This afternoon, students from Calvin Britain Elementary, Benton Harbor, are doing their first videoconference and presenting a series of skits and songs for other students in our county. The focus is on Black inventors from the past, particularly those from the 20th century. After a welcome from the principal, the students sang Lift Every Voice. [...]
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This week and next we have several schools participating in the IditaProject from Bering Straits School District. There are 30 schools participating this year, so the interaction is by emailed in questions instead of live interaction. We learned about the stats on the race so far, looked at a map of where the race goes, [...]
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One of the questions I hear all the time is, “How do you motivate teachers to use videoconferencing?” Here’s an answer from one of my veteran RUS Grant videoconference coordinators. Linda Johnson is the librarian at Mars Elementary, a K-2 school with 361 students and 25 teachers. At this moment they have 43 student events [...]
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