
{"id":1907,"date":"2008-02-21T07:55:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T15:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2008\/02\/21\/school-brief-megaconference-jr\/"},"modified":"2008-02-25T08:11:55","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T16:11:55","slug":"school-brief-megaconference-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/02\/21\/school-brief-megaconference-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"School Brief: Megaconference Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students from Smith Middle School participated today (Thursday) in the fifth annual Megaconference Jr. global event. <\/p>\n<p>Megaconference Jr. is a project designed to give students in elementary and secondary schools around the world the opportunity to communicate, collaborate and contribute to each other\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s learning in real time, using advanced multi-point video conferencing technology. <\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Smith Middle School French and global connections students observed presentations by students from around the world on topics ranging from, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Packing a Virtual Suitcase-Traveling the Globe,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to hip hop poetry from a French immersion school. <\/p>\n<p>Thousands of K-12 students from at least four continents and 22 U.S. states joined together through the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students from Smith Middle School participated today (Thursday) in the fifth annual Megaconference Jr. global event. Megaconference Jr. is a project designed to give students in elementary and secondary schools around the world the opportunity to communicate, collaborate and contribute to each other\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s learning in real time, using advanced multi-point video conferencing technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[118,120,119],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools","tag-megaconference-jr","tag-smith-middle-school","tag-video-conferencing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}