Virtual education – Roseburg, Oregon Students talk with Montana author via video; other county schools join conferencing age

About 70 Fremont Middle School students got to ask an author questions Thursday.

Thanks to video conference technology, the students could see and hear Ben Mikaelsen, and he could see them even though they were more than 700 miles apart.

Al Foster had read two of Mikaelsen’s novels to two of his sixth-grade classes at Fremont, and the author’s Web site offered video conferences for schools too far away to bring him into the classroom.

Mikaelsen was at the University of Montana, and the students were at the Douglas Education Service District building in Roseburg.

“A lot of teachers don’t realize what they can do, but they’re learning,” ESD network analyst Marvin Carroll said.

TERESA WILLIAMS, [email protected]

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