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K-12 Components
Support Jamestown
Anniversary Celebration

Verizon is a major sponsor of the America’s 400th Anniversary event, which commemorates the 1607 settlement of Jamestown, VA — the first permanent English colony in North America. Two major educational components for K-12 — a curriculum Web site and live Webcast — are part of the celebration, which is scheduled to run through 2007.

Jamestown — Journey of Democracy is the official curriculum Web site of the commemoration. It includes a series of 12 civics lesson plans as well as 76 other educational resources, some of which were developed by MarcoPolo Consortium Partners National Geographic and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

A live Webcast, "Jamestown Live! Experience the Journey that Changed the World" for students in grades 4 to 11 is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 9. Participants will learn about the historical significance of Jamestown and the impact the creation of a new nation had upon the traditions, interactions and contributions of the three cultures that originally came together there — Virginia Indian, European and African. For more information, register on the sign-up page of the Jamestown Journey Web site.

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The Verizon Foundation MarcoPolo Program is a proud member of the ISTE 100 Alliance, a select group of forward-thinking corporations and non-profits that share a commitment to improve teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in education.

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Trainer Recognition

The Verizon Foundation MarcoPolo Program is proud to acknowledge the dedicated trainers who roll out the Professional Development Program. To be eligible for recognition, trainers must track their training activity. Click here for more information.

Field Trainers
of the Month

Each month, the program recognizes exemplary Field Trainers who trained at least 50 educators and earned training survey scores of at least 4.5 out of 5.0 as the program's Field Trainers of the Month.

February
Sheila Bennett (Alabama); LeeAnn Lindsey (Arizona); Gilda Haddox (West Virginia); Deborah Herring (Texas); Colleen Dye (New York); Janet Luch (New York) and Larry Slanovich (New York)

March
Constance Lodolo (New York); Ellen Afromsky (New York) and Emil Whipkey (New York)

April
LeeAnn Lindsey (Arizona) and Michael Rheaume (Florida)

Certified Trainers

Verizon Foundation MarcoPolo Certified Trainers are highly skilled staff developers who are required to participate in advanced training sessions and demonstrate a high level of performance in order to earn and maintain certification. They are affiliated with Rollout Partner organizations.

The program is proud to recognize the following newly-certified trainers:

Ginny Murray, who was trained through the Alabama-MarcoPolo Partnership; Kelly Marcum, Kentucky-MarcoPolo Partnership and Suanne Slate, Norman Rosenbaum, Veronica Cox, Benjamin Higgins, Mimi Huffman, Kathleen Fessette, Irene Rabinowitz, Regina Barton, Dan LaFica, Nancy Mazzella and Mindy Schwartz, all under the New York State Teacher Centers MarcoPolo Partnership.

All MarcoPolo Certified Trainers are listed on the MarcoPolo Web site.

Training Advisory Group

The MarcoPolo Training Advisory Group (TAG) is comprised of outstanding MarcoPolo trainers who are invited to preview and review various aspects of the MarcoPolo Program, including educational resources, professional development and Web site design. MarcoPolo is proud to recognize these dedicated volunteers on the TAG Recognition Page.

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MarcoPolo's training paradigm and materials are aligned to the International Society for Technology in Education's (ISTE) National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Teachers. View information about the MarcoPolo alignment and learn more about NETS for Teachers.

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Two members of the Verizon Foundation MarcoPolo "training community" will assume new leadership positions with the International Society for Technology in Education for 2006-2007. Our congratulations to them both!

Fritschi named VP of
Special Education
Technology SIG

Jennifer Fritschi, Verizon Foundation MarcoPolo Program Officer for Professional Development and the program’s lead Staff Trainer, has been named vice president of ISTE's Special Education Technology Special Interest Group (SETSIG). The group works to advance knowledge concerning specialized technology products and effective practices to enhance opportunities for disabled and gifted students. Jennifer will assume her new responsibilities following the annual meeting at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC).

