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The 2011 – 2012 School Year marks our 21st year with Visions!
Our Visions teachers and the Air Force Association have made Visions an education program with great impact and success.
USA TODAY Education was recently honored with the AFA Chairman’s Aerospace Education Award for long term commitment to aerospace education making a significant impact across the nation.
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Announcing e-Visions for the 2011 – 2012 Visions of Exploration Program
We are pleased to announce this year there are choices that Chapters may select and offer for their sponsored classrooms. Choices include the regular print copy of USA TODAY, OR e-Visions, which is the digital version of USA TODAY’s edition for classrooms.
The advantages of the e-Visions format are the usability and effectiveness of this new platform for delivery of STEM news and Visions lessons for students and teachers. Teachers will now be able to project the e-Visions digital USA TODAY newspaper on their interactive whiteboards or classroom projectors and offer student licenses for home use. This technology alone creates a new and exciting learning environment for students and teachers.
Special features of the e-Visions digital USA TODAY newspaper include:
- Exact replica of the USA TODAY newspaper, featuring interactive and extra exclusive content
- Ready to read by 5:30 a.m. ET every weekday delivered to teacher’s email inbox
- Searchable features on past USA TODAY STEM-related articles
- Easily read, email articles, share lessons and save articles for future reference
- Featuring interactive snapshots/graphs, video reports and editorial highlights
- Listen to articles with text to speech audio
- Direct links to Visions and AFA websites as well as teacher lessons
- Ability to promote Cyber Patriot Programs, teacher grants, etc.
- Video embedded in the e-Visions copy.
- Spanish language conversion on news articles for ESL learners
Watch this tutorial to see how the e-Visions work.
Program Components:
18 or 21-Week Program Details:
Chapter Cost: $120.00 per classroom
A. 30 print copies of USA TODAY delivered to the school once per week for 18 weeks (the print newspapers will include a special label with the Air Force Association’s name on it.
OR
B. 30 Student Licenses for e-Visions once a week for 21 weeks (e-Editions of Visions get an extra 3 weeks)
Both print and e-Edition classrooms will receive the weekly Inside USA TODAY e-newsletter delivered on Sunday evenings providing education news, featured resources from USA TODAY Education, classroom tips, and more. (An email address must be provided for each participating teacher.)
Suggested Grade Levels: 4 – 12
Access to Visions of Exploration STEM educational resources for teachers located at: education.usatoday.com and usatodayeducate.com/visions
Letters to teachers and parents about the program
Student and teacher Certificates of Completion
Chapter Facilitator Guide
28 or 32-Week Program Details:
Chapter Cost: $127.20 per classroom
A. 30 print copies of USA TODAY delivered to the school once per week for 28 weeks (the print newspapers will include a special label with the Air Force Association’s name on it).
OR
B. 30 Student Licenses for e-Visions once a week for 32 weeks (e-Editions of Visions get an extra 3 weeks)
Both print and e-Edition classrooms will receive the weekly Inside USA TODAY e-newsletter delivered on Sunday evenings providing education news, featured resources from USA TODAY Education, classroom tips, and more. (An email address must be provided for each participating teacher.)
Suggested Grade Levels: 4 – 12
Access to Visions of Exploration STEM educational resources for teachers located at: education.usatoday.com and usatodayeducate.com/visions
Letters to teachers and parents about the program
Student and teacher Certificates of Completion
Chapter Facilitator Guide