Jazz Projects

Here are the projects created in Jazzing Up Your Curriculum with VC from last week. Enjoy! Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? Cooperative Jeopardy Guess the Critter Laying Tracks for the Underground Railroad Videoconference Book Club Water Conservation

Stories from Read Around the Planet

This morning Donna Farren, Linda McDermon, and I were part of a panel discussion for the NCSSM Interactive Videoconference Workshop. We talked about projects we’re doing, how we train teachers, how we advertise programs, and how we “hook” teachers on distance learning. I was delighted to hear Linda McDermon tell about her Read Around the [...]

Welcoming Another TX Blogger!

I’m delighted to add Ashton Graham, El Paso ISD, TX to my growing list of VC bloggers! Ashton too has been blogging the Jazz sessions this week. I know that with her background in video production we’ll be learning some great tricks of the trade from her blog! Ashton is an enthusiastic promoter of videoconferencing, [...]

Snippets of Jazz Day 3 & 4

Still Jazzing this week. Almost done! Just group projects left for tomorrow! Don’t forget to follow Roxanne’s blog as well for the daily facilitator summaries and you can browse the whole photo collection online as well. Many of the participant sites were tagging pictures by the vocabulary words (VC, network, Web 2.0), so you can [...]

Great Facilitation Skills from GNG

As part of the Jazz workshop today, we connected to Global Nomads Group for a simulation of their Pulse programs.  As our participants interacted, the facilitators chatted in Skype about the good facilitation skills that Chris modeled during the program.  Here are some of the things we noticed: Asking a question of all the sites, [...]

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