I’m delighted that Danny Maas, Project Coordinator for Videoconferencing for Alberta Education, has started blogging about videoconferencing! His blog is called Elevate, and while it’s themed the same as the Elevate Conference in 2008, it’s about VC in general too. You’ll definitely want to read his post about TokBox, a flash based video chat client. [...]
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As I’ve said before, our usage of videoconferencing has grown so much that I am changing policies and procedures so that my districts and buildings can do more videoconferences on their own. This is the only way that we can continue to increase our use of videoconferencing. So there are two new pieces that are [...]
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Yesterday I spent some time with two groups of teachers talking about videoconferencing possibilities. I heard some interesting stories. One teacher participated in an Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum videoconference for the first time last year. Another teacher had signed her up, and I found out later that she had been so upset about it she [...]
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Catching up on previous notes & scribbles. Did you know that it is the International Polar Year? Check out the website for the focus and research. Note this announcement from Mark on the Megaconference listserv a while back: As some of you may be aware, the International Polar Year (see http://www.ipy.org ) officially began on [...]
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If you’re subscribed to this blog, you may be missing the very interesting discussion in comments on yesterday’s post, Is One Use of VC Better Than Another? Thank you to Carol, Roxanne, and Jerry for the thoughtful comments so far. Jerry – I think you’ve hinted at the importance of someone “on the ground” in [...]
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I’ve had a few conversations with colleagues over the summer about the use of videoconferencing in our respective areas. I’ve noticed that sometimes we judge each other’s use of videoconferencing against our own. Yet some educational service agencies focus more on course delivery or shared classes; others focus primarily on curriculum content from sources such [...]
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Here are some notes and ramblings from the Internet2 Commons Site Coordinator On-line Workshop today. If you want to attend future sessions, sign up for the email list. H.239 is NOT there yet. While the tool has potential, I have yet to see it work well in a conference with multiple kinds of units & [...]
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Over a year ago, a librarian/media specialist at the MACUL Conference sat in a session on how to find videoconference content. As usual, I showed how to search our VC Program Database linked on TWICE and Polycom. I don’t remember what keyword we searched in the description field, but the results were not all on [...]
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I’ve been planning my professional development for the year in the last few weeks. Today I finished up by putting all the details online for my districts. My online classes are scheduled and registration is open if you want to join an international (usually) learning community for a few weeks. Read more details here: Planning [...]
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One thing that has stumped me in the last couple years is this. Someone emails me and says, “let’s have our schools do projects together.” It’s so broad and wide open and I have so many things going on already that I don’t have a good answer. It’s so much work to just begin to [...]
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