Dear Colleagues,
>By request, I have compiled a hit for my post about video conferencing.
Thanks.
Rosemary Wilkinson
rew4@comcast.net
Powhatan Elementary
Powhatan, VA
>
> Rosemary,
>
> What a wonderful gift! I would use the equipment - if it is the kind that
> can be sent to a specific location to use as a videophone - to contact and
> confer with storytellers, politicians, zookeepers, astronomers, other
> students...anything that fits into the curriculum! And if you are still
> thinking about "getting rid of it" after examining all the possibilities
for
> bringing guests to your students, then please send it my way.
>
> Anne Dykstra
> Library Director
> Hebrew Academy of Nassau County
> Uniondale, NY
> tzolelet@aol.com
>
> Suggest you check the following:
> http://lrw.net/~/~rw26/vc/view.cgi
> http://k12.bellsouth.com/prodserv_video_overview.jsp
> http://neirtex.rwex.wsu/k12vc/ This is an invaluab le resource pkg
> http://www.diane.tnstate.edu/partic.htm - This is Project Diane
> Our school systems has 8 VTC units in our schools in the UK, we are
members
> of Diane and have used a few times.
>
>
> "DoDEA READS"
> Ken Poverud
> Instructional Systems Specialist - Information Center Coordinator and POC
> for PTS Curriculum - Electronic, Graphic and Video Communications
> Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA)
> 4040 N. Fairfax Drive - Arlington, VA - 22203
> Phone: 703-696-3865 x2846 - FAX: 703-696-4033 - VTC: 703-588-7028
> www.odedodea.edu/instruction/support/infocenter/index.htm
>
>
>
> Rosemary,
> We are just starting to get involved with videoconferencing in our
district.
> I recently attended a workshop on using the equipment, but the techs
> couldn't get it to work and it ended up being a colossal waste of time!
>
> We have access to videoconference programs and events through district
> membership in a school cooperative. However, according to the rep, there
> are a lot of free programs available to any school with the equipment.
> Before the tech department gets rid of the equipment, I'd do a search for
> videoconferences or distance learning and see what free programs you can
> find.
>
> For elementary applications, I think the author visits are a great idea.
> Also you should be aware that a lot of museums, zoos, and other learning
> centers (Sea World, Space Camp, etc.) offer videoconferenced field trips
and
> such. The cooperative gave us a catalog with a lot of websites, but it's
> not clear which ones are only available to members and which are available
> to everyone. Try this link, though:
>
> www.remc11.k12.mi.us/dl
>
> Click on electronic video conference field trips, then click on Search
Field
> Trip Database, then click on find all records.
>
> This should at least give you an idea of the kinds of things that are
> available to your students through videoconferencing. Don't forget
district
> events either. Videoconferencing can be used between two classrooms in
> different buildings for a variety of reasons.
>
> I'd like to have our students participate in an e-mail penpal program with
a
> class from another country, and use videoconferencing to let them meet
face
> to face.
>
> I think it's an exciting development, offering a multitude of ways to
bring
> the world to our students. Don't let them get rid of the equipment
without
> checking out the possibilities first! Good luck!
>
> Sherry Lancaster, LMS
> Daniel Boone k-5
> Wentzville, MO
>
> sherry_lancaster@fhsd.k12.mo.us
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> We have equipment at ALL) of our schools in the system and have had many
> activities. During Read Across America Week we had two writers from our
> state to read to the children. NASA has come across, some of our teachers
> have been involved with the JASON Project. We have seen places and people
> in New Mexico, Alaska, and seems one time we spoke to someone from Hawaii.
> Our children have seen athletes read from some of the Universities here in
> Alabama. There are sites who will charge and some do not. At first it was
> the cost of the telephone cost that was so great for us. We can now go
> across the Internet and the cost is zero.
>
> I am going to forward your email to the girl who lines up our video
> conferences. She can tell you so much more than I can.
>
> DO NOT ALLOW THEM to GET RID OF THE EQUIPMENT. There is much you can
expose
> your students to in the world.
>
> Write if other questions.
>
> Cynthia Patridge, LMS
> Collins Elementary
> Scottsboro, AL 35768
> jopat@scottsboro.org
> 256-218-2746
>
> Do you have Education Service Centers? They would be able to help you
with
> Programming. If not a Service Center someone at your State Education
Office
> DON't GET RID OF IT It's a very cool thing, something a lot of us wouldJ
> Give our eye teeth for. If you get rid of it email me!!! :-)
> Also, NASA has hook-ups to "field trips" talk to a real astronaut live,
see
> the
> Inside of the shuttles, look at the food they eat....much more.
