Hurricane central at tapped in.

In response to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, Tapped In--the online community of over 2,800 K-16 teachers, staff, and researchers engaged in both formal professional development programs and informal collaborative efforts has created Hurricane Central Group Room. The purpose of the group is to provide resources and collaboration opportunities among affected schools and those schools want ing to contribute to the relief efforts Ideas include adopting a classroom or school; providing online classes or lesson plans for overcrowded classrooms and community resource centers (CRC); data collection about the affected schools to assess the current situation and to predict future solutions; and establish a lesson plan bank that can be used by K-12 teachers for teaching hurricane preparedness, weather, and emotional support in a crisis situation.

The Tapped In community hopes art teachers will join the Hurricane Central Group and contribute what resources you can The focus for this long-term project should be on project-based learning that allows Tapped In to do what it does best: provide a community in which educators can work together, and support each other, to overcome the challenges that K-12 educators face. The Tapped In community hopes that the March 2006 Mini Expo will showcase what has been accomplished at that point. Anyone can see and join this group at www.tappedin.org.