Online Education Is The Future

The Windsor Rotary was given an impressive update on the state of online education in America by our own Lisa Harrell (shown below). Lisa has a both a Doctorate in Physical Training and a Masters in Education and uses these talents in the leading edge field of education in America. She works for four different colleges at the current time, teaching students from all over the world . . . and does it all from her home here in Bertie County through online distance learning technology.





Yesterday Rotary got a tutorial in how this is done, as Lisa gave her presentation totally through online techniques.






Using avatars (computer characters) for herself and a hypotethical student (today the avatar was a cute Parrot), Lisa used taped and computer generated voices, slides, animations and graphics to make her presentation. Only the introduction to the session and her question and answer period were live.




One of the things she talked about was the growing recognition that online sessions can dramatically enhance the effectiveness of training in regular classrooms. Lisa is in discussions with Dr. Chip Zullinger to help with the Algebra One problem here in Bertie County by use of her online teaching talents to excite the students about the subject of Algebra. No easy task.




Lisa received her cobalt blue coffee mug with gold lettering and seal from Windsor Rotary President Collins Cooper (on right above). At today's session it was also announced that Collins will be taking over as the Director of the Windsor - Bertie County Chamber of Commerce also. Congratulations Collins!