{"id":180,"date":"2011-10-13T14:40:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T22:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/?p=180"},"modified":"2011-10-13T14:40:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T22:40:51","slug":"from-constantinople-to-kenai-classroom-without-walls-october-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2011\/10\/13\/from-constantinople-to-kenai-classroom-without-walls-october-19\/","title":{"rendered":"From Constantinople to Kenai: Classroom Without Walls, October 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/files\/2011\/10\/CWW.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-189  aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/files\/2011\/10\/CWW.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>What do Constantinople and Kenai have in common?<\/strong><br \/>\nTo answer this question, embark on a journey\u00a0into Russia\u2019s past, live\u00a0from Kenai, Alaska, with\u00a0Classroom Without Walls.<\/p>\n<p>Three KPBSD\u00a0high school world history teachers collaborate in\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/staff.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/staff\/gzorbas\/Intro_Classroom_Without_Walls.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Classroom Without Walls<\/a><\/strong>, offering innovative world history\u00a0learning to 350 students\u00a0from Kenai Central High School, Soldotna High School, and Skyview High School.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Wednesday, October 19, you&#8217;re invited to the <em>From Constantinople to Kenai<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0session when a lesson will be presented live from The Russian Orthodox Church in Kenai, Alaska.\u00a0Parents and community members are welcome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em><strong>From Constantinople to Kenai<\/strong><\/em> will take students\u00a0on a journey from the beginning of Russia to the connection in Kenai, Alaska, and the Russian orthodox church. Students and community members will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meet Rurik, a Varangian prince who was the leader of the Rus<\/li>\n<li>Princess Olga of Kiev later to be Sainted<\/li>\n<li>Two Greeks who developed the Russian alphabet<\/li>\n<li>Prince Vladimir who made Orthodoxy the official religion of the Rus<\/li>\n<li>and more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, October 19, 2011<\/strong><br \/>\nWorld History teacher Gregory Weissenberg from Soldotna High School will\u00a0present<em><strong>\u00a0From Constantinople to Kenai<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0six times from The Russian Orthodox Church in Kenai, Alaska. There is no cost, everyone is welcome.<br \/>\n<strong>CWOW times:<\/strong> 7:55 &#8211; 8:35; 8:50 \u2013 9:35; 10:15 \u2013 10:55; 11:10 \u2013 11:50; 12:39 \u2013 1:19; and 1:35 \u2013 2:15<br \/>\nStudents will be in their classes at the three local high schools.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOur kids have 3 World History teachers&#8211;we don\u2019t know that any other students in the nation can say that, and between the 3 of us we make one good teacher.\u201d &#8212; Rob Sparks (Skyview), Gregory Weissenberg (SoHi), Greg Zorbas (KCHS)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Making public education public, <\/em>Bon Voyage!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ClassroomsWithoutWalls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Texting, blogging and streaming history: 3 teachers use technology to break down walls&#8221;<\/a> story, <em>Peninsula Clarion<\/em>, March 5, 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do Constantinople and Kenai have in common? To answer this question, embark on a journey\u00a0into Russia\u2019s past, live\u00a0from Kenai, Alaska, with\u00a0Classroom Without Walls. Three KPBSD\u00a0high school world history teachers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2011\/10\/13\/from-constantinople-to-kenai-classroom-without-walls-october-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Constantinople to Kenai: Classroom Without Walls, October 19&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,25],"tags":[246,281,354,484,572,577,859,861,933,947,1023,1118],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-2","category-technology","tag-classroom-without-walls","tag-constantinople","tag-education","tag-high-school","tag-kchs","tag-kenai","tag-russia","tag-russian-orthodox-church","tag-skyview","tag-sohi","tag-technology-2","tag-world-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}