This evening my son and I enjoyed watching one of Ohio’s newest content providers give the community a special presentation of a virtual dive in the Great Barrier Reef exhibit with Reef HQ in Townsend, Australia. The crowd of over 100 residents packed the theater as our diver Fred swam around the tank with his camera giving us a fish eyed view of the exhibit. This amazing event was topped off with a dive into their predator tank as the crowd was shown three species of shark and one friendly turtle named lucky. To Learn More about Reef HQ’s distance learning program visit http://www.reefed.edu.au/reefhq/reef_video_conferencing/
The Reef HQ program was part of French Creek’s Australian exhibit which an experience all in its own. For $1.00 the community can see live kangaroos, emus and even touch a shark. The exhibit will run through February of this year. Local readers should stop out and take in the sites.
The Lorain County Metro Parks also provides distance learning programming to classrooms through videoconferencing. Their specialty is environmental science providing students lessons aligned to Ohio’s Science Standards. To learn more about the Lorain County Metro Parks and their distance education programs visit them on the web at http://www.loraincountymetroparks.com/ . To schedule a distance learning program call the French Creek Nature Center (440) 949-5200.
