Elephant in the Room: Students Learning Science through Exhibit Design

IVC Showcase: Cathy Ryan-Smith, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo with Jason Schafer In this session, the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo gave an overview of their videoconference programs, specifically a session on exhibit design. They are redesigning their elephant exhibit, so they brought the students at Springmill Intermediate in Mansfield, OH to participate in the design. With this program, [...]

Problem-Based Instruction and 21st-Century Classrooms

SIG IVC Showcase: Jill Dingman, Pinal County ITv Consortium with Bev Mattocks and Nick Trakas Description: Videoconference with junior high students and their teachers to learn how problem-based instruction and videoconferencing have helped create 21st-century classrooms in rural Arizona. From the handout for the session: This five-year project was originally funded by Enhancing Education Through [...]

Virtual Visit Professional Development

SIG IVC Showcase: Anthony Negron, New York Hall of Science with Chris Lawrence This showcase was jam packed as well; with an actual experience of a content provider showcase videoconference with the New York Hall of Science. They showcased their program: Journey Inside the Eye with an actual cow’s eye dissection. Photo by Paul Hieronymus. [...]

Blended Learning for the 21st-Century Classroom

SIG IVC Showcase: Elaine Shuck, Polycom, Inc. Elaine started with a cute video clip about a student waking up in the morning to get engaged. Polycom Special Events She described the Polycom Special Event with blind author Jim Stovall, as well as other events: Dr. Ben Carson, Evelyn Coleman, Laurie Keller, Sarah Miller, Elizabeth Raum, [...]

Video Conferencing to Promote Global Learning

Global Poster Session: Diane Midness, iEARN-USA with Tonya Muro Phillips, Global Nomads Group. Last night in the poster sessions, Diane and Tonya explained how GNG and iEARN partnered to extend the learning in the GNG videoconferences. Global Nomads does amazing programs by taking videoconferencing equipment onsite to remote locations throughout the world. Featured programs included [...]

A Shared Professional Development Session: Canada and United States

ISTE IVC Showcase: Monica Cougan, CILC with Janet Barnes and Lance Ford In this section, they described, 22 sites across the U.S. and Canada to a district that has sites across the two countries. In the PD, the teachers were learning how to be interactive in teaching full courses over videoconferencing. Doug’s emphasis was to [...]

Learning Beyond the Horizon: Global Learning through Videoconferencing

Sunday ISTE Global Poster Session: Presenter: Carol Scott, Mustang Public Schools with Lynn Tilley Videoconference ideas, examples, and success that empower students to become integrated 21st-century learners with global travel and collaborative projects. Carol Scott had a sweet poster session last night with lots of interested people attending. Her online resources and links should be [...]

VC Sessions at ISTE

I’m at ISTE now and here’s a list of interesting sessions related to videoconferencing (posted earlier). Some are SIG IVC sponsored / promoted and others are additional videoconferencing sessions. Sunday, June 27, 2010 Workshop: 8:30-11:30 am: A Novel Hour: Extend Reading with Wikis, Skype, and Videoconferencing by Roxanne Glaser of VCRox fame. Informal/Poster Session: 7-9 [...]

Learning about Skype Policies from a Pro

Today in the SIG IVC open house, I had a nice long chat with Joan Roehre from WI who is running Wisconsin HistoryMystery via Skype, connecting students in Guatemala to students in the U.S. and many more cool VCs. Here are some of the tips I learned from her: Teachers don’t get Skype on their [...]

Start spreading the news….

One more little tidbit from Jazz last week… these are the words to the song that the participants in Torfaen, Wales sang to us as they said goodbye last Friday: Torfaen BIG BANG song! Start spreading the news. We’re leaving today We’ve had a real good start at it in Jazz VC. We’ve learned how [...]

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