Do you have a taste for acting?  Planning a little hand to hand combat on stage? Then you'll want to visit the following site. The PDF file from the Cincinnati Arts Association was produced as a study guide to accompany a workshop on stage combat.  It was choreographed by several of the few certified female teachers in the Society of American Flight Directors.  Learn about safety techniques, techniques for sword play, find diagrams for footwork, and diagrams of swords. The vocabulary list is exhaustive, as is the list of plays that include some sort of fighting or combat.  You'll even be prompted to practice what you’ve learned
with the activities. Even if your interest is not in stage combat, just reading
through this guide will increase your information of proper stage perfromance.

This site hosts a great review of rhyming sounds for the primary 
student to play.   There are a total of 30 words offered and the student can find the corresponding rhyming word from a choice of three solutions.  When the child picks the correct word a sound of wild cheering will ensue.  Should an error be made, a buzzing sound will remind the player to start again.  There are also relevent links for other games.  This site is child friendly and all your student needs to know is how to operate the mouse. 

An article in ICT-Pulse recently spoke of issues facing  on-line education students.  The article is informative and worth sharing.   After reading the article, confirmation of our philosophy on education today was  fortified.  We have been developing our concept of the New Wave OLC for some  years. As trans-classroom teachers, we recognized these stated issues.  Our unique interactive approach to education  today incorporates  our curriculum  coupled with the on-line curriculum the student is enrolled in. It is delivered through  the experience of
discovering our local ecology and storytelling (local lore).   We have
confronted and researched critical issues facing on-line education of  tweens,
and teenagers.    Our program addresses the lack of face to face 
interaction by working one on one and in groups.  We offer programming that 
also addresses the risk of isolation and stunted social development of
students.  Our skilled  staff  are writing enthusiasts that develop necessary writing skills in our  students.  And, we are trying to limit the high costs of quality 
education.  Our professional, and nuturing qualities are priceless.  We believe 
that we have a successful program ready for the East Volusia and Flagler area.  

Check out the article by ITCPulse.  Then drop us a line  to learn more about our goals and passion for education. 
 
NEW WAVE ...... ON-LINE LEARNING ...... THE NATURAL
  WAY.
_John Vaslowski
 
Four Critical Unresolved Issues of Online Learning

New Wave Online Learning Center founders have always embraced outdoor education as a vital and beneficial component of our teaching experiences.  We have followed closely the No Child Left Inside Act, sponsored by the No Child Left Inside Coalition. We strongly believe in the positive effects our outdoor education program contributes to the joy, satisfaction, social/personnel, and academic development of our students. 

According to a new report by National Wildlife Federation, Back to School:
Back Outside , time spent outdoors both during school and at home helps children become high-performance learners and score higher on standard tests. 
The report shows how outdoor time is connected with wide-ranging academic
benefits including;

* improved classroom behavior,
* increased student motivation and enthusiasm to learn, 
* better performance in math, science, reading and social studies, 
* reduced Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), 
* higher scores on standardized tests (including college entrance
   exams), 

A spring 2010 survey of 1900 educators by the National Wildlife Federation found that: 

* 78 percent believe children who spend regular time in
   unstructured outdoor play are better able to concentrate and perform better in
   the classroom, 

* 82 percent said students need daily unstructured outdoor time as
   a counterbalance to the significant time spent indoors in front of electronic
   media,

* 75 percent said students who spend regular time outdoors tend to
   be more creative and better able to problem solve in the classroom, 
 

The No Child Left Inside Act and Be Out There Campaign have spurred us on at New Wave Online Learning Center to continue our development of programming to meet the needs of today’s youth.  Coupled with our Academic Learning Coach
component for our Virtual School learners, we offer a unique and stimulating
academic/socialization program at our Online Learning Center.    

Does your child come home from school worried about being lost in her schoolwork or feeling social pressure from peers?  Does your on-line learner ask questions you cannot answer or don’t have the time to answer? Are you
concerned about your child’s social development?  Children are often placed in school environments with numerous obligations, time limitations, and peer conflicts leading to a state of stress. Frustration, aggravation, panic, anxiety, and fear of failure are but a few of the outcomes that may be expressed when an
individual feels the stress of being lost.   Our goal is to help students find
their way in a caring, respectful, and nurturing environment, “THE NATURAL WAY”, at New Wave On-line Learning Center.
_John Vaslowski

If you’re interested in looking how science plays a part in the news then make time to check out  this site from the University of Wisconsin. The home page has a section on science that delves into current topics that effect us daily.  More importantly, they are covered exhaustively in each topic area.  In addition, there are hyperlinks to questions about weather, book reviews, great images, and archives of articles back to 1996, which are arranged by subject and  theme. There is also a section that correlates Why File stories with National Science Education Standards. The classroom activities include interactive games, lesson plans, and discussion questions. This is a treasure cove of current science topics.

Have you or your child considering leaving the brick and mortar classroomn for an online learning experience? Are you concerned or stressed with the demands an Academic Learning Coach brings? Are you worried that it might not work? Some thing maybe missing with this huge jump? Are you thinking: support, understanding, socialization, fun?

New Wave OLC has new ideas and strategies for the cyber family of today.Our
Progressive Movement model of Dewey's Theory stresses that education is built
from meaningful activities in a social context. By combining our roles of
trans-classroom teachers with that of academic learning coaches, our ideas,
strategies, and practices transfer our classroom experiences to online learning
successes. Through our socialization and ecological student experiences, we
provide a social constructivism that assists in development of the whole child,
adolescent, and young adult. Our pedagogical approach to education is goal
orientated. We believe that the student learner should be self-directed and
autonomous. Our role as Academic Learning Coaches (Teachers), is as
facilitators of learning process where the student/learner has a choice.

At New Wave OLC, we are Instructional Designers. Our system of learning is unique to this time and age. As trans-classroom teachers, we take our best experiences from the past and join them with the ideas of a new educational realm. Communications with students through online forums and stressing proper
netiquette (positive, supportive, and instructive) lends to success down the
road.  Who can be there each day ensuring such a victory?

We can! Catch the wave, New Wave OLC. Supporting and redefining education of the future. And that future is now! - John Vaslowski