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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I just came in late to Scott Merrick and Joan Roehre‘s birds of a feather session on desktop videoconferencing. Here’s some of the tools mentioned. iVisit – PC & Mac. iVisit to iVisit connections. Has a push to talk button to help reduce echo. They have a server for education – for schools and for [...]
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Here’s a little tidbit I wrote down today – I think in the WebQuest session by Bernie Dodge. Metcalfe’s Law The value of the network goes up by the number of people in the network. Or, Janine’s adaptation: The more people you know with access to VC, the more VCs you can do! Which is [...]
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Ok, this isn’t really related to videoconferencing, but it’s really cool. In the Keynote today, at the beginning the ISTE staff did a survey of 4000 people in the keynote room using Turning Point technology. Someone came by and handed us a unit and voila we voted!! We can see the votes coming in at [...]
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One of the “todos” on my list was to talk to the two main VC vendors, Polycom and Tandberg, about extension dialing. This is on my “figure it out” list for this summer. I’ve already done some testing with Arnie Comer at Macomb ISD, and will be publishing the results of that when we finish [...]
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Sometimes the real nuggets at a conference are hidden away in poster sessions and student showcase sessions. Here’s one of those gold nuggets. It’s an excellent example of a sustained project – more than a “one-off” event, as Carol Daunt called one event videoconferences in our session yesterday. I think it’s an Australian term and [...]
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Do you also support the integration of technology in your districts, in addition to videoconferencing? How much have you thought about connections between videoconferencing and other technologies? It’s worth considering and I’d appreciate your thoughts & comments too…. Today in addition to attending VC sessions, I’m learning a few other things as well. Bernie Dodge’s [...]
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