The Webcast was free to those with a UNO email address, since the University is a member of WCET, an educational technology organization founded in 1989 by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.
Speaker, who has a longstanding interest in global education and technology, is associate coordinator for virutual outreach and manages the Louisiana Regents Estate in Second Life through a grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents. He spoke about UNO’s experiences following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008.
UNO was the first university in New Orleans to reopen after Hurricane Katrina struck and the only local university to offer a fall semester, launching a mini-semester in October 2005, using Blackboard (Bb) and remote locations. Since then, UNO has added emergency phone notification and a virtual campus in Second Life to its emergency repertoire. Speaker included in the discussion how these innovations were tested and operated without problems during the 2008 storms.
In addition to Dr. Speaker, Webcast participants were: Joe Tykwinski, chief information officer for Valley City State University in North Dakota where on-campus classes were interrupted in the spring 2009 semester because of river flooding, and Shannon Meadows, vice president of higher education for Blackboard Connect, Inc.
Second Life Workshops
April 15, 2009
The University has scheduled the following Second Life workshops for April. The workshops will be held in Milneburg Hall, Room 311.
- Teaching in Second Life on Thursday, April 23 from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. will focus on uploading PP, creating groups, notecards, using voice, streaming video, field trips and student orientation to Second Life.
- Beyond Avatar Creation on Thursday, April 30 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. will include camera positions, communication tools, teleports and landmarks, search function, inventory management and notecards.
Please RSVP to Lindsey Graveline (lgraveli@uno.edu). If you do not have an avatar, one will be provided.
Dr. Reynolds, LA-LIDC, co-sponsor ACE-D/HH conference and workshop
March 3, 2009
The 35th Annual International Conference of College Educators Deaf/Hard of Hearing (ACE-D/HH) was held at the Hotel Monteleone, Wednesday, March 4 - Sunday, March 8. On Thursday morning (3/5) from 10:00 until 1:00 in the Bienville Room, ACE-D/HH and the Louisiana Low Incidence Disabilities Consortium Project co-sponsored a faculty workshop on Distance Learning. This workshop targeted the topics of electronic delivery of courses, collaboration across the web for co-teaching, and an introduction to learning object repositories. The Louisiana Low Incidence Disabilities Consortium Project (LA-LIDC) is a multi-million dollar Louisiana Department of Education grant supported partnership between UNO (the lead agency), The Human Development Center of the School of Allied Health at LSU, and Louisiana Tech University and out-of state partners. The goal of this initiative is to establish a sustainable consortium to increase Louisiana’s capacity for statewide availability of high-quality, performance-based initial and advanced teacher education programs and professional development opportunities via electronic distance delivery that lead to additional and better prepared teachers of children with low incidence disabilities (Deaf/Hard of Hearing, Significant Disabilities, Blind/Visual Impairments, Autism, Deaf-Blindness). Thursday’s workshop presenter was Michael Anderson, who leads the Course Development and Technology team at the University of Texas (UT) System online education group (the UT TeleCampus), which offers more than 300 fully-online graduate and undergraduate courses and programs. His team manages the technology infrastructure and provides training and project oversight for all Web-based instructional design and course development to UTTC faculty and staff. The team also builds custom applications and courses for UT campuses in areas such as Paralegal Certification, IT Security compliance, and Emergency Room Psychiatry. UTTC created TRACK (TAKS Readiness And Core Knowledge), the 11th grade diagnostic/tutorial application that has been used by more than 350,000 students since its launch. "I am excited that Michael will be joining us for this workshop," said Dr. Kate Reynolds, who added that he also consulted with the LA-LIDC project on Friday as the team continues to refine the learning object repository. She strongly stated that, "We must continue our efforts to attract students and school districts across the state to our certification courses and professional development opportunities via distance learning in order to provide quality teachers for students who have low incidence disabilities". She emphasized that programs such as Associate Dean Sharpton's program in Significant Disabilities is the ONLY such program in the state and hers in Deaf Education is the ONLY teacher preparation program in 2 states (Louisiana AND Arkansas). All students in Louisiana must complete the program at UNO to gain certification (or go out-of-state) in these national areas of critical need." Individuals with questions on LA-LIDC or the synchronous web-conferencing system LA-LIDC instructors use to teach classes are encouraged to contact Dr. Reynolds via e-mail (lalidc@uno.edu).
