This week in the Jazz Workshop, my participants and I keep coming back to comparing Skype and videoconferencing carts (or standards based videoconferencing – i.e. H323). We’ve been discussing it all week. (For reference, here’s a previous comparison.) Today, we did a 5 minute call with a group of teachers in OH who learning about [...]
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Just in time for the ASK programs in Jazz tomorrow, the new ASKprocess.wikispaces.com website is up & running thanks to hard work from Michael, my intern. (And new graphic by Roxanne of Whirlidurb.) This site provides an entrance to learn about the ASK program, watch the ASK video (newly encoded at a higher quality and [...]
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Here’s a great comment from the Jazz reflections today: What excites me about videoconferencing with staff is the range of possibilities. There really isn’t an excuse for any teacher to not use videoconferencing to enhance curriculum. What excites me about videoconferencing with students is empowering them to collaborate with students from other states. Also, using [...]
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It’s the first day of another session of 123 VC: Jazzing Up Your Curriculum with Videoconferencing. I have 8 participants for this session: two high school teachers and six 1st and 2nd grade teachers. Today I am just amazed at the eagerness and sharpness of my group! They are so excited!! In one day they [...]
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Background: As you know, I continue to investigate and test potential desktop videoconferencing solutions. I really want to be able to provide desktop videoconferencing to my districts (most of whom aren’t on my network or have enterprise firewalls between my network and theirs); and also to be able to bring in authors, guest speakers and [...]
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This is also from the Megaconference Listserv: Internet2 Members had a session on desktop videoconferencing at their member meeting in April. The archive video of the session is online here. The PDF of the PowerPoint slides are online here. About halfway through the document is a great little chart comparing the four tools they considered: [...]
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Preparing Questions for Your Videoconference Some videoconferences are student question directed, such as the ASK programs, COSI Columbus’ Expert Interviews, interviewing your senator or representative, and other similar activities. Other content providers offer programming that includes a 5-10 minute question and answer period. The type of program may determine the number of questions your students [...]
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I’m working on moving our old distance learning website into my videoconferencing section in new Berrien RESA content management system. It’s a great opportunity to clean up old files. So you’ll see some of these resources get posted here over the next few days as I do some cleaning. This page was from the collaborative [...]
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Here are some strategies for evaluating your videoconferences. Evaluation with Students Discuss the following questions after the videoconference. What did we learn from the other school (content, process, and culture)? What did we do well in the videoconference? What can we improve next time? What did we learn about videoconferencing from the partner school? Content [...]
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I learned from a post on the Megaconference listserv about this work that was just completed in Australia. Quoting their website: The Desktop Video Project Group (DVPG) was formed to evaluate desktop based video conferencing solutions to be used in Australian Universities and Research institutions. This group believes that there is no “one‐size fits all” [...]
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