Gagliolo Elected to
ISTE Board of Directors

Camilla Gagliolo, a member of the Trainer MarcoGram Editorial Board and Verizon Foundation MarcoPolo Training Advisory Group, has been elected to the ISTE Board of Directors for 2006-2007 as the Special Interest Group representative. She is president of ISTE's Special Interest Group for Technology Coordinators (SIGTC). Camilla is also the Instructional Technology Coordinator for the Arlington County Public Schools, Va., and a longtime Verizon Foundation MarcoPolo Field Trainer.

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Ask the Trainer

In this column, Verizon Foundation MarcoPolo Staff Trainers and Trainer MarcoGram Editorial Board members answer questions on a variety of topics.

Q: What should I do if link issues are discovered during my training session?

A: If you or your attendees come across a link that is broken or about which you have questions, please submit the information directly to the Consortium Partner responsible for the particular lesson using the feedback button on the appropriate Partner site. All MarcoPolo sites are scanned every week for broken links, which are repaired as quickly as possible.

Do you have a training question? Send it in with “Ask the Trainer” in the subject line of your message.

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'Best Site'

Readers of Edutopia, a publication of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, rated the Verizon Foundation MarcoPolo Web site the "best site to download free lessons and materials" in an independent readers' survey.

Did You Know...
about these great
training resources?

Here are some top picks from members of the Trainer MarcoGram Editorial Board and MarcoPolo Staff Trainers:

Before finalizing a training session, I find it extremely helpful to look back at previous Trainer MarcoGrams. Finding and utilizing the successful tips and tricks from other trainers always adds a spark to a training session. There are such diverse and fresh ideas in each of the Trainer MarcoGrams that should not be overlooked!! Many are hands-on activities that actively engage the participants. I never do two trainings alike, so looking at what has worked for my colleagues provides "new eyes" when planning a session.

— Lydia Shipley
Technology Specialist
Bryan ISD, Tex.

The Partner Site Talking Points document, located in the Trainer Resource Center (free registration is required), provides comprehensive overviews of each Content Partner Web site and includes the Partner mission, site essentials and specific links to highlight. This training resource can be used in a few ways: it can be given to training participants before the session as a way to introduce them to the MarcoPolo Content Partners; it can be used during the session as a training guide; or, because it is a Word document, a trainer can copy and paste information about individual Content Partners from it for a content-specific training.

— Ron Harrison
Staff Trainer
Verizon Foundation MarcoPolo

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Consortium Partner Briefs

Read the latest about Verizon Foundation MarcoPolo Consortium Partners.

EconEdLink Site
Earns A+

EconEdLink’s content and site design have both been rated A+ following a site review by Education World. The report was published in the April issue.

ReadWriteThink
Seeks Lesson Plans

ReadWriteThink is seeking classroom-tested lesson plans for K-12 literacy instruction from language arts professionals in both K-12 and higher education. Interested educators should be familiar with using computers in the classroom and integrating the Internet in literacy projects and activities. For more information, complete the Join Us form on the Web site.

The Trainer MarcoGram is a quarterly e-newsletter that provides Verizon Foundation MarcoPolo trainers with tips, activities, news and links to online resources. Permission is granted to reprint and distribute the Trainer MarcoGram for use in a training session or classroom, or on Web sites devoted to the fields of education or professional development. All Web addresses and links must be maintained in their original form as they appear in the published version.

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Trainer MarcoGram
Editorial Board

Special thanks to the members of the Trainer MarcoGram Editorial Board, a group of exemplary MarcoPolo trainers who contribute their expertise and guidance to this publication:

Stevie Ash, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Education, Ala.; Darlene Cardillo, Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, N.Y.; Camilla Gagliolo, Arlington Public Schools, Va.; Amanda Hammes, San Antonio Urban Systemic Program, Texas; Beth Klineman, Independent Trainer, Va.; Susan Lancaster, Bellarmine University School of Education, Ky.; Karen Mack, New York Institute of Technology, N.Y.; Kay Rewerts, Grant Wood Area Education Agency, Iowa; Michael Russo, Williamsville Central School District/Heim Middle School, N.Y.; Lydia Shipley, College Station ISD, Texas; and Sherry Thomas, Christian County School District, Ky.

Jennifer Fritschi, Verizon Foundation MarcoPolo Program Officer for Professional Development, is the editorial consultant to the Trainer MarcoGram.

