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"The ways that video conferencing can enhance the educational experience are numerous. Ginger Lewman, director of the Face2Face program at the Turning Point Learning Center in Emporia, Kansas said that video conferencing has been used "as an essential learning opportunity for the past four years. We've been connecting with students across the U.S. and the world to bring religion, geography, history and service learning to vibrant life." But how exactly do you use a video conferencing system in education? Below are five ways to use video conferencing in the classroom."

At its most basic level, video conferencing in education connects remote students to teachers. On a more exciting level, it also leads students on virtual tours, brings far-away experts on camera for interviews and allows kids to try out their fledgling foreign language skills on their peers from other countries. While such activities might have been difficult in the past due to travel costs, time constraints and inconvenience, classroom video conferencing can offer a work-around solution. Video conferencing lessons for schools can also ignite an interest and enthusiasm for learning that traditional teaching methods sometimes can't.

"The first looks at some of the basics of video conferencing. It is intended to be accessible to a non-technical audience who are interested in picking up key video conferencing concepts and pick up some hints and tips. The second section looks in more depth at teaching and learning using video conferencing. Packed with examples it follows real teachers working in real classrooms and looks at how the technology can support and enable good solid teaching."

"Polycom offers customers global dial-up access to a variety of its video conferencing equipment. The following is a comprehensive regional listing of specific equipment and related information. Feel free to utilize these numbers to conduct testing of your video conferencing units. Please be aware that these numbers are published worldwide and may be unavailable during certain times of the day due to heavy network traffic. Check back frequently for monthly updates!"

Video conferencing and collaborative project resources

Video conferencing and collaborative project resources

"e-Missions™ are simulated, problem-based, learning adventures delivered right into the classroom via distance learning technology. With the use of the internet and video conferencing equipment, these "live" scenarios are conducted in your classroom by a Flight Director at Mission Control from the Challenger Learning Center at Wheeling Jesuit University."

Beginning with email and instant messages and stretching to texting and synchronous video web conferencing, digital dialogue has gradually become a common element of everyday life for today's students-another opportunity to "gather." The kinds of personal relationships shaped on the playground in an earlier era are now developed in MySpace and Facebook. While the format may be different, the purpose remains the same: Our students are crafting identities and are driven to connect.

Global WRITeS, Inc. is an educational organization whose mission is to promote communication and collaboration among youth and adults throughout the world using innovative technology resources such as video conferencing and digital media. Our programs in schools are literacy based with an integration in the performing arts. Our purpose is to provide opportunities for increased motivation for learning and to further student achievement for high needs student populations in cities throughout the world.

These days teams can be dispersed all over the globe. With outsourcing, telecommuting, distance learning and complex project collaboration, it's often helpful to have tools that can assist with the various collaborative tasks need to be done by dispersed teams. I've put together a great list of 27 free web based tools that will help you and your teammates do nearly all the things you need to do to work together from different locations. There are virtual workspaces, customer service applications, project management tools, mindmapping and even online conferencing tools - all FREE! Have a look and see if you can use any of these to connect with others and collaborate!

Remobo creates an Instant Private Network ™ (IPN) between users. It's like a computer network for your social network... Just login, add users to your buddy list, and Remobo will create a secure network for you to: Remote control your home computer and access files while at work or traveling. Privately share large files like photos & docs between computers or with friends & family. Replace your existing, costly and difficult to use VPN software. Run games, video conferencing, streaming media, secure instant messaging & more!

At the core of FreshBrain is an open and free web site freshbrain.org that provides teens with the opportunity to explore, engage, and create through activities and projects. FreshBrain takes advantage of the latest technologies, such as web conferencing and social networking, to provide a very progressive environment where teens can complete activities and work together on projects. This experience is enhanced with Advisors, available to support and mentor teens who are working on projects, with the intention of increasing the likelihood of success. In addition, FreshBrain provides teens with tools and training in the latest technologies to complete these projects. Providing the latest tools in technology, and a social interactive networking environment, has enabled teens to explore, create, and share with others. A result of pulling these two key online arenas together into one solution has enabled FreshBrain to attract teens comfortable with technology and communicating online. Creations from FreshBrain users range from music videos to logo designs.

Welcome to mebeam Step 1 Type in the name of a video room. Step 2 Tell people to meet you in that room. Room must be between 4 and 16 characters

Set complicated powerful password Customise your RDPwith user restrictions Regular update to new version of the software 4 Provide multilayer authentication 5. Secure your port 6. Buy RDP from secure sites.