UNO Offers Music Technology Workshops for K-12 Teachers
The University of New Orleans Music Department will offer Music Technology Workshops for kindergarten through 12th grade teachers to learn to use music software and earn recertification credits. Workshops will be held for both Macintosh and PC users. The Mac workshop was held May 26-29 and the PC workshop will be offered June 1-5. Details: http://news.uno.edu/Public/Index.asp?page_id=30&Content_ID=1402
Back to School Week (In World) – August 17-20
Back to School Week [In World], designed by the faculty and staff of seven Louisiana universities, will be held August 17-20 at the virtual campuses in Second Life. Activities planned for the week include {in-world} field trips, face-to-face workshops, in-world building workshops, introduction to machnima, participating in and forming groups, teaching in Second Life, virtual campus field trips, a festival and dance, and much, much more! Participating schools include the University of New Orleans, Tulane University, the University of Louisiana at Monroe, Southeastern Louisiana University, Loyola University, Delgado Community College, and Southern University of New Orleans. For a complete schedule of events for the week, visit: www.virtualcampus.uno.edu. Be sure to follow the event on Twitter at http://twitter.com/BTSWeek and keep an eye out for the next issue of Louisiana Second News which will be hitting the virtual newsstands in the next few days! (Source: UNO Office of Public relations)
Algebra & Geometry Camps for 7th -10th graders July 27-31
The University of New Orleans, College of Education and Human Development will offer an Algebra Camp for 7- 9th grade students and a Geometry Camp for students who have completed algebra from July 27 -31 Students will learn some of the major concepts of algebra and geometry through a variety of approaches that include working with concrete objects, technology and cooperative groups.
Both camps are two hours each day during the week of July 27 - 31.The Geometry Camp is from 10 a.m. - noon, and the Algebra Camp is from 1 - 3 p.m. The cost for each camp is $100. For more information, e-mail Yvelyne Germain-McCarthy, professor of curriculum and instruction, at ygermain@uno.edu.
The College of Education and Human Development is also offering a mathematics methods workshop for fourth- through eighth-grade teachers July 6-17, but that workshop is full.
Summer Math Workshop for Teachers is FULL July 6 -17
The College of Education and Human Development will offer a mathematics methods workshop for fourth- through eighth-grade teachers July 6-17. Dr. Germain-McCarthy reports that, as of May 25, the workshop resistration is at capacity, and, unfortunately, there are no openings for additional participants. We wish to thank those who have shown interest.
Thirty-Sixth Annual Awards Event Held May 4, 2009
The thirty-sixth annual honors reception was held on Monday, May 4, 2009 in the Homer Hitt Alumni Center Geoghegan Grand Ballroom from 6:30 - 8 p.m. Students, Alumni, and faculty were honored for their achievements.
For photos and a slideshow of the event, please click here.
St. Vincent And The Grenadines, University Of New Orleans Discuss Early Childhood Education Partners
CaribWorldNews, NEW ORLEANS, LA, Fri. May 8, 2009: Discussion of an early childhood partnership between the island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the University of New Orleans has begun.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Ambassador to the United States, La Celia A. Prince, recently met with University of New Orleans Chancellor Timothy Ryan and officials of UNO’s College of Education and Human Development to discuss development of a partnership with St. Vincent and the Grenadines to support Early Childhood Education.
On May 1, 2009, Ambassador Prince also visited Medard Nelson-UNO Charter School, where she observed a pre-kindergarten classroom. `This site visit has allowed me to see elements that we may incorporate into our Early Childhood Education system, making it more interactive; making it one that allows for the individual child to develop their natural propensities, rather than having everybody fit a particular model. These are things I can share with our principals back at home for their further consideration into the implementation of their own policies,` said Ambassador Prince.
`It really heartened me to be able to see a class of about 15 children as they engaged in role playing as a police officer, as a theater performer; while somebody else can sit in a corner and read quietly,` said Ambassador Prince following her visit with Nelson’s pre-kindergarten class. Ambassador Prince observed that this potential partnership with the University of New Orleans can greatly assist in St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ thrust towards implementation of universal access to early childhood education, as well as enhance her country’s capacity-building needs.
