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• Read Our Program Blog
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• Read about our philosophy
• Read about our Distance Learning Tools
• Read about our Teachingwow Membership in conjunction with our Programs

What do you think of videoconferencing?
Is it a great chance for your students to experience something you otherwise couldn’t provide for them in your classroom?
Do you see it kind of like a fieldtrip… but not really?
Well, when we look around at all the other Content Providers that’s what we think too!

Or maybe…

…maybe you think of videoconferencing as a way for students in your school to receive daily instruction in course work your school can’t provide otherwise?
We can see that too!
And then there is Professional Development and district-wide collaboration.
Another great use of videoconferencing!

We can!
We see all those uses- virtual field trips, course delivery, and professional development- blended into a single community. A community made up of students, teachers, and experts in the field… all educators invested in learning and building understanding across physical and social environments.
We see our programs as just a small start- a small, obscure juncture in the silk threads that make up the web of Global Learning.

A Grand Vision! But how about the small steps first?

The first step is to share the idea (teaching wow blog)…
The second step is to build infrastructure… build the lines of communication
The third step is to start sharing!

And that’s where we start… you in your classroom and us in our kennel.
You have your curriculum and learning goals… structured and setup for the year.
We have our kennel plans and objectives, organized into components much like subjects in your classroom… Breeding, Dog Care (includes feeding), Equipment (both for the musher and the dogs), Training, and Racing… all these pieces come together to make up our Kennel Management System.
So…
Where do your needs in the classroom meet with our experiences in the kennel?
Or, in other words…

How can we help you meet your classroom objectives?

Well, in every component of our Kennel Management System we use science, math, social studies, and a plethora of other academic skills!

That means you, as the teacher, can tap in to our real-life applications of your subject matter. And you can do it through a wealth of different media! Videoconferencing. Our online classroom! Our Blog and traditional webpages! And soon (early 2008) real-time Second Life conferences! Individually, or in any combination you choose!

What we envision is a close partnership with you as the teacher! A collaboration where you share with us what you need to accomplish in your classroom, based on State and National Standards, and we share with you what we are doing in the kennel related to those Standards.

What we strive for are long-term relationships with classrooms where we meet regularly and follow each other’s progress throughout the year.

Here is just one example of how this might look:

Say you’re a science teacher working, over the course of the year, on the following National Standard:

NS.5-8.1 SCIENCE AS INQUIRY
ABILITIES NECESSARY TO DO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY

You (as the science teacher) learned, through our Programs page and Blog, that one of the many projects we have going on in the kennel this year is an intensive 6 month long experiment on commercial dog foods.

To begin:

• Sign up for an initial Feeding videoconference program
• Use our Flexibility Tool to customize your videoconference
• This gains you access to our online classroom where you will find added resources, networking tools, and curriculum ideas to expand the value of the videoconference
• Use the materials from the online classroom to further tap into the power of our Blog and Traditional Webpage.
• Go even further and explore our Second Life facilities.

Each Videoconference program that you sign up for gives you access to the Online classroom and Second Life portals for one month (the Blog and Traditional Webpage are always accessible). So for each Program you register for you receive support and resources for up to a month of supportive curriculum bringing the real-world application of your subject matter into the classroom.

But the ideal is to string the programs together. So that after the first month you register for another program… either the same one working on a new Standard or a different one examining the same Standard in a different context.

And what makes it all come together? ...It's that wile you are interacting with us on meeting your own classroom goals, other teachers are as well! And through all the different forms of media that we are useing you will be able to work with the other teachers too! Your students will get to mix and mingle (in a safe environment) with their students! Connections will build... connections that go way beyond "us to you- you to us"... and in the end true Global Learning can occur!