Sep

16

Watch the keynote presentations from Elevate 2008

September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The keynote presentations from Elevate 2008 are now available for viewing.
Here’s mine

Download.
Etienne Wenger is available in Part 1

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and Part 2

Download.
Here’s Julia Shildmeyer-Heighway

Download.
Access the four links at the top of the page here.

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Feb

25

Videoconferencing & Pregnant Mothers

February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This is a nice little video about how videoconferencing is being used to provide highly specialised real-time care, from a distance, to high risk mothers in Hawaii.
Real-time videoconferencing coupled with teleultrasound is used to provide highly specialized medical care. High-risk mothers-to-be no longer fly in from neighbor islands for routine exams and emergent care for [...]

Feb

15

CILC Symposium Video Clips

February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Click here to go to the website with video clips of expert panel responses to driving questions about the use of videoconferencing in relationship to: Practical Applications, Issues and Challenges, and Emerging Trends. These were recorded at the CILC Symposium 2007. Here are just a few of the topics covered – there are 20 in [...]

Feb

11

Introduction to Videoconferencing – video

February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This is a 5-minute video which gives an easy to understand overview of videoconferencing – its components, setting up & using:
Download Video: Posted by gnageyj at TeacherTube.com.

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Dec

14

Polycom People on Content

December 14, 2007 | 1 Comment

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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Dec

5

Move over – here comes Eve

December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment

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 [...]

Nov

25

More on Interactive Whiteboards & Videoconferencing

November 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment

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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Nov

20

A Vision of Students Today

November 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment

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 [...]