With help from the Blandin Foundation, Worthington School District is installing videoconferencing equipment. In fact, the equipment is expected to arrive sometime this week. Once it’s installed they’ll be working with Video Guidance to set up and learn to use the equipment.

So that’s kind of exciting. I was interested in what they planned to do with the technology once in place – and I got one of the best responses I’ve seen from Maggie Kraemer at the school…

My goal/hope is this equipment will allow students in Independent School district to experience a world that is larger than Nobles County. I want them to see live knee surgery, talk with scientists, compare notes their peers in other countries, tour world-class museums – I want to open the world to them. I hope to increase understanding and open students’ minds to the possibilities that exist in our great big, beautiful world. Some of my teachers have thoughts and dreams of their own others will need more structure; to this end, I’m going to enter in to a contract with CILC. This URL will show you some of what CILC has to offer – I created it for my teachers yesterday –http://www.screencast.com/t/CmWheD6P8A

The video is definitely worth the four minutes it takes to watch. You could get some good ideas, learn about some good sites and get a little enthusiastic about the teaching that’s happening in the state.