Apr
29
Telepresence Swicki
April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I don’t know if you’ve clicked through to my swicki in the links column to the right. It’s set up to capture information about telepresence. At the time of writing there are 23,589 pages - at 25 links per page that’s a LOT of information about telepresence. A lot of the links are press [...]
Apr
21
Yugma Web Collaboration - 50 free accounts
April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment
On my recent trip to the US I had the pleasure of meeting Karel Lukas from Yugma. Karel has offered 50 free education accounts with Yugma - here’s a little about the product:
Yugma is a free web collaboration service that enables people to instantly connect over the internet to communicate and share content and [...]
Apr
9
Effective Videoconference Teaching Workshop Resources
April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Hi to everyone who was involved in the Polycom workshops this week. Below are a range of resources as promised. If you’d like more information about the 2-day workshop on which this shorter version was based, you can read more on the Workshops page.
Please feel free to email me with any success stories, problems, ideas [...]
Apr
3
Students in Washington, D.C. and Doha, Qatar interact in telepresence classroom
April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Separated by 7,000 miles, most students at Georgetown University’s Washington, D.C. campus had never visited the Arab emirate of Qatar and wouldn’t have considered it the heart of Middle East diplomacy. That is until the university opened its School of Foreign Service in Doha and deployed Polycom RealPresence Experience (RPX) HD classrooms on each campus. [...]
Apr
1
Elevate 2008: Program Updated
April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Elevate 2008 - Reaching New Heights in Educational Videoconferencing will be held in Banff, Alberta, Canada from August 24-27, 2008.
Join participants from around the world to share experiences and explore future directions in the use of videoconferencing and related technologies to support teaching and learning. I’ll be there - so I look forward to [...]
