Distance Learning comes to Milford Elementary!
Endless Educational Opportunities are now available to the Elementary students!
by Chuck Wergin
January 01, 2007
A grant written by Educational Service Unit #5 and the Southeast Distance Learning Consortium the Milford Elementary has a portable Distance Learning Cart.
This will allow teachers to bring Distance Learning to their classrooms. The technology has come along ways since the static classrooms of the past that are still in use.
Duveen Penner, an ESU 5 Distance Learning Specialist, conducted an inservice for the Milford Elementary Staff on Wednesday, November 30th. She connected live with the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha. The educational coordinator from the zoo discussed the opportunities for 30 to 60 minute sessions from the Zoo. They have a portable cart that can be connected in different parts of the zoo. Zoo keepers/animals can be interviewed and observed. Career opportunities are also a part of the possible objectives from the zoo.
Other sites that are available:
Nicodemus National Historic Site in Kansas-it is one of the earliest all African American town that still remain on the western plains!
Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota-interactive video conference with a park ranger. Program activities will support national curriculum standards in Social Studies, Science, Math, Language Arts, and Art.
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in South Dakota-this offers a unique window into the "top-secret facilities" which protected the United States during the Cold War.
Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas-this offers and opportunity for students to study and explore what is was like in the 1950's with civil rights and race relations in a still operating High School. Park rangers will lead students in discussions.
Badlands National Park in South Dakota-Elementary students can travel back 30 million years. Layers of sedimentary rocks are explored and environments and extinct animals will be brought back to life.
Homestead National Monument in Beatrice-National Award winning presenter offers many activities on the 100 acres of prairie, nearly 50,000 museum artifacts, access to the Freeman one room school built in 1872, plus many more enrichment activities. They have a wireless connection so that they can be anywhere in the park.
Cooperative opportunities to share with over 60 other schools are also a possibility.
