This morning St. Joseph High School hosted Congressman Fred Upton and shared the videoconference with Decatur High School and Lakeshore High School via videoconference. High school students asked questions about many topics including energy, No Child Left Behind, social security, funding for adult education in Benton Harbor to address the low literacy rate, and steriod [...]
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Today I’m thinking about the challenges of switching to IP videoconferencing as one of my districts is working on that today. Coming into this job with an education background, I’ve learned a lot from experience, talking to people, and reading on the net. Some resources that I’ve used in learning are: Firewalls are our Friends [...]
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Yesterday I was reading my Edutopia magazine and ran across an interesting use of videoconferencing – to connect to a teacher called up for military service. The article is called Mr. Miller Goes to War and you’ll find the reference towards the end of the article or below highlighted in this quote. Emphasis is mine. [...]
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Two weeks ago at the MACUL Conference, TWICE hosted several videoconference sessions. One of them was presented by Greg Marten and Jane Mose, Lenawee ISD, on Positive Growth: Integrating Videoconferencing into Classrooms of Hearing Impaired and Deaf Students. David Warlick happened to be on the shuttle at the same time as Greg and made a [...]
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This blog will be about one distance learning coordinator’s experiences, curriculum thoughts, and technology rants related to k12 videoconferencing. As of this writing, I coordinate videoconferencing for 24 Polycom units in 18 school districts in southwest Michigan. We’ve been doing videoconferencing since 1999. You can read about our program online here: Southwestnet Distance Learning. I [...]
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