Registration for MysteryQuest USA is open now. I’m still adding dates, and probably won’t advertise to the listservs until that is done. But past participants are registering already and I thought you, my blog readers, might have interested classes as well. Sign up soon!
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I’ve “muttered” here before about H.239 and the various problems with it (H.239 and MCUs and this post). Today I had a compelling reason to make it work and room in my brain to figure it out! Honestly, that’s half my problem with this technology. Just no time to figure it out! Today I figured [...]
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At the MACUL 08 Conference this year, I ran into some of our local tech coordinators and we chatted about the progress of videoconferencing in their districts. We commiserated about the great fact that the school level videoconference coordinators are doing fine on their own, and the sad fact that we don’t get to see [...]
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Note: This post was written for the MACUL conference blog 2008 with attendees in mind. However I’m reposting it here because it seems it would be useful for readers here too. In Sue Porter’s session, we connected to four new content providers. The Oilers Ice School We talked to the main character in the book [...]
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After listening to Gary Stager at the MACUL 08 Conference, I went up to ask him about the handouts from his session yesterday that I missed. In the course of the conversation, he said to me, “Why do people identify themselves with just one technology?” He was referring to some of the ideas in the [...]
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Note: This post was written for the MACUL conference blog 2008 with attendees in mind. However I’m reposting it here because it seems it would be useful for readers here too. In this session by Max Graves and Anne Thorpe, we learned about the different videoconference providers in Michigan. We connected to Northern Michigan University [...]
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Note: This post was written for the MACUL conference blog 2008 with attendees in mind. However I’m reposting it here because it seems it would be useful for readers here too. Session: Collaborations Around the Planet: Social Networking for Educational Videoconferencing In my session today, we started with two connections to New York State. Unfortunately, [...]
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Yesterday I spent some time talking to a sales engineer about how the new Polycom RMX bridge works. What I was most interested in is how the dialing works. The Codian and TANDBERG bridges use some variation of dialing and conference numbers depending on how they are configured. The new RMX is set up that [...]
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This afternoon we have several classes participating in two sessions of ASK with author Jim Stovall on his book The Ultimate Gift. The students have prepared using the ASK process. This program is one of the Polycom Special Events, with bridging provided by Arnie Comer at Macomb ISD. The depth of questions and interaction is [...]
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Daylight savings time changes on Sunday in the U.S.! Did you remember? It doesn’t affect our connections with Canada, because they switch at the same time we do. But it does affect connections with the UK (and Arizona). I have three with the UK that I have to adjust because I forgot (AGAIN!). Life was [...]
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