As part of my Leadership studies, I’ve been reading a book called Leadership and the New Science. It’s a book that will blow your mind! Seriously, if you want a paradigm change, add this to your summer reading. Here’s a little sample that applies to our work (my emphasis): I’ve worked with some college faculties [...]
Filed under: Professional Dev., Resources, VC Community | Comments Off
Here’s a funny article from IVCI’s newsletter: Top Ten Reasons Why VC Meetings Fail. My favorite is: The user schedules the meeting, invites the guests, prepares the presentation and then fails to show up because he/she doesn’t want to be seen on video! Reminds me of my Top Ten Reasons Why a VC Gets Cancelled. [...]
Filed under: Resources, VC Community | 1 Comment »
Most of you reading this blog are already familiar with Global Nomads. If you missed the Project UGANDA programs this past spring, check out the videos they’ve posted online. Showing a bit of this in a workshop would be a great way to introduce teachers to the power of videoconferencing.
Filed under: Content Providers, Resources | Comments Off
Just in time for your summer workshops is a new version of the Project Templates Booklet that many of you have been using. (It’s linked on the TWICE projects page and on our BCISD DL projects page.) New Project Templates I’m really excited about this new version. It is twice as long (but still only [...]
Filed under: Collaborations, International VCs, Resources, VC Community | 3 Comments »
Here’s a collection of notes & thoughts…. I’m about halfway through listening to the whole interview between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the D Conference last week. It’s great evening entertainment for those interested in technology. I caught a reference by Bill Gates to videoconferencing and looked it up. Microsoft is working on a [...]
Filed under: Content Providers, Resources, Special Events, VC Community | 1 Comment »
Here’s an interesting article from the IVCi Newsletter on How to Fund Videoconferencing for Your Classroom. You can get this newsletter via email too. Also in this newsletter was a feature on TANDBERG’s new FieldView product. It looks like a digital camera – but brings VC to the field. Very intriguing. I wonder how easy [...]
Filed under: Resources, Techie Stuff | 2 Comments »
I was wandering across the Internet recently and found this link to YouTube videos about videoconferencing linked from the AT&T (SBC / Pacbell) Videoconferencing site. These links probably won’t work at school (they don’t for me), so try them at home. (Issues with YouTube include inappropriate comments on the page featuring the clip and that’s [...]
Filed under: Desktop VC, International VCs, Resources, VC Community | Comments Off
Here’s a little treat for you. I’ve just added a Printable Content Provider List to our VC Program Database linked on TWICE and Polycom. It pulls directly from the our database, so each time you print it, it’s the most up-to-date information we have at the time. At this moment, it has 219 providers and [...]
Filed under: Content Providers, Resources | 1 Comment »
Today I updated the list of content provider program reviews from my blog (plus a few video clips from 2000) on our Favorite Field Trips page. Just thought you might want to revisit the list if you haven’t been back recently.
Filed under: Resources | Comments Off
Over lunch today I read an article on Overcoming Underachievement in Edutopia. In a nutshell, the study showed that a simple 15 minute writing exercise where minority students wrote about attributes “they value, such as relationships with friends or being good at art” (p.58). This little activity increased the students’ achievement, startling the researchers with [...]
Filed under: Research Questions, Resources | 1 Comment »
