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Companies Help Students Displaced by Katrina

September 22, 2005

Updated: September 22, 2005

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Kudos to the many companies assisting students displaced by Katrina use online educational services. Laura Ascione offers a useful summary of these contributions. For example, Dale Baker, chief executive officer and president of Learning Today said, “By offering our (Smart Tutor) system at no cost for the 2005-2006 school year, we hope to ease the difficult transition these victims and their schools face.”

Robert Heiny http://www.robertheiny.com

Robert W. Heiny, Ph.D. is a retired professor, social scientist, and business partner with previous academic appointments as a public school classroom teacher, senior faculty, or senior research member, and administrator. Appointments included at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Peabody College and the Kennedy Center now of Vanderbilt University; and Brandeis University. Dr. Heiny also served as Director of the Montana Center on Disabilities. His peer reviewed contributions to education include publication in The Encyclopedia of Education (1971), and in professional journals and conferences. He served s an expert reviewer of proposals to USOE, and on a team that wrote plans for 12 state-wide and multistate special education and preschools programs. He currently writes user guides for educators and learners as well as columns for TuxReports.com.

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Sarah September 29, 2005 At 9:57 am

I think it is wonderful that someone is helping out the students that had to leave school. Do you know if they are doing anything online for college students too ? My sister had to evacuate from Lamar University in Beaumont,Tx from Hurricane Rita! As of right now they are not allowing students back for the rest of the semester !
The Tablet PC In Education Blog September 29, 2005 At 7:08 pm

Good question. Thank you for asking and for helping your teacher. I’ll post something more than the following, if I learn something more specific. By rumor, I understand some universities have online arrangements for students displaced by disasters. In general, your sister probably already has a schedule of assignments for each course in which she is enrolled. Also, she and other students have a syllabus for each course in which they are enrolled. So, complete assignments on time until your university provides other instructions. As your sister knows, students learn most from a course through reading. So, she should keep reading for assignments and supplementary material on each syllabus. But I’m sure she knows this and is already finishing assignments on time, even though class attendance may be delayed. I’d suggest that she and other students should contact their university directly or through the university’s website to find out what other arrangements faculty have made for students.