So today I went back to the Poster Sessions and the Global Gallery, and found a couple more great VC projects! The first was Professor Dr. Reima Sado Al-Jarf from King Saud University in Saudia Arabia. She is a professor of ELT and Translation. She shared pictures of their videoconference classrooms and how they are [...]
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So I’ve been trying to keep on my advertised topic for my blog – videoconferencing! But here at NECC I’ve been learning other things besides VC along the way! Right now I’m in the Lessons Learned: Creating Communities Online panel session, and Anne Davis is sharing how she has been using blogs in her classroom. [...]
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Tuesday afternoon I spent some time in the Polycom booth with Elaine Shuck and served as the communication director for an e-mission with Challenger Learning Center for half an hour. I’ve participated before in the 3 hour teacher training, so it was just wild to see it done in about 30 minutes. One other teacher [...]
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Sometimes at a conference, you run across the best examples in tucked away in an unlikely place! This morning I went to the Poster Sessions in Grand Hall looking for a specific one on videoconferencing that wasn’t there! But in looking for that poster session, I found another, even better example of creative use of [...]
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At the end of the day today, I attended the Proposed IVC SIG meeting at NECC facilitated by Camille Cole and Jan Zanetis and Ruth Blankenbaker. As we started, Ruth Blankenbaker provided a way for us all to sign the charter on a fancy antique poster. The mission statement includes “advancing collaboration, information dissemination, research, [...]
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Another NECC session: Now I’m watching an amazing demo of a pianist in Calgary Alberta playing the beautiful grand piano in front of me. No one is at the piano in front of me – he is playig it remotely via videoconference and special software created by Acadia University, Nova Scotia! Karen Wilder from Acadia [...]
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My first session here at NECC was Increasing Student Collaboration Online by Harry Tuttle, Syracuse University. Much of the discussion centered around making online conversations work, but Dr. Tuttle shared some really interesting ideas for projects which can be applied to videoconferencing. He talked about exchanges between classes, which we are familiar with in [...]
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I’ve been reading the latest Edutopia magazine and the Go National article caught my eye as a potential project format for partner classes connecting via videoconference. The students in each school read the same play produced by MTC, identifying major themes and analyzing scenes and characters. They can ask questions and discuss the work online [...]
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Today Neva Kelly, Horseheads Central School District, emailed me with a great question. How do I find a class in another country that wants to collaborate on such a project? So I dug out the article I wrote for the upcoming fall MACUL journal. Here’s a summary/preview with links to the resources mentioned. Networking. Meet [...]
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Just ran across this example of videoconferencing in the world of work. Wired Magazine featured an article on The DreamWorks Machine. Design and development teams from various locations meet virtually to work on movies such as Madagascar. Check out this description of the technology. By the middle of 2003, DreamWorks was fitted for 21st-century moviemaking [...]
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