Unbelievably, I’ve been thinking about how we could get videoconferencing into every classroom. We’re still in the days of trying to get it into every school in our county (about 3/4 there). But in my districts where every school has it, now they want it in every classroom. Why VC in Every Classroom? First, here [...]
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Ottawa Elementary, whose school mascot is the otter, is connecting this afternoon to author, Laurie Keller, to discuss her book Do Unto Otters. We also have Mars Elementary participating locally, and there are other classes across the US, too. This is a Polycom Special Event and the students have followed the ASK process to prepare. [...]
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This afternoon, Brown Elementary connected with author Laurie Keller for a Polycom Special Event based on the ASK format. Several other schools across the country were participating as well. Students had read Laurie’s book, The Scrambled States, and had prepared questions to ask her. Here are a few of the questions from today: How did [...]
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This afternoon Coloma Middle School, one of our RUS grant schools, is participating in a 3 hour Around the World session with countries in Central and South America. The sessions focus on “misconceptions resolved” as misconceptions are part of the 7th grade language arts curriculum for Coloma. Costa Rica Lincoln School, Costa Rica started with [...]
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Last night I was honored to receive the 2008 USDLA International Distance Learning Award for Outstanding Leadership by an Individual in the Field of Distance Learning. Since many deserving people also received awards last night, there was not time to thank those who have contributed to my growth and learning. First I’d like to thank [...]
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USDLA Guerilla Session: At lunch time today, I talked to the people at my table about the fact that the 1:30 timeslot didn’t have any good options for K12 videoconferencing folks. So I started asking a few VC buddies if they wanted to meet and have a conversation. When I asked Ken Conn, he offered [...]
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USDLA: KC3 by Jan Zanetis Showing the Stamford High School programs… History of KC3 – Jan’s conversation with Alan November inspired it the start of the program. 15 schools signed up to create content; 100 schools indicated interested in being the test audiences for the contest. The classes signed up and the KC3 team worked [...]
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Since the collaborate session ended early, I popped over and caught the tail end of the NASA session by Greg Pitzer and Scott Anderson from the NASA Digital Learning Network. From what I could gather, the session focused on the technology necessary to videoconference from remote sites. It was really cool to see the “behind [...]
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USDLA Session: Don’t Make Me Collaborate by Kat Bailey and Samantha Penney Some snippets from this session… A lot of 30 second ideas of things you can do with your cell phone. What can you learn or do in 30 seconds…. well some of them you could post in 30 seconds, but if you were [...]
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USDLA The Intersection of Real-time Learning Tools with Learning Management Systems by Alan Greenberg from Wainhouse Research. Snippets of ideas and wisdom. What’s a mashup? Media types, code, data sources, etc. from different sources. Which of these do you use? vc, web conferencing, whiteboards, wikis/collaborative tools, LMS/CMS, other… “videoconferencing was the hot technology in the [...]
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