Heather -- Distance Learning and homeschooled students

http://homeschooldiner.com/guide/distance_learning.html

There are many great opportunities and advantages for homeschooling to use a long distance program. If the parent is not comfortable with the quality of education they are giving their child it allows for them to have immediate access to teachers online. There are different options such as a 'part-time student', a student that attends a state or private school half a day and an on-line school half a day, or 'full-time student', a student that attends an online school only.

This article was informative and helpful because it allowed the parent  to look into different online curriculums and discussed an online school and what environment they would be presented with. It addressed the question of the differences of an full time home schooled student versus and halftime student. I personally appreciated how this article suggested the use of distance learning if you have a child that learned easier through a computer or a gifted child stating the ability to stretch their academics and still keep them in school.

My parents used distance learning through my high school years and at first I hated it. Eventually my parents found  a program that had a classroom and individual teachers. It became fun as I grew up with the rest of the students in my class, of course I had friends in the non virtual world but it was still neat to have that connection with your classmates and teachers.




This video gives a preview on the ability of teaching an online class for homeschooled students. The teacher was able to teach to a normal size class of twenty five students. He was able to pull up powerpoints, ask questions, answer questions, and even talk to each student.

This video gives a preview on the ability of teaching an online class for homeschooled students. The teacher was able to teach to a normal size class of twenty five students. He was able to pull up powerpoints, ask questions, answer questions, and even talk to each student.

This video showed that through distance learning it is possible to receive the same level of education as a student that would go to a state or private school.
I found this video to be interesting, being six years old on youtube and possibly even older. One could observe the advancements technology has made since then and are still making. I was not overly impressed when the teacher kept breaking up and poor quality, but then again it is an old model of distance learning. The concept is still the same  giving students quality teachers, receiving individualized attention, and the highest form of education available.