ISTE IVC Showcase: Monica Cougan, CILC with Janet Barnes and Lance Ford In this section, they described, 22 sites across the U.S. and Canada to a district that has sites across the two countries. In the PD, the teachers were learning how to be interactive in teaching full courses over videoconferencing. Doug’s emphasis was to [...]
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One more little tidbit from Jazz last week… these are the words to the song that the participants in Torfaen, Wales sang to us as they said goodbye last Friday: Torfaen BIG BANG song! Start spreading the news. We’re leaving today We’ve had a real good start at it in Jazz VC. We’ve learned how [...]
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June has been crazy for me – hence the quietness on this blog! I sure have a list of things to post though. Maybe in July you’ll get to hear about them! June 123 VC: Jazzing Up Your Curriculum with Videoconferencing. The June session of Jazz was again an amazingly stellar experience! Take a few [...]
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Greetings to my Region 11, Texas, audience! Here are a collection of links and resources mentioned in my presentation, plus more! Collaborations Around the Planet CAPspace Login CAPspace Scavenger Hunt CAPspace Flyer Read Around the Planet RAP website RAP flyer More TWICE Information TWICE Where in MI TWICE ASK Information for Collaborations Projects Booklet CollaborativeVCs [...]
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Instructional Strategies That Work with Videoconferencing Videoconferencing can bring the world to your classroom. It allows educators to bridge the divide by bringing experiences to rural students; by engaging conversations and interactions between urban and rural students and by connecting students globally. Whether using desktop videoconferencing or room based videoconferencing, educators can bridge the divide [...]
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Did you know this is National Distance Learning Week? USDLA is doing a full series of webinars on many distance learning and ed tech topics. I presented yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to have almost 60 people in my session. What do you think? Are webinars a quick and easy way to learn? It seems [...]
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This week I’m finishing up a session of the Planning Interactive Curriculum Connections online class. One of the participants, a high school media specialist, wrote an excellent plan for supporting VCs in her school. I wanted to highlight a few points: Here at the high school, I can also be available to assist teachers during [...]
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I’ve been thinking the last couple of months about professional development on videoconferencing. I had a nice line-up of face to face, online, and via videoconferencing workshops this fall for my schools. But since our 3 year RUS grant is over, the pressure is off to meet the PD requirements of the grant. That factor, [...]
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Greetings to my Nebraska ESU #10 audience. Here are a collection of links and resources mentioned in my presentation, plus more! Collaborations Around the Planet CAPspace Login CAPspace Scavenger Hunt CAPspace Flyer Read Around the Planet RAP website RAP flyer TWICE blog – subscribe in RSS or email More TWICE Information TWICE Where in MI [...]
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Have you read Clay Shirky’s book Here Comes Everybody? Or at least watched his 20-min presentations on TED Talks? here and here. He suggests that a strong network is a network of dense clusters. This is more efficient than a hierarchy, where everyone is critical to the organization. It’s also more efficient than everyone being [...]
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