Students Join Online Learning Trend - Video

 

Make your virtual presence known .Good ones include a picture of you, so that everyone can put a name with a face, and a brief biography that outlines both personal and professional interests.the virtual classroom has also come to cities like Washington, D.C., where all students at one public school are learning online.

Lovell Walls, 11, and his brother Zachary, 7, are both enrolled in the Community Academy Public Charter School Online (CAPCS). The basement of their Washington home has been transformed into a classroom, with educational posters, shelves of books and bins of school supplies. At one end of the room, two computers sit side by side.  Lovell wears headphones to take a math class on the computer. His teacher is 40 kilometers away at her own computer, and his classmates are in their homes on computers, listening to and following along with what the teacher displays on the computer screen, a modern-day version of a blackboard.Lovell has been taking classes like this since he was five, says Anita, his mother.

“We had been attending a Montessori school for a year and a half, and that wasn’t working out for him,” she says. “He was so far ahead of the other students. And because he was so far ahead, he was having difficulties in the classroom, because now he wants to jump and play.”

Walls, who decided to homeschool her son, was relieved to find CAPCS, a Washington public school designed specifically for online learning. The school provides online teachers and a curriculum.