2008 idl presentation brad
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Interactive Distance Learning Project
Interactive Distance Learning (IDL) is a term used to describe an interactive educational video network that connects two or more locations, eliminating the barriers of concrete walls, time and distance. These shared video environments are fully interactive with everyone seeing and hearing each other live. Instead of face to face instruction like a traditional classroom, students and teachers see each other on large monitors or on a large screen with a projected image. These video classrooms are equipped with state-of-the-art teaching tools such as laptops, document cameras (ELMO), student response systems, VCR/DVD players, video compression units, and interactive whiteboards.
Interactive Distance Learning Project
• Current Full Mesh Sites: • North • Southeast • South • West • Current Set Top Sites: • North • Northeast Magnet • Northwest • East• Robinson Middle School• Jardine Middle School • L'Ouverture Elementary• Cessna Elementary • AMAC – Suite 410
Interactive Distance Learning Project
Successes• Last year:
– AP Psychology
• This Year:– Mandarin Chinese– AP Psychology– AP History– Curriculum enrichment – Professional Development– Meetings
Interactive Distance Learning Project
Challenges
• Scheduling courses between schools
• Master schedules
• Stable connections -
Bulk Timeline
• September 14th Fall
• December 7th Winter
• April 11th Spring
• Spring 2008 - 5 year purchasing plan for High School and Middle Schools
Fall 2007Number of Systems Purchased
• Desktops - OptiPlex 745 = 276
• Level 1 Laptop - Latitude D520 = 55
• Level 2 Laptop - Latitude D520 = 209
Fall 2007
• All Desktops and peripherals will be at the merge center this week.
• Laptops will be there at the merger center in the next two week
• Items held and packet according to address, then dropped shipped to sites
• Orders reaching Wichita first week November
Bulk Order
Winter 2007
Systems still need to be run by Hardware Standard Committee on October 19th.
• Desktop Option – OptiPlex
• Laptop Level 1 - Latitude D531
• Laptop Level 2 - Latitude D630
Bulk Order
Spring 2007
Time to replace out all middle and high school instructional space computers
Concerns-
• How will we capture the number
• What platform – desktops or laptops
TRC (EETT) Grants
• There are two TRC grants running this year:– Pleasant Valley Elementary, in the 2nd year
• 2 fourth grades, 1 four/five combo, and 1 fifth grade• Reading is the grant focus• Current Projects:
– Regions project– Amazing Race project
http://trc.usd259.org/resources
– Anderson Elementary, in the 1st year• 4 fourth grades• Reading is the grant focus• Current Projects:
– Butterfly projecthttp://teachers.usd259.org/rmcintyre/