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Center for Research on Learning & Technology: Dave Bartlett / (812)856-8233Eastern Green Schools
RR4, Box 623 Bloomfield IN 47424 (Smithville)
Contact Person: Cynthia Roberts (812) 825-5621
Eastern Elementary has been involved also in the Virtual Indiana Elementary School Network (VIESN) Content Provider Grant. Connections have included monthly planning sessions as well as classroom connections with other member schools. They have also participated in the JASON Project, Iditarod, and a collaborative unit on Bee/Mite problems with Eastern Hancock Elementary School. They have been involved in distance learning since 1994.
Edgewood High School
Edgewood Drive Ellettsville 47429 (Smithville)
Contact Person: Charlie Beima (812) 876-2277
Edgewood has connected with a variety of content providers over the course of the school year. The King of the World program from the Art Museum, Children's Museum on Flight and The Greatest Places, The Goethe Insitiute in Washington for Rock auf Deutsch, The Challenger Center with A Little Bit of Stardust and the Teacher on the Trail connections from Alaska.
Judy Lucas a MS Language Arts Teacher also received a Teacher Grant from the CEC for connections with Lorence Yep an Asian American author. Those events are upcoming. Other pending connections are German classes with Southern Welles School in northern Indiana and other content provider events.
Gosport Elementary
P.O. Box 159 Gosport 47433 (Smithville)
Contact Person: Pam Todd (812) 879-4694
Gosport Elementary is participating in the Legacy 21 series originating from Ball State. Due to technical difficulties they have just become one of the four interactive sites. This course covers technology applications in the elementary schools. Topics include Math Strategies, Science of Dissecting and Music and Art integration.
Planning for the Virtual Indiana Elementary Network is being scheduled on a monthly basis beginning October 6th, 1998. Various schools will act as origination sites. Both Gosport and Eastern Elementary are participating.
Harmony School
909 E Second St. Bloomington 47401
Contact Person: Barb Backler (812) 334-8349
Polara Project
Beginning November 2, Harmony School will link up with Longfellow
Middle School on a collaborative research project on astronomy. This
unit will integrate many distance learning technologies from two-way
interactive video to Internet conferencing.
The content will be provided through a number of human technical
and print. Some of the human resources are Richard Durisen (IU
Astronomy Professor), Michael Hamburger (IU Geology Professor),
Pam Service (Science Fiction Author), and Jim McCarter (Kokomo
Middle School Teacher). The Children's Museum is also providing a
portion of the content.
The coordinating teachers at Harmony are Kathy Boone and Scott
Evans and at Longfellow, Christy Paxson.
The students will be developing research projects and posting their
work on a web site. The URL of the web site is: http://polara.org This
site is currently up and running and will be growing over the next
month. Visit this site for more detailed information.
Mooresville Consolidated Schools
550 N Indiana St. Mooresville 46158
Contact Person: John Robertson (317) 831-9227/FAX (317) 831-9206
Mooresville has just joined the Vision Athena Network. They have selected a room in the middle school to house the equipment that will make it easily accessible to both high school and elementary classes as well. They are planning their awareness and professional development opportunities for next year. The installation should be complete by early summer and will begin staff training and use shortly after.
Owen Valley Middle School
RR 4 Box 12 Spencer 47460
Contact Person: Myrna Fields (812) 829-2249
Owen Valley High School
205 East Hillside Spencer 47460
Contact Person: Steve Cole (812) 829-2233
Owen Valley Middle School, H.L. Harshman Middle School, and Tell City Jr. High are sharing Ben Mikaelsen as an "Artist in Residence" for the school year. They will begin with a four-way discussion on Oct. 13 of the ways that he conducts research. He will also take some time to describe the new project that he will be starting the following week. During the two or so months he is on the ocean doing research, he will keep in contact with the schools via the internet. During that time students will be doing their own research projects, too. Classes will also be reading copies of Ben's books throughout the winter. All schools were provided with 15 paperback copies of his books through the Dept. of Ed. grant. Book discussions will be scheduled with Ben in the spring. Some of the discussions will involve different groups of students and different grades. Money has also been budgeted for side-trips to go along with the books if it works out to do so. (e.g. Johnson Space center to go along with the book "Countdown.") All costs are taken care of by the grant that OVMS received.
University Elementary School
1111 N Russell Rd. Bloomington 47408
Contact Person: Karen Boswell (812) 330-7753/FAX (812) 330-7770
University school was originally part of a distance learning pilot project in Bloomington. They have recently been reconnected to the AAVS system. They will begin by hosting a Content Provider meeting on April 27, 1999 and connect with the Indianapolis Zoo and/or The Children's Museum of Indianapolis on May 15 during their learning fair. University has persevered to once again join the Vision Athena Network and will be an active and excellent participant in the project.
Columbus East High School
230 S. Marr Rd Columbus 47201
Contact Person: Gary Goshom (812) 376-4336
Columbus east is also connected with the C-4 Vocational program and connects with Columbus North Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays for the Business class. They also have made connections with Crawfordsville High School with the Mexico al Menu program, North Central High School exploring support programs for at risk student athletes and content providers such as the Indiana Repertory Theater.
Columbus North High School
1400 25th St. Columbus 47201
Columbus Area Vocational Center 230 S. Marr Rd Columbus 47201
Contact Person: Norris Moore, Mike Hackman (812) 376-4264
The Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation received a grant
from the Corporation for Educational Communications in 1997 to
participate in a pilot program in distance education. Through the
efforts of the C4 (vocational education) department, Mike Hackman at
Columbus North and Matt Hankins at Columbus East participate in a
joint team teaching concept in the marketing education program.
Three days each week the two schools connect to each other sharing
information, guest speakers, and job experiences in marketing. The
facilities have been used at both high schools for joint department
meetings, team leader meetings, and principal cabinet meetings. We
have held workshops on discipline training in the classroom.
Activities have been offered for the math, science, foreign language,
business, social studies, and the fine arts departments. Guest
speakers have included Gov. Frank O'Bannon and Rep. Lee Hamilton
who have talked to our students and answered questions by our
students. In the second year of the pilot program, we hope to expand
our offerings to even more classes. We would like to see Hauser High
School, also in Bartholomew County, receive a Distance Learning lab
so that their students can take even more advantage of course
offerings. One goal in the third year will be to offer electronic field
trips so that students can stay in the local school while a remote
camera crew can go to the businesses to interview guest speakers and
take tours of facilities that may be restricted due to safety concerns
or size of students in classes. For more information about the
distance education program, please call Meredith Thompson, C4 Area
Director at 812-376-4240. Mike Hackman
Updated: Apr.18.01
Created: Apr.24.99
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