Posted on July 26, 2010 by Janine Lim
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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Posted on July 22, 2010 by Janine Lim
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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Posted on July 21, 2010 by Janine Lim
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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Posted on July 20, 2010 by Janine Lim
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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Posted on May 13, 2010 by Janine Lim
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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