Plans are underway for our third annual University of Exeter Exchange Program. The dates this year are May 24 – June 11. this is an international field experience program where students spend two intensive weeks working in a school in Newquay, UK on the Southwest Coast of England. You will also be
enrolled in a three-credit course (EDUC 363/463) titled International Field Experience. One week is free for travel. The program is open to education majors who have completed their junior year, those currently student teaching, or those finished with student teaching and interested in picking up graduate credits.

Our deadline for application is listed as Monday, March 8 but will be extended through the end of the week – March 12. If you are
interested, please contact John Williams (williamj@geneseo.edu or call 245-5473)

There will be a panel presentation in Newton on Wednesday the 27th of January212 at 2:00 pm.
Representatives from various schools will discuss
opportunities to tutor/mentor students that can also satisfy service
learning or practicum requirements especially for those in the Adolescence
programs.
The following schools will be in attendance: Livonia, Mt.
Morris, Pavilion, Perry, and Rochester City Schools. Open to all majors!

The Xerox Center for Multicultural Teacher Education offers a number of opportunities such as weekly seminars, monthly student colloquia, tutoring and mentoring opportunities, and an annual conference on urban education. If you attend all the seminars in a series, you can receive a certificate. The tutoring and mentoring opportunities provide a great chance to get experience and do good at the same time. Xopc29.org will post announcements from the XCMTE with all the details. For now, go to the link above and check them out.

I have set up a wiki which you can use to collaborate on any class project in any class. This is the link to WORKSPACE. The wiki is open, so you do not have to register. Just start working. I have contacted the people from whom I get my webspace. They said it was a problem with the DNS not pointing to the site all the time. They have fixed it.

I have received an e-mail message from the Xerox Center for Multicultural Teacher Education and they are in desperate need of tutors. Here is the message:
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Need something good to put on your resume?
Interested in tutoring/mentoring in the Rochester City School District?

The Xerox Center for Multicultural Teacher Education has a variety of
tutoring and mentoring opportunities ranging from

If you look to the menu, you will see that there is a blog (WordPress). Any registered user can use it to blog or read or comment. Feel free to use it, read it, or comment on anything remotely related to education or your life as an educator. The only restriction is that children and other sensitive people visit this site, so . . . .

Contact me at rxscabin at gmail.com to get one. There is a massive amount of storage space (where you can also save attached files), a very convenient address book, an easy folder system, and access to google talk (their new chat and internet phone system). Substitute @ for at in the e-mail address. I use it for my "non-official" mail. Plus, it's free.

I have 100 invitations to gmail. Contact me if you want one. It has a massive amount of storage, 'searchability', classifying and filtering, and the spam filter is top notch.

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