Teaching Fellows Experiment
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Video Conferencing at friday Institute
In partnership with the Friday Institute at North Carolina State University and MCNC, the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program presented its annual Local School District Screening Training via live broadcast Monday, September 14, 2009. The training has been traditionally presented in person by Fellows staff in each of the 8 Educational Regions. Typically, High School Liaison Counselors and School District Chairs come together at a site in their designated region, hosted by one of the college campuses in the Fellows program. This year, due to budget restraints and travel restrictions, many counselors were unable to make the trip to a regional site.
The Friday Institute along with MCNC provided space, staff and technology that allowed the training to be delivered simultaneously to all regions across the state. Twenty-nine locations hosted a video conference of the training and another 45 received the training through a video streaming process. Sites hosting a video conference were able to ask questions directly to the presenters in Raleigh at the end of the training and those hosting video streaming were provided with an email address to send their questions.
The training was recorded and is archived on MCNC’s website. Schools that were unable to view the training on September 14th were provided with a URL link to the site to view the training at a later date. Along with reduction of costs, providing the training in this method ensures that all counselors and chairs across the state are receiving the same information.
