Camp's First LIVE Chat-with-a-Scientist Event of the Year - Thursday, October 23rd, 10:30 AM PST

One of the most empowering uses of distance learning is the opportunity to bring experts in to the classroom using online Question and Answer sessions. Our first TRAIL GUIDE CHAT is coming up so mark you calendars and RSVP. ALL CAMPERS are WELCOME!

TRAIL GUIDE GUEST:
Dr. John Johnson, Chief Anthropologist from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History will be our guest on Thursday, October
23rd, beginning at 10:30 AM PST.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
All classrooms are invited to send in 3-6 questions in advance - by October 20th - that we will send to Dr. Johnson. When the session opens, we will post your questions and his answers at the top of the chat, and then go live for discussions below. This way, even if you cannot attend the LIVE session, you can come online later and show your students his answers to your questions, and review the live dialogue.

Send your questions to camp@campinternet.net and let us know if you can also attend the live session. If you can, meet us in the CAMPWIDE TRAIL GUIDE CHAT ROOM between 10am and 10:30 to log in and identify which school you are with - and read the Questions and Answers. The LIVE chat begins at 10:30AM PST.

TOPIC:
Dr. Johnson has recently returned from a research trip to France where he visited collections of Native California artifacts gathered by French Archaeologists in the 1800s. For example, the first archaeologist to visit San Nicolas Island was a Frenchman and he gathered artifacts from the real Lone Woman of San Nicholas Island's people - a real world look into the life of the islanders from Island of the Blue Dolphin. And the Museum is also conducting research on the spectacular Chumash Basketry - in fact Camp's fees paid for teacher tours have gone directly to their Chumash Basket acquisition program helping to make it now the biggest collection in the
world. See our Channel Islands resources onlinr to prepare, or Do the DIG on Island of the Blue Dolphins located at http://chat.rain.org/cgi-bin/nph-isl.

Other News

To view and print the Fall Newsletter (color would be best), go to: http://www.campinternet.net/pdfs/fall03compass.pdf

October Events to Prepare to Join

Honored Ancestor and Halloween Storytelling Contest

Each year we set October aside for a time to Honor our Ancestors by writing short biographies about someone in our Family's history who accomplished something unusual or remarkable - or - the biography of someone from history that lead a life respected by a student. Some schools celebrate Halloween and also have the option to submit fun or spooky ghost stories (nothing too ghoulish or gruesome please). To post your Storytelling entries, go to the FIELD REPORTS section and enter Campwide, October 1-31.
Winners of the Best Ancestor Story and Best Ghost Story will win learning materials that will be shipped to your classroom.

October's Fun - our First Family Night of the School Year

Share Ancestor Stories - tell a little Family History - at our online October 30th Family Night. Great for Homeschoolers too! From your home computers - or classrooms if able to open for an on campus Family Night - join us for a storytelling 'round the Camp Internet electronic campfire. The Family Invitation for printing is in the Teacher's Web and you can add any special instruction to the bottom of the document before printing. Join us online between 5-9pm PST in the FIELD REPORTS Family Room to read and share! (We suggest having students or families write their biographies in advance, and then post them as a paste from a word document during the session.)

Weekly Tip - Post Your First Short Field Report and DO a DIG!

We continue to welcome each classroom to post its 'SCHOOL HELLO' in your track's Field Report Room - everyone wants to see who else is online in the program so please do introduce yourselves - where is your school ? how many students? We all want to hear from you!

And please visit the Internet Dig for your track and get students reading / researching / writing on challenging topics any day of the week