One weekend, my grandmother asked me to go to the store and get some mustard for her. I wanted to get the best mustard for her, so I tried to clarify what exactly she meant by mustard. “Mammaw, do you want coarse ground, spicy brown, Cajun-style, Creole, Dijon? What kind of mustard do you want? [...]

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 [...]

So now that you’ve decided to take the plunge and run a project for a few of your teachers, where should you start? First, you need a good idea that you can develop into a project for your teachers. So where do these ideas come from? The Curriculum First and foremost, they should come from [...]

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? [...]

Why Not Email I hate email. While it is so easy to shoot off a quick email to someone, it is not always the most efficient way to manage or participate in collaborative projects. In the beginning of large matching projects, I used email for everything. Registration was done by emailing me. Confirmations were emailed [...]

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 [...]

So what do you do when you send a great idea out to your teachers; 3 of them respond; but then when you contact the person who created the collaboration, they already have a partner. No worries; you can manage this too! Be a fast email checker. If you have too much stuff coming into [...]

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, [...]