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• The Digital Bridge program provides high school courses utilizing a technology enriched videoconferencing delivery method.
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• Students enrolled in Digital Bridge
classrooms will gain hands-on experience with the advanced technologies including a blended instructional environment.
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• Each Digital Bridge classroom contains 3 projectors, monitors, audio systems, SMART boards, document camera, and netbooks.
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• During the fall semester, across four high schools, 82 students are enrolled in a Digital Bridge course.
• Courses offered are: German 1, Latin II, and Multivariable Calculus
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Bridge Control allows a remote user to control the classroom technologies in any of the Digital Bridge classrooms.
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• During the 2011-12 school year, Education
Services developed an innovative technology project that would create technology rich classrooms where teachers would demonstrate seamless technology integration into classroom instruction.
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• The first phase of the project consists of 30 elementary classrooms in five different buildings. Each building has six classrooms (K-5) involved in the project.
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Cedar Hills Elementary Harmony Elementary Mission Trail Elementary Stilwell Elementary Sunrise Point Elementary
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• Across the five participating buildings, there are approximately 695 elementary students enrolled in an innovation spaces classroom.
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Classroom Technologies Netbooks iPads with Apps SMART Board Wireless Document Camera Digital Camera Web-based resources
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Student Feedback
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Student Feedback
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Lessons Learned
• Some of the Math Apps are too easy for our students.
• Netbooks are the preferred tool to use with some of the district’s curriculum.
• Designing PD and support materials took twice as long as expected. Education Services
Lessons Learned
• There may be some items that will not be continued to other classrooms.
• Things don’t always go as planned. • There will never be enough time to do
everything that we want to do but we are having a BLAST! Education Services
Kristy Sailors Director of Educational Technology ksailors@bluevalleyk12.org 913-239-4253
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