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Shot articles are written by Cheryl LaRue,
North Lamar ISD, Paris, TX |
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April 2008 |
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Screen Shots ...online with Brenda Quintanilla!
A world apart but so much in common. Brenda Quintanilla has discovered the world is a small place with a universal link – education. “If you didn’t know you were in Romania, you would think you were at a local college in the United States,” Quintanilla said. “The contrasts, however, could be seen once you left the campus and traveled into the city or into the small towns.”
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April 2008 |
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Screen Shots ...online with Pam Dooley!
Pam Dooley knows that relationships can be developed through online connections. From a virtual shoulder for a student to meeting her husband through online personals, she can attest to the value of internet emoting.
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December 2007 |
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Screen Shots ...online with Ron Rushing!
Most people would not want the task of a life or death situation to hang on a wireless telephone connection. Although that might be an exaggeration, Ron Rushing takes his work that seriously as the television network services manager with the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
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November 2007 |
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Screen Shots ...online with Ken Rosier!
Ken Rosier literally started from the ground level of the telecommunications industry. After graduating from Snook High School in 1969, one among 12 others, Rosier’s job was as a ground man.
“This was the guy who handed the wrench to the man on the pole,” Ken said.
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October 2007 |
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Screen Shots ...online with Lea Bentley Castillo!
Lea Bentley Castillo may well be the rocket scientist of the distance learning world. In a career that currently blasts off from the Houston Space Center, she has flown through a vast network of videoconferencing experiences.
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September 2007 |
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Screen Shots ...online with Tommy Bearden!
Thou shalt not let dust collect on video conferencing equipment! As Bearden considers the world in which students will work within the next 10 years, he projects that we will live in a world dominated by video.
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July 2007 |
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Screen Shots ...online with Charlie Brown!
SKIE: Hello everyone in TxDLA land. This is Skie VanderKampf, TxDLA's roving reporter sitting in the living room with Charlie Brown, TxDLA's K-12 board representative. How are you doing, Charlie?
CHARLIE: I'm doing great, Skie, and thanks for asking.
SKIE: You're welcome. Now Charlie, I'd like to ask you a few questions about technolgy, education, and you.
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June 2007 |
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Screen Shots ...online with Tahani Henderson
Call her a merchant of virtual wares and travel agent through the digital divide–Tahani Henderson works in the division of Digital Learning and Instructional Technology for the Harris County Department of Education (HCDE).
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May 2007 |
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Screen Shots ...online with Bruce Niebuhr
The ashes of science fiction author Gene Rodenberry were scattered into the volumnous vacuum of space. More recently, cremated remains of actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on Star Trek, was blasted into outer space. As an avid science fiction fan, Bruce Niebuhr also anticipates traveling vast distances for the advancement of distance learning.
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March 2007 |
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Screen Shots ...online with Katie Beedon
Lurking among the shadows, an introverted Zoe Otoole observes a computer-animated world of alter egos built by more than 4 million Second Life residents. “I am amazed at how much it changes each time I log into the site,” Katie Beedon said of the web-based virtual reality community. “Unfortunately, I have to be careful with how much time I ‘live’ in my SL; it can become very addicting.”
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February 2007 |
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Screen Shots: ...online with Laurel Mayo
Like caterpillars, educators are becoming accustomed to the metamorphic change technology causes in the classroom. Under the training and development process at Tarrant County College, coordinator of curriculum Laurel Mayo has seen many butterflies take flight.
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January 2007 |
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Screen Shots: ...online with Howie DiBlasi
The revelations of TxDLA member Howie DiBlasi read of digital-age literacy, inventive thinking, effective communication and high productivity. Within the letters to fellow disciples of 21st century learning skills, the message is to prepare students for a global economy.
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December 2006 |
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Screen Shots: ... online with Sally Yang
Distance learning has “triggered a paradigm shift” in the way higher education dispenses knowledge, according to Sally Yang, instructional technology consultant with Texas A&M University. From teacher-centered to learner-centered, new concepts include learning communities, collaboration, individual knowledge construction and authentic learning.
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November 2006 |
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Screen Shots: ... online with Kevin Lemoine
Some teachers lecture; some teachers demonstrate. Distance educators construct learning opportunities with their students. Now, that’s involvement! Kevin Lemoine has bridged a student’s potential to the pursuit of knowledge by integrating technology and promoting interaction. As a French teacher, he utilized language learning software and early chat programs for his second language students.
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October 2006 |
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Screen Shots: ... online with Linda Solis
From chalk and blackboards to laser pointers and interactive screens, an educator’s toolkit has evolved as instructional strategies adapt to the influence of technology.
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August 2006 |
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Screen Shots: ... online with Laurie Hogle
As an advocate for expanding technology in public education, Hogle said distance learning broadens resources and creates opportunities to be more collaborative. She credits the natural drive in teachers to be clever and creative along with those who plant the seeds for growing interest in this field of work.
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July 2006 |
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Screen Shots: ... online with Ken Conn
From a classroom without walls to learning without limits, Ken Conn wants to reach more people with his goals for education. Conn is the incoming president of Texas Distance Learning Association.
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