For the last several months, as I’ve been considering my PhD research, I’ve been wishing that we had a really good descriptive name for what we do – connecting to content providers, guest experts, authors, classroom-to-classroom projects, international cultural exchanges, etc. Some names we have used are Videoconference Adventures, Electronic Education, Virtual Field Trip, and [...]
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Are you reading Nancy Shives’ blog from the Frazier International History Museum? Here’s a story of a new content provider getting started. They’ve only done 5 programs so far, but already they are encouraging nearby museums to start offering content. We were lucky to have many guest join us. On the 25th we had Fronda [...]
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NECC Presentation Proposals are due October 3!! So, are you going to present? We need lots more videoconferencing sessions so our favorite technology, VC, is well represented this year. Here’s my dream presentations list (I posted it for Elevate 2008 too – those are due in November). Roxanne Glaser, TX a session on collaborative tools [...]
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Today I spent the day helping out at the AT&T / MACUL Student Technology Showcase. Teams of students displayed technology projects in the halls of the Michigan State Capitol Building. After the teams had set up their display boards and laptops with sample student projects, the halls filled with legislators, photographers, and reporters. A nice [...]
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In my current online class, Planning Interactive Curriculum Connections, we’re discussing the various content providers and how you might select one program over another. Pam Bontrager, elementary media specialist for Buchanan Community Schools, shared this succinct pithy description of how she evaluates programs: I look at different criteria when choosing VC’s that may work in [...]
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Yesterday I had a question in my email about one of my upcoming online classes, Kid2Kid Videoconference Connections. I am potentially interested in your course Kid2Kid Videoconferencing Connections session. I have a couple of questions: Would we actually be paired with another classroom to work with? Is this appropriate for the middle school level (I [...]
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Did you see COSI Columbus’ cool new newsletter in your email this week? Pretty slick & full of good information in an easy-to-read pretty format! If you’re not on their listserv, you should be! Subscribe to COSI’s Electronic Education v-News by sending a request to electroniceducation@mail.cosi.org.
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Rebecca Polityka, CSD, and I are thinking the same things today!! I just added my Best Program Lists to our Favorite Field Trips page. I know a lot of you use that page. I used to make lists like this at the beginning of every school year to get my schools to sign up for [...]
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Is your year starting with busy scheduling of videoconferencing? Mine sure is. I’ve been ruing the day that I taught my schools to sign up for programs early in the school year. *chuckles* I’m certainly paying for it now!! Last year on this date, I had 85 requests; the year before 35 requests. This year [...]
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For the last couple of years, I’ve been wishing I could pull together a program for our schools on Constitution Day. But the school year starts so quickly. It’s difficult to arrange something. However, this year, when I emailed Don Alsbro to schedule our veteran interviews, Lest We Forget, I asked him if he could [...]
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