Read Across America Day Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Rationale for Read Across America Internet Live Feed, March 2, 2010

Read Across America is a day to celebrate reading. Our goal for this day was to stimulate an interest in reading across all grades, encourage community members to support our students by being a guest or a viewer of our activities and to demonstrate the collaborative nature of education throughout the metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona area.

We wanted to expand our activities to include the community for this special day. Students from our four schools participated in activities related to reading all day on a live Internet website. Students were able to view the video stream from their classrooms and parents and other relatives from anywhere in the world were able to view the live broadcasts too.

We created a common webpage that was accessible from all of our school homepages. The special webpage had links to all participating schools, so viewers could select the school they wanted to watch, and even view all the schools if they wanted. The website had schedules for the day for the schools. This allowed parents and other viewers to find the classes they wanted to watch, and the broadcast time.

Overall the day was a great success, though somewhat limited due to bandwidth issues at two schools. These issues have been addressed and we look forward to uninterrupted broadcasts in 2011.

 

Cimarron Springs Elementary. Dysart Unified School District
Click here to go to our Ustream.tv Read Across America Activities on 3/2/2010

 

Herrera Elementary, Phoenix Elementary School District
Click here to go to our Ustram.tv Read Across America Activities on 3/2/2010

 

Nadaburg Elementary School, Nadaburg Unified School District
Click here to go to our Ustream.tv link  and Read Across America Activities