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The producers of ARTSEDGE continue their focus on large-scale multi-media explorations with two offerings, developed in conjunction with the Kennedy Center's 2005 "Festival of China," that provide the perfect summer — and year-round — activities to engage teachers and students alike.

Art of the Explosion provides students with a virtual hands-on experience in the art and science of pyrotechnics.

Art of the Explosion for grades 9-12 explores the science and art of pyrotechnics and chronicles the making of Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang's Tornado: Explosion Project for the Kennedy Center, which was designed to kick off the 2005 Festival of China. Behind-the-scenes footage, video interviews, archival documentation, design sketches, animations, interactive activities and images of Cai's artwork are featured. Students will learn about the science necessary to design, build and ignite fireworks displays, along with the artistry inherent in using pyrotechnics to create unique works. Through the interactive that is part of this exploration, they'll also be able to build and ignite their own virtual fireworks displays.

The companion lesson, Science Meets Artistry: the Work of Cai Guo-Quiang, provides additional historical and artistic perspective for the work of this master. Another related lesson, Oxidation & Combustion: Chemical Reactions in Fire, uses fireworks as a lens through which students explore scientific concepts such as exothermic and endothermic reactions, combustion and oxidation-reduction reactions. Students make predictions about the results of oxidation-reduction reactions that occur with a candle's flame, conduct online activities to learn how fireworks shells are made and explore how various chemical reactions result in different fireworks effects in the night sky.

Playing with Shadows geared for grades 5-8 offers an opportunity to discover the secrets behind the art of shadow puppetry through animations, videos and interactive activities. The site provides a broad overview of the art form of puppetry as a whole and invites users to become online puppeteers by building puppets and choreographing simple shadow plays to explore the complex interactions between light, puppets and the screen.

The companion lesson Puppets on the Move: China and the Silk Road, approaches the subject from a language arts and social studies perspective. Students create a shadow puppet performance as the culminating activity in their study of Chinese culture during the days of the Silk Road, including the connection between trade and urbanization. The lesson Shadows & Light: The Matter and Energy of Shadow Puppetry focuses on the science behind puppetry, in particular how light interacts with matter, and serves as an effective introduction to the properties of light and its role in creating shadows.

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EconEdLink continues to provide teacher and student versions of lessons, along with interactive resources that support these lessons, to enhance the teaching of economics to K-12 students. Trainers often find that these resources are effective session openers, particularly for mixed training audiences, because of their real-life applications to adults as well as students.

A Day at the Kennel, a new interactive resource for grades K-2, takes students on a virtual tour of a dog kennel. It supports the key economic concepts of goods and services as taught through the related lesson Woof! Woof! At Your Service and specialization of services as presented in the lesson Dog Gone Job!.

Clickety-Clack! Let's Keep on Track! helps students learn about deposits and withdrawals in their own savings accounts, including what happens when they make a mistake.

Clickety-Clack! Let's Keep on Track! is a student interactive resource and companion to the Clickety-Clack, Let's Keep on Track! lesson for grades 3-5. Both are designed to help students understand the importance of keeping track of their own bank savings accounts, and provide hands-on experience with deposits and withdrawals, including what happens when an error is made.

The recently updated Charting the Constitution interactive resource for grades 6-12, and the related lesson Constitution Costs, illustrate the necessity of a system of taxation to fund basic services, which are provided for Americans in the Constitution.

Teacher Resources located in the CyberTeach section of the Web site include a Tools page with examples of other student interactive resources. For a complete listing, visit the browseable Student Materials Index, filter on "Partner" and select EconEdLink.

Other teacher — and trainer — resources include a correlation of state economic standards to the Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics developed by the National Council on Economic Education. These Standards correlations are general connections drawn between the state economic standard and the national standard using 51 major economic concepts. The correlations allow users to access a listing of resources that help support the teaching of the selected standard.

The Glossary of Terms provides definitions of over 500 economic terms that are incorporated into the lessons. The Calendar lists an economic event for every day in the year, along with EconEdLink resources that are correlated to the event, providing yet another great training session starter.

