Talk:Virtual school

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I see a lot of references to the Florida Virtual School in here. I tried to clean it up without deleting too much content, but it seems to me that this page was created for promotional reasons, and needs some revamping. Does anyone else agree with me? --Austinsimcox 21:29, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Alright, I cleaned up alot of the spam external links and removed the spam template. Alot of the ones listed were either clearly hoaxes, or not virtual schools at all. I hope that helps. --Austinsimcox 14:42, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cyberschool

I came across both these articles, and they're really both about the same thing, so I think cyberschool should be merged into this article. GreenJoe 16:16, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

1. 1

I agree that cyberschools and virtual schools are pretty much the same thing.

1. 2

The page header section doesn't include the distinction between asynchronous and synchronous models (see cyberschool section), nor does it include reference to live classroom software like iLinc, Elluminate and KeynoteConferencing. It only mentions Moodle, which is a very powerful tool, but does not have live chat (mic and text) in front of an interactive whiteboard led by a professional educator. The other software mentioned does.

If you'd like more info, pls contact briteschool@yahoo.com / briteschool@hotmail.com - or a demo might provide a Wikipedia author with a better insight as to what we do. Hope this is okay  :-)

80.2.122.228 21:59, 30 October 2007 (UTC)A Briteschool Administrator

[edit] cyberschools and virtual schools are not the same thing

I edited the cyberschool page some time ago and provided several scholarly references. They have been deleted. I presume from the discussion here that the practitioners of K-12 distance learning are considered self promoting. Not so. Most are state agencies; but there are corporate sponsors that provide repositories of recent research. This article currently has none. BTW a cybershool is full time K-12 online learning and a virtual school is supplementary. Why are there non-scholars with clear political biases editing more qualified editors? http://dbbearden.googlepages.com/links —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.253.71.225 (talk) 23:28, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] UK use of phrase "Virtual School"

I haven't got time to make an sub-article right now, but in the UK a Virtual School is a means whereby a local authority maintains oversight of "Looked After Children" under its corporate parenting responsibilities, through a number of designated teachers under the authority of a head-teacher, co-ordinating provision for the needs of such children in their own "orndinary" schools. Kevin McE (talk) 11:05, 5 December 2007 (UTC)