Just found an alert in my inbox this morning for a new dissertation on videoconferencing. Here’s the abstract. I highlighted some lines that I thought were interesting. Evidence based videoconferencing: Results of a series of quasi-experimental replication studies by Mountain, Leigh A., Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany, 2009, 219 pages; AAT 3387116 [...]
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At our state ed tech conference last week (MACUL), someone said to me, “videoconferencing is old technology.” Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion! What do YOU think? Here are some of my thoughts: Videoconferencing is old like computers are old. The technology has been around a long time; but it keeps growing and [...]
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Cross-blogged with the Official MACUL Conference Blog. This morning I had a nice turn out for my session on Instructional Strategies That Work with Videoconferencing: Global Interactive Collaborations. The main feature of our session was a connection to students in India who shared information and pictures about the famous temple in their town. I thought [...]
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Cross-blogged with the Official MACUL Conference Blog. Last session of Thursday, and we’re interacting with Roxanne Glaser from Whirlidurb, telling us about the Monster Match videoconference project format. It’s a matching project. Classes make monsters and describe them, send the descriptions to each other; make each other’s monsters; and then VC to see how well [...]
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Cross-blogged with the Official MACUL Conference Blog. Yesterday Danielle Letter (TWICE Prez-Elect) and I led a SIGTC workshop together. We explored a little collection of different videoconferencing options. The group was especially interested in: DimDim for a free AdobeConnect-like product Polycom CMA for meetings, professional development; we were all inspired by the vision of Saginaw [...]
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Cross-blogged with the Official MACUL Conference Blog. Blogging the first videoconferencing session in the TWICE room. Arnie Comer is presenting; and we are videoconferencing with Eagle Lake Elementary in Edwardsburg, MI and Great Oaks Elementary in the Anchor Bay district. The session is about LAPS: LAPS focuses on selected state parks of Michigan, and each [...]
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Today I was honored to receive the MACUL Educator of the Year Award. There wasn’t time for an acceptance speech, so here it is online, where you can skip past it easily! Thank You, MACUL Photo by Orin Zebest I remember the first time I attended and presented at MACUL in 1998. I had just [...]
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Cross-blogged with the Official MACUL Conference Blog. Today as I was riding up to the 2010 MACUL Conference, I was thinking how lucky we are in Michigan to have consistent support for the TWICE videoconferencing sessions at our ed tech conference, year after year after year… Sometimes I listen to VC buddies in other states [...]
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(Note: this is the beginning of cross blogging about videoconferencing at the MACUL 2010 conference in Grand Rapids.) Read Around the Planet 2010 picture from Flickr Don’t forget to plan to check out at least one session in the TWICE room @ MACUL this year! TWICE, Two Way Interactive Connections in Education, is Michigan’s K12 [...]
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Well, it’s the last official day of Read Around the Planet, a bitter sweet ending. I’m sad because RAP is an amazing two weeks, but I’m glad because now I can rest a bit! As usual, it’s not really over! I had 70 Read Around the Planet sessions, and 56 of them are finished successfully. [...]
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