Here’s a review of the Great Lakes Native Peoples program offered by the Cranbrook Institute of Science. This was written by Ren Baldwin, District Technology Coordinator. Thanks, Ren, for sharing this review! Kelly Nimtz’s 4th grade class at Lincoln Elementary in St. Joseph, MI has a wonderful connection last week with Cranbrook Institute for a [...]
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This afternoon Eagle Lake Elementary connected to Mote Marine Laboratory for the Sea Me Read: Smiley Shark program. Before the program started the students enjoyed a flash(?) show of interesting shark and ocean facts. In the beginning, enthusiastic presenter Kasey reads the story, Smiley Shark, to the students in a high energy fashion, and students [...]
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I just added a new page to my blog, “My Projects” up along the top menu. This is for those of you trying to find a link to something that I’m involved in, but you can’t remember if it’s on the BCISD SouthwestNet Distance Learning site or the TWICE site. Thanks, Roxanne Glaser for this [...]
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Interested in a LiteratureQuest? We need three high school American Literature classes to participate in a MysteryQuest-like LiteratureQuest. We’d love to have you participate! One of my local teachers designed this activity last summer in the Jazzing Up Your Curriculum with VC workshop. And now we are finally implementing it! I look forward to seeing [...]
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This morning Marcellus Middle School students are sharing skits and vignettes in response to reading the book, The Giver. They also shared posters and other visual representations that captured the essence of the book and the issues within it. These students prepared this presentation for Read Around the Planet, but had put so much work [...]
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Here’s a nice intro article to videoconferencing from AT&T: Learning in the Age of Videoconferencing [PDF]. Filled with great examples, it’s a thoughtful overview of the possibilities of videoconferencing, with references to some of our favorite VC friends too!
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Here are the updates from this week to our VC Program Database linked on TWICE and Polycom. New Provider: Janie. L. Panagopoulos I’m especially excited about having Janie (an author!!) on this list! I worked with her over the past summer getting her set up at home with a webcam and Polycom PVX. She’s really [...]
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Last year I muttered about H.261, H.263 and H.264 la la land. This year, not only have some of these odd problems settled down, but I’ve also begun to appreciate the quality that H.264 brings to the videoconference. But first, a quick little lesson from my admittedly educational and not-so-techie perspective. A Little Background H.261, [...]
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Did you hear about this yet? AT&T and Polycom are sponsoring sessions with Lynne Reid Banks in April. Registration is open and slots are filling fast! Hurry!
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Today several classes are talking to author Sue Stauffacher about her book Harry Sue. For more details on this book, check out the Amazon.com reviews of it. This is yet another TWICE ASK session with Sue. Yesterday’s sessions featured the book Donuthead. This picture is of the paperback cover coming out in April. Sue showed [...]
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