This shared vision of a possible collaborative partnership in Early Childhood Education is the result of dialogue between Dean James Meza, Jr. and ambassadors of Haiti, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Grenada. The first in a series of ongoing meetings took place last October during the World Cultural Economic Forum 2008 in New Orleans, hosted by the Office of the Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu.
The proposed educational collaborative espouses mutual goals of providing high quality education, promoting healthy families and communities, and protecting the best interests of children. The participants in these programs will become reflective practitioners prepared to design, implement and sustain high quality preschool programs that emulate the following core values: teachers facilitate the development of the whole child; all children can and do learn in diverse ways; teachers support and collaborate with families of young children and effective learning activities for preschoolers are multidisciplinary in nature and reflective of the cultural and community context in which the children live.
Ambassador Prince, who first served at her Embassy as the Deputy Chief of Mission was elevated by her Government to the post of Ambassador in April of last year. She presented her credentials to the United States Government in May 2008. She is the youngest foreign Ambassador, serving as her country’s chief envoy to the United States and the Organisation of American States.
The University of New Orleans (UNO), the urban research University of the State of Louisiana, provides essential support for the educational, economic, cultural and social well-being of the culturally rich and diverse New Orleans metropolitan area. It opened its doors in 1958 as part of the Louisiana State University System `to bring public-supported higher education to Louisiana's largest urban community.` Today, UNO offers 43 undergraduate degree programs, 37 masters, and 11 doctoral programs. The 340-acre main campus sits on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain, offering easy access to all parts of the metro area.
Student Teacher Exhibition
On Tuesday, April 21 from 3– 5 p.m, student teachers and interns exhibited artifacts that demonstrated their instructional impact on students in the New Orleans metropolitan area.
For the story as well as photos of the event, please click here.
More Live Text Innovations!
Another innovation related to Live Text began last summer with the rollout of the "C1" 
version of Live Text. There are new features in the C1 version, plus improvements on the old. In the fall of 2009, EVERYONE will be using C!, so candidates are encouraged to begin getting acquainted with C1 now.
To log in to the new interface, simply type "c1." in front of "livetext.com. Here is the link URL address: https://c1.livetext.com/
To find out more about Live Text, click here.
LiveText Adds New Features
Instead of United Streaming, Live Text is now associated with "LEARN 360." New subsribers have the option of paying an additional $30 to have access to the videos that come with LEARN 360. This feature is OPTIONAL for UNO students. If you already have a subscription to United Streaming through Live Text, you may continue to access United Streaming until your LT subscription expires (at least five years from the date that you registered).
To find out more about Live Text, including streaming tutorials, click here.
Research Circle Presentation Thursday, April 23
4:00 – 5:30pm
• UNO Lakefront Campus Liberal Arts Building, Room 234
• Louisiana Technical College, Lafayette, Room 408
• Nicholls State University, Ayohall Room 100
• McNeese State University, Drew Room 228
• Baton Rouge Community College, Governors Building, HR Training Room 100
The Department of Education Leadership, Counseling and Foundations Research Circle Presents two speakers.
Principals' Perceptions of School Leadership in Post-K New Orleans: A Methodological Focus
Dr. Brian Beabout
Dr. Beabout is a graduate of the Instructional Systems Ph.D. program at Penn State 
University. He has six years of urban teaching experience, four of which were in the Orleans Parish Public Schools. He holds certificates as a Secondary English teacher and K12 Principal. His main areas of research include leadership for social justice, applications of systems theory and chaos/complexity theory to educational change, and the phenomenology of educational change.
Perceptions of Discrimination Experienced by International Students
Peter Cho
Peter Cho will be graduating this spring from the University of New Orleans with his Ph.D. in Educational Administration (Higher Education Concentration). Cho is currently a Professor of Music and the Department Chair of Humanities at Delgado Community College in New Orleans, LA. He has been teaching music, music business and audio engineering at Delgado since 1996. Cho is also a professional musician who has performed as a Jazz Pianist in the New Orleans area for over 20 years. His research interests include equity in education, international education, and the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the musical community of New Orleans.
