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2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 1 Part 2 MarcoPolo Update Slide 2 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 2 Review: What is MarcoPolo? Partnership between the MarcoPolo Education Foundation and leading educational organizations Discipline-specific Web sites National STANDARDS-BASED Internet Content for the Classroom Professional development support Easily accessible at NO COST No login or password required Slide 3 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 3 The MarcoPolo Partnership Slide 4 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 4 Seal of Approval Accurate Unbiased Up-To-Date Appropriate Slide 5 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 5 Classroom-Ready Interactive activities Worksheets Online resources Slide 6 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 6 Addresses Multiple Learning Styles Slide 7 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 7 1400 lessons aligned to HCPS http://marcopolo.k12.hi.us/ http://marcopolo.k12.hi.us/ http://marcopolo.k12.hi.us/ Slide 8 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 8 Relaunching of Sites Science NetLinks EdSitement Illumination Expeditions ArtsEdge will relaunching their site soon Slide 9 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 9 Read/Write/Think Extends its lesson plans from K-8 to K-12 Slide 10 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 10 More Tools Many interactive activities added to partner sites under student tools Slide 11 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 11 Free Online Session WebEx Awareness session 1 hour session Phone and Internet access needed Slide 12 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 12 Training Materials All training materials can be dowloaded for free: downloaded for freedownloaded for free New teachers guide New brochure New Poster Online Flash Tour Online Flash tourOnline Flash tour Slide 13 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 13 Slide 14 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 14 MarcoPolo Teacher as Final Arbiter Slide 15 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 15 Training in Hawaii Fact Sheet Training Results20012002Total No. of Educators Trained1,2882,7764,064 % of Public Schools with Field Trainers-- 81% % of Private Schools with Field Trainers-- 8% Cadre Training No. of Scheduled & Completed Trainings2922 51 Rate the Trainer Mean (out of 5)4.674.664.67 Rate the Training Mean (out of 5)4.544.594.56 Field Training No. of Scheduled & Completed Trainings84171 256 Rate the Trainer Mean (out of 5)4.584.604.59 Rate the Training Mean (out of 5)4.444.464.45 Slide 16 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 16 Content Quality 5 (excellent) - 47.04 % 4 (good) - 45.99 % 3 (average) - 5.54 % 2 (fair) - 1.15 % 1 (poor) - 0.27 % Hawaii Teachers rate MarcoPolo Content How would you rate the QUALITY of the content (lesson plans, links, and other resources) on the MarcoPolo web sites? Mean: 4.38 10/25/2003 (1,888 respondents)