Third-, fifth-graders join in NASA videoconferences

Students at the Horizons-on-the-Hudson Elementary School recently participated in two live interactive videoconferences with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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Joseph Catania, Horizons educational technology specialist, coordinated the distance learning event with NASA for Wanda Mejia-Jenkins' fifth-grade class and for Kelly Garcia's and Concetta Cracolici's third-grade classes.

Through distance learning technologies such as videoconferencing and webcasting, the NASA Digital Learning Network, or DLN, connects students and teachers with NASA experts and education specialists. Catania works closely with classroom teachers to plan and coordinate videoconferences that are related to the curriculum in the classroom.

Since 2007, Horizons-on-the-Hudson students have participated in more than 100 different interactive videoconferences with NASA, the National Holocaust Museum, the Smithsonian, international schools and schools across the country.

Source: Times Herald-Record