This year, I decided I wanted more than numbers to evaluate my videoconference program. So I created two surveys, one for teachers who participated in a videoconference, and another for teachers who did not participate in a videoconference. So far, I have 54 responses and am hoping to get more before the end of the [...]
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Yesterday we talked about comparing our end of year report numbers to last year’s data and between schools and districts. What about comparing your data to national data? In the spring of 2008, many of you contributed to my dissertation study focusing on videoconference coordinators and the use of videoconference in K12 schools. When you [...]
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One of the most common ways to evaluate our videoconference programs is to count! What do we count? Number of students impacted (which is sometimes hard or skewed if a teacher does more than one VC) Number of videoconferences Number of types of videoconferences (ASK programs, content providers, free programs, collaborations in all their varieties, [...]
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One of the ways to evaluate your videoconference program is to ask questions throughout the school year. Here are some of the questions I ask: Questions to Ask Teachers Often when I don’t get to actually watch a videoconference, I like to email the teacher afterwards. Particularly if the program is one I haven’t seen [...]
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As we come to the end of the school year, it’s time to reflect on the year, evaluate how it went, and use that data to plan for next year. So this week, we’ll be focusing on evaluation of our videoconference programs. What Do We Evaluate? How many videoconferences were done by each school Which [...]
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This week we’ve had several sessions of HistoryQuest5, another MysteryQuest-like format. Last year we tried this out with 2 sessions only; and this year we’ve expanded to 5 sessions. Classes began by sharing 5 clues on mystery people, events, documents, or inventions from the U.S. History timeline of Beginnings to 1800. This mystery person was [...]
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One of the fun challenges of running multipoint events in K12 videoconferencing is cascading bridges together. This happens to me with events such as our Lest We Forget sessions (3 schools in each session), and the MysteryQuests: USA, HistoryQuest5, HistoryQuest8 (all of which have 4-6 classes in them) and other multipoint events. Ideally, classes would [...]
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Today we have a group of Vietnam veterans talking to students across the country about their experiences. We have several classes from MI participating, as well as classes from NY, PA and NE. These are the panels that participated today: 9:30 Session Panel: SGT Jess Bowman, CDR Don Oderkirk, Major Weldon Burden, L/CPL Denton Kime [...]
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This morning I opened up early bird registration for my schools for next year’s videoconferences. I always offer to give advice on selecting programs. My first request came from a 7th grade science teacher who loves videoconferencing, and is moving to fourth grade. I thought I’d share here what I told her. Preview Calendar I [...]
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Today ISTE and the EdTech Action Network are leading a campaign to support federal funding of educational technology (EETT). So, what specifically, do educational technology dollars do in schools? One example of the power of educational technology for student learning is the MysteryQuest format. Today we have 11 4th and 5th grade classes from across [...]
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