Tips & insights & resources from this session at CILC Symposium. Rowena begins international projects with art projects because it bridges the language barrier. Also, she said it’s fun to connect at night and even at midnight. It makes it that much more special. Quick dos & don’ts from Rowena. Kiss a lot of frogs [...]
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Tips & thoughts & insights from this discussion/groups. Always share a map at the beginning of the videoconference. Voicethread – a way to do delayed time video discussions. Sounds cool & worth checking out. Also jabber, skype, googletalk, etc. collaborative vcs pbwiki – projects written in my online classes: Planning Interactive Curriculum Connections & Kid2Kid [...]
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Today is the culmination day for the CILC Symposium. Each panel moderator is reporting out on the various todos. Here’s a few notes from them. The PPTs will be posted on the CILC Symposium soon. Develop a collection of tips for collaborative projects. Did you know about our Collaborative Projects Template Booklet? Also check out [...]
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The session started with people sharing their collaborations and their hopes. This session was facilitated by Paul. Be sure to check out his blog. Collaborative Projects Shared Read Around the Planet Chapters Megaconference Global Run MysteryQuest, MysteryQuest USA, LiteratureQuest, Texas HistoryMystery Monster Match Region 12′s Bluebonnet VC Projects Template Booklet Types of collaborations Classroom and [...]
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This is the third panel session at the CILC Symposium 2007. Roxanne blogged the second one, so check that out. Also check out her summary of the ideas and resources brainstormed in my breakout. This panel, moderated by Jan Zanetis, Tandberg, is comprised of the following panelists: Paul Hieronymus has coordinated the Avon Schools’ Distance [...]
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Tommy Bearden is still preaching the EASY ACCESS. Easy Access is NOT the tech person bringing you a unit when you need to do a program. It’s having easy access to a unit in your building ALL the time. We have to get there. If you’re just starting, put it in the elementary If you [...]
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The CILC Symposium 2007 is comprised of several panel sessions followed by breakout follow-up sessions. This session is on Practical Applications. “Best practices in the use of videoconferencing and collaborative technologies will be shared from the perspective of classroom instructors, technology directors, IVC managers and coordinators, content providers.” The panel, moderated by Elaine Shuck, Polycom, [...]
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Hey! If you want to do collaborative projects with schools in the UK, you should register at the new Janet Collaborate site. Schools in the UK are using it to schedule with UK content providers, to do collaborative projects with each other and more. One principle behind this site is pretty cool – everything is [...]
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Here’s a great article from Techlearning that I stumbled across recently: Three Steps to Eliminating Teacher Tech Phobia. While the article is focused generally on technology and mostly on Internet resources, the principles and concepts can be applied to videoconferencing as well. First, the article makes some great points about the busyness of teachers and [...]
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Do you think that videoconferencing benefits student motivation and discipline? This would make a great research question. But here’s an anecdote from a teacher who participated in ASK: Night of the Twisters with Region 12′s weather guy, Rusty. The kids really enjoyed it, and here I was so worried about my 30 students from last [...]
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