Comments on: Learning Mandarin in Nicollet

By: Demo of Telepresence « Blandin on Broadband

Demo of Telepresence « Blandin on Broadband — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:35:10 +0000

[...] videos (with a site-wide license) and/or save videos of their own making. So say you had a native Mandarin speaking teacher, you could save all of her classes to use now and in the [...]

By: Ann Treacy

Ann Treacy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:14:28 +0000

I am jealous of the kids who get to learn from native speakers – I think that broadens the classes. You learn the language and the culture. And I have to think that it heightens the motivation.

By: proyer

proyer — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:13:53 +0000

In fact Underwood and Monte will have students taking Chinese 3 this year..imagine students in rural Minnesota receiving three years of Mandarin Chinese! The LCTN has been fortunate to have 4 other foreign languages over the last few years, German, Spanish, French and American Sign Language. In the past we have also had Japanese and Russian! All this is possible due to a fiber WAN and videoconferencing codecs that allow us to reach outside of our WAN.

Pete Royer, LCTN

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:13:12 +0000

Bravo! We are also getting Mandarin Chinese in Battle Lake and Underwood Minnesota through Intermediate School District 287 using a combination of online learning technology and interactive television.