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IC NEWSLETTER -
WINTER 2009
14
Broadcasti ng
from IC
Students at Ridgefield Public
Schools, Connecticut, woke up
one morning in February to
find that their usual talk show
hosts, Barbara Jennes and Rick
Taylor, are broadcasting from
Beirut.
Jennes
(8
th
grade-English
teacher) and Taylor (8
th
Grade–
science teacher) visited IC as
part of the Exchange program.
Since the two teachers usually
broadcast a 15 minute morning
show to Ridgefield Middle School
students, they decided to
continue their usual task
from Beirut through Skype.
They set up their laptop in the
ERC (Educational Resources
Center), and talked about
their experiences at IC, the
students here, and showed
them a bit of the campus in
real time.
LinaMouchantaf, ERCDirector,
participated by addressing the
students in Arabic, French and
English.
The teachers said that IC and
Ridgefield have very similar
curriculums but added that IC
students had something
their
students
didn’t:
speaking three languages.