Today is my last day at Berrien RESA as an Instructional Technology Consultant. I have accepted a position as Associate Dean for Higher Education in the School of Distance Education at Andrews University (also here in Berrien Springs, MI) starting tomorrow! I will be moving my blog over to http://blog.janinelim.com so that I can blog [...]
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Yesterday was the 2nd annual Video conference Playground at the ISTE 2011 Conference. For those of you who missed this amazing event, here are a few resources you should review! The Video conference Playground Wiki: Check out the list of Content Providers we featured this year. Review the Videoconference Continuum. Video conference technologies (carts, group [...]
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I had over 100 participants in my ISTE Bring Your Own Laptop (BYOL) session on CAPspace today (Collaborations Around the Planet). Great attendance, but wow, what a lot of people! I knew I couldn’t handle it myself, with all the account creation and questions. So, I recruited several of the SIG IVC pirates to assist [...]
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Links for today’s ISTE Bring Your Own Laptop workshop: Collaborations Around the Planet / CAPspace TWICE Polycom (sponsor of CAPspace) More about standards-based videoconferencing: VC Continuum Videoconference Playground, Wednesday 9 – 1 pm, 2nd floor bridge area BYOL Workshop Evaluation Please complete this ISTE evaluation form. Additional resources Designing Quality Videoconference Project workshop links 20 [...]
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ISTE workshop this morning! Here are links and resources Roxanne Glaser and I are using in the workshop: Our Websites Berrien RESA Distance Learning Whirlidurb Research Top Teachers Research Skype Resources Education.skype.com VC Out on a Lim Skype Resources Around the World with 80 Schools Skype vs. H323 Comparison Sample Projects EcoConversations MysteryQuest Monster Mayhem [...]
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As you know, I keep processing Skype vs. H.323 and other ramifications and changes in the videoconference world. One thing I’ve been thinking about is how stable and sustainable a videoconference cart is. Our Polycom Viewstations from 1999 are for the most part still running! And teachers haven’t had to relearn how to use them [...]
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The TWICE board has been meeting over videoconference since we started in 2001. The “Jazz workshop” leadership have always met over videoconferencing since it started in 2005. So it’s a little amusing to me to read articles like this one from the Wall Street Journal. (Unfortunately I’m a little slow in blogging this 4/25/11 article, [...]
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Well, it’s job interview season, and so I thought I’d share some links and resources for interviewing via videoconference. 8 Tips for Successful Video Interviews Tough to Make a Connection… reflection from an interviewee Getting Ready for Your Close-Up Video Interview How to Ace a Videoconference Interview YouTube: How to Have a Successful Videoconference Interview [...]
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As the school year winds down, I’ve been thinking about some of the strategies I use to make VCs as smooth as possible. Here are a couple of tips from a bridge control freak! Force Video When facilitating an ASK program with Janie Panagopoulos (a veteran VC-er), I forced the video to the school that [...]
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Do you know any schools that have all HD projectors in the classrooms yet? Plug and Play I remember the days of the Polycom Viewstation and VSX 7000, when you could just buy the codec, and plug it into any projector in any classroom in the school (via S-Video). No HD! Now, I have a [...]
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