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The National Endowment for the Humanities introduces — and reintroduces — timely resources on EDSITEment that underscore the theme of summer vacation and relaxation activities, including reading! Keep an eye out for more resources on this topic in "This Month’s Feature" for July, which is accessed from the EDSITEment homepage.

Having Fun: Leisure and Entertainment at the Turn of the 20th Century is a lesson for grades 9-12 that helps answer the questions, "How did Americans 'have fun' a century ago? Where did they vacation and how did they get there?" Students will learn about how Americans spent their leisure time, new forms of entertainment that appeared at the turn of the century and how transportation and communication improvements made it possible for Americans to travel to new destinations for relaxation. Using the interactive map, On the Old Fall River Line, learners can see how steamship lines carried passengers to and from a turn-of-the-century seaside resort.

The lesson Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": Bringing a Great American City Alive for grades 9-12 encourages students to explore the city of Chicago through one of the best-known works of 20th century American literature by looking at Sandburg's poem in a literary, historical and biographical context. Primary source materials to support this lesson include interactive maps, Chicago Daily News photos and documentary films by Thomas Edison. As a culminating activity, students use Chicago as the model for their own original writing about places that are important to them.

Sizing Up Alice reinforces the concepts of big and small that are introduced in Lewis Carroll's The Nursery 'Alice' for younger students.

EDSITEment has recently revised the lesson A Trip to Wonderland: The Nursery 'Alice' for grades K-2. It explores elements of wonder, distortion, fantasy and whimsy in The Nursery 'Alice,' Lewis Carroll's adaptation for younger readers of his beloved classic. Using images of big and small from Alice's experiences, students develop these concepts in their own drawings, compare Carroll's fantastic animals with creatures from other children's stories and use computers to craft images of their own fantasy creatures. The companion interactive resource, Sizing Up Alice tests students' listening skills by asking them to help Alice grow tall or short by providing the objects — the key, the bottle, the cake and the fan — that help Alice enter Wonderland. It also reinforces their understanding of the story's basic plot points.

New resources for the We The People project, designed to strengthen the teaching, study and understanding of American history and culture, will include lesson plans and student interactives — maps, text analysis and image analysis tools. Look for the following new releases during the summer and fall: The American War for Independence; Origins of the Cold War, 1945-49; Witch Hunt or Red Menace? Anticommunism in Postwar America, 1945-54; Police Action: The Korean War, 1950-53; and The Missiles of October: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.

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New offerings from Science NetLinks focus on the related fields of health and behavior and provide effective training examples for general training audiences as well as specialists in health, physical education and guidance — along with science educators, of course!

Resources for the Skin Deep Project that are scheduled for release this summer and early fall include new lessons for grades 6-8 and 9-12, along with two new student interactives. These resources will cover health-related issues, with lessons like the currently available Skin and Sports and Skin Care: Acne, both for grades 6-8. They will also allow students to investigate the skin as a system and the ecology of the skin.

Antibiotic Attack helps students look at the pros and cons of using antibiotics to treat infections.

With the new interactive Antibiotic Attack for grades 3-5, students can look at the pros and cons of using antibiotics to treat illness. This resource can be a useful addition to any lesson that looks at the human body as a system. It can be used as a way to show students how the whole body can be affected by something that is happening to one part of it.

The recently posted lesson series Genes, Environments, and Behavior 1 and 2 for grades 9-12 provides students with a clear understanding of how behavior is defined by scientists, along with an overview of the genetic and environmental forces that interact to shape behavior. These lessons are the first of several resources in development that focus on the social, behavioral and economic sciences, allowing Science NetLinks to make connections to a number of resources from the other Consortium Partner Web sites — EconEdLink, Xpeditions and EDSITEment in particular. Keep an eye out for the launch of the full project page.

New interactive resources for students that are scheduled to go live this summer and early fall include StarSearch for grades 3-5 and 6-8, which will allow learners to search for constellations and learn the mythological stories behind them, and Number Cruncher for grades 3-5, through which students will use various mathematical operations to solve a puzzle.

Another new addition to the Science NetLinks site is a video from The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). It features the famous Baby Einstein and gives an overview of the Association. Access the video from the About AAAS page.

