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An upgrade to the server has sent the theme wild - so this one will have to do while I’m on holidays - I’ll try to revert to former glory in January.

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As we in Oz are heading to the beach for the summer holidays.
I know that some of you are in front of the fire with the snow falling.
Have a great break wherever you are.I’ll be chilling out far away from the computer for a couple of weeks so I’ll see you back here in [...]

The call for presenters for Elevate 2008 closes on 11 January. So why not spend your break writing a submission.
Proposals should showcase innovative videoconferencing practices relevant to the education system, including interactive presentation elements that engage the audience and link to one or more of the following categories:

Course Enhancement

Practices or activities involving the use of [...]

If you haven’t seen Polycom’s People on Content in action then have a look at this short video. This really does put teachers/presenters amongst their visuals.

And for the non-corporate look - watch Daniel using the system to deliver his presentation about anacondas - very cute:

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I had an interesting (heated) discussion with someone recently about the need for training educators in the use of videoconferencing for teaching & learning. This person considered that it wasn’t needed!!! (He wasn’t an educator himself.)
I see there are 3 levels to be considered:

Awareness - what is the technology & what can it do (or [...]

There’s been a conspiracy theory for many years that ‘they’ were trying to replace teachers with technology. Maybe Eve is the one to do it! There’s an excellent overview of this project on Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends it begins:
New Zealand computer scientists have developed Eve, an affective tutoring system (ATS) which can adapt its response [...]

Here’s a nice news story that appeared about a year ago in the UK. It shows how Yorkhill Hospital uses videoconferencing to bring expert advice to the bedside of premature babies and their parents.

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At the end of October, Skype and Logitech announced a collaboration to deliver High Quality Video calls over the Internet. From the press release:
With High Quality Video on Skype™, people worldwide can enjoy free video calls that are sharper and smoother than ever before. The experience is so good, it might be better than being [...]

Here are 3 videos showing telepresence from the major providers - you can line them up & make your own conclusions.
From Cisco:

Polycom (not a Polycom video but their equipment):

And finally TANDBERG:

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