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Digital High School Curriculum Program
Camp Internet Digital High School Classroom Program
We invite your high school to apply.
Explore the Channel Islands is a multi-disciplinary study of the eight mysterious islands that lie off the California coast, and the history and science of their region. Each day, new curriculum materials will be available online, meeting the requirements of the Digital High School program.
Camp Internet brings into your classroom state-of-the-art Internet video conferencing, along with video and audio essays, GIS and solid hands-on activities that clearly link the online material with your classroom work.
Internet audio and video is used to link students with respected scientists and historians, who serve as Camp "Trail-Guides" (mentors), working via email with your students at scheduled times and helping, through the video and audio recorded talks, to enhance and expand the scope of your classroom.
Virtual field trips allow students from their classrooms to see and hear life, live, out on the islands and along the shoreline.
Additionally, the Camp offers a Teacher Training Workshop each summer in Santa Barbara to orient participating teachers to the program, and providing them with the workbooks and technical support to easily integrate the Internet and cd-rom materials into their classroom September to June.
Core program subscription is $500 a year per classroom.
The core program permits all students, their parents and their teacher, to have Internet email and web access.
The teacher-training workshop is $250 for the 2 1/2 day session.
Classes in the Southern California area can also reserve space on live science and history expeditions out to Santa Catalina or Santa Cruz Islands as participants in the live Camp Internet "Expedition Broadcasts". Each year Camp Internet staff and students venture out into the Channel and broadcast back live Internet "living journal" reports and images to classrooms throughout the US via Internet live video. The optional field trip cost is $100 per student or teacher and includes hands-on technology education.
During the expeditions students learn not only about the Marine Science of the Channel but about some of the technologies that are helping us manage and study the region. Students get hands on introduction to GPS and natical mapping. They learn how live internet data and live vieo is broadcast and they take part in putting the days "living journal" together for publishing on the Internet at the end of the expedition.
Camp Internet is sponsored by the Regional Alliance for Information Networking (RAIN Network), a non-profit Internet broadcast service, with support from the California Department of Education Technology Literacy Challenge Grant Program and the USDA Rural Utilities Service Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program.
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