TANDBERG Summit 2007

February 21, 2007 | Comments Off

TANDBERG Summit 2007
March 8-9
Intercontinental Hotel, SYDNEY, Australia

Meet TANDBERG experts and gain technical insights into products and solutions including infrastructure sessions.
Hear from customers who have or are in the process of deploying a visual communications platform in their organisation.
Learn valuable best practices, tuning tips and strategies for migrating from ISDN to IP.
Network with other TANDBERG [...]

Marine Science Institute’s Virtual Voyage

February 21, 2007 | Comments Off

A new Virtual Voyage enables students to participate in MSI’s San Francisco Bay marine science education programs online without leaving the classroom.
MSI’s Discovery Voyage program features a four-hour San Francisco Bay exploration aboard the Robert G. Brownlee, custom 90-foot research vessel. The Discovery Voyage blends educational instruction with hands-on student activities.
The Virtual Voyage is an [...]

TeacherTube

February 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This is not quite videoconferencing – but I thought you might like to know about TeacherTube:

…an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. [...]

Distance Learning Today

February 11, 2007 | Comments Off

Distance Learning Today Supplement
Attached above is the first edition of Distance Learning Today, a new quarterly supplement of USA TODAY in partnership with the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA). (If you have problems accessing it here, you can download it from the USDLA site.)
Videoconferencing is addressed in several articles in this supplement.
Highlights of [...]

How NOT to Videoconference

February 7, 2007 | Comments Off

UWTV Production (University of Washington) has created some fabulous videos on videoconference and television teaching. You can view these online.
Particularly releveant are:

The TV Wasteland Zone
The Videoconference Zone

The Convergence Zone

Enjoy.

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Global eLearning Survey

February 6, 2007 | Comments Off

Would you like to add your voice to the Global eLearning Survey and receive a snap-shot report on the global state of play? We launched this survey at Online Educa Berlin in December, so add your thoughts to give us a truly international overview of eLearning activities.
Take 5 minutes to ‘tick the boxes‘

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Welcome Back

February 5, 2007 | Comments Off

The Summer holidays are over – and hopefully the worst of the hot weather. 2007 looks like being a big one for videoconferencing. The year starts with the Wainhouse Research Collaboration Summit:
16 February
Menzies Hotel, Sydney
Distance Education and e-Learning fill Day 3 of the Summit. Innovative Australian and international e-Learning practitioners will come together, network, and [...]