twice.cc is a video conferencing website that connects teachers and students to virtual, real-time tours of places they might not regularity be able to visit due to distance, budget or other constraints. Places you can connect to are; zoos, museums, NASA, U.S. Congress and more! Students will research this site to find a place they find interesting and would like to tour. They are then responsible to try and set up a time to coordinate a meeting between them and their place. If approved, students will be able to enjoy their virtual tour.

Educational Videoconferencing Students can interact with the National Air and Space Museum without leaving the classroom! The museum offers Interactive Videoconferencing programs featuring the museum's staff and docent volunteers. Use of the unique National Air and Space Museum collection and the universally-engaging nature of aviation and space make these programs relevant and exciting. Students request a video conference time to set up a time to have a lesson with one of the programs offered. The students will be able to have a live lesson from one of the volunteer tour guides at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum!

"In this 4-part Students Rebuild video conference series live from Haiti, North American and European students participated in a life-changing journey in speaking with their Haitian peers whose schools had been destroyed by the earthquake. The participating classes, in participating at Students Rebuild teams, have come away from the video conferences with a reinforced understanding of the complex issues of rebuilding after disaster, international aid, and the empowering realization that they too can make a difference helping Haitian students-turned-friends rebuild their livelihoods." The 4 sessions include 1. Introduction to Haiti: Student Cultural Exchange, 2. Emergency Education (learning to deal with emergencies where they live), 3. Understanding School Reconstruction in Haiti: A Process in the Making (rebuilding Haiti) and 4. Haiti Today: The Way Forward (looking at ways to improve the future for Haiti). Using this site, students can make videos voicing their own possible solution to Haiti's problems or to try to communicate and raise the spirits of Haitian students. Students can also join live discussions with students in Haiti and all over the world.

iChat is an effective way to utilize video conferencing as an educator. As an "Apple" school, all students have access to this program. The Apple website is an excellent way to answer all questions you might have about iChat. Once you understand how to use this program, your video conferencing idea will open up to endless possibilities as an educator. Students are expected to read about how iChat works on this website. They will set up their iChat program, explore tips on getting started and make sure they are able to use it. Once set up, find a friend to link up with a try to have a video chat using this program. "If you're looking for a more personal way to stay in touch, iChat enables you to see and hear your friends, family, and coworkers no matter how far away they are. It lets you text chat, audio chat, or video chat over the Internet without accruing any text messaging, long distance, or video streaming charges."

This site is an excellent resource for all aspects of video conferencing, including answering what it is by providing an online introduction, tips for using virtual conferencing, examples of schools that use it, as well as other manuals, training and set-up guides. Moreover, Sites2See gives examples of software programs to utilize video conferencing and well as other collaborative sites and resources. Student should go to NASA's digital learning network link and choose a webcast to watch there. Once chosen, students are expected to learn about a certain 'mission' by watching the webcast, linking up with the mission and interacting with it in some way.