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Challenger Learning Center, Center for Educational Technologies

Wheeling Jesuit University
Center for Educational Technologiesª
316 Washington Ave.
Wheeling WV 26003-6243
United States
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Contact: Kathleen Frank
Email: crawshaw@cet.edu
Phone: 304-243-8740 or 304-830-1023 (Cell)

Description:
Advances in technology and connectivity allow our Wheeling CLC to offer new programs that bring Challenger missions into your classroom. These programs - called "e-Missions" -use the Internet or other distance learning technology to create a live link between the students and our flight directors at "Mission Control." Before each e-Mission, students complete studies, hands-on activities, and practice that opens doors into science and math discovery. On mission day, they for teams of "experts," examine real-time data, analyze it, and make their recommendations to Mission Control. Challenger's flight directors guide the students to a successful solution of each crisis situation.

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Educator Comments:
The Center for Educational Technologies presents Operation Montserrat. This is a favorite of our fifth grade teachers and students. From pre-conference to post-conference this is truly a learning experience. One of the teachers in my school express her feelings...this is what teaching is all about.

CLC Wheeling provides an excellent program through personal committment to educators, eg: flexibility of schedule & adaptability of content.

The Challenger Learning Center provides wonderful, meaningful hands-on videoconferences.

Challenger Learning Center's program "Operation Montserrat" is one of the most outstanding educational programs I have used with my classes! It's also the most popular activity according to my students!

Students were very involved in this and they didn't realize that theey were learning but looked at it as a game. The students loved this.

There is a lot of information to sort through but the scope and sequence (mission briefing) helped. Now that I have seen the program work I believe that I would like to do it again with an appropriate group of students. I would not attempt it with a group of students that do not cooperate together in appropriate ways. I would like to see a form for the evacuation team so they could keep track of where and when people were evacuated from cities.

CET Challenger Learning offers friendly expert interaction which appropriately challenges the students to think and act inside the curriculum and learning environment.

The Challenger E-mission programs from Wheeling Jesuit in West Virginia are a yearly event for us. The content is high quality, well aligned, and my 13 district consortia ask for them each and every year. (Michele Carlisle, Gift and Instructional Technology Specialist - TCHESC)

The Center for Educational Technology and the Challenger Learning Center at Wheeling Jesuit provide outstanding problem based learning units to be used in conjunction with a video conferencing experience. Their video confernces are exciting and allow for an interactive experience for all students.

This information was last updated on: 06/03/2009