350 Student Cyberpals to Meet Face-to-Face on May 27 at
C.W. Post
For the past school year, more than 350 local students from Westbury
to East Hampton have been engaged in a virtual conversation with museums,
nature preserves, historical societies, and members of the community in
an effort to discover Long Island's history, culture, environment and people.
On Wednesday, May 27, 1998 these cyberpals will gather at the C.W. Post
Campus of Long Island University in Brookville for Sharing Event '98 where
they will meet and explore further the collaborative themes of this year,
which include the African American Experience, the Depression Era, the
Holocaust, the Native American Experience, and Nature and the Environment.
The event will feature 40 presentations and activities.
This virtual community is known as The Long Island Team/Electronic Educational
Village of Long Island. The event on May 27 is the seventh annual gathering
and has been held at the C.W. Post Campus since 1992.
The more than 350 participants are students in first through twelfth
grades from Nassau and Suffolk schools, including Bridgehampton, Comsewogue,
East Hampton, Half Hollow Hills, Hampton Bays, Hebrew Academy of Long Beach,
Hicksville, Huntington, Our Lady of the Hamptons, Roslyn, Sag Harbor, Southampton,
Three Village, and Westbury.
The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Hillwood Commons and
the B. Davis Schwartz Library at the C.W. Post Campus on Northern Boulevard
in Brookville. Long Island residents are invited to participate in Sharing
Event '98 and in continued dialogue through the Electronic Educational
Village website at www.liunet.edu/~edt/liteam/home.htm.
The Long Island Team Village/Electronic Educational Village of Long
Island is supported in part by the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University,
the Half Hollow Hills School District, Bell Atlantic (formerly NYNEX),
the NEC Foundation of America, Cablevision and Newsday. Mostly, it exists
because of the contributions and commitment of its active participants.
For additional information, contact Bette Schneiderman at the C.W. Post
Campus of Long Island University, Department of Educational Technology,
at (516) 299-2147 or bes@liu.edu, or Corinne
Carriero, director of Instructional Computing in Half Hollow Hills for
grades K-12 at (516) 421-6585
For more information call the C.W. Post Public
Relations Office at (516) 299-2333 or e-mail cwpostpr@aurora.liunet.edu
or send mail to: Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, 720 Northern
Blvd., Brookville, New York 11548-1300.
