GARDEN STATE DISTANCE LEARNING CONSORTIUM
2006-2007 GSDLC GRANT WINNERS
$500 VIDEO CONFERENCING AWARDS

Atlantic County

Egg Harbor Township School District
Alder Avenue Middle School
By Susan Hinlicky
Phantasic Physics will allow eighth grade physical science students and their parents to experience distance learning programs with Louisville Science Center where students will understand and learn about the laws of motion. Students will then take this information to design and build K-Nex cars to test their performance against other student-built cars.

Somers Point Public Schools
Jordan Road School
By Jeanette Cellucci
With JORO Green Light: Building Global Citizens One Script at a Time, seventh grade students at Jordon Road School will learn about a world event through a Global Nomads Group distance learning activity that will allow students to share multiple perspectives on global issues. Students and teachers will collaboratively choose a topic relevant to their World History curriculum. After the program, students will summarize event. Then, they will script and produce a documentary to share with others.

Camden County

Bancroft School
By Cara Tomasco
Classrooms with No Boundaries: Opportunities for Peer Interaction Among Students Across Regular Education and Special Education Environments will give severely disabled students at Bancroft School the opportunity to connect with regular education students in Washington Township Public Schools for content area lessons and activities. Activities will be collaboratively planned by participating teachers with a focus on peer interaction.

Pennsauken School District
Carson Elementary School
By Nancy Bowmaster
Fourth grade students at Carson Elementary School will participate in a Storytelling in Words and Pictures program presented by the Rutgers Camden Center for the Arts to learn new strategies for responding to picture prompts. Students will write stories based on the program and additional pictures purchased through grant funds. The goal of Every Picture Tells a Story is to increase student achievement on the writing portion of NJ Ask 4 at Carson Elementary School.

Pine Hill School District
John H. Glenn Elementary School
By Second Grade Teachers
All second grade students participate in a yearly study of the rain forest at John H. Glenn Elementary School. Through this grant, students will enhance this cross-curriculum unit with distance learning programs with the Camden Children’s Garden. Students will read and write about the rain forests following the videoconferencing programs.

Cape May County

Woodbine Elementary
By Courtney Hearon and Abbe Harris
Butterflies Abound will allow fourth grade students to participate in distance learning programs with the Camden Children’s Garden and Cape May County Zoo to learn more about butterflies while they raise butterflies and keep observations journals of their development. Students will make predictions based on knowledge and scientific hypothesis and take pictures to record their findings.

Woodbine Elementary
By Rose Farnan
Through Ben Franklin’s Philadelphia, eighth grade students at Woodbine Elementary School will enhance their study of Revolutionary War history and Benjamin Franklin through participation in a videoconference program with Virent Broadcasting’s “Living Historian”, Benjamin Franklin. Students will also go on a field trip to Philadelphia to experience relevant historical sites first-hand. Reaction papers and oral presentations will culminate the virtual and actual field trips along with the students’ research on various topics.

Gloucester County

Washington Township School District
Bells Elementary School
By Michelle Marcianna
Fourth grade students will learn about the geographical regions of the United States through videoconferencing programs with the Baseball Hall of Fame and the Cleveland Institute of Music. Students will read books about New Jersey geography in literature circles. Then, students will research the materials to create presentations about New Jersey using the videoconferencing programs as a model.

Washington Township School District
Whitman Elementary School
By Lori McEntee
Whitman Elementary School presents a yearly Family Literacy program for the first and second grade families to demonstrate the correlation between literacy and technology. Videoconference programs are the foundation of the event with accompanying literature, crafts and websites selected along a theme. This third year’s theme is “A Jungle of Books” with programs about animals and jungles.