3rd day of June Jazz. The week is going too fast! Roll Calls Our roll calls today were just hysterically fun! We had fun cheers from each of the sites. We used @sparky1fan’s Cheer video clips and ideas to prepare. MysteryQuest Beaches We had a great time with MysteryQuest Beaches this morning. Everyone shared clues [...]
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2nd day of Jazz all done! Here’s a few thoughts & comments: Roll Call The roll call was really fun again this morning. Wales led it, and waved their flags and wished us “bora da” (good morning in Welsh). Everyone shared their weather forecast for today and the rest of the week, and we shared [...]
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First day of the June session of 123 VC: Jazzing Up Your Curriculum with Videoconferencing (aka Jazz). I have nice group of 12 participants from my two counties, and a wide spread of grade levels from Young 5s to High School. New Roll Call Format This year instead of just a video/audio check in the [...]
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While I’m thinking about Jazz this week, I thought it would be fun to make a list of all the tools we use in this workshop. And I probably won’t think of them all! If you know of any I missed, please comment! Videoconferencing H323, Polycom, Tandberg, LifeSize, Codian, etc. Skype TinyChat Web 2.0 Skype [...]
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If you’re following several of us VC geeks on our blogs and Twitter, you’re about to hear a lot this summer about Jazz. So I thought a review of this workshop might be in order. What is Jazz? 123 VC: Jazzing Up Your Curriculum with Videoconferencing (aka Jazz) is a grassroots workshop spread across three [...]
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If any of you are interested, I’ve posted a few pictures from my Hawaii vacation on my personal website.
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This morning New Buffalo Elementary is connecting to the San Diego Zoo for the last videoconference of the school year. The program began with students reviewing what adaptations are and introducing students to the videoconference format. Next the students predict what animal she will bring out after giving some information, and the students saw the [...]
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