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This is what it’s all about
By Art Gelwicks | January 29, 2008
Read this blog posting. Learn how a group of fourth graders used technology to include an ill classmate in their activities. This is what we should be teaching…looking for ways to use technology to be better servant leaders.
A year ago today was a special day in the lives of my students and I
suspect many others. Why? January 24th just after lunch was the first
time we video-Skyped Celest, a classmate with leukemia who could not
attend school, into our class. Ironically, Celest (who is well enough
now to attend school) won’t be in class today because she is in for a
check-up and some testing related to her cancer treatment. I’ve
re-posted below my account of that day and you can click HERE to see the award winning video
my students produced last year showing how we Skyped her - it includes
a short clip showing the first time we connected. I have been telling
people that our video has been downloaded over 100,000 times, but last
week I found out that isn’t entirely true. Upon checking the stats
(which obviously I don’t do very often) I found out it has now been
downloaded over half-a-million-times (500,000).
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