The Polycom-BCISD Content Database has a new easy to use URL when entering from the Polycom site: www.polycom.com/education/content/ Easy to use & share! Try it!
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VC Islands 2.0
Posted on December 13, 2005 by Janine Lim
It used to be in the “old days” with videoconferencing that educational organizations, consortia, states, etc. put in videoconferencing islands for shared classes. The main use of videoconferencing then was sharing high school and college level classes and usually an organization just shared classes within their network. We’ve made great progress in moving away from [...]
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Camden Children’s Garden
Posted on December 8, 2005 by Janine Lim
Today Eagle Lake Elementary, Edwardsburg, is connecting to a new content provider we haven’t connected to before: Camden Children’s Garden. The 2nd grade students are learning about soil. The presenter, Betsy Payne, engaged the students right away in questions and answers about soil. A little video clip showed the worms in the soil. As you [...]
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ASK: The Ultimate Gift
Posted on December 7, 2005 by Janine Lim
Today we’re doing an ASK program with author Jim Stovall on his book, The Ultimate Gift. This program is provided in partnership with several organizations as follows: Author coordination/liaison: Elaine Shuck, Polycom, Inc. Event coordination: Janine Lim, Berrien County ISD, Blog and Event Facilitation and Bridging: Jim Wenzloff and Arnie Comer, Macomb ISD. In addition [...]
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Flight: The Four Forces
Posted on December 6, 2005 by Janine Lim
Today Lighthouse Education Center students are connecting to NASA Live. This is our first connection with this provider. The students are doing the program, Flight: The Four Forces. As part of the program, students are making several different types of paper airplanes (vehicles) and learning about the way they fly. I love how the presenter [...]
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ASK: Traders in Time
Posted on December 5, 2005 by Janine Lim
Today we have a full day of ASK programs with Janie Panagopoulos, author of many books about Michigan history, among other things. E.P. Clarke Elementary, St. Joseph is hosting, the Berrien County ISD is bridging, and TWICE is sponsoring the cost for member schools participating. Janie’s stories are so interesting and funny. She has so [...]
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The Polycom Ghost
Posted on December 5, 2005 by Janine Lim
Last night I spent a couple hours at E. P. Clarke Elementary setting up for our ASK: Author Interview with Janie Panagopoulos today. We had a funny experience with their Polycom VSX 7000. We had set everything up easily for the classroom layout. You can see in the picture we have the students facing the [...]
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Two Favorites
Posted on December 2, 2005 by Janine Lim
Today we had two great videoconferences with two of our favorite content providers. New Buffalo Middle School students connected today (and this past Wednesday) to COSI Toledo to learn about the states of matter, in the program Heart of the Matter. Even though the students were a bit shy and didn’t want to talk, the [...]
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