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SMMHS students and staff are looking forward to the Virtual College Tour taking place Nov. 4-11. Standing from left are English teacher Jeff Barlew, sophomore Dane Dewet and college counselor Dr. LeAnn Welch. Seated from left are sophomores Bekah Lockhart, Blake Boerger and Jennifer Arnold. Photo by Katy Mena
Though travel budgets may be tight, college-bound kids may still have the pleasure of touring universities around the nation by participating in the Virtual College Tour Nov. 4-11.
Signal Mountain Middle/High School college counselor Dr. LeAnn Welch, English teacher Jeff Barlew and a handful of other SMMHS instructors will present the online program in the classroom.
“It’s great for our school because we have the Promethean boards,” said Welch. “If you have the technology, it can be a classroom activity.”
According to Welch, the Virtual College Tour is open to anyone, but is directed mainly at prospective college students as well as their parents and instructors.
“Basically it’s a way to bring the college to you,” said Welch, specifying that the program includes live chats with students and admissions counselors as well as complete tours of campuses across the country. “(Kids) don’t give their parents answers they want to know ... This is a chance for (parents) to talk directly to the schools.”
Welch and Barlew both agree that the Virtual College Tour is a wonderful way to open students’ eyes to schools outside of the Southeast.
To learn more about the Virtual College Tour, visit here.
“One of the biggest missions we have as a school is to give kids a vision of the wide range of opportunities available to them,” said Barlew. “If we can give them that, we’ll increase their opportunities to end up at places that they wouldn’t otherwise think about that would be good for them personally and academically.”
Barlew said that last year his students practiced researching colleges online and learned how to properly interpret informational text and other Web resources, preparing them for this year’s on line event.
“They learned, ‘What do you need to look at when you go to a college Web site? What do you need to know?’” said Barlew. “This is an opportunity for them to do that plus an interaction with real, live students plus the visualization of the campus you don’t get on a Web site. It’s fun to see them get excited and see things that are really out there.”
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