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Light Bridge employs California's Internet2 to pilot and establish revolutionary practices in preparing future teachers to be adept and sophisticated in using technology in the classroom.
The Goals of Light Bridge are to:
Strengthen teacher education programs through the development
of rich video content offered via the next generation of the Internet;
establish a student teacher support and supervision system that assures high quality support and assistance at a distance; and
disseminate teacher education video content, online resources, and the student teacher support and supervision system.
Specific examples of Light Bridge activities include developing and maintaining rich visual teacher education content; piloting the use of video conferencing for teaching, supervision, and mentoring of pre-service teachers; and capturing the classroom performance of pre-service teachers for analysis and evaluation by mentor teachers and university supervisors over the network. Light Bridge is partially funded by the U.S. Department of Education's program, Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3), and is one of fifteen catalyst grants awarded by the U.S Department of Education for 2001-2005. Using the catalyst grant as the foundation, Light Bridge is a collaboration with a broad array of Consortium Partners. The Light Bridge Consortium is led by the School of Education at
Sonoma State University (SSU).
Located about an hour’s drive north of San Francisco, Sonoma State
University is one of twenty-three campuses of the California
State University system. SSU is a liberal arts university of
8,000 students. The School
of Education annually prepares 550 teacher education students and has 60
full- and part-time faculty.
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