While today was supposed to be my day off, it became another great day of opportunities to improve student learning through interactive videoconferencing.
Story Time:
Today I did a test call and short meeting with our friends at the Magnolia ISD in Texas for our Story Time Program schedule for September 30, 2005. I will be reading the Giving Tree to Kindergarten and second grade classrooms in a multipoint videoconference.
The Story time program is a program designed for teachers and students new to videoconferencing. After this program we will discuss other applications and usage of the delivery median to enhance student learning.
We will also be working with Rose Tree Media in Pennsylvania in the morning.
Artifact Exchange Project:
We also had the opportunity to meet with our new collaborative partners from Battle Academy for Teaching and Learning in Chattanooga Tennessee. Students from both schools will learn about their community and each others by sharing clues and collecting artifacts which will be sent to each others schools. This program will start in October and finish in December.
