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Enhancing Education Through Technology
The Pinal County ITv Partnership
| Enhancng Education Through Technology discretionary grant, the Pinal County ITv Partneship was funded for an unprecedented thrid year (2009-10) at $280,000. Eloy Elementary District is acting as the fiscal agent for participating districts: Eloy Elementary, Florence USD, Gila Bend USD and Ray USD. This year the grant will focus on continuing to support Peer Coaches, increasing the use of videoconferencing and creating 21st Century Classrooms.
Need for Interactive Televison
| Distance learning through Interactive Television (ITV) allows students and teachers to access many classes and services that they normally wouldn't be able to access. High school students can take college academic classes, students and teachers can take virtual tours and access educational programming from sites around the world. They can collaborate with classrooms and colleagues from schools anywhere that has ITV facilities. Low enrollment and the cost of travel for field trips is not a factor when students can access resources and hold face to face conferences without leaving their school sites.
Peer Coach training is at various stages in each of the EETT Grant districts. Florence, Eloy and Ray Vistas Teacher Teams are continuing their project-based, community problem solving projects. Read Across Arizona will take place in January and February, 2010.
Pinal County Interactive Televison Consortium
| Partially funded by the NCLB Ed Tech Grant, the Pinal County Interactive Televison Consortium assists school districts in planning and installing videoconference sites. This year, Curiel School in the Eloy Elementary District will receive its first videoconference room.
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