The Wired Classroom

This month some of CSD’s New Links to New Learning members are participating in videoconferences from all over the world! Lafayette High is participating in two programs in two days next week- and traveling across the United States. From their St. Louis, MO classroom, they will connect to Alaska to learn about Mushers and the Iditarod race. The following day, classes from Lafayette will connect to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York to discuss how the Civil Rights Movement was portrayed on TV. Later this month, Lafayette will participate in conversations with Global-Leap in the United Kingdom.Wydown Middle students will continue their international connections with Global Nomads Group. This week, they participated in a series of 3 videoconferences in religion in Malaysia and I have received a report that they were awesome. Next week, Wydown students will also connect with GNG to talk to students across the country and also in Vietnam. In March, GNG connected Wydown classes to India! To learn more about the GNG programs, visit http://www.gng.orgThe Virtual Learning Center have worked hard to increase our international New Links to New Learning connections! I’m pleased to say that we’ve definitely raised those numbers- Independence Elementary connected to Australia earlier this year; Parkway North connected to previous GNG videoconferences and one of our own content providers, Bill Dallas Lewis, lives and presents from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico!