Alcohol and the Developing Brain: How can we protect our elementary school students? (K12)
April 16, 2008 * 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET

Almost 20% of our nation's youth will have had their first full drink of alcohol before they complete 6th grade. Early alcohol use can have devastating effects on learning and academic performance, as well as increase chances of later alcohol addiction four-fold. This interactive presentation will help elementary teachers and administrators understand how they can use information about the developing brain to help young children make healthy and safe choices. Actual demonstrations of lesson plans featuring local elementary students will enliven this informative and practical presentation. Protecting You/Protecting Me, an evidence-based curriculum developed by Mothers Against Drunk Driving and published by Hazelden, will be featured as an example of brain-based prevention in action! Find out more...

Bullying 101: Creating a Respectful School (K12)
April 15, 2008 * 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET

According to research conducted by the National Education Association, 160,000 children stay home from school each day to avoid bullying. Elementary and middle-school administrators, counselors and teachers who are concerned about the effects of bullying on children will benefit from this informative and interactive presentation. Participants will learn the 10 characteristics of an effective bullying prevention program, watch the "bullying prevention circle" in action, and hear administrators, parents, and teachers talk about bullying and what can be done to prevent it. This program will feature the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, an evidence-based school climate-change program developed at Clemson University with Dr. Dan Olweus, pre-eminent bullying researcher from Norway. Find out more...

Swiss (Inter-)National Learning Object Repository
(Higher Ed/Public & Cultural, K12)
March 20, 2008 * 10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. ET

This presentation was first made at the European University Information Systems, (EUNIS) Conference in Grenoble, France in July 2007. The EC has experienced social and political pressures that have led to advanced uses of the network for online learning between universities in all the member nations. This presentation will be most beneficial to higher educational institutions in the United States with collaborative or inter-campus E-Learning programs. More information...

Past Programs

Learn more about the Open Student Television Network!

MAGPI has recently formed a partnership agreement with the OSTN (Open Student Television Network), a leading provider of educational, foreign language, news and entertainment IPTV content and services. OSTN features the only 24/7 worldwide channel exclusively devoted to student-produced programming. OSTN now is delivered to 41 million subscribers at 4,500 university member campuses and 36 countries around the globe. OSTN can be viewed on televisions and personal computers. MAGPI is excited to announce that members of the OSTN executive and technical staff will join MAGPI members in an interactive videoconference event on Thursday Sept. 27, 2007 from 1-2pm EDT. Learn more...

Read Alouds Allowed! (Educators of Grades PreK-1; Pre-Service Educators)
October 25, 2007
H.323 Videoconference or Webstream

Children’s author and illustrator, Suzanne Bloom, will be with educators "virtually" across the state during an exciting and engaging interactive videoconference event to promote early literacy development as part of Pennsylvania’s statewide program One Book, Every Young Child. Pennsylvania’s second annual One Book, Every Young Child collaborative program is designed to highlight the importance of early literacy development in preschoolers, ages 3-6 years. Find out more.

Digital Humanities Grant Workshop (MAGPI K20 Community)
March 6, 2007 * 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. EST

NEH has launched a new digital humanities initiative aimed at supporting projects that utilize or study the impact of digital technology. Digital technologies offer humanists new methods of conducting research, conceptualizing relationships, and presenting scholarship. Learn about the 5 new grant programs related to this new initiative and interact with NEH program officers during this unique videoconference event! Learn More...