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ReadWriteThink has recently released several new student interactive tools that are sure to engage year-round training audiences and the students they are teaching. These resources from the International Reading Association and National Council of Teachers of English are also a great fit for summer literacy programs and camp activities, allowing students to draw upon information in books they have read or create their own stories upon which their projects can be based.

Bio-Cube for grades 3-12 allows students to summarize a person's life after reading a biography or autobiography — or before writing one themselves. A companion planning sheet helps learners condense the information they will transfer to the Bio-Cube.

With the new Book Cover Creator, a K-12 resource, students will be able to create or recreate book covers — and choose the front only, the front and back or a full dust jacket. This tool can be used to create a new cover for a favorite book or help with a critical analysis of the components of a dust jacket. Student planning sheets are available for every cover option.

Students create their own Character Trading Cards by answering a series of questions about a story's setting and character using this new interactive tool.

Character Trading Cards for grades 3-8 provides students the opportunity to create trading cards by answering a set of questions about a story's setting and a selected character's appearance, thoughts, feelings, personality and character development. This student interactive accompanies several ReadWriteThink lessons, including Planning Story Characters Using Interactive Trading Cards.

Using Mystery Cube for grades 3-12, students identify the elements of mystery stories, practice using vocabulary from the mystery genre, sort and summarize information. Specific prompts ask students to describe the setting, clues, crime or mystery, as well as the victim, detective and solution of mysteries they are reading or writing. A planning sheet helps them get started by organizing the information.

With the Postcard Creator, students learn about the parts of a postcard and create their own.

The Postcard Creator, a new student interactive for K-12, helps students learn to identify all the typical parts of a postcard, and then generate their own postcard messages by typing information into templates. After printing their texts, students can illustrate the front of their postcards in a variety of ways, including drawing, collage and stickers.

Keep an eye out for the release of another student interactive, Fractured Fairy Tales, during the summer or early fall.

Training audiences will be interested to know that ReadWriteThink has added 30 new calendar entries to its Web site. Topics include copyright awareness, anti-bullying and National Children’s Book Week. All existing entries have been updated, as well. Information on well-known K-12 authors is included within the calendar.

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The development team at Illuminations is working this year to broaden educational resources for grades 3-12 and bring these numbers up to par with the more extensive collection already available for K-2. Among the new resources are those that support the Professional Development Focus of the Year for school year 2006-2007, which will be representation. The Focus of the Year identifies resources from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) that relate to a key theme from Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, offering educators an effective way to become more knowledgeable about important ideas in mathematics.

Shades of color are used to represent various types of data and data values on the new State Data Map interactive resource.

The State Data Map, one of the newest interactive resources for grades 3-12, offers learners a tool through which they can represent various types of data about the states using color — the darkest shades represent the highest data values and the others are shaded proportionally. Students can choose from a collection of data sets or enter their own.

The Chairs Around a Table lesson and companion interactive tool for grades 3-5 offer students the opportunity to investigate the number of chairs that can be placed around an arrangement of square tables. In the process, they discover various linear relationships that lead to an understanding of perimeter. Learners also are exposed to some elementary algebra concepts.

Line of Best Fit is among the new student interactive resources that have been developed for grades 9-12. It allows users to enter a set of data, plot the data on a coordinate grid and determine the equation for a line of best fit, which students may display based upon either their visual approximation or a computer-generated least-squares regression line. This applet is a recommended tool to complement two diverse lessons — Barbie Bungee and Impact of a Superstar.

In the Barbie Bungee lesson for grades 6-12, students model a bungee jump using a Barbie® doll and rubber bands. Because the distance to which the doll will fall is directly proportional to the number of rubber bands, this context is used to examine linear functions. A graph and equation of the data can be developed using the Line of Best Fit tool.

With Impact of a Superstar, students in grades 9-12 have an opportunity to identify an outlier within a set of real-life data by using the Line of Best Fit activity to plot the data from two teams. The lesson authors use data on the Los Angeles Lakers and Detroit Pistons from the 2004-2005 NBA season but other data sets can be substituted as needed to pique the interest of a particular group.

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National Geographic is leading "My Wonderful World," a new public engagement campaign to increase geographic literacy. The campaign provides a wonderful training session opener and introduction to the rich resources on Xpeditions.

