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Kids & Learning |
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WFSU SPECIAL EVENT |
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A Conference of Our Own hosted by WFSU in partnership with the Early Learning Coalition of the Big Bend and the Early Learning Coalition of Northwest Florida is a day long learning event for anyone who works with or has young children. Our goal is to provide meaningful strategies for teaching children as well as networking opportunities for people who work with young children.
This one day conference will be held at the Ramada Inn & Conference Center in Tallahassee on Saturday, February 23, 2008. Doors open at 8:00 am and the conference will conclude at 4:30 pm. Registration is
$10.00 in advance and $15.00 at the door. Registration includes breakfast and lunch. Please see below for registration information.  Keynote Speaker: Ingrid Crepeau from the Wolf Trap Institute. Ingrid Crepeau is a nationally recognized puppeteer and a Master Artist with the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning through the Arts. Her work with Wolf Trap includes conducting professional development workshops for teachers of young children, classroom-based work around the country, as well as presenting at national conferences for the NAEYC (National Association for Education of Young Children). She has designed puppets, won awards for her work with puppets and has written a book A Show of Hands: Puppetry with Young Children that has been a sell out hit on Amazon.com. More about Ingrid.
Michele Valeri, another Wolf Trap Artist will present a workshop exploring how songs, simple instruments and sound effects can be used to reinforce curriculum topics, enhance creative play, enliven emergent literacy activities, and foster positive transitions. Participants will learn and share songs appropriate for young children to sing, explore strategies for integrating songs and sound effects into the daily schedule—especially as a transition technique and increase their knowledge of how to create experiences that use songs, sound effects and music to frame and guide creative play, to heighten the experience of pretending. Other Creative Sessions: To register or to find out more information call the Early Learning Coalition of the Big Bend Funding for this conference is made possible through a grant from the PBS program A Place of Our Own, which airs Monday through Friday at 6:00 am on WFSU. Major funding for A Place of Our Own is provided by BP, First 5 California, and The Corporation for Public Broadcasting. A Place of Our Own is a production of KCET/Los Angeles in association with Sesame Workshop and 44 Blue Productions, Inc.
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Michele Valeri from the Wolf Trap Institute.
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