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Lakeland uses videoconferencing to enrich the curriculum

Posted by: Brian Howard - Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 11, 2010

Fifth-grade students at the George Washington School in Mohegan Lake listened to Sue McJunkin, a program specialist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, talk about the Inuit during a videoconferencing presentation Feb. 22.

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The technology is allowing  teachers to enrich the curriculum and connect with other classes with only a modest investment in equipment by the district.

More photos by Journal News photographer Ricky Flores follow after the jump. The full story ran in today’s Yorktown&Cortlandt Express. Read it here at lohud.com.

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Above, teachers Deana Polichetti and Kim Dwyer listen to fifth-grader Tommy Payson during the presentation. Below are more glimpses of how the presentation went.

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