At the heart of the campaign is the My Wonderful World Web site, which has resources for educators, parents and students. Teachers can download free Action Kits — with school checklists, printable wall maps, desktop wallpapers and more — plus find links to the best geography education sites (such as Xpeditions) on the Web, boost students' "Global IQ" with games and activities and discuss issues on a blog. Visitors can see the results of a new National Geographic-Roper survey on geographic literacy and test themselves.

Xpeditions also creates educational materials for exciting National Geographic exhibitions, such as Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs. The exhibition includes more than 130 artifacts from the tombs of King Tutankhamun and other ancient Egyptian rulers and will travel from Chicago to Philadelphia and London. Resources for each grade range and a family activity have been developed.

Using the Tut's Treasures Venn Diagram tool, students can compare ancient and modern artifacts.

The lesson King Tut's Treasures for grades K-2 gives students the opportunity to explore artifacts and what they can tell us about a culture. With the interactive resource, Tut's Treasures Venn Diagram, learners can compare and contrast artifacts from ancient Egypt and those of modern times.

Ancient Egypt: Stories and Myths for grades 3-5 introduces students to the famous modern Egyptian myth about the "curse of the mummy" and includes an investigation of Ancient Egyptian culture and belief systems. Enhance the experience of this lesson by bringing students — or trainees — to Xpedition Hall to try on the Culture Goggles.

The lesson Mystery of the Scroll: Ancient Egyptian Culture and Geography for grades 6-8 uses Egypt as the primary example of how geographical features of a place, both physical and cultural, provide insights into the lives of the people who have settled there. Visit The Dig in Xpedition Hall to extend this lesson.

Through the 9-12 lesson, Tut Technology, students explore what historical and recent research have revealed about King Tut in an effort to solve the mystery of how he died, how new technology is helping scientists clarify the circumstances surrounding Tut's death, and how ancient Egyptians used and advanced technology to preserve information about their culture that has lasted for generations.

The family activity Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of . . . You! in which students design an exhibit about themselves for a local museum after studying about the "Boy King Tut," also works well in the classroom or training lab.

For more information on other recently-released resources, see "Engage Trainees with Treasures from Xpeditions" in the Spring 2006 Trainer MarcoGram.

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The Verizon Foundation MarcoPolo Program will be highlighted through several key activities at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) sponsored by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) in San Diego from July 5 to 7.

The foundation is a sponsor of the first annual Digital Equity Summit on Thursday, July 6 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Verizon Foundation President Patrick Gaston will participate in the summit, which is being convened by ISTE to address issues and challenges of digital equity as they relate to education.

Trainers will represent the Verizon Foundation MarcoPolo Program at two concurrent sessions, designed to showcase ISTE 100 member programs, products and services. At “NETS-Aligned Models of Professional Development” on July 6 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., Verizon Foundation MarcoPolo Staff Trainer Ron Harrison will discuss the program’s professional development paradigm, online course and training materials for teachers and trainers, which are aligned to ISTE’s National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T).

During “Favorite Learning Resources: Students and Teachers Share Where and Why,” on July 6, from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Verizon Foundation MarcoPolo Certified Trainer Stevie Ash, a faculty member at the University of Alabama who works primarily with pre-service teachers, will present a sampling of the program’s free online resources for K-12 teachers and students including some of her own favorites.

The Verizon Foundation will also host a booth (#2535-2537) in the Main Exhibit Hall. Hours are Wednesday, July 5, from 12:45 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Thursday, July 6, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday, July 7, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Trainers are invited to stop at the booth to receive a special “thank you gift.”

Verizon Foundation also will become the first ISTE 100 Member to deliver a session at the ISTE Affiliate Meeting, a pre-conference event scheduled for July 3. Marcia Torgrude, Educational Technology Specialists for Technology and Innovation in Education (TIE) of South Dakota and Ron Cravey, Executive Director of the Texas Computer Education Association will co-present a session on best practices in professional development with Jennifer Fritschi, Verizon Foundation MarcoPolo Program Officer for Professional Development. TIE and TCEA are members of the Verizon Foundation MarcoPolo Rollout Network and ISTE Affiliates.

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