Thursday, April 20, 2006

Taiwan Education Delegation Tours WSU Learning Center- North Olympic Peninsula


Bill Gillis, Director, WSU Center to Bridge the Digital Divide hosts one of the delegates from the Taiwan Ministry of Education in the computer room of the WSU Learning Center in Port Hadlock. Pam Roberts, Jefferson County 4H Coordinator, demonstrates how she uses blogs to empower youth in rural communities to be effective communicators using modern technologies. In the foreground, LC instructor, Jack Olmsted, creates a blog to post videos documenting the visit which could be seen the next day on the world wide web. In the background is the vivid greenscreen used to overlay digital images in the video production classes taught at the LC. More of the story can be viewed in the Port Townsend Leader.