Empowering Education with Video

             Communication has changed and students educators are increasingly using video technologies in all aspects of education. Education how to produce, edit, and distribute, videos gives high school and college graduates a valuable and much in demand skill. Schools systems also are increasingly using video on their websites to keep parents informed about school events and many educators are using video to bring lessons alive for their students. With the generous support of JDL Horizons, We've assembled this collection stories from the eSchool News archives, as well as other resources from around the web, to help you understand the many ways that Video can empower your teachers and students.

                 Wind energy is revolutionizing science education. In Indiana, NativeEnergy is helping schools build wind turbines that provide hands-on learning opportunities. They turned to Performance services to help assess the wind energy potential. Performance Services is a design build engineering and construction firm with experience in developing community scale wind projects in Indiana. They discovered more than enough wind and expected major energy savings. But the project was still too costly to be built. When NativeEnergy heard this project needed additional funding, we were excited to help. It has so many benefits for the students, the school and the community. Not only does it provide a stable source of locally produced energy, but it's also a real life, full-scale renewable energy learning lab for the students and faculty.

                  The combination of utility savings on the one hand and carbon offsets on the other made the project viable for Northwestern schools. The turbines were built, and the excitement was contagious. Students are now learning about renewable energy and some are even earning college credit. A school-wide event taught students about their turbine. The companies also shared career advice with students, People even had the opportunity to climb the turbine. The three turbines are generating power throughout Indiana. They will cut 4,800 metric tons of greenhouse gases per year.