HD projectors in schools… or lack thereof

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 [...]

Favorite Videoconference: Brownsburg Challenger Learning Center

I’m still cleaning our old website, and archiving old things here on my blog. These are featured articles and video clips on our favorite content providers from 2000-2001 and we still love these providers and programs! Content Provider The Brownsburg Challenger Learning Center is a learning laboratory where students experience simulated space missions. BCLC also [...]

Budget Dust: Invest in VC for Next School Year

As the end of the school year looms, are you also cleaning up accounts and spending last bits of funds?  Doug Johnson has blogged in the past about ways to spend “budget dust“. I think it’s a great term to describe that last little bit to spend at the end of the school year. If [...]

A Good VC is Curation; A Good Lesson is Curation

Roxanne Glaser often sends me interesting ideas that I mull over. In the last several months, I’ve been thinking about her comments about curation. You’ll find that some people are suggesting that in the noise of social media, curation is “the next big thing”. For example: Is Curation the Next Big Thing? The Next Web [...]

Favorite Videoconference: U.S. House of Representatives

I’m still cleaning our old website, and archiving old things here on my blog. These are featured articles and video clips on our favorite content providers from 2000-2001 and we still love these providers and programs! Content Provider United States House of Representatives housed in Washington, D.C. began with its first Congress March 4, 1789. [...]

Favorite Videoconference: U.S. Senate

I’m still cleaning our old website, and archiving old things here on my blog. These are featured articles and video clips on our favorite content providers from 2000-2001 and we still love these providers and programs! Content Provider United States Senate in Washington, D.C. houses two Senators from each state. Through the power of videoconferencing [...]

Favorite Videoconference: Columbus Zoo

I’m still cleaning our old website, and archiving old things here on my blog. These are featured articles and video clips on our favorite content providers from 2000-2001 and we still love these providers and programs! Content Provider Visit the Zoo without ever leaving your classroom! The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium broadcasts videoconferencing programs directly [...]

Favorite Videoconference: Center for Puppetry Arts

I’m still cleaning our old website, and archiving old things here on my blog. These are featured articles and video clips on our favorite content providers from 2000-2001 and we still love these providers and programs! Content Provider The Center for Puppetry Arts uses the latest technology to offer nationwide Distance Learning programs for K-12. [...]

2011 Teachers’ Favorite Awards: Vote by May 19

Thank you to everyone who has already voted! If you haven’t, please vote soon! Berrien RESA is hosting 6th Annual Teacher’s Favorite Awards to select the Best Content Providers for the 2009-2010 school year. Results will be shared via the Berrien RESA VC Content Providers Database and the videoconferencing listservs. Many of you use the [...]

Exciting Changes in the VC Industry

Did you see these blog posts yesterday? H.323 and Skype on the Blue Jeans Network (Thanks Wes for a great review!) LifeSize Enables Skype on the Passport (was hoping for this news after Logitech bought LifeSize) And, in other news: Just got an iPad2 for a family member, and was very disappointed to find out [...]

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