The March Issue of THE Journal caught my eye with “Return to Sender” by Dan Gordon. The article was once again making the case for reinventing our schools and moving from the 3 Rs (readin’, writin’, and ‘rithmetic) to the 4 Cs of critical thinking, creativity, communication, and collaboration. I have been working on polishing [...]

Monster Mayhem and More Video Conference Collaborations Thursday, March 17, 2011 Time: 3:00-4:00 PM Learn about a unique collaborative videoconference project. Two classrooms pair up and create a monster. Each class writes a description of their monster. Each class recreates the other class’ monster and then via video conference they compare the monsters. Other examples [...]

This week I have been thinking about all of the ways that we connect with our members (video conference coordinators and teachers). In The Beginning When I began as a coordinator 6 years ago, I used email from my laptop computer when it was docked at my desk and the phone that was also at [...]

Work has begun on the Video Conference Playground at ISTE 2011. Last year, I led a band of pirates as we shared our passion for video conferencing with others in Denver. Here are some of the pictures from last summer. This year, in Philly, the playground will be even bigger with more connections and equipment [...]