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VIDEOCONFERENCING

VIDEOCONFERENCING. Bringing Virtual Trips into the Classroom. Jane Hoover, Area II Tech Integrator. Agenda. What is video conferencing? What are the uses of it? What is a Virtual Field Trip? How can you get started with CILC?. What is Videoconferencing?.

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VIDEOCONFERENCING

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  1. VIDEOCONFERENCING Bringing Virtual Trips into the Classroom Jane Hoover, Area II Tech Integrator

  2. Agenda • What is video conferencing? • What are the uses of it? • What is a Virtual Field Trip? • How can you get started with CILC?

  3. What is Videoconferencing? • Live, 2-way audio & video communication • Allows active participation with the video/TV screen

  4. What are the Uses of Videoconferencing? • Professional Development • Delivery of Classes • Virtual Field Trips

  5. What is a Virtual Field Trip? • A simulated, real-time field trip taken in the comfort of your school • Students interact in a live event with a remotely located field trip host

  6. Advantages of Virtual Field Trips • Exposes students to the world around them • Removes all barriers (physical and environmental) • Minimal cost (free- average $125) • Minimal time off task (travel time) • Minimal teacher preparation – most providers send a packet • Aligned with standards • Enhances curriculum • Allows students to interact with professionals

  7. How to Get Started… • Compile a list of possible topics based around your curriculum • Visit the CILC homepage http://www.cilc.org create an account for yourself so that you can search for Virtual Field Trips

  8. What is CILC?The Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration • Supports and advances learning through videoconferencing and other collaborative technologies • A nonprofit,CILC offers access to quality professional development and student educational content

  9. How to Get Started… Video

  10. CILC Educational Content: • More than 900 teacher-evaluated, national standards-based programs • Partners with over 150 national and international content providers to offer programs ranging from the sciences to math to history and more • You can post and search for collaborative learning opportunities to engage students in active learning exchange

  11. Places You Can Travel… • Mote Marine Laboratory-Secret Life of DOLPHINS • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum-Great Moments in Rock and Roll: Popular Music Through the Decades • National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum-Economics: The Business of Baseball

  12. What do you need? • CILC-The Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration is the organization that we use to coordinate videoconferences with renowned content providers, i.e., various Halls of Fames (Baseball, Football, Rock and Roll), Mote’s Marine Laboratory, Center for Puppetry Arts, etc.)  • Please visit www.cilc.org to create a free account and learn more about the available resources • Reserve the equipment through Matt Frey

  13. TANDBERG System What do you need? • Powerful live presentations through one-step PC plugin or LAN connection • View presentations & presenter simultaneously 13

  14. How to Get Started… Using the CILC Dollar Bank

  15. For Help… Jane Hoover hoover.jane@brevardschools.org http://techtraining.brevardschools.org

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