What is Video Conferencing?

Video conferencing uses telecommunications of audio and video to bring people at different sites together for a meeting. This can be as simple as a conversation between two people in private offices (point-to-point) or involve several sites (multi-point) with more than one person in large rooms at different sites. Besides the audio and visual transmission of people, video conferencing can be used to share documents, computer-displayed information, and whiteboards.

Administrative equipment locations include:

• Lindsay corporate centre – Board Room and Muskoka Room
• Lindsay adult education centre – ELearning Conference Room
• Bracebridge office – Pine Room
• Bracebridge secondary – McMurray Room
• Haliburton office – Granite Room
• Archie Stauffer Conference Centre – Treetop Room

Classroom Space/Instructional Support:

• Gravenhurst High School - Trillium Room
• Fenelon Falls Secondary - Library
• Haliburton Highlands Secondary - Library Seminar Room
• Huntsville High School - Library Seminar Room
• Bracebridge and Muskoka Lakes Secondary
• Lindsay Collegiate and Vocational Institute - Library seminar room
• 2 mobile units which may be deployed to any site

Administrative use of the equipment is booked through Tandberg's Management Suite and may be requested through the reception desk at each location. Requests for public access to video conferencing equipment may be directed to Peter Warren, Principal, e-Learning.

 

Classroom Instructional use may take the form of:

• Virtual field trips.
  (Students visit a museum, science centre or sports hall of fame)
• Cultural exchanges
  (Collaborative work on projects with out-of-country classes)
• Interdepartmental meetings
  (Professional connections with colleagues at a distance)
• Dual enrollment and advanced placement

 

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Here is a small sample of video conferencing resources.

The Tandberg Connections Program
 
Polycom Videoconference Program Database
 
GlobalLeap – International in scope, Global Leap is a database of classroom toclassroom collaboration opportunities.

Centerfor Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) – another expansive database of field trips and collaboration opportunities
 
Ontario Science Centre – One program on DNA is currently available but the offerings from the Centre will grow
 
RoyalBotanical Gardens – contact Karin Davidson Taylor [kdavidsontaylor@rbg.ca] for more information.

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National Air and Space Museum
American Art Museum
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)

Virtual Researcher On Call
(Connecting classrooms to research scientists – www.vroc.ca)

Click CONNECT
Click CONNECT is a non-profit organization whose vision is to provide educational support and excitement to high school students by linking them to local business leaders and entrepreneurs through the medium of VIDEO CONFERENCING. The nature of the session is a one-hour interactive experience that includes direct contact with the speaker.

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NEW CURRICULUM-BASED PROGRAMS
Junior and Intermediate Programs
Senior Programs

Click CONNECT
Click CONNECT is a non-profit organization whose vision is to provide educational support and excitement to high school students by linking them to local business leaders and entrepreneurs through the medium of VIDEO CONFERENCING. The nature of the session is a one-hour interactive experience that includes direct contact with the speaker.
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The following collaborations were recently created in the Collaborations Around the Planet website. Please click the collaboration link to get more details about the project and learn how to participate.

Title:  The Giggles Children's Theater - Performance :
Status: Open
URL: http://projects.twice.cc/?l=collaboration&id=105
Connections: H.320/H.323
Grades: PreK, K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Subjects: Fine Arts, Language Arts/English, Performing Arts, Science
(Physical), World Language
Dates: 2009 Any Tue or Th from 2:30 - 3:00 (3:15)
Description: The Giggles Childrenbs Theater is located at St. Joseph's
Children's Hospital in Paterson, NJ. At Giggles we endeavor to create a
forum in which children can watch a performance (either in the Theater or
in the comfort of their hospital rooms) and focus exclusively on laughing
and enjoying the entertainment, rather than the pain or fear they may
otherwise be experiencing.  It also aims to ensure that any subsequent
trips to the hospital will not induce a sense of dread for a child, but
will rather spur a happy memory of the Giggles Theater.

Since our theater is located in a children's hospital we are a unique
venue, therefore, on our "virtual field trips" we are looking to
have fun! The audience size ranges from 0 to 5 people in the theater.
There are many more children watching from their hospital beds that are
not well enough to come to the theater. All of our shows are broadcast
live into the children's rooms through a closed circuit tv system. These children cannot interact directly but they do enjoy the show.

We are interested in schools that would like to "perform" for
the pediatric patients and their families at St. Joes. As our audience is
diverse we are looking for a wide variety of entertainment. Here are a few
ideas:
* A Class Play
* Story Time - reading stories with a theme then doing a simple craft that
the kids in the hospital can do too
* Cool Science Experiments
* A Concert Choral or Instrumental
* Arts and Crafts - teaching the pediatric patients how to make a few
crafts
* Any of the above in Spanish
* Ideas you may have

Please contact me, Lissa Scott, to discuss this project in more detail. We
hope you find this project exciting and a worthwhile endeavor. We'd love
to work with you!

Title:  Get to know us!:
Status: Open
URL: http://projects.twice.cc/?l=collaboration&id=106
Connections: H.323
Grades: 7
Subjects: Language Arts/English
Dates: November 1, 2008 - November 30, 2008  8:00-11:00 a.m.MST and
1:30-2:30 p.m. MSt
Description: I am looking for another 7th grade language arts class who is
interested in getting to know another class with a different cultural
background.  I would like to expose my students to life outside of El
Paso. I am new to videoconferencing and want to jump in.

Title:  Canadian Communities:
Status: Open
URL: http://projects.twice.cc/?l=collaboration&id=102
Connections: H.320/
Grades: 1, 2, 3, 4
Subjects: Elementary All Subjects, Social Studies/History
Dates: October 15 - December 15 2008 9:00 - 3:00 Mountain Standard Time
Monday through Thursday
Description: Our Grade Two Class  would like to connect via video
conference with any Primary classes to learn more about your Canadian
Community.

Title:  PolyPals - French Friends:
Status: Open
URL: http://projects.twice.cc/?l=collaboration&id=103
Connections: H.323
Grades: 11, 12
Subjects: World Language
Dates: November 1 through January 30 CST (Times to be determined)
Description:We have a high school classroom that would like to exchange 3
letters in French and meet via the Interactive Distance Learning Lab to
ask and answer questions in the target language of French. Communication
will also take place through our IDL blog.

This is targeted for French III students or French speaking countries or
French Canadian Schools. Our school is located in Wichita, Kansas.

Title:  Are you a scientist?:
Status: Open
URL: http://projects.twice.cc/?l=collaboration&id=104
Connections: H.323
Grades:
Subjects: Science (Life), Science (Physical)
Dates: Nov, 1st to Dec. 1st - 9am-noon EST - or 1-2:15pm EST
Description: A fourth grade teacher and I are looking to talk with another
classroom about science!  The teacher is willing to jump in with both feet
- she is the science lead in our building and also teaches the science
rotations for 4th grade - We are in Virginia and would love to try to set up some "Science Stuff"