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Distance Learning in Shelby County

Distance Learning in Shelby County. Joan Greene and Faith Pack Technology Resource Teachers Shelby County Schools. What is Distance Learning?. Distance Learning is instructional delivery that does not constrain the student to be physically present in the same location as the instructor.

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Distance Learning in Shelby County

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  1. Distance LearninginShelby County Joan Greene and Faith PackTechnology Resource TeachersShelby County Schools

  2. What is Distance Learning? Distance Learning is instructional delivery that does not constrain the student to be physically present in the same location as the instructor.

  3. Types of Distance Learning • Collaboration • Curriculum Enhancement • Courses

  4. Collaboration • Between classes within the same county • Between classes in two different counties • Between classes in: • Another city • Another state • Another country

  5. Curriculum Enhancement • Virtual fieldtrips • Renowned speakers • Visits to real places • Talking to real people

  6. Courses • Advanced Placement • Foreign Language • College courses • Teachers • Students

  7. Other Uses • Professional Development • Video Meetings • Activities • Spelling Bees • School to School competitions • Joint projects • Math Competitions

  8. Benefits • Reduced Travel • Cost and time savings • Increased opportunities • Increased collaboration

  9. How We Made It Work • Focused on promoting Distance Learning with teachers • Wrote it into the Formula Grant • Included week long training for teachers in the grant, along with one free DL connection. • Created video and showed it at a Principal’s meeting and a County Tech Meeting

  10. Solving the Cost Problem • Money put into tech budget each year to cover connections. • School tech money is used • Some schools choose to charge a small fee as if the connection was a field trip.

  11. Daily Connection Setup • Daily Connections: Science, Math, German • Teachers + facilitator • Equipment provided each teacher: • Printer/Fax machine • Phone line • DL Equipment • Laptop

  12. Requirements to Connect • The connection must apply to the curriculum that the teacher is teaching. • Teachers must complete a form on the Shelby County website. http://www.shelbyed.k12.al.us/tech/distlearn.htm

  13. Witness to History (Pearl Harbor) Arizona Memorial Museum Association

  14. The Underground Railroad Ward Melville Heritage Organization

  15. Meeting Sen. Richard Shelby

  16. Gravity - Roller CoastersLouisville Science Center

  17. ShakespeareIndiana Repertory Theatre

  18. Collaborations • Plays • Experiments • Spanish lessons

  19. Other Connections • Transmission Tracker – Louisville Science Center • The Rain Forest – Center for Puppetry Arts • Storytelling – Huntsville’s Early Works Museum • Egyptian Mummies – Cleveland Museum of Art • Baseball Hall of Fame - NY

  20. Distance Learning Connects Your Students With the World http://www.shelbyed.k12.al.us/tech/distlearn.htm

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