Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Saturday, January 27, 2007
Online learning clicks for some students, parents - Karen Rouse, Denver Post
Teacher Randy Freitik is huddled behind his computer in a cubicle at Walt Whitman Elementary school. A webcam propped upon the hard drive projects his image in a small box in the corner of his screen. He is engaged, via phone and computer, in a lively math discussion with Emily and Tim, two elementary students who attend Connections Academy, which is based at the school. The subject is probability. Emily uses her mouse to scrawl a question that appears on Freitik's screen: "What is the chance of two holidays falling in the same month?"

 



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