Columbus North High School
Columbus North High School is one of the most active schools on the Vision Athena Network. They utilize a variety of applications such as regular business classes between schools and project work. Last year's project featured Columbus North's Solar Car Team and this year features a Robotics class between Columbus North students and Indiana University. The science department is actively involved with the Aquatic Research Institute on projects. Columbus is also involved in the Baldridge initiative around the state. They will be both a receive and transmission site on Baldridge training this year. In addition, many teachers take graduate level classes after school from Indiana University. Look for updates in the DIAL Consortium newsletter on the status of these projects.
Columbus East High School
Last year Columbus East High School was involved primarily with the Business Marketing class between Columbus North and Columbus East High Schools. Also they featured a series of connections with the Indianapolis Repertory Theater. This year they look to involve departments such as math, social studies, and English in their distance learning connections.
Eastern School District
The primary usage in the Eastern School District is within the elementary. They have two active participants in the Virtual Indiana Elementary School Network (VIESN) project. Half way down the page) Dinah Fuller and Nancy Leonard have both been involved with the VIESN project over the last two years. Some of their connections featured a collaborative project between Eastern Hancock and Eastern Elementary on Yellowstone National Park. This year they look to continue their innovative projects.
Edgewood Early Childhood Center
Edgewood Early Childhood Center has hosted many connections for both the pre-school children and for the Edgewood Middle School students. Carol Gardner, principal of Edgewood Early Childhood Center, hosted connections with Aquatic Research Institute, the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angles, and the Children's Museum of Indianapolis for Edgewood Middle School last year. Connections for their pre-school involved the Indianapolis Zoo and the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. Their facility is a unique setting because it will hold large numbers; over 100 middle school students will comfortably fit within their site.
Edgewood High School
Last year Edgewood High School conducted a German class between their German teacher, Romona Winterly, and Southern Wells High School in northern Indiana. The German 3 and 4 class extended both first and second semester. One of the marquee connections from the high school last year was a connection between German exchange students from the Ford Plant in Germany and Romona Winterly’s German class at Edgewood. Smithville Telephone president Bob Mondy and Indiana University supported this project.
Gosport Elementary School
Gosport Elementary school has facilitated many collaborative connections with several of the VIESN schools. Pam Todd, principal of Gosport Elementary, is the leader of the VIESN project. As the VIESN project enters its third year, Gosport Elementary continues to serve as a planning center for the group.
Harmony School
Harmony School featured two exemplary collaborative projects last year. A Tale of Two States was conducted with Harmony and an elementary class in Hawaii. Sharing Perspectives was a collaboration between Harmony School elementary and Carrie Gosch elementary in East Chicago, Indiana. Both of these projects demonstrated cultural collaborations that were enhanced through the use of distance learning.
Other applications featured connections in support of Harmony’s Outreach work with schools around the country including Vermont and Hawaii. This year will support Harmony's work with the National Reform Faculty formerly housed at Annenberg Institute.
McCormick’s Creek Elementary
McCormick’s Creek Elementary school is one of the new schools on the network this year. Their initial project will feature two teachers, Tim Soliday and Fred Walden, who worked on the Stranded...but Soaring Beyond project last year. This years project, Testing the Waters, involves studying pollution within their region and accessing resources from Ohio, California, Florida and Oregon. This is a technology-focus school and looks to be one of the new excellent members of the DIAL Consortium.
Mooresville Education Center
The Mooresville Education Center has been added as a second site for Mooresville Consolidated School Corporation. The auditorium style room will be used for connections needing larger numbers and also for board meetings with their school board and other administrators. This site is still under construction.
Mooresville High School
In its first year Mooresville High School was heavily involved with many content provider events. They also involved teachers in after school graduate level classes at the site. Because this is a consolidated school, their entire school district was able to use the site last year. However, due to heavy usage they decided to add a second site to avoid conflicts. Mooresville Consolidated School Corporation serves as a model of organization and have conducted awareness sessions with other schools to explain how it is that they coordinate their technology use.
Owen Valley Middle School
Owen Valley Middle School has been a very active school. Some of their projects last year featured hosting the elementary project Stranded...but Soaring BeyondTeachers take graduate level classes after school and feature connections in almost all departments at the middle school.
Media Specialist, Myrna Fields, has participated in many workshops in support of DIAL Consortium's workshop on curriculum development and project management. She also has served as grant writing consultant at the school and has participated in many innovative projects. Her involvement with Ben Mikaelsen and other authors has created a lot of interest. Other schools interested in innovative language art programs should seek out Owen Valley Middle School.
South Elementary School
South Elementary School, located in Martinsville Indiana, is another of the new members of the DIAL Consortium. They look to be active participants of the network and have already shown interest in activities such as the JASON project, author connections, and a wide variety of applications. Lou Feagans, principal of South Elementary, postponed his retirement in order to participate with distance learning this year. That example speaks for itself.
University Elementary School
Last year, University Elementary School was a new member of the DIAL Consortium. They revisited distance learning after the initial pilot project in Bloomington in 1995. They participated in a wide variety of sessions including University of Southern Indiana, the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, the Aquatic Research Institute, the Indianapolis Zoo, and others. They also hosted the Keiko Kasza author connection last year which was one of the largest programs in the state. Keiko, one of the parents at University Elementary, volunteered to present in honor of the school.
Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corporation (Hauser High School)
Flat Rock-Hawcreek is a consolidated school district located in Hope, Indiana. They are one of the newest members of the DIAL Consortium and look to participate in the C-4 vocational program with the Columbus East and Columbus North High Schools. Flat Rock-Hawcreek schools plan to use a variety of applications with all of their schools since they are all located closely together. Installation date projected to be early October of 2000. Hauser High School also participated in the Planning and Implementation workshop conducted by the DIAL Consortium on June 15, 2000. The results of that planning should show in their usage as they adopt and implement their plans for distance planning.
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Created: Oct.28.2000 Last updated: . , . Comment to Dave Bartlett.