The last session I’m attending here at the Broadband Summer Institute in Canmore is by John Spence from the Communications Research Centre. “Relationships are everything.” This technology is about “connecting brains to brains”. It’s not about the technology, it’s about the people you can connect to. CRC’s role is research the future uses of this [...]
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Still at the Broadband Summer Institute here in Canmore. Now I’m attending a session by Colin Regamey, their new Distance Learning Coordinator. The Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta is starting to offer videoconference programming this fall. They have just built a new Atco Tyrrell Learning Centre to support their education outreach programs. All their [...]
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This morning Mike Griffiths is presenting to the Broadband Summer Institute here in Canmore, Alberta. MIke started by showing us where he lives using Google Earth. He does this often in his video links to help students understand the geography of the connection. Paul Hieronymous has been doing this too with Google Earth with his [...]
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I was lucky enough to be invited to speak at Alberta’s Broadband Summer Institute this summer. So after the first half day, here’s a report on videoconferencing in Alberta! BBSI & VC in Alberta The Broadband Summer Institute has been running for at least 5 years. In the past it has included Ontario teachers, but [...]
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Finally, if you’ve been reading my blog and wanting a better description of the workshop 123 VC: Jazzing Up Your Curriculum with Videoconferencing, please visit Andrea Israeli’s blog. Her write-up/summary/reflection from the week is right on. Thanks Andrea!
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Here’s another great tidbit from the workshop last week, 123 VC: Jazzing Up Your Curriculum with Videoconferencing. This is from one of the group’s project presentation. As part of their project, they included how they would have students evaluate the videoconference and debrief afterwards. Here are the questions they’d ask their students: What did you [...]
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In the 123 VC: Jazzing Up Your Curriculum with Videoconferencing workshop last week, my participants asked me to tell my stories of all the things that can go wrong with a videoconference. I shared several stories, most of which I’ve written about before in Top Ten Reasons a VC Gets Cancelled. Then we talked about [...]
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Today I had an “aha” moment in our 123 VC: Jazzing Up Your Curriculum with Videoconferencing week long workshop. We did MysteryQuest Beaches this morning. And here I will quote reflection comments from two principals in my group. Mystery Quest is a lot of fun. This would be a good ‘ice breaker’ event to use [...]
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Installation of the 35 Polycom VSX 7000s for our USDA RUS DLT grant began yesterday. This week I’m participating in an 8 site week-long workshop on videoconferencing: 123 VC: Jazzing Up Your Curriculum with Videoconferencing. One of the teachers in the workshop I’m doing this week called her principal to see if she could sign [...]
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