Taking Students Where No School Bus Can Go

http://thejournal.com/articles/2012/09/06/taking-students-where-no-school-bus-can-go.aspx?admgarea=pre

Skype connects Virginia elementary students live with research scientists around the world.



You don't often find a group of 75 fifth graders from a public school in Virginia interacting directly with scientists based at Palmer Station, Antarctica, but that's exactly what takes place every year at Herman L. Horn Elementary in Vinton, VA. Using Skype as a videoconferencing platform--and working together with her school's instruction technology coordinator, Holly Ireland--social studies teacher Amanda Lusk has orchestrated two of these events from the convenience of her own classroom.

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