Electronic Educational Village
Celebration '99 at C.W. Post
For the past school year, hundreds of local students and teachers from
the east end of Long Island to Queens have been engaged in a virtual conversation
with museums, nature preserves, historical societies, businesses and academics
in an effort to discover Long Island's history, culture, environment and
people.
On Tuesday, May 18, 1999, more than 400 of these cyberpals will gather
at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, Route 25A, in Brookville
for Sharing Event '99 where they will meet and explore further the collaborative
themes of this year, which include science, nature, artistic expression,
people and their stories, and much more.
This virtual community is known as the Long Island Team/Electronic Educational
Village. The May 18 event is celebrating its eighth anniversary and will
be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Hillwood Commons. Throughout the day,
all who attend the event will lead or participate in several of more than
40 interactive demonstrations and panel discussions. There will also be
an opportunity to participate in "The Voice," an on-line magazine
for Village learners of all ages.
Some of the cultural and community organization participants include
Apple Computer/ETA; Cablevision; The Heckscher Museum of Art; Newsday;
Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary, and Bell Atlantic.
School districts attending with kindergarten through grade 12 students
include: Bridgehampton; Center Moriches; Comsewogue; Half Hollow Hills;
Hampton Day School; Island Trees; Lynbrook; Mill Neck Manor School for
the Deaf; Mineola; Portledge School (Locust Valley); The Ross School (East
Hampton); Saint Patrick's School in Huntington; Southampton; and Wyandanch.
Faculty and representatives from the following schools will also be
in attendance: the Children's School located on Long Island University's
Southampton College campus; Middle Country Central School District (Centereach
and Selden); Lutheran Middle and High School (Brookville); Our Lady of
the Hampton; Seaford; Syosset; Great Neck; Locust Valley; Three Village
(Setauket and Stony Brook); District 19 from Brooklyn; District 27 in Far
Rockaway; Long Island City High School; and District 11 in the Bronx.
The Long Island Team/Electronic Educational Village is supported in
part by Long Island University; the Half Hollow School District; NYNEX/Bell
Atlantic; the NEC Foundation of America; Cablevision; and Newsday. In 1997-1998
Long Island University was the recipient of the top NYNEX Excellence in
Education award in New York State for the continued development of the
Village.
For more information call Dr. Bette Schneiderman or Dr. Michael Byrne
at Long Island University's C.W. Post Campus, Department of Educational
Technology at (516) 299-2147 or bes@liu.edu,
mmb@liu.edu; or Corinne Carriero in Half
Hollow Hills School District at (516) 421-6565 or ccarrier@liu.edu. Drs.
Schneiderman and Byrne are co-chairs of the Department of Educational Technology.
Carriero is the director of Instructional Computing for grades K-12 in
Half Hollow Hills. Visit the Electronic Educational Village Website at
www.liunet.edu/~edt/liteam/home.htm.
For more information call the C.W. Post Public
Relations Office at (516) 299-2333 or e-mail pr@cwpost.liu.edu
or send mail to: Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, 720 Northern
Blvd., Brookville, New York 11548-1300.
