Distant Learning Visit: Fun, Easy, Inexpensive!
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Janie Panagopoulos now offers a FREE 30 minute Skype test to your classroom.
For more information contact Janie at: Author@prodigy.net
What's Going On?:
Starting Over
After having moved to Richmond, Virginia this last year Janie has had to reorganize her whole life and that includes her writing life. This year, Janie is working on a new book, blogs, newsletters, and research. If you have any classroom or student questions you would like to ask, just contact me at: Author@prodigy.net
Also, if you need to order books you can contact Karis Distributing at KLKaris@comcast.net
Fun, Easy, Inexpensive!
Author Visit to your
Classroom
Videoconferencing, the
next best thing!
Distant Learning with
Videoconferencing
Traditional Author Visits a thing of
the past? Too much trouble?
Too much expense? How
about an inexpensive way to have an author visit with very little work.
Sound good? Consider
this.
Over the last 17 years, I have
literally visited thousands of classrooms throughout the United States,
starting three years ago, I have literally visited thousands of student,
around the world. I love to
travel but a few years back, I was often 3-6 months on book tour, visiting
schools (daily) and doing book signings (on the weekend).
I became exhausted, grumpy, didn’t have time to write and felt like I
just needed a change.
Videoconferencing allowed me to do
this. I have a studio set up in
my office, not just Skype, but I work with Polycom too (quality is better).
I can connect to your school
district, school, classroom, or any place your tech people can set me up.
Sure, it isn’t eye-ball to eye-ball
with your kids, and I do miss all the hugs and the great energy from a
school visit, but it works, and is the next best thing, and (fortunately or
unfortunately) it is the wave of the future.
Here are just a
few programs that I have done in the last year.
·
60-minute one-on-one Author Interviews, (I do
a short introduction. Students ask questions)
·
90-minute Author Visit (I do an overview of
how I got started writing and answer questions)
·
Book Interviews 60 or 90 minutes (Students
read a selected book. I share information concerning the writing, research
of the book, and they ask questions.)
·
Adult Interviews for libraries, clubs,
organizations
·
60-90 minute writing workshop for students
·
60-90 minute writing workshop for adults
·
Author in Residence: 3 60 - 90 minute
programs (once a month for three months, two months of pre-writing practice,
3rd month, either an in school visit or another video visit where
students talk about and ask questions about writing.)
·
Designed programs for your classroom.
You have an idea and would like me to work with you to create it
through Distant learning.
Contact me. Author@prodigy.net
Price?
Depends on the program, but generally runs around
$100.00 – $150.00 per hour. No
transportation costs, no hotels, no meals out, and NO stress. (The techs
handle nearly everything that needs to be done, except class preparation.
Contact Janie about Videoconferencing
Just Ask!
Author@prodigy.net
