Points of VIEW Education Team visits C-SPAN
A team of eight teachers
from Schenectady, Amsterdam, Ballston Spa and Scotia School districts
traveled to the C-SPAN network in Washington, D.C. last week to meet
with network staff and begin the development of the new "Points of
VIEW" project.
Points of VIEW is a Cable in the Classroom
Demonstration Project which will create a template for providing
point-to-point videoconference opportunities, using and accessing the
resources of the C-SPAN network.
Time Warner Cable (Albany,
New York Division), C-SPAN and project VIEW of the Schenectady City
School District have been selected to develop and implement the
project
The development team as
well as, Schenectady School District Social Studies Coordinator,
Nicola Petraccione, members from project VIEW and Time Warner Cable
spent two days reviewing, researching, and discussing the array of
resources and opportunities at C-SPAN. Mark Farkas, Executive
Producer and Maura Pierce, Producer of C-SPAN gave the project members
an overview of C-SPAN's history and programming mission as well as C-SPAN's
history series, American Presidents and American Writers.
Susan Swain, EVP and Co-Chief Operating Officer discussed the
resources and programs including Book TV's program In Depth
with Edmund Morris. The teachers explored and learned about archives
via videoconference with Robert Browning, Director of C-SPAN archives.
The team not only learned
about C-SPAN in the classroom, the C-SPAN School Bus, video resources,
websites and the distance education initiative but members had the
opportunity to visit the Library of Congress.
Over the next months the
collaborative team of teachers will continue to work with C-SPAN staff
to develop a series of eight interactive videoconference programs
which will integrate all the disciplines with an emphasis on Social
Studies. The programs will be developed using project VIEW's
established infrastructure, training model and paradigm.
The complete projects will
be available to classrooms through the use of interactive
videoconferencing and digitally archived resources. The projects will
include explorations that will enable students and teachers to conduct
real-time interviews and discussions with C-SPAN guests including
policy experts, politicians, authors, and more.
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