Well, here we are at the end of another 20 Day Challenge for videoconferencing. Let’s review, reflect, and look to the future… Review In the first week, we focused on Read Around the Planet, with tips, tricks, and suggestions for a quality experience. We spent a few days on responding to projects posted by others, [...]

If you’re new to videoconference projects, you’re bound to run into a problem seeing or sharing a computer screen sometime soon. Here’s the situation and what to do about it. H.239 / Duo Video / People Plus Content Many of the manufacturers offer a feature that allows you to share your computer and your faces [...]

This week in our 20 Days Challenge to Better VC Projects, we’ve been talking about how to scale your own projects. Another way to scale projects is to collaborate school-to-school, with multiple teachers from each school connecting with each other. So how does that work? Finding a school partner It is very rare to advertise [...]

This week in the 20 Day Challenge to Better VC Projects, we will be talking about designing and managing projects for your teachers. But first, let’s talk about why you should run projects for your teachers. Ideas, Ideas, Ideas Have you ever been to one of these types of sessions at a conference or training? [...]

One of the challenges of using videoconferencing in the curriculum is the middle and high school schedules. High school structures make it difficult to be creative; and the cost of scheduling content providers for each section at the high school level is prohibitive. Many great high school content providers are guest speakers scheduled at specific [...]

Guest blogged by Janine. One of the fun challenges of collaborations on CAPspace is the large number of interested people. There are 5000+ active videoconferencing educators (ever noticed the count on the front page when you login?). This past fall, I heard that while some people found the perfect match and only one person responded, [...]

Guest Blogged by Janine Lim. Now that you’ve decided to participate in Read Around the Planet, it’s time to tackle the registration process. If this is your first year, it is a bit of a challenge. If you are having any problems at all, please email me at my Read Around the Planet email for [...]

Guest blogged by Janine Lim. Yesterday in our 20 Day Challenge kickoff post, Roxanne suggested that an excellent way to start off with videoconferencing is to participate in projects managed by others. So this week, we want to spend a little time thinking about how best to integrate participation in Read Around the Planet with [...]

Guest blogged by Janine Lim One of the scariest things about videoconferencing is when it doesn’t work and you have a classroom of students waiting. Yesterday Roxanne gave you some great tips for accessing your lifelines. Today, we’ll examine the most common problems in a videoconference and give you tips for solving them. This is [...]

Guest blogged by Janine Lim How much do you let students help you with videoconferences? For this challenge, let’s think about some appropriate ways to involve students in the production of the videoconference. Microphone One of the most simple ways to involve students is to have them in charge of muting the microphone. I’ve seen [...]