Last Wednesday afternoon, just before the early close for Thanksgiving, I VCed with Craig in Alaska, and Janet & Rachel in New Zealand to experiment with desktop VC. Rachel beat me to it, with a great write up of our little experiment. I totally agree with her, that the big issue is accessibility with VC. [...]
Filed under: Techie Stuff | Tagged: Desktop VC, H323, SVC, Vidyo | 6 Comments »
Yesterday and today we’ve had several HistoryQuest8: Revolutionary War sessions. These ones have been nicely full with 3-5 classes in each session. The clues have been challenging, so the students have had to work hard. In face in one session, with 10 minutes to research, none of the classes guessed any of the answers! Still, [...]
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After a very successful Monster Match this year, several of my classes wanted to do a turkey match with the same idea. We called it Turkey Talk. Roxanne and I partnered our classes, and ended up with 18 classes participating! The sessions occurred Friday, today, and a few more tomorrow. We were able to use [...]
Filed under: Collaborations | Tagged: Monster Match, Turkey Talk | 1 Comment »
Last week I wrote about our videoconferences celebrating veterans day. One of our World War II veterans, Ray Sreboth, wrote a little reflection on the experience. I obtained permission to share it here with you: This morning, I was once more was involved in one of those two way interactive TV, living history sessions at [...]
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If you’re not subscribed to the comments on my blog, then you’re missing out on this invitation from Craig in Alaska in reply to my post on The Shake Up in the VC Market: You can have good quality VTC with a desktop/laptop computer, high quality web cam and an echo cancelling “speakerphone” today. I [...]
Filed under: Techie Stuff, VC Community | Tagged: Desktop VC | 3 Comments »
Thursday night I listened to Larry Cuban over at Classroom 2.0. It was an interesting interview, peppered with entertaining comments in the chat. While listening, I skimmed Larry’s blog. I found this comment from this post on his blog that is a nice succinct summary of the bigger picture problem with change in schools: Do [...]
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Are you following all the interesting developments in the videoconferencing market? Here’s an interesting review and analysis of the changes coming down the pike. I highly recommend that you take some time to read it. Here are a few snippets to convince you to read further: The future of videoconferencing is the software-based codec running [...]
Filed under: Techie Stuff, VC Community, Vendors | Tagged: Cisco, LifeSize, Logitech, Tandberg | 9 Comments »
Have you had a videoconference collaboration fail because you couldn’t nail a time and date? Have you ever participated in an email exchange that went like this? Email: “Hey, when do you want to do our videoconference?” Reply: “I can do it anytime.” Reply: “How about Monday?” Reply: “Sure, what time?” Reply: “10:05-10:45 is best [...]
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Sadly, I’ve decided to purge my “other VC blogs” list of any blog that hasn’t had a post in over a year. But I want to keep the archive in case I need to find them again. So here are the ones that I purged: ACELINK Blankenblogger Meet in School (UK) Polycom PGAP VC Grand [...]
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Did you know this is National Distance Learning Week? USDLA is doing a full series of webinars on many distance learning and ed tech topics. I presented yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to have almost 60 people in my session. What do you think? Are webinars a quick and easy way to learn? It seems [...]
Filed under: Professional Dev. | Tagged: Webinar | 2 Comments »
