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Videoconferencing Ideas/Planner

 

 

Make Your Own Project (FREE)

1. Create an account at http://projects.twice.cc

2. Write your collaboration and publish it there. It is sent to Twitter and via email to all members of the site.

 

Here is a booklet of project templates to use.

 

Searchable Databases (find a content provider to teach your class)

  • Connect2Texas is sponsored by ESC XI in Ft. Worth, Texas. These are mainly Texas providers with programs aligned to Texas' standards. Most have 2-3 years experience with videoconferencing. All charge fees except for the National Archives.
  • NASA Digital Learning Network is the network of ten NASA centers. All videoconferencing content can be searched and scheduled through this link. NASA programming requires a 30-day in advance registration. Most materials are available as downloads from the website.
  • Polycom Searchable Database housed at BCISD, Michigan
  • Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration located in Indianapolis, IN features a searchable database and a collaboration center.

 

Favorite Content Providers

Award Winning Providers

  1. Teachers' Choice Award Winners
  2. Pinnacle Awards

 

Some of my favorites

 

  1. Center for Puppetry Arts
  2. Cleveland Museum of Art
  3. COSI: Columbus
  4. Columbus Zoo
  5. Global Nomads Group
  6. Mariners' Museum
  7. Mote Marine

 

Learn More Stuff

Videoconferencing Out on a Lim

VC Rox

EDLINK12 Telecommunications Network

Super Duper Links Page

 

Handouts

Cotton Field Trip

 

Attend 123VC: JAZZing Up Your Curriculum With VC

Spend a week getting in depth instruction at ESC12 in Waco. Register Now!

Immerse yourself in videoconferencing communication. Come learn about structures/templates for projects with other classes and other educational uses of videoconferencing. This class is team taught with VC colleagues in other states. Team up with a partner teacher in another state to create a VC project for next year. Along the way, learn about and use other Web 2.0 technologies such as the Moodle, blogs, wikis, Flickr, and more!

 

Read about what participants said about this training: 

http://123vc.wordpress.com/


See what this training looks like: 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/123vc/

For Carol :-)

 

Logitech Webcams with Video Effects

 

EDLINK12 Projects

Monster Match
(Registration opens in September. Project is last week in October.)

Attend training at ESC12 on September 23 to participate in a project simulation and learn how to use wikis!

 

Two classrooms will be paired up and each class will create a monster. The class will then write a description of their monster and email that to their partner class. Each class will recreate the other class' monster by following the emailed directions. Classes will meet via video conference to compare the original monsters with the recreated monsters. More information and sample descriptions are located on the Monster Match page of the wiki. 

 

Holidays Extravaganza

Registration opens in November for connections in December.

  • Singing with Rudolph (PreK-1st)
  • Holiday Math (5th Grade)
  • Holiday Challenge (2nd-6th Grade)

Comments: http://vcrox.com/archives/892

 

Desctiption: Holiday Challenge is a multi-point event where classes create holiday-themed interactions including skits, riddles, mad-libs, or carols. Other classes will interact with them to solve the mysteries or challenges.

 

Bluebonnet Conference

Registration is in May 2009 for fall project. (3 spots available)

 

Twenty classrooms from ESC Region 12 will partner with student teachers from Baylor University in Bluebonnet Conference. The purpose of this video conference/Internet project is to increase reading understanding, learn presentation skills, build teamwork with classmates, and increase self-confidence by working with teachers and college mentors.

 

Singing With Shane

Available on demand and depending on Shane's schedule.

 

Classes can participated in grade level songs followed by engaging questions from Shane Howard. He plays his guitar and asks the students questions that pertained to the songs. He sings songs such as the Itsy Bitsy Spider, Wheels on the Bus, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, The Hokey Pokey...He will kept them engaged by changing characters on the monitor like a gorilla, sun, cat, etc... The students joined in with hand movements and dancing.

 

ASK:Author,Specialist,& Knowledge

Sample movie to explain process.

 

ASK, Authors Specialist and Knowledge, provides students with the opportunity to interview an author or a subject specialist in the topic they are reading about in a novel. The program uses excellent children's literature, journal writing and interviewing to promote reading for understanding.

 

Mystery Quest Format

Attend training at ESC 12 on January 14 to participate in a project simulation.

 

Sample movie

 

Prior to the video conference each classroom will create a presentation with clues about their mystery. The other classrooms, using reference materials, will try to discover the answer to the mystery presented by each of the participating classes.

 

Read Around the Planet

Attend training at ESC 12 on November 10 to participate in a project simulation.

 

Registration opens in December for February/March 2010 connections.

Join other classes to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday. All grade levels. Lots of fun!

 

Weather With Rusty

News 10 and ESC Region 12 have partnered to bring you Weather With Rusty sessions to your school via interactive videoconference. Students will interview Rusty Garret to learn about storm safety and severe weather in Texas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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