Today I talked to Polycom, Tandberg, and directPacket Research about their firewall traversal units. My main question is, how does it accept incoming calls? Tandberg and directPacket Research require the “rogue” or “unknown” endpoint on the public side to register with the embedded gatekeeper to allow calls. Polycom allows incoming calls with extension dialing, however [...]
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Experience HyperMirror Videoconferencing! Japan-LA-NJ Collaboration! Energize Hands-On Learning! Agnes Zaorski, Eatontown Public Schools with Takanori Maesako, Osamu Morikawa and Cathy Timpone I’m in a really cool session about HyperMirror…. Right now during introductions I’m amazed by the blue tarp on the wall and the presenters are in the screen with the remote site! You have [...]
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I didn’t get to see as many of the IVC showcase sessions as I wanted to. But there were two that I wanted to mention. I totally missed the Indianapolis Zoo session – but I heard that they have installed the chromakey or green screen technology. Very cool. Gotta go to the Indy Zoo again [...]
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Here’s another neat NECC story from talking to people. At the fireworks party on the 4th of July I ran into Donna Farren, NY and Carol Scott, OK, who took my online class together a year or so ago – Planning Interactive Curriculum Connections. It was great to hear how they had kept in touch [...]
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Just finished the one hour version of my 4th of July all day workshop – Designing Quality Interactive Projects for Videoconferencing. The room was packed again – standing room only. It was interesting to see the high level of interest! We connected to Jenny Homer (through Global Leap and JVCS) in the United Kingdom and [...]
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Yesterday Elaine Shuck, Polycom, and I had a packed IVC showcase session. About 70 people attended. You can access the PowerPoint and links here. We connected to Jim Stovall, blind author of the book, The Ultimate Gift. In just 10 minutes of interaction with Jim, the audience was hooked and enthralled with the interaction. We [...]
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After my workshop on the 4th I had a wonderful conversation with Marycay Densmore, another VC Queen from California. Marycay has done over 100 videoconferences in the last few years. She’s a 7th grade language arts and social studies classroom teacher who is extremely enthusiastic about videoconferencing and its impact on her students learning. She [...]
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I didn’t get to stay through the whole Wednesday keynote because I was presenting in the Polycom booth at 1:00 about the database we do with Polycom. But here are my notes, snippets & inspirations from what I heard…. By Dewitt Jones, Photographer and Creativity Expert, National Geography He quoted this poem incredibly…. and I [...]
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Presenters: Jay Moody, Canton Local Digital Academy with Drew Clark, Greg Fach and Dale Rush. Another gold nugget I found today was also in the Student Showcase posters. In a nutshell, a high school teacher created lessons for elementary and middle school to go along with a trip to a location (Disney and National Everglades) [...]
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One of my favorite things about these conferences is getting together with VC colleagues that I’ve connected with during the school year – and sometimes haven’t seen face to face ever. It’s pretty cool to swap stories and share the student impact we’ve seen over the school year. Here’s one of my favorite stories so [...]
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