLine Peer Connection
Get Connected!
In the drive to improve teaching practice and student achievement, many schools and districts are turning to instructional coaches to support school-wide improvement and enhance classroom
practice. Coaches require high level resources and professional development so they can lead the way in reform initiatives and deliver on specific district instructional and student performance goals.
At PBS TeacherLine, we support professional development from the classroom forward. Our new
PBS TeacherLine Peer Connection service will help you build a customized, practical professional development program for your teachers by providing sustained and targeted support for coaches.
Lesson Plans and other resources for the classroom
Are you looking for ways to incorporate digital media into your teaching?
PBS Teachers is introducing a series of FREE monthly webinars featuring leading education technology experts, authors, or producers of PBS programs who will share ideas on using digital media to engage students in rich learning experiences.
Join us this month to explore “Teaching and Learning with Digital Natives” presented by John Palfrey, author of Born Digital. Register for the webinar at http://pbs.org/teachers Date and Time
to be announced.
KLRN Connect
Click and Engage
Log-in to KLRN Connect and start using these great classroom resources today! (In order to view you must be logged in to KLRN Connect)
Not a subscriber of KLRN Connect? Click here
Ensure Your Teachers are Associated with the Correct School
Do you have teachers that moved to a new school within your district over the summer months?
How do you ensure their KLRN Connect usernames and passwords are assigned to the correct schools? One way is to shuffle them from one school to another. In the past, this required someone with administrative access, but that is not the case anymore! Teachers can
shuffle themselves from one school to another - in five easy steps. They are as follows:
- Go to klrn.unitedstreaming.com
- Click on the Passcode Login tab
- Enter the new school's passcode (get the passcode from your school’s
admin or email mmccormick@klrn.org)
- Enter in your existing DE streaming username/password
- Click the login box
PowerPoint link that walks you through the steps above - screenshot by screenshot.
http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/matt.monjan/files/2008/08/shuffling-schools.ppt
Want to Get More Involved with Your Use of KLRN Connect in the Classroom?
Click here to go to the KLRN Connect page or click on the links below. Login required.
Getting Started: Step-by-Step is a new site that provides easy to follow instructions for new users to help them log-in, learn the functionality of DE streaming and/or DE Science, and encourage them to use it frequently. With videos, training resources, integration ideas and professional development opportunities, Getting Started was built and packaged for you to pass right along to your teachers. http://www.discoveryeducation.com/gettingstarted/
Get more involved with your use of KLRN Connect in the classroom with these fantastic Language Arts teaching tips from Discovery Education streaming.
Are you new to KLRN Connect or do you need a refresher? Try the online Getting Started Guide
Click here to go to the page in KLRN Connect or click on the links below. Login required.
Prewriting: A Visit to the Fire Station
A segment of Discovering Language Arts: Writing (Grades K-2)
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Assignment Discovery: Careers in Television (55:34)
This episode explores the deeper side of careers in television. Everyone knows that there are actors and directors, but this episode features more on behind the scene careers. Throughout this program you will learn about the nightly news and who produces it, cooking shows and food stylists, game shows and the people who find contestants, cartoons and who are the voices behind the characters, and finally, kids shows featuring puppets and their puppeteers.
Grade(s) : 6-8, 9-12  © 2006
This video contains 7 segments
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Careers for the 21st Century: Engineering Occupations (48:00)
"Careers For the 21st Century" is the most comprehensive series for career exploration on the market today. It offers viewers the opportunity to go out on 170 "job shadow" assignments to see and hear what hundreds of workplaces are like. Includes: ·Aerospace Engineers ·Mechanical Engineers ·Civil Engineers ·Electrical & Electronics Engineers ·Petroleum Engineers ·Chemical Engineers ·Metallurgical Engineers ·Mining Engineers
Grade(s) : 6-8, 9-12, Post-Secondary  © 1997
United Learning
This video contains 9 segments
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Women in Science (19:00)
Providing excellent role models for young women, this program chronicles the work activities, goals, and educational backgrounds of three accomplished female scientists. Each of the women -- a marine biologist, an industrial forester and an astronomer -- describes her professional responsibilities and shares personal insights about the motivations behind her career choice. Filled with intriguing images of the environments these scientists study -- the breathtaking underwater world of the ocean, flourishing forests, and the majesty and mystery of the heavens -- this program is sure to motivate and inspire. An exciting visual supplement to Life Skills units on career orientation; also useful as a concise media insight for Biology, Earth Science, and Space Science courses.
Grade(s) : 6-8, 9-12  classic © 1992 Aims Multimedia
This video contains 4 segments
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Discovery Educator Network Webinar Series
The Discovery Educator Network (DEN) is a global community of educators passionate about teaching with digital media, sharing resources, collaborating, and networking. With over 25,000 members providing professional development to over 250,000 educators worldwide, the DEN connects teachers both on-line and in-person. Discovery Educators have exclusive access to a wide range of resources, professional development activities, networking opportunities, exclusive Discovery Educator events
and more!
Voted the best professional development website in 2007 by the Association of Educational Publishers, this website is a place to connect to other educators across the globe. Here, all users can read the blogs and discussion boards. Discovery Educators (any educator that has a Discovery account) have the ability to comment on the blogs, post to the discussion boards, and register for Discovery Educator Network events. http://community.discoveryeducation.com/
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 7:00 pm
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We need to tell someone else a story that describes our experience because the process of creating the story also creates the memory structure that contains the gist of the story for the rest of our lives. Roger Shank, Tell Me a Story |
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