At NECC 2008, I interviewed Linda McDonald from Katy ISD, TX about her latest videoconference project format, the Novel Project. You can see the resources for this program online here If the YouTube video below is blocked for you, try this link to the same video on TeacherTube.
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One of my goals at NECC has been to continue exploring my latest dream to get VC in every classroom in a couple of my districts who want it on their interactive whiteboards. You can read about my initial thoughts from April here. Promethean I started by spending almost an hour chatting with a couple [...]
At NECC 2008, Tonya and Lisa from GNG shared a little overview of their programs. If the YouTube video below is blocked for you, try this link to the same video on TeacherTube.
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Have you seen this Teachers’ Guide to Videoconferencing done by Athena in the UK? It’s really great!! There are sections on: Pedagogical Presence Interactivity Enriched Learning Environment Underpinning Collaboration Contextualisation It has a nice friendly design with nice little animations. Some summer exploring for you.
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Thank you again to everyone who has taken the time to either take my research survey or forward/promote it with your local videoconference coordinators/site managers. We’re up to 290 responses now. I need 100 more responses! I know the end of year is busy crazy for you, but please find a moment or two to [...]
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Classroom Exchange Our Upton Middle School students just finished connecting to the Reef HQ. Now, they are talking to middle school students at Scots College in Sydney. We had 3 girls from our school, because everyone else is at soccer practice or other activities. The school we connected to was an all boys school, so [...]
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This afternoon Coloma Middle School, one of our RUS grant schools, is participating in a 3 hour Around the World session with countries in Central and South America. The sessions focus on “misconceptions resolved” as misconceptions are part of the 7th grade language arts curriculum for Coloma. Costa Rica Lincoln School, Costa Rica started with [...]
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This morning one of my lucky classes is connecting to one of the KC3 programs as part of the competition. Our class is one of the test audiences. This program is on the Mound Builders and is presented by a school in Oklahoma. Their program included a Moodle site with activities. All of our students [...]
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Last week Andrea asked me about my Christmas holiday. She remembered the castle trip from last year. Well this year, we stayed home and I read a lot. But I did have some family-&-friends-fun-time too! We made a gingerbread castle and you can see the pictures here. My sister-in-law got me started on this hobby [...]
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Tips & thoughts & insights from this discussion/groups. Always share a map at the beginning of the videoconference. Voicethread – a way to do delayed time video discussions. Sounds cool & worth checking out. Also jabber, skype, googletalk, etc. collaborative vcs pbwiki – projects written in my online classes: Planning Interactive Curriculum Connections & Kid2Kid [...]
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