Tamaqua Area School District Adds Echo360 Lecture Capture to Engage Millennial Learners

Posted on: Thursday, 21 August 2008, 12:00 CDT Students from Tamaqua Area School District could be doing more than playing video games or surfing the Internet on their computers in the coming year. Starting in the fall, the district will offer online access to classroom content and supplemental materials on computers and wireless laptops with the introduction of lecture capture from Echo360. Located in the coal regions of northeastern Pennsylvania, Tamaqua Area may seem to be an unlikely candidate to lead the state in the adoption of lecture capture -- a technology once reserved for colleges and universities. But as the study habits of K12 students have been adapted to include computers and the Internet, Tamaqua's innovative faculty and staff searched for technologies that reached their student population on their terms. "Our... [read full story]                    

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