3^rd – 6^th                                      *** Meet the Author ***

Description: Meet the Author, $100.00 - 60 minutes, Dates to be set by school/author

Remember the “good ol’ days” when money was available to book an author visit?  Well, it’s back! With I.P. Videoconferencing you not only can afford to bring author Janie Lynn Panagopoulos to your school, you can have her all to yourself in your classroom.  On an IP Author Visit, Janie will share with you and your students her many adventures in writing and research and also allow interactive time for students to ask their many questions (without having to share her time with a whole school assembly)

Make your Language Arts and Social Studies programs fun and alive again by booking an affordable author visit through I.P. Video Conferencing with Janie Lynn Panagopoulos.   

   3rd - 6^th                           *** Writing Workshop with Janie Panagopoulos *** 

Description: Basic Writing Workshop, $100.00- 60 minutes, Dates to be set by school/author

 Want to help your students discover writing the right way?  Do it the fun way and invite award winning author/educator, Janie Lynn Panagopoulos into your classroom through I.P. Videoconferencing. 

Janie will share with your students, in an interactive format, the importance of: 1) Research to “write what you know” 2) Not writing before your story is  thought out 3) How to create three dimensional characters, settings, and plots 4) How to make stories “alive” by using voice and senses 5) Editing and revision

   5^th – 7^th                            *** Author Residency Program ***

Description: Residency Program, 4 – 60 minute connections/ $100.00 per connect, Dates to be set by school/author

Want something new for your Language Arts program?  Here it is! Invite author, Janie Lynn Panagopoulos into your classroom for a residency on I.P. Videoconferencing.

Program 1: Introduction to writing program: Research (libraries, museums, Internet – citing sources), Program II: Think before you write, Program III: Elements - 3/3/3 of writing, Program IV: Editing and Revision – problem solving

This program is interactive with students encouraged to ask questions.  Questions missed during program can be directed to Janie through email where she will address the individual student’s needs. Students, after the program is completed, are invited to share their finished manuscript with Janie and a random selection of stories will be published on her web site.  If a student’s story is selected for the web they will be interviewed by Janie to share their writing tips and ideas with other authors, worldwide. 

   8^th – 12^th                 *** Writing Workshop with Janie Panagopoulos ***

Description: Basic Writing Workshop, $100.00- 60 minute program, Dates to be set by school/author

Want to take your students deeper into Language Arts and Creative Writing?  Invite award winning author/educator, Janie Lynn Panagopoulos into your classroom through I.P. Videoconferencing.

 Janie can do an overview with Q & A time with your students concerning the “real” writing profession or even create a program that will fit your classroom needs.  Selected subjects of interest might be: Internet research and citing sources, plagiarism, pre-writing is non-negotiable, how to create three-dimensional characters, settings, and plots, how to make stories more alive by using voice and senses and, of course, editing and revision.

   8^th – 12^th                      *** Author Residency Program ***

Description: Residency Program, 4 - 60 minute connections/ $100.00 per connection, Dates to be set by school/author

Your Creative Writing or Language Arts students have questions?  Let them ask a professional author through I.P. Videoconferencing.  Author, Janie Lynn Panagopoulos will be happy to come into your classroom for a residency program and to serve as a mentor to your students.

This program can be designed specifically for your students or you may select the basic residency program which includes 1) Research- Internet Research – Citing Sources 2) Pre-Writing is Non-Negotiable 3)Three Dimensional Characters, Setting, Plot 4) Editing and Revision 

BCISD Distance Learning: http://www.remc11.k12.mi.us/dl/  Search: Content Provider

Also check for my Polycom programs at: http://www.polycom.com/education/content/

Books by Janie Lynn Panagopoulos: (All titles A.R. approved) Traders in Time (complimentary blog available), Journey Back to Lumberjack Camp (complimentary blog available), Erie Trail West, North to Iron Country, Train to Midnight, Runes of Isle Royale, Calling the Griffin, Madame Cadillac’s Ghost, A Place Called Home, Castle at the Straits, Little Ship Under Full Sail (Web site information available), Mark of the Bear Claw, A Faraway Home: An Orphan Train Story (Complimentary blog available)