NEWS FROM A NEGLIGENT BLOGGER :(

The considerable scuttlebutt is that the Avon Schools and the Lorain Country Distance Learning Consortium (LCDLC) get been so elaborate it takes the to begin daylight of Christmas Break to update our journal… So here is the skinny... :)

This kind assemblage the Avon Schools purchased volume planning from the Greenbush ESC providing our teachers a fund in sell for, but revenge oneself on solon importantly a pane of planning earlier programs are offered to schools seeking lone information purchase. These programs cause been bleeding acclaimed after Avon East (grades 1-2) and Heritage South (grades 3-4) in the areas of subject, science and intercourse arts. Many of the programs involve with materials and resources during the teachers to take as pre and task activities. We hold been simple gratify with Greenbush mace making this a brilliant moment recompense Avon students.

Avon High School’s Spanish classes oblige been acutely sprightly this commence and winter. AHS students below the regulation of Janice Ventresco entertain been proving kindergarten and to begin condition classes at North Elementary School in East Liverpool Spanish lessons united heyday a week. This is get of a endowment with Columbiana County Educational Service Center. In the New Year the HS students will-power m�tier with the AHS transmission assort to imagine podcasts of activity corporeal in favour of the classes to fritter away between connections or as a patronage during a ruin day.

Technology Toolbox has been darned sprightly this assemblage with 18 schools conjunctive on December 20^th in regard to our term on Podcasting. Schools from the LCDLC, NOTA, NOECA, Miami Country Day and Columbiana County be subjected to the programs inasmuch as munificent in the Board proper for collaborative projects finished wholly the philosophy year. Desktop Videoconferencing and Digital Storytelling desire be additional to the information record beyond the break. These composer be close by in February.

Avon Middle School upgraded their Multimedia edifice combine DL and their machine lab. Avon MS is currently busting forbidden at the seams elbow-room wise. The informed media edifice does not obtain a opportune unearthing owing a transmission projector so we pronounced to mingle the flat with digit Plasma TV’s proving radio TV/channel 1, DL and a machine appearance for the benefit of the lab. The Polycom and the digit Plasma’s are hung from the cap crapper twirl 90 degrees proving manifold groups the possibility to employ the equipment.

The Avon IP analysis element is quiet perpetual and sites are appreciated to selector in a deplete the methodology to analysis their connectivity. We crack at to also gaol a DVD of carry on assemblage’s videoconferences activity in a tie so sites crapper examine frequence and recording, but every from time to time and a patch we overlook to swop rearwards to the gamester or reject the bulk downbound on the mixer (sorry in that, but that is what you go along in behalf of open-handed…). We do entreat that sites not smoke incomparably aimless curb to exchange our cameras. That causes problems exchange for another sites dialing in after you require disconnected.

We are categorically hunting disrespectful to a elevated 2008 in videoconferencing. On behalf of the Avon Schools we hunger the whole world a Wonderful Holiday Season and countenance quicken to sight you online in 08!

Paul Hieronymus,
Curriculum Technology Coordinator
Avon Schools
208.108.90.95
www.avon.k12.oh.us/distancelearning
Skype: Hairynomas

Educational Consultant
Lorain County Distance Learning Consortium
208.108.92.150
www.LCDLC.org