We’re doing our second Content Provider Showcase of a series this year. This time we’re connecting to the NASA Marshall Flight Center for the teacher demonstration. As part of the overview of programs, they played a little video clip ad for the program: Directive: Mapping the Moon with WALL-E. Cool! I think we might be [...]
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Today we have our first content provider showcase in a new format! My schools are so tired of coming here for workshops and last year they were begging for content provider showcases that they could attend at their school or district. So we have 4 sites connected, with 1-3 teachers at each site. I’m flipping [...]
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Are you keeping up with the new collaborations getting created in CAPspace these days? Check this one out: PolyPals! Isn’t that a fun play on the word Polycom? What a great idea, Brad!
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In this post, I am collecting several tips for doing posters well that I’ve collected through many videoconference sessions. Simple Short Text Don’t write too much on the poster. Write the key words, the part the other class should write down (if necessary). Put full sentences on the back for the student to read when [...]
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Today is Canadian Thanksgiving, so I thought I’d write about a few Canadians I’m thankful for today! Hope you all are enjoying your pumpkin pie! I had mine for Sabbath dinner. Yum Yum! Karen Andrews, Senior Manager, Research and Planning. Stakeholder Technology Branch. Alberta Education. I met Karen at NECC 2005 in Philadelphia. That was [...]
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This past summer, several of us got together and spent a whole day testing dialing between different kinds of units. We decided to start documenting solutions to all the strange dialing issues that are popping up (see GDS Dialing, Dialing Insanity, Dialing Insanity Here to Stay, Problems in K12 Dialing, etc.). I finally spent some [...]
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This afternoon I had a test call with Florida for an upcoming “presidential debate” between two classes on the energy policies of both candidates. We tested, and then our media specialists chatted with the teacher in Florida for a while. Then they decided it would be easier to have the teachers talk to each other. [...]
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Last year, a teacher from one of my poorer and more urban districts took the Planning Interactive Curriculum Connections class and got really excited about videoconferencing! They weren’t included in our recent RUS grant due to their high population, and so last spring she took the kids over to the high school to access videoconferencing [...]
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This morning Ottawa Elementary is connecting to the Liberty Science Center for their Pumpkin Circle program. Before the program starts, as the students come in, they listened to a song about pumpkins and pumpkin seeds. In the introductory part, the presenters asked the students questions to get them thinking about pumpkins. The presenter walks through [...]
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Today and tomorrow, we have four sessions with the Cleveland Museum of Art for 8th and 9th grade art classes at Coloma Jr. High. They are doing the program, “Race” is a Four Letter Word. One of the things I really like about the CMA programs is the way Arielle asks the students questions. Here [...]
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