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Wagering on the Web: Vegas Schools Go Virtual

Faced with the fastest-growing student body in the country, Nevada's Clark County addresses its growing pains virtually.

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9/6/04
Faced with the fastest-growing student body in the country, Nevada's Clark County addresses its growing pains virtually.
Download | Credits | Release Date: 09/06/2004

Video Credits

Produced, Written, and Directed by

  • Ken Ellis

Associate Producers:

  • Roberta Furger
  • Miwa Yokoyama

Editor:

  • Karen Sutherland

Camera Crew:

  • Rob Weller
  • Jeremy Settles

Narrator:

  • Kris Welch

Original Music:

  • Ed Bogas

Additional Footage Courtesy of

  • The KLVX Communications Group
  • Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority
  • © 2004
  • The George Lucas Educational Foundation
  • All rights reserved.

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Larry Banks
Posted on 2/29/2008 9:25am

Synchronous online teaching

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I enjoyed the video about Vegas Virtual. The Missouri Virtual School, sponsored by Missouri State University, has been providing the same kind if real-time (synchronous) K-12 courses all across Missouri for the past 10 years. We continue to see the same comments as those in the video. Most serious students and teachers like the increased interactivity this mode of teaching can allow.