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Wiki for Ideas and Stories about using LNV in a k-12 setting

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Please use this Wiki to share Ideas and Stories.  It would be helpful if contributors would bold the first line/heading of the Idea/story to visually distinguish the ideas from one another.

- Arlyn

Who Uses LNV and for What purposes?

Kindergarten class learns about living and non-living things via Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration program

Calais Elementary School

See this link to a video of the program

http://calaisschool.org/index.php/living-a-non-living-things.html

Lindy Sargent submitted this story of a presentation which occured in January 2010. 

Christopher Columbus Lands in Newport!

One January morning in 2010, Columbus arrived at Newport City Elementary School to address the natives, forty-five 6^th graders who, this time, were prepared for him.  Their teacher, Gina Miller, had shared lessons that included reading Columbus’ log, learning about his voyages and debating his character.  Hank Fincken, National Theater actor and student of teacher, portrayed Christopher Columbus as he returns from his first visit to the New World and then again as he speaks to the Royal Court of Spain.  Hank shared his research completed in the Dominican Republic and Spain and interspersed his acting with questions from the class.  The 6^th graders had over 25 questions prepared and were able to ask half of them.  They were treated to a sophisticated performance that also had the students thinking about how we judge people and events out of their time period and how to differentiate between fact and fiction.  The students and teachers also learned more information to add to their knowledge base and found Hank to be very believable as Columbus.  More information about Hank Fincken’s history programs can be found at www.hankfincken.com.

Submitted by Lindy Sargent, School Librarian

Patricia Aigner sent this in Dec 2009.  See the link or the story below.

http://rutlandcitypublicschools.org/schools/rhs/2009/12/20/classroom-spotlight-ap-history/

Collaboration Between Irsaburg, VT and Howe, OK

Hi all,

I wanted to share a news story from OK that features a virtual fieldtrip between Irasburg School and a school in OK.

A little background:  The teacher in Irasburg is Sean Wallace.  Sean has been an active user of video conferencing and the content dollar bank via the Learning Network of VT (supported by Title IID funds).  Sean and Tammy Parks (a teacher in OK) found each other via school-to school collaboration listings (listing was on CILC the organization where we have the content dollar bank).  Prior to the session featured in the OK broadcast, Sean and Tammy did work using Google Earth placemarks.  The students in Irasburg put together information on VT’s Northeast Kingdom using google placemarks and the students in OK did the same.  The two classes then met via video conferencing.  In preparation for the fieldtrip led by the OK students, Sean also did an activity with his students using antique map layers in Google earth to trace the Trail of Tears in preparation for this fieldtrip.

The Irasburg  6th graders would like to develop their own fieldtrip. In addition the fieldtrip featured below there also was a web piece and a moodle site where kids did preassessment quizzes and were able to view hi-res images from the museums collection.

The teacher in OK noted:

We enjoyed Brandon's enthusiasm for the "Haversack" activity!  The reporter's questions were keeping him away from his task at hand - sewing!  Thanks again for your willingness to "try something new"  and take a chance on an Okie Field Trip.  My students want to continue our collaboration with you guys!  We feel like you all are family now!  We refer to you as our friends from Vermont!

http://www.4029tv.com/video/18712497/index.html

- Arlyn

Who uses it and for what? Examples of LNV uses during the 2008/2009 school year

During the 2008/2009 school year schools in VT used the LNV to participate in a variety of student centered experiences as well as meetings for school and district staff.  The following list of sessions is included to provide an example of student uses and does not cover the full range of sessions for which LNV was used  (note that schools incurred no costs for any of the sessions listed).

In addition to the above noted content provider programs, VT students collaborated with students in other states.  Collaborations included social studies and literature discussions.