Videoconference+Training

=Videoconferencing In The Classroom =

//Learn about the possibilities of expanding your classroom and your student's experiences. Videoconferencing tears down traditional classroom walls. Students are no longer confined to interacting with their classmates. Now they can connect with other classrooms across the district and the world.//

What is videoconferencing and what do I do with it?
//In this booklet you will find out what a multipoint is, how to prepare for a videoconference, how to design a videoconference project, etc.//

How do I use the equipment?
//In this document you will find the directions on how to use the remote to set up camera presets. //

Yes, there is such a thing as Videoconferencing Etiquette.
//There are a few things to remember when videoconferencing. Most of these are just simple things we don't think about like making sure our mics are muted when we are not responding in the conference or not rattling our paper when we are talking into an open mic. These are good common practices mentioned in the document below.//

What do I do now that the videoconference is over with?
//It is important to expand upon what the students learned from the VC while meeting those 21st century skills.//
 * Trading Cards created in Pixie
 * Podcasts using GarageBand or Pixie
 * Story boarding or Mapping using Kidspiration,Inspiration,or Pixie
 * Create a comic strip in Comic Life or Pixie
 * Examples

Videoconferencing Out on a Lim
Janine LIm has created a wonderful site on videoconferencing and she is also a founder and board member of [|TWICE]. TWICE stands for Two Way Interactive Connections in Education. TWICE is Michigan’s videoconferencing organization that was started in 2001.

Collaborations Around the Planet
CAPSpace is a portal for videoconferencing projects

Kigluait Educational Adventures
http://www.kigluaitadventures.com/ Kigluait Educational Adventures offers complete standards-based videoconference programs, customizable curriculums, and training via on-site, videoconference, and web- based communication tools. There vision is to increase student’s passion for learning, build awareness of their social and environmental landscapes, and improve their ability to globally communicate by empowering and impassioning students into action to make effective change.

Texas Twisted Weather
Roxanne Glaser receivced the Don Foshee Memorial Grant Award for this project Project Description: Grades 3-8 learned about severe weather possibilities in Texas and prepared a 60-second public service announcement (PSA) video and a safety brochure to distribute to students in their school to promote severe weather safety awareness. Students presented their PSA and their brochure to the KWTX Weather Team via videoconference.

Monster Match 
Project Description: Two classrooms paired up and each class create a monster using materials that can be obtained from school—bulletin board paper, poster board, construction paper, markers, cotton balls, yarn, etc. The classes wrote a description of their monster and sent the description to their partner class via a shared wiki page. Each class recreated the other class’ monster by following the directions from the shared wiki page. Both classes meet via videoconference to compare the original monsters with the recreated monsters. This projectl enabled students to improve their descriptive writing skills, use math terms, and their ability to follow directions.

Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art Distance Learning program connects students from all over the country and beyond with the museum to enrich their studies of history, languages, science, math and the visual arts. Through live videoconferencing, students view art and artifacts from around the world while sharing in two-way conversations with museum educators. Lessons are geared to K-12 students.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL A is for Animal, Grades K-1 A is for Apple, A is for Art, Grades K-1 African Masks, Grades 2-5 Angles and Answers: Origami and Math, Grades 4-5 Arms, Armor and Simple Machines, Grades 4-6 Art and Science of Natural Dyes, Grades 4-6 Aztec, Maya and More! Grades 3-6 Coins, Coins, Coins, Grades 3-4 Contemporary Art, Grades 4-12 Egyptomania Series, Grades 2-6 Impressionism, Grades 4-12 Knights, Castles and Kings, Grades 2-5 Native Americans and Early Settlers, Grades 4-6 Photography Series, Grades 5-8

Connect 2 Texas
VideoConferences from the Lone Star State List of providers • Amon Carter Museum • Bass Performance Hall • Botanical Research Institute of Texas • Cook Children's Medical Center • Education Service Center Region XI • Fort Worth Museum of Science and History • Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge • McDonald Observatory • Mornnig Meteorite Gallery at TCU • National Archives Fort Worth • National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame • Sid Richardson Museum • Texas Wildlife Association • The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum • The Grace Museum • UNT Health Science Center

Region 12 and 123 JAZZING Up The Curriculum 2009
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