This month we had several MysteryQuest sessions, with the last session today. Here’s a great story: One class had a really cool game show, and in passing, one of the participating teachers told me that their students loved the voice of the game show host. I passed on the feedback to the game show host’s [...]
Filed under: Collaborations | Tagged: HistoryQuest, MysteryQuest | Comments Off
It’s the fourth day of Read Around the Planet. Classes are still working hard on their presentations and asking great questions of their partners. Here are a few highlights of today: Interaction Today we had some great examples of how to get the other class involved in the presentation. It’s nice to see classes move [...]
Filed under: Collaborations | Tagged: RAP2010, ReadAroundthePlanet | Comments Off
Read Around the Planet continues with some amazing connections, and great prep work by students and teachers alike! Here are some more highlights: Backgrounds Usually I see the amazing backdrops or sets in the MysteryQuest sessions. But one of my schools is going all out for Read Around the Planet this year. It’s their first [...]
Filed under: Collaborations | Tagged: RAP2010, ReadAroundthePlanet | 1 Comment »
Are you going to ISTE 2010 this year? Here is a tantalizing list of videoconference sessions. Hope to see you there! I hear rumor also that there will be a videoconferencing playground. Should be fun!! Saturday, June 26, 2010 Workshop: 12:30-3:30 pm Building IVC Connections: Traveling The World With IVC Sunday, June 27, 2010 Workshop: [...]
Filed under: VC Community | Tagged: ISTE2010 | 2 Comments »
Today is the first day of Read Around the Planet 2010! We have 70 classes participating. The total project participants is 1950 this year! The next couple weeks, I’ll be sharing some of highlights from each day. Rescheduling We started the day by putting four of our ten videoconferences today in the reschedule pile. Snow [...]
Filed under: Collaborations | Tagged: RAP2010, ReadAroundthePlanet | 1 Comment »
I just figured out something on my Tandberg bridge, and have been urged by VC friends to share. So here goes. Background I have had a Tandberg MPS 200 and Tandberg Management Suite since 2005. When we purchased our infrastructure, Tandberg didn’t have the Border Controller. So we do not have one. I have written [...]
Filed under: Techie Stuff | Tagged: Codian, Polycom, Tandberg | Comments Off
Last summer, in the Jazz workshop, my middle and high school teachers helped me brainstorm a tighter schedule for MysteryQuests that would fit into an hour. The schedule would be: 4 groups x 5 min presentations = 20 min. for group presentations 15 minutes for research (can use computers from the start) SKIP the Q&A [...]
Filed under: MysteryQuests | Comments Off
Dialing drives me crazy! I’ve said that before. I’ve noticed that it’s the Read Around the Planet test calls time of year when I get the most frustrated about it. So, it’s a breath of fresh air to figure out another piece of the dialing puzzle. Here’s what I learned that is helping me so [...]
Filed under: Techie Stuff | Tagged: dialing problems, Extension dialing, Polycom, Tandberg | 9 Comments »
For the last several days, we’ve been considering green meetings via videoconference. In this final post, let’s review additional resources and readings: The EPA provides resources for green meetings, however, they are based in an assumption that people will travel to meet together in a physical location. Another group provides 10 tips for Blue Green [...]
Filed under: Meetings | Tagged: Green Meeting Month | Comments Off
While this is green meeting month for Berrien RESA, we have not tried to make the meetings also paperless this first go around. We thought we’d ease into this by meeting via videoconference first. But the next step is definitely also creating a paperless meeting. So what are some tools for making the meeting paperless? [...]
Filed under: Meetings | Tagged: Green Meeting Month, paperless meetings | Comments Off
