Transcript: Delivering Virtual Learning to Rural VCE Students
Teacher: So in today’s lesson we had students from four different schools. In front of me I had 12 students here at Horsham College in the classroom, and then we have today - one student in Warracknabeal, once student in Murtoa and 3 students at Casterton. So much of literature is about discussing the text, so I try and make tools available, whereby they can add their ideas and share their ideas. I tend to incorporate online web tools in each of my classes. That is benefitting both my video conferencing teaching and my general classroom teaching because being able to concentrate in many different areas in the room, thinking on your feet, all of those things are relevant in each situation. 
Twitter opened, off they went and everybody was communicating in real time, which is much quicker even than they’re able to do using the video conferencing, in many ways. It’s good though that they can have that extra dimension of seeing each other. I think in that sense the technology of the video conferencing and the online world, and using things like Twitter, compliments each other because there is that visual element and the sense of being together, but at the same time being able to communicate in another way as well, adding multiple dimensions of communication simultaneously.