LiveText Adds New Features:
Learn 360 Instead of United Streaming
Instead of United Streaming, Live Text is now associated with "LEARN 360." New subsribers have the option of paying an additional $30 to have access to the videos that come with LEARN 360. This feature is OPTIONAL for UNO students. If you already have a subscription to United Streaming through Live Text, you may continue to access United Streaming until your LT subscription expires (at least five years from the date that you registered).
Another innovation related to Live Text began last summer with the rollout of the "C1" version of Live Text. There are new features in the C1 version, plus improvements on the old. In the fall of 2009, EVERYONE will be using C!, so candidates are encouraged to begin getting acquainted with C1 now.
To log in to the new interface, simply type "c1." in front of "livetext.com. Here is the link URL address: https://c1.livetext.com/
To find out more about Live Text, click here.
Student Teaching and Internship Application Period is Now OPEN
The application period for the spring semester of 2010 is now open. If you would like to apply for student teaching or interning in the spring of 2010, please click here..
Faculty and Staff Tech Training Available
50th Aniversary Symposia on Community & Schools
The College of Education & Human Development is celebrating the university's 50th Aniversary by hosting a number of Symposia on Community & Schools.
Check back for more information on upcoming symposia.
Student Teachers and Interns exhibit their work
For more information and photos of this exhibit, click here.
An Evening with Harry Wong
February 3, 2009
The University of New Orleans, Kappa Xi Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education and the UNO Chapter of CMENC invited Dr. Harry Wong to speak here on theUNO campus. The event, held in Milneburg Hall, was well-attended.
Dr. Wong is, arguably, one of the country’s most famous motivational speakers on 
the topics of education and classroom teaching. He teaches that the single greatest effect on student achievement is the effectiveness of the teacher. Effective teachers have classrooms that are structured, organized, and consistent. Dr. Wong demonstrated what he and others have done to ensure student success.
His techniques have been successfully adopted by thousands of educators across 
the country, and he is credited with renewing entire schools and rescuing countless frustrated teachers through his common sense, research-based, no-cost approach to managing classrooms. Dr. Wong is the author of The First Days of School, which has sold three million copies. He also writes a monthly column for Teachers.net.
This event was sponsored by Kappa Delta Pi, Kappa Xi 
Chapter and UNO Chapter of CMENC. Chapter President Michael Warren (see photo, center) helped orchestrate the event, as did the organizations's "counselor," Dr. Lena Nuccio-Lee (see photo, far left), who is a full-time faculty member at the College of Education and Human Development.
Grad Student Franz Reneau to Attend Policy Seminar 
Franz Reneau, a University of New Orleans doctoral student andfull-timegraduateassistant, was selected by the Association for the Study ofHigher Education (ASHE) to attend the 29th annual Graduate Student Policy Seminar in Jacksonville, Fla.
Reneau, a native of Belize, is working toward a Ph.D. in education administration in the College of Education and Human Development, Graduate Program of Educational Leadership.
ASHE promotes collaboration among its members and others engaged in the study of higher education through research, conferences and publications, including its renowned journal, The Review of Higher Education. The Graduate Student Policy Seminar provides selected advanced graduate students with opportunities to interact with researchers and policymakers who are knowledgeable about current policy issues facing higher education.
Free Debate Workshop Held
On Friday, January 30, The International Debate Association (IDEA), in partnership with the Capital One-University of New Orleans Charter School Network and the National Forensic League (NFL), held a free, two-day workshop on the University of New Orleans campus. The workshop prepared participating teachers and students to form debate clubs and to compete in city-wide tournaments. The workshops were held at the Lindy C. Boggs International Conference Center, in the UNO Research and Technology Park. (To see a flier for the event, click here.)
Associate Dean is Featured in the TP
Dr. Andre Perry pens an Op-Ed piece in the Times-Picayune. Click here to read.
TeachGNO
For information about Teach Greater New Orleans (Teach GNO), please visit the web site (teachgno.uno.edu).
Richard Speaker, associate professor of curriculum and instruction in the UNO College of Education and Human Development, was among the featured speakers in a WCET Webcast on Wednesday, June 17 at 1 p.m. titled Online Learning to the Rescue: Continuing to Teach when Disaster Strikes. 