Presenter: Janine Lim, Distance Learning Coordinator
Berrien County ISD
Michigan
Websites: http://www.twice.cc/
http://bcisdvcs.wordpress.com/
Click title above for NECC session description.
Janine is presenting using the powerpoint available at this link:
http://www.remc11.k12.mi.us/dl/necc/CAPspaceNECC2008.ppt
Project:
Read Around the Planet
Verification and Registration Opens Nov. 1
Teacher Registration Opens Dec. 1
Teacher Registration Closes mid Jan
Matches Announced end of Jan
February 23 - March 6
Through the Read Around the Planet came Collaboration Around the Planet (CAPspace).
Janine asked us to create an account on the CAPspace site and while we had that down time, I was talking with the lady next to me, Margie. She mentioned she was the tech integration for the teachers in the Digital Literacy workshop I just attended!! Margie offered to have Kelly, the 1st grade teacher video conference with my class! How cool! I will need polycom video conference equipment, which is very expensive (I'm told) or iChat on a mac. Hopefully we'll be getting the MacBooks in the fall and I'll be able to do this without needing lots of money!!
The next part of the seminar is looking around on the CAPspace site. She showed us how to find "friends", how to find collaborations (which are the video conference projects), and also gave us other websites for finding collaborations. They include:
Global Leap, UK
http://www.global-leap.com/
Internet2 K20 Muse
k20.internet2.edu
Wiki
http://www.collaborativevcs.pbwiki.com/
Well, my next step is to figure out if I can get my hands on some of these tools to participate!! If nothing else I made a great connection to Margie. She offered possibilities like setting up wikis with classes in her district or other activities if I don't get the chance to VC! I'm off to the next session!!!
1 comment:
Hi Amanda,
Glad you could come to my session and network with the person next to you! If you want to VC with Margie and just play with it before you invest in a full blown Polycom system, you can try XMeeting on your Mac - the open source videoconference system for the Mac. The trick with it is that it will give the other site an echo - so you'll have to mute when they are talking. But that can be worked around. Try it out!
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