It's More Than Watching Television. The local activity takes the national perspective and brings it to a local level. Together they help meet more individual needs.
Ideas can range from local panel discussions to social events to brainstorming sessions.
The program also profiled different family literacy program models implemented around the country. Building activities around the videoconference creates more participation. Two activities were planned on the day of the videoconference, and participants could choose which activity or activities to attend. Providing options for wraparound activities attracted, according to Henard, a more diverse crowd of teachers, students, and others as participants than would have been attracted by the videoconference alone. So, we contacted Crawfordsville Community Schools to set up this distance- learning interactive field trip.