TC Update
October 2015
Workshops
Study Groups
Splash at Cornell
Splash! at Cornell is pleased to announce that registration for our Fall 2015 Splash is now open! Sign up for classes including:
* Bughouse Chess: Chess With a Twist
* The Secrets of Memory
* Climate Change Engineering
* Intro to Rocket Science
* America's Next Top Playwright
* Species-ism?
and many more
Splash is for 7th-12th grade students, and will run on October 24th. Sign-in will be open beginning at 9am and all students are invited to our opening keynote at 10am in the Plant Sciences Building. Classes will run from 11am-6pm.
How to register
Splash will be utilizing a first-come first-served system for assigning classes to students. Start the registration process by going to <https://cornell.learningu.org/learn/Splash/2015_Fall/studentreg>. The catalog is located at <https://cornell.learningu.org/learn/Splash/2015_Fall/catalog>. Please note that the cost of the program is $25 and that generous financial aid will be available for those families to whom the cost might prove financially burdensome. All students will receive a Splash! t-shirt, notepad, and lunch.
We will also be providing some programming for guardians, including information sessions and sample Splash! courses.
If you have any questions, email us at splashcornell@gmail.com. Happy registering and see you at Splash!
Professor Garfield
From their website:
The Professor Garfield Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational collaboration between Paws, Inc., the global headquarters for Garfield the Cat, and Ball State University, a nationally recognized leader in teacher training and digital education.
Our mission, therefore, is to be a world leader in the direct, free delivery of innovative and motivational digital learning content with a primary emphasis on children's literacy and creative expression.
Initially, we will accomplish this by creating fun and educationally sound interactive activities and games where kids like to play -- on the Internet -- supplemented with standards-based resources for teachers, parents and mentors.
Within ten years, we believe our edutainment site will be regarded as the leading free resource and authority in literacy as demonstrated by visitors, measurable outcomes, and global impact
To blend humor with the power of the Internet as an educational tool, Jim Davis came upon the idea of the Professor Garfield learning portal. Jim knew that three key ingredients were necessary to establish a solid foundation for the effort:
- Creative, humorous elements to engage the attention of learners.
- A nationally prominent educational institution to provide expertise in educational content, delivery, and assessment.
- Technological expertise.
For more information click here.
Encyclopedia of Life
Our knowledge of the many life-forms on Earth - of animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria - is scattered around the world in books, journals, databases, websites, specimen collections, and in the minds of people everywhere. Imagine what it would mean if this information could be gathered together and made available to everyone – anywhere – at a moment’s notice.
This dream is becoming a reality through the Encyclopedia of Life.
Our Vision: Global access to knowledge about life on Earth.
Our Mission: To increase awareness and understanding of living nature through an Encyclopedia of Life that gathers, generates, and shares knowledge in an open, freely accessible and trusted digital resource.
EOL is supported by the following institutions:
- Atlas of Living Australia
- La Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO)
- Harvard University
- Marine Biological Laboratory
- New Library of Alexandria
- Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History
EOL collaborates with the following global bioinformatics projects:
- Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)
- Barcode of Life (BOLD)
- Catalogue of Life (COL)
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
For more information click here.
Teacher Center of Broome County
Email: bctc@btboces.org
Website: http://www.btboces.org/teachercenter_home.aspx
Location: 601 Gates Road, Vestal, NY, United States
Phone: 607-763-3282
Twitter: @bctc