Jul

24

ELEVATE 2008: Conference on Videoconferencing

July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

ELEVATE 2008 is drawing near and I’m soooo looking forward to being in Banff.
The program page on the website has been updated to include concurrent breakout presentation titles and descriptions as well information about Live VC Demonstrations offered by high-quality educational content providers.  In addition, session titles and descriptions for all four keynote presenters has [...]

Jul

21

Videos on videoconferencing

July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I’ve just revamped the Effective Videoconference Teaching workshop and in doing so trawled through hundreds of videos on YouTube. I’ve collected just about every half decent (and some not so!) video about videoconferencing & telepresence.
They’re in my YouTube playlists - feel free to save yourself some time & access them.
Videoconferencing in education playlist - 24 [...]

Jul

17

Birth by Videoconference

July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Here’s a wonderful use of videoconferencing - allowing a father serving overseas to be ‘present’ at the birth of his first child.

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Jul

14

‘Green’ Reports Call for More Telepresence

July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC), Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) have published new reports calling for telepresence to be integrated into the UK’s transport infrastructure.
The SDC and IPPR report Breaking the holding pattern - A new approach to aviation policy making in the UK calls for the [...]

Jul

10

Learning Resources

July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Get Me Learning Resources is a new website designed to take the pain out of finding good quality learning resources online. In their words:
This website is for people development professionals and businesses looking for reliable information around products and services associated with personal and professional development. We’re on a mission to find as many learning [...]

Jul

8

New Blog Page: Articles

July 8, 2008 | 1 Comment

I’ve just assembled a new page on the blog called ‘Articles‘.
It has a number of papers & articles that I have written over recent years that you can read online or download in pdf. I’ll add more in the coming weeks.
You can also access these directly at my Scribd page.
I hope you find them [...]

Jul

7

Telepresence Article

July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I just discovered that Strategic Path has its articles available for download in pdf. Here’s an article on Telepresence that I wrote for them late last year (it’s a 2.5MB file): Download pdf file.
You can access all of the articles I have written for them here - you have to register (free) & log in.
PS: [...]

Jul

2

Learning Language by Videoconference

July 2, 2008 | 2 Comments

Here’s a video about students in the UK and China learning (and teaching) languages with each other via videoconference. It’s another example of using interactive whiteboards alongside videoconferencing. (See previous discussions on this here, here and here.) (Thanks Roxanne for this link.)
Are you teaching a language via videoconference? Share your experiences with us in the [...]

Jul

1

Telepresence Solutions from Polycom

July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Polycom has made a video to show its various telepresence solutions. It gives a good look at what telepresence can be.
To watch go here and click on ‘Videos’ and then on the Telepresence Overview Video.

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