Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
Copper Country Summit on July 13-14, 2017
Copper Country Summit on July 13-14, 2017
Teachers learn how to create a classroom on their computers
Copper Country Summit on July 13-14, 2017
Harrison Schmitt Elementary School second grade teachers Debra Door and Jennifer Durkin work on creating a classroom.
Copper Country Summit on July 13-14, 2017
Harrison Schmitt third-grade teacher Keith Bullington is Google-certified to teach participants how to build and share classrooms.
Copper Country Summit on July 13-14, 2017
Jeffrey Heil, the summit lead speaker, also taught teachers how to use a draw tool for making cartoons or other graphics.
Copper Country Summit on July 13-14, 2017
Another class taught participants how to create and use data and spreadsheets. It was taught by Kern Kelley, a course leader from Maine.
Copper Country Summit on July 13-14, 2017
Keith Kelly from Maine taught participants how to fly a drone. His is pointed out by red arrows as it stays in one spot in the air in a hallway in Light Hall.
Video of drone flight courtesy of Kristina Limardo
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On Thursday and Friday of last week, July 13-14, 2017, the Copper Country Summit, organized by Ben Potts of Silver Consolidated Schools, took place in Light Hall at Western New Mexico University.
The session involved learning technical skills on computers, brought by the 135 participants taking part.
According to Potts, teachers and administrators came from Silver and Cobre schools, from Aldo Leopold Charter School, Calvary Christian Academy, and from schools in Lordsburg and Socorro, N.M., as well as from Morenci and Heber-Overgard, Ariz.