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Schools share distance learning
Elementary school students pick up Chinese from video conference
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Susan Nation teaches a class of first-graders Chinese. - photo by J. Bryan Stiles
Classes taught through videoconference aren’t just for college campuses anymore. Two Hall County elementary schools are using the tool to learn Mandarin Chinese together. At McEver Arts Academy, first-grade students are spending about 45 minutes a day for 10 weeks learning the language from a teacher across the county at Wauka Mountain Multiple Intelligences Academy.