Principal Nate Achenbach noted, “We traditionally do have one, but this year we have two and we’re always excited to have them in our school because they bring their culture into our school as long as we can share our own culture with them.”

Among the changes this year: the addition of the state’s new virtual academy program which will give kids the option of completing some of their coursework online.

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Butte school trustees have approved a policy that limits the number of online classes students can take while still attending Butte High School.

Beginning this fall, the Montana Digital Academy is offering free Internet classes to help students make up classes, work ahead or take courses not offered at some schools.

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The Montana Digital Academy is a new state program that offers free online classes. According to its website, the online courses will allow students more course choices, a chance to retake classes, and an opportunity to gain credits.

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The Montana Digital Academy is offering online courses to all high school students in Montana for the 2010-2011 school year. Approved during the 2009 legislature, House Bill 459 aims to make distance learning opportunities available to all school age children in the state of Montana.

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The Montana Digital Academy will change how some area students take their classes, as the future of some classes has now gone online.

Susan Quinn, associate principal at CMR High School, noted, “Some people really are hesitant to say what they’re thinking right when something is happening in a classroom. But yet, when they can read a comment and really formulate their answers and feel like they’ve articulated it well, they’re much more interested in participating.”

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Aug 11, 2010 – Montana State University’s online courses for science teachers are now open for fall registration. The courses are all part of MSU Extended University’s National Teachers Enhancement Network.

Fall courses include biology, earth science, nutrition, soil science, microbiology, physics and other topics. The courses offer MSU graduate credits to practicing elementary, middle, high school and community college teachers. Each course is 100 percent Web-based. Courses offer between one and three MSU graduate credits, and most begin in September. Teachers do not have to be admitted to an MSU degree program in order to take the courses.

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Dickinson State already has about 250 Chinese among its more than 2,700 students, and the school has established study-abroad programs with 15 Chinese universities.

In Missoula, Mont., the Confucius Institute at the University of Montana offers Mandarin language instruction to high school students online and classes at local high schools.

The University of Minnesota’s institute, which was founded two years ago, does a majority of its work with Minnesota public schools, said its director, Joan Brzezinski.

“I think we have been extraordinarily well received,” she said.

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On Tuesday night, the Great Falls Public School district helped students log on to a whole new world of educational possibilities by introducing them to the Montana Digital Academy.

The program starts up in the fall and will offer 45 online courses for high school students across the state.

In an informational meeting on Tuesday, high school sophomore Jared Smith said that he’s excited about the virtual classes.

Smith said, “I wanted to do online school so I could have a more flexible schedule to work around, and because I’m in a band, so it’d be nice to do…some of my classes, show up early for band practice…that’d be pretty cool.”

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Starting this fall, high school students in Bozeman and around the state can take free online classes for credit from the state’s new Montana Digital Academy.

Bozeman High School students will be able to take online classes that aren’t already offered at the school, like oceanography, Principal Rob Watson told the Bozeman School Board on Monday night.

Students who fail a class needed for graduation, like math, will be able to retake the class online to earn credits. That will be especially set up to make it convenient for students in the Bridger alternative program to recapture lost credits, Watson said.

However, Bozeman High won’t let students take online classes for credit because they don’t like a particular teacher or they just want to have their afternoons free, Watson said. But if students can’t take on-campus classes because of scheduling problems, they could apply to take the class online, he said.

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