USING VIDEOCONFERENCING, TEACHERS IN NEW JERSEY HAVE THE
OPPORTUNITY TO STIMULATE LEARNING IN STUDENTS AROUND THE COUNTRY
AND THE WORLD. The Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts in Camden,
New Jersey, uses broadband technology to teach a variety of
cross-curricular courses to K-12 students through its distance-
learning program called “D’Arts.” The program, funded by the
Subaru of America Foundation, employs visual arts and theater to
explore mathematics, language arts, and verbal artistic
expression. For example, the center’s teachers might discuss how
paintings demonstrate mathematical concepts such as geometry,
grids, patterns, symmetry, scale, and proportion. Schools select
courses from D’Arts curriculum on a first-come, first-served
basis. In the class sessions, teachers at the center interact
with classrooms of 15 to 25 students through videoconferencing,
one classroom at a time. In 2005, approximately 6,000 students
participated in D’Arts classes. According to Virginia Oberlin
Steel, the center’s director