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The Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) this week presented National Distance Learning Week Awards to five k-12 educators from across the nation for exemplary use of videoconferencing (IVC) and/or other synchronous communications technologies to support and advance learning. Winners were:

Content Provider – Linda Townsend, Instructional Design Specialist, Institute for Teaching through Technology and [...]

edna (Education Network Australia) is 10 years old so they threw a party. Some people attended on-site - drank wine & ate cake. Others attended in Second Life - drank wine & ate cake. First we had the speeches (they were happening in the real world & ‘beamed’ live to us):

Then there was the dancing [...]

I recently wrote a post asking if (and how) interactive whiteboards and videoconferencing could be used together. Just to follow on from that discussion & the great ideas people sent….
Here’s a media story on it and you can watch a video of some High Schools in NSW using both.

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Wainhouse Research has a number of free white papers about web conferencing. You can access them (and a variety of other white papers) on the Wainhouse Research website.
Or you can download the following:
Web Conferencing Application Briefs:
How to Virtualize Sales & Marketing
Training & Learning
Business Consulting

Web Conferencing’s Expanding Role in Training

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This is a great video created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University. It summarises some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will [...]

I just found an interesting videoconferencing project at Muse.
Project Lemonade is a collaborative project with the Lower Merion School District in Ardmore, PA, and classrooms around the globe. Inspired by the true story of Alex Scott, the Lemon Project was started to get kids to think about how they can make a difference [...]

As I write this, the conference is less than a day away. I’ll be busy learning new things & meeting new people over the next 3 days & will try to make some posts.
If you’re not joining us at the conference, stay tuned as we’ll be streaming the sessions in the coming weeks.
Go to the [...]

For those of you in Facebook - I’ve started two videoconference groups - one for education & one for business. If you’re a Facebook member you can go there directly:
Go to Videoconferencing in Education
Go to Videoconferencing in Business
If you’re not a member then think about joining. At first I thought Facebook was a bit silly [...]

I’ve just been going through some Wainhouse Research reports and thought the following would be of interest to those responsible for videoconference implementation & adoption:
Driving Adoption: A conferencing manager’s guide to marketing and promoting the use of conferencing solutions within the enterprise. Wainhouse Research, September 2003
It begins:
You’ve researched, tested, evaluated, and finally purchased conferencing equipment [...]

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