Educational Village Will Join Turning 2000: A Millennial Weekend at C.W. Post Exploring the Past, Examining the Present and Envisioning the Future

Nearly 900 elementary, middle and high school students from across Long Island will envision the future when they participate in Turning 2000, a conference on the new millennium at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, N.Y., on October 15. Dubbed EEV-Millennium, this segment of the three-day conference will put technology at their fingertips through a variety of workshops, discussions, performances and exhibits.

Highlights of EEV-Millennium include:

The Interschool Exchange Morphing Project. Middle school students from the Greenvale School have written biographies of the 100 most influential people of the last millennium. Photos of themselves, morphed with those of their heroes, will be displayed on computer screens throughout Hillwood Commons.

  • Creation of Turning 2000 edition of The Voice, EEV's online magazine. Students will help produce this issue, which will focus on the Mars Millennium Project (http://www.mars2030.net/), an ongoing, national project that helps students build their vision of life on Mars in 2030.
  • Millennium Messages. A fourth grade class from Commack will visit the Heckscher Museum in Roslyn to build their own contribution to the Millennium Messages art exhibit to open in November.
  • Middle school students from Lynbrook and Hampton Bays will meet to discuss futuristic readings and to plan their own futuristic writings, which they will share with each other on the Internet throughout the year.
  • Naturalists from the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary will show live birds of prey and address conservation issues and strategies. This is an extension of a community outreach program that assists students in animal research projects.
  • The Association for Resource Conservation will talk about creating "treasures" from "trash." Students will find out how materials exchange programs can benefit the environment, consumers and business.

EEV-Millennium is sponsored by the Electronic Educational Village, an ongoing project that brings together schools, cultural and community organizations, government, businesses and residents to educate children online and face to face at "sharing" events. "The Educational Electronic Village goes beyond the village to educate children," says Bette Scheiderman, EEV coordinator and C.W. Post education professor. "By exploring the Internet and taking field trips we help children discover the world outside their little communities. Turning 2000 gives us the opportunity to reach even more children in an exciting environment."

Faculty and students in C.W. Post's Educational Technology department will conduct dance workshops and help elementary school children paint a mural. Other participants in EEV-Millennium include representatives from such community organizations as Cablevision and Optimum Online, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Newsday, the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary and Volunteers for Wildlife.

For more information about EEV-Millennium, contact Bette Schneiderman at (516) 299-2655 or bes@liu.edu, or Andrea McLoughlin at (516) 299-2161 or amclough@liu.edu. For a complete listing of activities and participants, visit http://eev.liu.edu/EEV-Millennium

  • Schools Districts Represented by Students
  • Center Moriches*
  • Commack
  • Connetquot
  • Elmont
  • Farmingdale
  • Half Hollow Hills Elementary Schools
  • Half Hollow Hills Middle Schools
  • Half Hollow Hills High Schools
  • Science & Video
  • Hampton Day School
  • Island Trees
  • Greenvale School
  • Jericho High School
  • Lynbrook
  • Mill Neck Manor School for the Deaf
  • Mineola Middle and High School*
  • Queens District #27
  • Portledge School
  • Southampton
  • Southampton High School*
  • St. Patrick's School
  • Westbury Friends School
  • Westbury High School

*Not confirmed.

 

Schools Represented by Teachers and/or Administrators

  • Center Moriches
  • Comsewogue
  • Hampton Bays
  • Huntington
  • Mineola
  • Brooklyn public schools
  • Seaford
  • Southampton Middle School
  • Syosset
  • The Viscardi Center

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.

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