> You can "talk" to other schools all over(that also have the same
capability)
> , perform book skits for them...
>
>
> ø¤º°`°º¤ø,,,,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,,,ø
> Christe Hancock, Library Media Specialist
> Speegleville Elementary, Waco, TX
> christe.hancock@midwayisd.org
> "In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with
> floaties and teach us how to swim."
> Linton Weeks (Washington Post article, 13 January 2001, p. C01)
> ø¤º°`°º¤ø,,,,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,,,ø
>
> When you get all set up, give me a call...see VTC number below...would be
> nice to chat with you
>
> "DoDEA READS"
>
> Ken Poverud
> Instructional Systems Specialist - Information Center Coordinator and POC
> for PTS Curriculum - Electronic, Graphic and Video Communications
>
> Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA)
>
> 4040 N. Fairfax Drive - Arlington, VA - 22203
>
> Phone: 703-696-3865 x2846 - FAX: 703-696-4033 - VTC: 703-588-7028
>
> I speak in jest but if it was up for grabs, I would take it because it
> is probably more up to date then ours. I use it for doing distance
> learning field trips. You can take your class to the Camden Children's
> Garden at the Camden Aquarium in NJ and see have the person there teach
> wonderful lessons on butterflies, trees, birds, etc. Also, the Phila.
> Art Museum has distance field trips. There are many mroe uses. This
> broadens the students' horizons without even taking them out of the
> building and they are all curriculum applicable. You can also interact
> with other classrooms and teachers with similar interests. If you are
> interested, please contact me off the list.
>
> Ruth Homer
> ear3@comcast.net
> South Main Street School
> Pleasantville, NJ 08232
> 609-383-6895 x2149
>
>
>
>
>
> Rosemary,
>
> How about doing a comparison study with another class in another part of
the
> states or the world? Some of the historic villages, Sturbridge, Mount
> Vernon, etc., will set up special events for lots of schools to have a
> videoconference. I would bet NASA might have something available. Do you
> have
> a district social studies/science curriculum specialist? If so, this
should
> be right up there alley. I would do some research before you just dispose
> of
> it. If you subscribe to Classroom Connect, there should be some ideas
> there.
> Do an ERIC search and see what you come with there as well, it should led
> to
> you some documents and periodicals that will be useful. Good luck! Ruie
>
> Ruie Chehak, Library Media Specialist
> Sallie Jones Elementary School
> 1230 Narranja
> Punta Gorda, FL 33950
> rchehak@aol.com
> Ruie_Chehak@ccps.k12.fl.us
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <hallm@spurger.k12.tx.us>
> To: <rew4@comcast.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 7:42 AM
> Subject: RE:
>
>
> > Our videoconferencing equipment is very vital to our curriculum. We
> > do shared instruction where our Spanish instructor teaches Spanish I
> > & II to a site about 30 miles away. We also do dual credit. We have
> > 3 11th grade students taking US History from a community college
> > about 90 miles away. Those students will receive high school history
> > credit as well as college history credit. Next year those same
> > students will take Government/Economics from the community college
> > and again, receive high school and college credit. We have done
> > staff development over our system and school board training. We have
> > had state school nurses' meetings. We have even had Santa visits for
> > our kindergarten students. This system is much to valuable to us to
> > ever think of doing away with it.
> >
> > I am not only district librarian, but I am also the Distance Learning
> > Site Manager/Coordinator. Let me know how I can help you decide to
> > keep this equipment.
> >
> > Do you have a regional education service center?
> >
> > ---- Original Message ----
> > From: rew4@COMCAST.NET
> > To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU,
> > Subject: RE:
> > Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 06:17:45 -0500
> >
> > >Good Morning.
> > >
> > >We received a videoconferencing equipment this fall from a grant
> > >written by our technology department. The person who wrote the grant
> > >left the system. No one has used it. There was discussion at the
> district technology meeting about getting rid of it now. Does anyone have
> any current
> > >applications for such a system for an elementary school? The person
> > >who wrote the grant mentioned long-distant author visits, but I do
> > >not know how to go about this.
> > >
> > >Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > >Rosemary Wilkinson, LMS
> > >Powhatan Elementary, Powhatan, VA
> > >rew4@comcast.net
> > >
> > >"Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve
> > >me, and I'll understand."
> > >-- Native American Proverb
> > >
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